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The Kids Are Alright. And Naked On The Couch.

When you find yourself chugging along quite happily in the barren wasteland of singledom, completely devoid of prospects and sick and tired of emotionless shagging for the sake of shagging, it’s reassuring to know that at least someone in the world is getting their kicks with a guy they actually like.

Case in point, Ms Blondie McFabulous. If you’ve been following her blog, you may have noticed that she’s conveniently wiped all traces of unfortunate encounters with amorous Aussies and dickhead Doctors from her little corner of the interweb, leaving just this one little post. She’s happy – it’s adorable and also rather sickening, especially when you live with it.

We yelled and screamed and whooped about it plenty at the time on twitter, but I’ve not actually taken a moment on the blog to celebrate the step onto this next particularly exciting rung of the ladder, so excuse me for a moment while I do so, and then I’ll get back to the story.

HURRAH! BLONDIE AND RITZI LIVE TOGETHER NOW! WE HAVE A COFFEE TABLE AND EVERY MUG CATH KIDSTON HAS EVER MADE AND MORE (EMPTY) BOTTLES OF WINE THAN YOU’VE EVER SEEN UNDER ONE ROOF!

Right, sorry, that’s done now. Oh, wait. Also there’s this:

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Home sweet home!

Anyway, speaking of our sweet home, yesterday I left work relatively early, in the grand scheme of life. I thought, heck I’ve got to be up early in the morning and I want time for at least 2 glasses of wine before I pass out for the evening, so why not leave before 7pm?

I know, sometimes I surprise myself with my lack of commitment to my job.

Knowing full well that Blondie had been picnicking with the PM all day (that’s ‘Perfect Match’ by the way, unless she’s feeling particularly barf-worthy, then it stands for ‘Prime Minister’ of her heart. Don’t even.) I sent a cautionary text at 6.30.

‘I’m coming hooooooome’ it warned, giving plenty of notice seeing as I had to actually leave the office, trudge across town to Charing Cross, get the train and go to the supermarket to pick up dinner. Basically a generous hour of warning.

When I get to the supermarket, I realise she hasn’t replied, so I drop her a line to see if she wants anything particular for dinner. No response. Clearly, she is dead.

I send another warning, for good measure.

‘I’m nearly home, if you’re having sex please cease and desist in the next 10 minutes.’

No response. Definitely dead.

So, I buy my healthy healthy dinner of root veg and greens, and toddle off home thinking I’ve done pretty much everything I possibly can to make my presence known. I am a damn good flatmate. Conscientious to a tee, ya might say. I get home, open the front door very loudly, stomp up the stairs and rustle my bags around as much as humanly possible at the door, and open the door to Blitzi Mews veeeeeeery slowly.

Then, I feel like a bit of a tit because the flat is silent. Until, however, I drag my bags of shopping into our stylish living room/dining room/kitchen and notice something is ever so slightly awry.

Oh yes, that would be Blondie McFab’s knickers on the floor. And… is that her skirt beside them? Oh, yep, bra too. And… is that guy’s undies? A casually discarded belt? A wrinkled pair of jeans?

I’m not entirely sure where their shirts ended up, but I can confirm they were not hidden beneath any of the flattened sofa cushions. The lid to the lube bottle I kindly gifted dear Blondie however, was.

Now, I’m sure you recall, Ritzi is a damn good flatmate. So, without further ado I left the living room and stomped particularly forcefully down the hall and into the bathroom.

Some muffled shuffling and a quick door slam later, I figured it was safe to emerge. Thankfully, the walls are rather thick in Blitzi Mews, so I did not here the actual conversation inside Blondie’s Boudoir, but I have since heard that it went a little bit like this;

B: ‘Oh crap! Ritzi’s home! Well, it’s fine, we’ll stay in here, she won’t mind as long as we’re quiet.’

PM: ‘Yeah… but all our clothes are in the living room.’

B: ‘SHIT!’

Back in the living room, the floor was suddenly clear of all offending items. I considered letting them get away with it, but then remembered… that’s not what I do. So I raised my voice above the canned laughter of Friends (if in doubt, always turn on the TV loud in these situations) and informed the promiscuous pair that I’d definitely already clocked their knickers and it was no use hiding.

