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The Drama Continues

Nicole, my kindred spirit in skinny jeans, had a good read of my blog about her conundrum the other day, and thank you all for the comments re her plight! A couple of days later I received this message from her on facebook:

Nicole is getting some seriously hardcore comments!! The good luck ones are nice lol, but the one that’s made me FURIOUS is the ‘just go and find a single man’ one. AS IF IT’S THAT FUCKING EASY???!! I’ve been looking for 25 years!!!!!!!! Who are these women who can just go out and get a man???? Am starting to think there is something seriously wrong with me. Not kidding.

Cannot BELIEVE the Hobbitt is going around telling people and then not even texting you back. And Short Shorts??! Wtf?! I give up, I really do. Good blogs though. Excellent.
Love you so hard xxxxx

I do feel the need to raise issue with this statement mind you; ‘Am starting to think there is something seriously wrong with me. Not kidding.’

Nicole, my darling; (I say this with love) you are not the first person in the world to get shat on by a bloke, it happens every day and it isn’t because there’s something wrong with you – it’s because there’s something wrong with them… and one in particular – git.

(I would like to take the time to mention that I’m not including any lovely men who read this blog in the above statement! Unless said bloke is a cheating scum bag. You never can tell… *cough* Mark Owen *cough*.)

Let me ask you this though – you read stories about girls/women meeting the loves of their lives and living happily ever after and wish you could be them, but would you ever want to be the leading lady in this story? I know I wouldn’t.

As I know from my own experiences with falling in love with total pricks, there is no way of saying this differently. I know you have to learn it for yourself, so I’m thinking that texting the bastard is actually the way to go. I hope that when you see him again you see him for what he is, but you probably won’t.

Fecking men.

RitziCx

Ticking A Box… The Turn Of The Dancer

Hello all!

I thought I’d fill you in on one of my sordid little Bingo Box ticking tales of yore. It is Friday after all, so I’m not expecting anything that interesting to crop up today!

You may remember that when Nicole and I began our Ensemble Bingo Game we awarded ourselves points for previous conquests, just for funsies. So here you go;

A while ago I was working for peanuts in a theatre in London (as I did for years and years and years before I got this job and a salary that covers more than just rent) and I’d just broken up with a guy who had been a bit of a cock to me the whole time we’d been together. I sure know how to pick em! I’d tick a box for him but since he’s actually not that talented he’s never made it into a proper show. HAHA! Twat.

Anywho, after the show one night I was more than a little bit inebriated in the pub with my friends, when The Dancer showed up with his sweaty cast mates. We’d flirted for quite a while (although I did fancy his flatmate more… but that’s another story) and he’d once made the fatal mistake of telling me he wasn’t much of a ‘Boob Man’. I took this as a personal insult and told him it was because he hadn’t seen mine yet!

After much flirting at the bar (which happened quite a lot, so in hindsight my judgement in this situation may have been slightly impaired) our two tables finally mingled.

Much later, he said something about having to leave before the last tube, which is when I realised I had no money on my oyster card and that I’d been supposed to go top it up before it got too late and the station closed. So… when he left, I went with him to top up my card.

We got to the station, and he asked if I was getting the central line. I said no, I was intending on staying out later so I’d get a night bus. Not to mention the fact that I didn’t actually live on the central line at the time, to which he replied;

“Well, I wasn’t thinking about going to your house,”

Crikey! So that was his game. Awkwardness ensued, during which time I was genuinely counting back the days since I’d last got a wax to see if I could justify going home with a man who had ‘full body wax’ and ‘spray tan’ written into his contract.

I had a momentary crisis of conscience and decided that I should go back to the pub. We said goodbye and I was halfway up the stairs out of the station when I thought; ‘What the heck am I doing?’ and ran straight back down and through the barriers, down the escalator and onto the platform.

I couldn’t see him at first and panicked, thinking he had already got on a train and I’d wasted £1.50 of precious travel money (which was a lot of money back then!) when I spotted him at the end of the platform. His jaw dropped when he saw me – I don’t think he actually thought I would do it. Never underestimate Ritzi, Dancer Man! (Just realised I sounded like Katie Price then… ew) On the way back to his place the conversation was a bit awkward and tentative, but once we’d got back and started making out… well it got slightly less awkward!

There was actually a film on in the background, but I couldn’t tell you what it was. Before then I’d never really had what I would call a ‘classy’ one night stand, as in being able to go back to a guys clean and tidy house as opposed to stumbling drunkenly into his student dorm, so it was all very exciting. He kissed a bit like he was trying to eat my face off, but every silver lining has it’s cloud, right?

So, cut to an hour later, and there’s a very naked Dancer Man on top of me. Anyone out there who’s thinking that dancers are all gay and scrawny need to take a step inside this mental image and do a double take please. This guy was muscle personified, he spent 8 shows a week chucking dancer girls around (who admittedly weigh as much as 1/2 a bag of flour but you get my point) and part of his contract was that he had to stay, well, buff. We’re talking six pack, perfect arse, those adonis muscles… smooth and chiselled like an actual Ken Doll.

The sex was unbelievable, kind of like the sort of thing that you see on Sex and the City and you wonder if anyone actually gets to sleep with men who are that good. They do. And I did.

But this is the best bit, during what could only be descibed as a breather, I noticed a box of tissues on his bedside table, but these were not ordinary tissues. They still had a ribbon around them, and a tag that said ‘with love from your secret santa’.