Mere moments later, a sheepish Blondie emerges, while a red faced PM legs it into the shower and leaves her to deal with the fallout. I have to admit, I found it extremely difficult to avoid dissolving into a squiggly mess of giggle at the sheer mortification on her face.

‘So, will PM be joining us for dinner? Or has he already eaten?’

RitziCx

Gulity Conscience?

I seem to be noticing somewhat of a pattern with post-coital Forbidden.

Remember last time I positively shagged his brains out? Yeah. Remember what happened after that? (Hint – why hasn’t he called?)

So it’s Friday. A week since last Friday. I should add that the very next day, after I’d used and abused him, I texted a perfectly pleasant text enquiring as to whether he was still alive after his planned day of sailing (yes, sailing. I don’t get it either).

I am beginning to think that perhaps he didn’t survive it…

I refuse to text again though. Two texts would just be insane. And I don’t want to date him. It’s just sex. So I’m going to stop obsessing about it right about… now.

…okay now.

…okay, in a minute.

Ignoring the fact that Forbidden seems to have fallen off the face of the earth, I received a call from Flutey yesterday. You know… the one who’s IN LOVE with him.

Cripes.

So it goes like this:

Missed call from Flutey.

Crap.

Voicemail from Flutey.

Double crap.

“Hey Ritzi, hope you’re well! Give me a ring back when you get a minute, I need to talk to you about something”

 Fuckshitbugger. A few hours later, I managed to escape from the office (just in case she was actually preparing to tear me a new one). She picked up on the first ring. She’s terrifying like that.

“Hey stranger!” Okay, that doesn’t sound too bad. “I’ve got two things I need to talk to you about, one is business, the other one is pleasure…”

Oh fuck.

Turns out, the first thing she wants is to get tickets to a show. Big surprise there. I suggest she calls The Ex who is actually in said show so more likely to be able to do something useful there. Then we get onto the ‘pleasure’ aspect.

“Ah yes, well, I was wondering if you could tell me what you’re doing…” Sleeping with the man I love? Generally being a heartless bitch? “On 21st June?”

 Oh… she’s calling about my freakin Birthday?

“I’ve got it in my diary and we must confirm what you’re doing darling! It’s only three weeks away!”

 Is it? Cripes. I totally didn’t notice that. I was too busy sleeping with the man you’re in love with.

This stuff is not good for my nerves. Admittedly, I’m falling back on that old failsafe that Flutey is engaged, and she’s supposed to be over Forbidden. And it’s not like it’s serious.

I know. I’m not even convincing myself.

RitziCx

An Insight Into The World Of Gays

For those of you who have not had the pleasure, allow me to introduce My Sassy Gay Friend.

Admittedly, the SGF in this video is not MY SGF. However, my SGF and his merry band of yanktastic miscreants introduced me to the preachings of this hilariously camp individual over a zillion bottles of wine.

“Look at your life, look at your choices!”

My SGF is a California born n raised rich kid (he denies this. It’s true. I don’t care what he says) with a penchant for leaving me drunken voicemails at 7am BST in his best British accent (which happens to be a la ‘Dobby the house elf’. Seriously.)

I love him dearly, and here is why:

10.30am BST/4.30am Chicagoland

SGF: someone just asked why we didn’t have sex in my facebook wall. I feel so ritzi

RC: O.M.G.
‘I feel so Ritzi’
I fucking LOVE that!

SGF: it’s catching. Internationally.
It said: “I don’t understand. Why can’t we have sex?”

RC: Oh dear.

SGF: Yes. Happened. I was like, um, no.
When you’re a top you have control
Benefits of pitching.

RC: A top? Pitching? Eh?

SGF: Top and bottom. Pitching and catching. Giving and receiving.

RC: Ah.
Ewwwww!

This is pretty mild really – but then it was 10.30am on a bank holiday monday.

Of course there was a nice little treat waiting for me when I returned from my hard core bank holiday run…

11.30am BST/5.30am Chicagoland

SGF: Booty called at 5am. Yep.

RC: lol

SGF: I am so embarrassed.

RC: you should be!

SGF: Well when you need your dick sucked you need your dick sucked.

Um… Ew.

And as a parting shot (no doubt before passing out because it was just after 6am Chicago time and he had been drinking since 7am the morning before…)

SGF: Omg. Worst. Hookup. EVER. Like slober tongue. AWFUL.
I left in under an hour. It was that bad.
I didn’t even let him touch my dick.

Congratulations my Sassy Gay Friend! You just found your way onto the ladder. You know the phrase ‘be careful what you wish for?’

Happy Tuesday to Sassy Gay Friends everywhere! (especially mine, all the way in the windy city. Love ya biatch!)

RitziCx

Round 2 With Forbidden Fruit

So, during the very long process of archiving my Ritzi’s Ladder from BCUK and moving it all over to WordPress at for my shiny new blog launch after the bank holiday, I just re-read my post about my last tryst with Forbidden Fruit.

Considering it’s been TWO MONTHS since the last time I got laid I felt, quite frankly, like I’ve been letting the side down. So much so that I’ve been living vicariously through Blondie and Irish and not actually bothering to pursue activities of a sexual nature myself – shocking!

With this in mind, I allowed Twinkle to bow out of our pre-planned theatre trip to see Betrayal at the Comedy (no comments about the aptly named play please – and DON’T tell Flutey) and invited Forbidden instead.

The play was miraculously short. So short in fact that I haven’t quite worked out what I think about it yet. Three characters, back and forth in time, here there and everywhere in the seventies (plus one minor moment back in the sixties), and none of them particularly likeable. Maybe that was the point.

Despite almost falling asleep on Forbidden’s shoulder toward the end, I managed to shake myself awake enough to suggest excessive amounts of alcohol (all of which were on him since he managed to show up one minute before curtain. Bloody actors) so we headed off to a pub which I have entirely forgotten the name of. It’s the local for Her Majesty’s Theatre… that’s about all I know.

Six vodka soda’s later (no wine – I’m dieting and it’s bloody annoying. I love wine.) and we’re engaged in a rather playful flirtatious conversation wherein I manage to display a remarkable amount of  wit despite the bar spinning.

It’s a strange thing, that I actually do like Forbidden quite a lot. He’s amazingly attractive (he’s let his hair grow again – all curls and bed headiness. Hot.), and when it comes to conversation we’re actually pretty good at it. I find myself wondering if maybe I could give the whole dating thing a go, but then that same old reasoning pops up when he reveals that he got up at half past one that afternoon, and this is not unusual. He makes money between acting jobs by gigging here there and everywhere, and living off savings from when his career is actually going well. This is just not a healthy environment for me to be in – I’m just to busy for this shit.

That doesn’t change the  fact that he’s FANTASTIC in bed. We got back to his (in Tottenham, where I have never been before and never wish to go ever again) and stumbled through the door, heading straight upstairs where he insisted upon showing me Geoffrey Rush’s apparently incredible performance in ‘Shine’. I hear it’s good, I’ll have to watch it again some time and actually pay attention, because literally the moment the opening credits began to roll, I found myself pushed back on the bed and thoroughly ravished.

He’s still into the 69 thing. Weird.

He’s also still into the wanking off with an audience thing, however this time I managed to get a decent hour of foreplay and plenty of multi-positional sex out of him before he brought that back in round two. But that’s by the by, because round one…

I apologise profusely to Forbidden’s flatmates. Hopefully I never will have to do that in person because I think I would die. I can’t help it! I’m vocal, so sue me! And the sex was really good!

This morning, I blearily opened my eyes to the world at 11.59 (that’s almost the afternoon for pete’s sake!) and amazingly felt neither hung over or gross. Comfy bed, snuggly man, bloody hell – how domestic.

So I made up a lunch date to get the hell outta there, and tubed it into town to the nearest Starbucks to get my caffeine on.

If I have any more of these fuzzy thoughts about Forbidden, please kick me. Or tell Flutey that I’ve now shagged the love of her life twice. Then she’ll do it for you.