On the side of the box, in BIG flourescent letters were the words; ‘Wank Tissues’. Hmm, did the lonely Dancer Boy enjoy his own company a little too often? Later on I delighted in using them for their assigned purpose, and I think The Dancer was a bit too light headed at the time to realise why I found it so funny.

After that night I found out he’d been carrying on with a girl from wardrobe, and it didn’t bother me all that much since I wasn’t exactly looking for a relationship then. However, it did peeve me a little when he asked me not to tell anyone what had happened, even though people had clearly seen us leaving together! Lesson learned : The Dancer may be pretty, but he’s still capable of being a prick!

I did tell people, however. Not his wardrobe girl, that would be mean. Besides, I think he messed that one up by himself anyway.

It does go down in history as the BEST SEX I’VE EVER HAD, but that’s about all it was.

And that is how the first Ensemble Bingo box was ticked.

Well, that’s all for today folks. The Dancer is now living it up on Cruise Ship somewhere in the med, and I wish him well. I certainly don’t hope he runs into an unfortunately placed iceberg or anything like that…

Until next time!

RitziCx

He’s Just Not That Into Las Iguanas

…but I am.

I was slightly disappointed to find that the set menu doesn’t apply on sundays, but the most important deal (ie 2-4-1 cocktails) still does.

I got slightly sozzled on 2-4-1 margaritas and then ate a lovely Butternut Squash Paella while celebrating my friend’s birthday. It was a lovely afternoon, but with so many people at one table (there were 20 of us in the end) I have to admit I lost my patience quite quickly. Why does it take so long for people to decide what they want to eat??? Kudos to the nice Las Iguanas waiter who allowed me to pay my share of the bill and sneak off while everyone else was pouring over deserts. I left a nice big tip on the table… I hope he got it!

Not sure how big of a chain they are, I know there’s the southbank one that we went to and one in Soho where I’ve been in the week (Monday Margaritas with Nicole are a regular occurance) but I’m sure there are more. You can even follow them on Twitter! Crazy days.

On a different subject, I read ‘He’s just not that into you’ on Saturday. It’s such a short read, only took me a couple of hours over coffee and croissants :) If only someone had given me this book when things started going wrong with TVboy! I could have ended things on my terms instead of desperately clinging on until the bitter end.

Things I learnt that will come in handy while searching for THE ONE:

Apparently, if he’s actually into you he will ask you out.

If he doesn’t bother to call (or doesn’t have a good excuse for forgetting) he probably isn’t that into you.

If he makes you feel bad about yourself… he’s not into you.

If he’s not that into you… you shouldn’t waste your time!

It’s a damn good book, and I’m sure I will use it as my bible when I recommence my search for love. For the next 12 months however, I’m just going to have a bit of meaningless sex. Why the hell not, eh?

Much love and mexican food!

RitziCx

You Can Teach Me How To WHAT???

This will make you laugh… or cry. I haven’t quite decided how I feel about it yet!

A few days ago I went to visit a good friend and colleague (who I accidentally bumped faces with last new years eve) in a slightly questionable area of south London. He and his girlfriend (yes – she was also his girlfriend last new years eve. SHAME ON US!) live in a beautiful flat – all modern and warm and cosy, with the cutest little kitten you have ever seen and really secure electric gates all around the little complex. The problem is, to get to this lovely little bit of real estate, you have to walk through said questionable area.

So I got off the train with the rest of the city types, all brief cases and suits, and felt relatively safe. Then, as I followed NYE’s simple directions and turned left at the traffic lights, I noticed that there was a severe lack of suited folk and significantly more loitering suspicious folk.

After a minute or two walking down the road, I realised a guy was following me on a bike. He started talking and I couldn’t understand him at first because his accent was so strong, but as I walked and he kept pace with me I began to realise that he was in fact talking to me.

“Do you live around here my love?” he asked, his glittering eyes peeking out from under the rim of a black, woolen beany hat.

“No, I don’t. I’m visiting a friend.” I said in reply, nice and polite but firm as well – in the tone that basically says; ‘so bugger off and leave me alone you weirdo, or my big, strong, male friend will kick your arse.’

Undeterred, the guy kept following me. “Will you show me where you live?” he asked, slowing down so he was following behind me now. I ignored him this time, because I could see the gates of NYE’s complex so I was feeling a little safer.

He was still lagging behind and kept calling comments after me.

“You’re beautiful, you know,” was the first one. I ignored it again, and let it slide.

“I like watching you walk away – you have a great ass,” came the second. This one confused me a little, because it’s december and I was wearing quite a long, thick coat that didn’t exactly flatter my derriere, but it was bloody warm. Again I ignored it, and because I was almost at the gate and his voice was so distant, I figured I was out harms way.

Then, came this corker;

“Hey beautiful lady, if you come with me I can teach you how to squirt!”

Erm…

YOU CAN WHAT???

I turned and stared, incredulously. The guy – hilariously – still looked hopeful, sitting on his bike waiting for me as if I looked likely to run over and let him rape and murder me. Nice.

In shock and disbelief, I pressed the buzzer to NYE’s place, thankful that the gate unlocked straight away and I could slip through easily.

I got to NYE’s and could still hear the guy chuckling away out in the street.

Had a very lovely evening with NYE, the girlfriend and the kitten who decided to use my £35 legwarmers as a scratching post. Aw bless.

Still reeling from said experience, and needless to say I called good old Addison Lee to give me a lift home to my door.

Any thoughts? Ha!

RitziCx