RitziCx

Forbidden Conundrum

Well here’s a conundrum.

A few days ago, I got a text from Forbidden:

hey babes! How r u? :D want to catch up this week??? ;) lemme no when your free! Xxx

Appalling grammar and over punctuation aside, let us recall that I haven’t had sex since the Irishman, which was many moons past. Frankly, a bit of a tumble with Forbidden and his exhibitionist fumbling ways may just be what I need.

So I suggest he joins me for a spot of theatre on Friday (I’m original like that)

aw BABES! I’m away this weekend! You free tomorrow? Or Thursday? Xxx :( xx

No, and no. And please stop with the smilies.

Sigh. No sex for Ritzi then. Luckily, Twinkle is on hand to snatch up the other ticket, and then what do you know?

gess wot? I’m free on fri now!!! You still got that tkt babe? ;) xx

Actually I don’t. I do have a crazy contraption called a dictionary though…

Twinkle is totally up for sacrificing her ticket so I can get some. She’s cool like that. She’s also filling my flat with six – yes SIX – girls on a hen weekend on saturday so must stay in my good books.

What do we reckon? Ho’s over Bro’s?

I’m mulling. And I’m totally not texting mister punctuation back.

He can stew a bit.

RitziCx

Resolutions 2010 – The Verdict

Well hello kiddies. Did we all have a lovely festive time over the last few days? I can honestly say I’ve eaten so much I don’t think I’ll need to snack again until February.

Brilliant – that’ll be me fitting into skinny jeans again then.

I’ve been trawling through the archives and have just re-read my post from last new years eve, and quite frankly, I think it’s time to evaluate this year’s resolutions before tackling next years.

You may recall:

And as for coffee… well, it’s basically my life force. And I got a shiny new espresso machine for Christmas, and have a cupboard filled with exotic coffee beans, so that’s just never going to happen. I did however, decide;

To give up starbucks. (ARGH!) Succeeded! for a while anyway. I’ve cut down. Massively. Only eggnog latte’s were my weakness this year.

To be more Spontaneous! Braved the ash cloud and ventured to visit Maxie in Vienna… created ensemble bingo… went to see a ‘Kerrang’ show (still recovering from that)… blagged my way into a considerable amount of press night parties I wasn’t invited to… stopped a publisher in the street and pimped out my book… waged a war on David Essex fans… groped George Berger while being felt up by hippies on stage at Hair… drove to my mum’s to surprise her for Mother’s Day… told Whoopi Goldberg I love her… and last but not least; GOT THE JOB.

To be more promiscuous I think the very existence of Ensemble Bingo covers this one, but in case anyone’s lost count… TrilbyThe HobbitForbidden FruitMovie ManAlmost FamousThe Proper Actor and the Little Drummer Boy. Stay tuned for the Jockey.

To go to Ireland. I’ve never been – and I’m sure one day I will marry an Irishman! Fail. Irish has been in the homeland doing panto and I didn’t make it. Will have to correct this

To cook something new every week. Managed this until April. Then I GOT THE JOB. Ah well, you win some…

To go for more walks and remember life exists outside of London. Did This! Lots! In snow, in rain, in sunshine, on beaches and around Lake Michigan.

Happy New Decade everybody! 2010 is going to be a hell of a year, full steam ahead into the teenies!

And so it was.

It’s truly been an adventure this last year, and I’m grateful to each and every person who’s been there along the way. If they read this, they know who they are, (*cough* Maxie G *splutter*) and if they don’t… well, there’s probably a good reason I haven’t told them about it.

Enjoy the rest of Twixtmas… bring on the weekend and 2011.

Much love,

RitziCx

December 11 – National Ritzi Day

Well, well, well, would you look at that? It’s my one year Blogoversary. And what a way to celebrate a year of Ritzi and the approaching end of The Year of Promiscuity than with a good shag?

SO. It’s the festive season. I’ve got party invites coming out of my ears. Somehow, I’ve managed to fit into slinky dresses despite having four – yes FOUR three course meals this week. After one of them (a little actors reunion style affair) I decided that three courses and almost an entire bottle of wine to myself was simply not enough for Ritzi, and so declared I was off to Century for a night cap, and anyone who wanted to join me was welcome.

It being late, on a weekday, and the beginning of Panto season, most folks had early morning rehearsals, except for… the Little Drummer Boy.

LDB and I used to work together a looooooong time ago. He’s not an actor any more, having chosen instead a life of hi-hats and base drums. He plays for quite a few shows and is a veritable man-slag.

Score.

We head off to Century’s roof garden and proceed to get smashed on a bottle of £78 Champagne. I don’t remember who paid… but since I don’t carry cash and my bank haven’t called me bitching about going over my overdraft (again) I’m going to say it probably wasn’t me.

We reminisced about happy, carefree times, and bitched about the people we’d just been with (showbiz folk are two faced. Deal) and I made him laugh his way out of his chair when I told the story of SPEED DIAL-GATE. Eventually, (I say this like it was late, it was like 11.30 or something) LBD turns to me and says;

“You know what Ritzi? You and I would be shit as a couple, but I’ve always thought we’d be damn good in bed.”

I’m sorry – did LDB develop some crazy telepathic powers since diverting to the musician religion? Because I’m sure that line was pulled straight out of my daydream archives.

Of course, I ripped it out of him for using such a line, but with several gallons of champagne bubbling through my veins it took about… ooh, three and a half seconds, before I said; “Come on then, let’s blow this popsicle stand.”

Someone at the Musicians Union knows what they are doing when it comes to minimum wage negotiations. LDB and I hop into a cab and five minutes later, pull up at his flat in Euston. Two locks and a lift later, and my clothes are on the floor.

Considering I’ve been so swamped with work that I haven’t even made the effort to get laid since JULY – the haste was very much appreciated.

Hilariously, the entire event from start to finish lasted exactly the length of Guns and Roses’ ‘Paradise City’ (nice ipod choice there LDB ) which I have since learned is 6 minutes and 46 seconds.

What a way to round off the year.

Afterwards, I hunted for my knickers (eventually finding them dangling precariously off the corner of a Christmas card from his mother) while he made a pot of tea. Which we then drank to sober up. Then we laughed for about ten minutes about the fact that we’d just shagged up against the door of his flat without checking if his flatmate was home. When my tea was drunk and my head just clear enough to find my shoes, I made my way outside, flagged down a cab and was in by own bed by 12.45.

It may be cruel, but I am just going to flag the irony that the tea and laughter lasted longer than the actual sex. Bless you LDB. You’re right, we would be shit as a couple. I don’t fancy marrying someone whose foreplay resembles a rather short drum roll.

And now, after a week consisting of two press nights, three dinners, two parties, five international conference calls and a spontaneous trip to Kings Cross to gift my American Intern buddy a photo of him enroute to platform nine and three quarters, I sit on my couch, post shower, looking back on a year of climbing the ladder.

A year ago, I had a job but it wasn’t the one I wanted. I was a tad heartbroken. I wasn’t too fond of my living situation. And it hadn’t even snowed yet in December.

Today, I love my job. I’m so over TVboy I could probably run into him and NOT throw up. I live in a beautiful flat. And last weekend I spent four days in the countryside under 2ft of snow having a lovely time while everyone else dealt with cancelled trains and overcrowded tubes. Not to mention I’ve made some fantastic friends, travelled to far off lands and attended some quite frankly FABULOUS parties. If all of this can happen in a year, I’m positively bursting at the thought of what I might be writing on December 11th, 2011.

And so, I’ll leave you the same way I did on that first entry, three hundred and sixty five moons ago;

At the end of the day, we’re all climbing up a ladder. Some are longer than others, and some are easier to climb. We all slip every now and then, and sometimes it takes time to find the strength to heave ourselves back to the rung we’d reached before. But we’re all on the way up, and we’ve got to keep climbing. That’s why the ladder’s there after all.

RitziCx

Double Whammy Weekend

Of course I chose bingo points over potential smush. What kind of a girl do you think I am?!?!

(Apologies it’s taken a week to get round to writing it, luckily it was a good fuck so the details have stayed with me)

It’s a strange feeling being pimped out to someone who is fully aware you intend to only use him for sex. When I dragged my ass back to London from Brighton, hastily showered to remove the beach residue (and other things) I was a bit knackered and not too keen on the idea of another night of no sleep.

However, in true Cortez fashion, I sucked it up and carried on, slipping on some ridiculously high fuschia KGs and a fabulous dress (I’d been advised that ‘pins out’ was a good move) and less than 2 hours after staggering through the door, I dashed back out again.

The purpose of this evening’s celebrations was a West End cast change. Flutey’s cast change, to be specific, and she was leaving forever and ever amen, so sex or no sex, I was going.

I clacked into town and met Flutey at her Stage Door, where she was joined by her partners in crime – the Ginger Guitarist and the Romeo, who was to be my partner in a different sort of venture that night – and along with the rest of the cast (a few of which I know, a few of which I’ve not given recalls to – awkward!) we headed to Hospital (it’s a members bar, not an actual hospital) to a private room, plugged in the nearest person’s ipod and rocked out to the sounds of the 50s. As if they haven’t had enough of THAT for the past year.

The Romeo – he assured me he’s off to do some Shakespeare now, and doesn’t make a habit of cheesey musicals, proving this by chopping off his quiff the moment he stepped off stage – made eye contact from across the room as he ducked down to say something to Flutey, who grinned and nodded in my direction as I was pretending to listen to the Ginger Guitarist’s woes (he’s unrequitedly in love with Flutey, geez). A few minutes later, I’d been dragged away from GG, a cocktail thrust into my hands and was being expertly chatted up by the Romeo.

At about quarter to one, after he’d respectably flirted non stop for an hour and a half, I thought I’d put him out of his misery and told him I was blatantly going to sleep with him anyway, so why didn’t we just go?

Add another half hour of tearful goodbyes from drunken actors (I waited patiently at the bar with another tequila cocktail) and at last I was in a taxi on the way back to the Proper Actor’s cute little house in the docklands.

On the way from the cab into the house I noticed… the man has a vintage mini, the kind with no aircon and the kind of boot you have to turn a handle to open. He wasn’t kidding when he said he was a proper actor, was he? Did I stumble into Withnail and I or something?

Anyway, the sex. Inside, sat down on the couch for ten mins under the crazy delusion that some kind of actual conversation was going to happen, before I got accosted on the couch. It was quite fun! However, when it looked like I was actually going to get shagged right there and then I remembered his comments in the cab about his moody female flatmate and pieced this together with the fact that I’m a bit of a screamer… and suggested we go upstairs. So we did.

Once there… well, I wonder if it’s totally fair (in a karmic sense) that one person can have 2 bouts of fantastic sex in one weekend. Well, I’m young, free and single so to hell with it, I totally can. And totally did.

Comparison time… well, Almost Famous certainly had a bigger cock, but then again the Romeo was a bit hammered so may not have been able to perform so well. The Romeo was certainly more forceful, which is good, although at times it was apparent that he was more than a little bit keen to act out what was essentially a rape fantasy… which is not so good. Almost Famous is more snuggle-able, mind you this doesn’t bode well for the year of promiscuity. All in all, it’s kind of tricky to compare these two fantastic shags I’m afraid, which is weird because I’m usually quite fussy.

So back to the Romeo. Well, for a guy who’d done two energetic shows that day and had quite a bit to drink, he sure wasn’t lacking in energy. Rather expensive knickers practically torn off and thrown across the room, I managed to save the clasp on my bra by indoing it myself, I soon found myself on my back, legs akimbo, getting a good old fashioned ravishing. It was fucking fabulous. I do pity his poor flatmate, as the house was not that well soundproofed and I have a habit of making my feelings known rather audibly. Yikes.

One good thing about fucking an actor, is that they’re generally quite verbal, and the dirty talk is often pretty profound. This guy’s dirty talk was almost Shakespearean. Not that I’m knocking his sexual prowess but that might have had more of a hand in my two shattering orgasms than the actual shagging itself.

Bless Almost Famous, his best line of the night was; ‘Why are boobs just so awesome?’

Now, lets remember the bad thing about fucking an actor. All through the night, the Romeo was all about how beautiful I was and how this wasn’t going to be ‘just a one night thing’, to the point of continuing this crazy talk the next morning when he dragged himself out of bed at about 8.30 am to drive me to the station.

Yes, I know it was stupidly early – but I’m not one for hanging around on a Sunday. Sex or no sex, my Sunday was a jam packed schedule and I didn’t intend to miss it.

Cute conversation on the way to the station, no awkward silences, a stonker of a goodbye kiss when before I ascended the stairs to the dreaded DLR platform (I hate the DLR, never trust a train without a driver) and a demand that I text him straight away so he didn’t spend too long without my number.

Sunday happened – brunch with the girls, art exhibition in the afternoon, annoying transport disruption due to a Sunday Suicide (FFS) and a late afternoon tea/wander with Irish before the obligatory house cleaning. I didn’t text him that night, as it got pretty late, but instead I dropped him a text on my way to work in the morning.

Lunchtime comes round… no response. Well, it’s his first day of rehearsals for his new job, that’s gotta be hectic, right? Mind you, in the midst of my 14 hour work day I didn’t stop once, but still managed to text Almost Famous a couple of times, and arrange a few theatre trips, and update Nicole on my exploits. End of the day… no response. Next day… still nothing. Until Wednesday, when I spotted he was on facebook chat late one night.

‘Evening’ I said, casual and not at all pissed off.

‘Hey you!’ the patronising git replies. Here follows a conversation about rehearsals, work and whatnot, and about the hell of a hangover we both had on Sunday.

‘I had a lot of coffee’ I informed him, ‘I was fine’

‘Coffee was a good idea’ he replied, adding an annoyingly cryptic ‘just like you’ to the end.

I’m sorry? You’re comparing me to coffee? Well, with my own personal appreciation for caffeine I suppose I should be flattered…

And here we are, one week later, and still no word. This, my friends, is why you do not get involved with actors. You see, they can act, and they will, if you let them. It’s just a fancy word for lying, quite frankly.

But no matter, because – lo and behold – it was exactly what I expected, and at the end of the day I got a hell of a good shag out of it. A week later and Almost Famous is still texting as always, although today I did reward him with a lil bikini bathing pic, just to shut him up for a while.

I get the feeling that rather fabulous fuck might not have been our last. (Almost Famous, that is. The Romeo  is not reading from this script again)

Back to sunbathing now, clad in the teeny weeny bikini I wish I’d had on hand last weekend in Brighton. Cripes, it was toasty last week. At least now I can fix this tan line situation!

Til next time folks,

RitziCx

Ritzi Goes To Brighton… And Gets A Little Bit Laid

So at my birthday dinner last week, Nora called me on the fact that I have never ACTUALLY been to see her amazing band AVENGE VULTURE ATTACK play a gig. This may seem shocking, but to be brutally honest I have not been the sort of person who goes to gigs since I was about mmm… fifteen? When I had bright purple dreadlocks and thought it was a really good idea to draw stars on my face and drink entire bottles of cheap rum.

Nice.

But, considering how many cheesetastic musical’s Nora has sat through for me (as well as the one I wrote that she conveniently starred in rather amazingly many moons ago) I figured I owed her one.

Also, if you remember, I’d text Almost Famous asking if I could use him for a pillow, to which he’d replied ‘Brazen. I’m around. Use me.’

Of course, as fate would have it, 6.30 on Friday rolled round and I was dealing with a MOUNTAIN of super secret casting paperwork and a hysterical producer and didn’t manage to escape until 8pm. I legged it to Charing Cross and finally stumbled (sweaty and gross) onto a train to Brighton at London Bridge at 8.30pm.

Timetable showed an hour to Brighton… Nora’s band was on at 9.

Feck feckedy feck!

I text Nora, begging her to stall, and she managed to sweet talk the next band into playing first and letting them take the 9.30 slot. Then, true to form, she stalled and stalled (I think she peed three times, minimum) until I burst through the door, the sexy beast that is Almost Famous just behind me.

Phew!

By the by, can I take a moment to say how much Avenge Vulture Attack actually do rock. Nora was amazing, as she always is, but I remain amazed and in awe of the staying power of her flimsy tubetop style bra that managed to cover her modesty despite her excessive rocking out. Respect to the bra peeps.

My enthusiasm waned when the next band started and since he knows and has seen every band in the whole of Brighton, Almost Famous joined me for a beer outside on the street. Which I’m not sure is legal… but through double glazing the band didn’t sound half bad.

And do you know what? Despite the lack of success we’ve had in the past in the dating area, AF and I managed a good few hours of idle chit chat before we gave up and wandered back to his house (which, for a house where two 30 something year old rockers live, was pretty clean) and sat down to eat toast (after I realised I hadn’t eaten since breakfast as per usual) and watch Glastonbury on the telly box.

It worries me slightly that I was rather comfortable snuggled up on the sofa with AF, talking about things so insignificant I can’t actually remember them, until we got sleepy and decided to go to bed.

It worries me a lot actually, which is why I’m going to tell you about the sex instead.

Here’s the thing about AF – I just cannot work him out. Despite the fact that I’ve actually used the words ‘lets have sex’ he still seems slightly iffy about whether it’s what I want. To the point that it becomes painfully obvious that he’s not going to make the first move.

So I jumped him.

Now before you get an image in your head of the kind of scrawny Kurt Cobain style rocker with unkempt hair and general greasy appearance, allow me to correct you. AF is mainstream, he ever so slightly commercial and the man is FIT.

Weirdly, I wasn’t that drunk (unusal) which seemed to make it… I don’t know… better? How unsettling. And you know that sweaty, unpleasant feeling you get when you’ve been really full on shagging someone for hours and you wake up the next morning? Wasn’t there. And the snuggly spooning as I drifted to sleep? Not that uncomfortable! And the morning sex that I usually hate…? Enjoyable once I escaped to brush my teeth first. And the unpleasant but necessary swallowing that you have to do from time to time to boost their ego? Didn’t taste that bad!

So essentially, AF and I are perfect for each other. I work all the time, he is always in Europe with his band. He’s tall dark and handsome, gets along with my dad and can play the bass (that means dextrous fingers), lives in Brighton which has a BEACH but works in London quite a bit. We’re great in bed, I get along with his friends, we don’t interfere with each other’s lives… why aren’t we dating again?

Oh yeah, the year of promiscuity… I remember now.

I’m beginning to get a little suspect about all this promiscuous lark and wonder if perhaps it is clouding my vision just a tad so I might be missing more ‘substantial’ opportunities. But then no one can say I’m being less than thorough… try before you buy and whatnot. I don’t know, maybe I should quit the promiscuity for a while and give this thing a go…

…or maybe I should go to Flutey’s cast change party tomorrow night and shag the chap in her cast she intends to pimp me out to for more Ensemble Bingo points. Decisions, decisions…

If you don’t know what I’m going to do, you haven’t been paying much attention to me over the past year.

Til tomorrow’s conquest,

RitziCx

Why Hasn’t He Called?

Oh Ritzi. Ritzi Ritzi Ritzi… have you not learned by now? Actors are arseholes! Sigh.

So Forbidden left me hanging after my last text yesterday. I shouldn’t really be bothered since it’s just sex and whatnot, but gosh darn it I am. It’s seriously bothering me that I’m bothered.

Today I found myself thinking… well, it’s Monday and he’s in a new theatre, they’ve probably been teching all day… he had a long drive yesterday… blah blah blah blah.

He’s just not that into you if… he’s not calling you.

I do find it disturbing that I’m repeating the mantra taught to me by a fictional character who thinks it’s okay to dump someone by post-it but I digress.

Perhaps I should read back my last post about how he had a slightly disappointing penis. Yes, that’ll do it.

Sigh… how annoying.

RitziCx