Better late then never...

So I know I've been a little absent from the BLOG lately...work has been insane lately. Anyway, here is a little Key West tribute post:

Six of my friends and I went to Key West a few weeks ago for some fun in the sun...we ended up drinking copious amounts of alcohol at mostly the same bar for the whole trip...oh well the best laid plans :)

David's friend Todd manages a hotel down there so we got a great rate and the rooms were pretty nice (not that they were used much) I'm gonna jump into the pics because that's what everyone wants to see anyway :)

This is the first day at 801 Duval. This place was kind of a dive, but they did Karaoke so Paul was in heaven!! They had this back room bar that was very dungeon-esque too :)

After walking a bit we went back and cleaned up and headed back out. We met lots of people...including St. Louis Becky...she was a hoot!

Some how we got the idea to walk down the street to a straight cowboy bar called Cowboy Bills...keep in mind that this is Key West so even the straight bars have lots of gays...like this girl (love the shirt!!)


So Bill, Tom and I decided to try our luck on the mechanical bull. We were a little polluted, but that didn't stop us from signing consent forms and waivers and all kinds of other things none of us read. I only made it to the second round (David has a video of me that I'm trying to get!) Bill did the best, Tom would have done better but his other hand touched the bull in round 3. The worst part was they gave us this shot of whiskey before each ride...it was gross!!

All 3 of us were hurting from the bull ride the rest of the weekend. I had a nasty bruise the size of a softball on my upper thigh...Tom and Bill were bruised up too. Bill is slowly recovering from his injuries to this day. Here's Bill in his glory:


This is some of us with the bartender at 801:


Tom and I...we're travel buddies and go on lots of trips together...San Antonio is next week!!!

David and his stripper boy...Bill's just drinking his beer and enjoying the sights:

These are some of the folks we met from Oregon. They were a blast!!

After a long day of drinking, what does everyone want?? That's right...FOOD!!!

Most of the time we'd leave the bar and go next door for a slice of pizza to keep us going, but at 4am not much is open...but Denny's! We went to Denny's on two nights and both times we were fortunate enough to have Angela as our server. I made a point to check my food for her missing teeth before I ate it.

So we all had a blast. On Sunday, Steven, Paul and I went on a 4 hr snorkeling adventure. Despite taking motion sickness pills Paul ended up tossing his cookies off the side of the boat and spent the rest of the time curled up in agony. He did get to snorkel for a little before the nausea set in. I'm proud of him for going though :)

Quick Blog...

I've been SUPER busy and haven't been able to BLOG, but a co-worker told me about the Kinetic Sculpture Race on Saturday in Baltimore and I wanted to share it with you guys...

http://www.kineticbaltimore.com/

It looks like a hoot!!

Oh the drama...

So this weekend was FULL of drama!

Not the "bad" drama...it was all good!

Friday night was my god-daughter's school play...it was the Wizard of Oz, and in addition to being a munchkin, she was also the Emerald City guard. I was just waiting for the line..."Well that's a horse of a different color" It's pretty much the best line in the play...well maybe it's "I'll get you my pretty...and your little dog too" or "Ease on down...ease on down the road" (oh wait, that's The Wiz

Anywho, the play was cute, it's always nice to watch the kids perform. The place was a little hot, but it was all goodness.



After the play I headed to Central to hang with the boys. It was good times, but a little odd. I couldn't put my finger on what it was, but something was off.


Saturday some friends and I went to DC to see Hairspray at Warner Theater. I get e-mails from Broadway Across America all the time with pre-sale information for shows in the area and I was fortunate enough to get 2nd row tickets. :) We had a blast! I love the movie (the original...I loathe John Travolta)


Anywho, after the show some of us took advantage of being in DC and went to Town...the newest gay club in the District. We got there around 11...and it was kinda dead. They had a drag show going on and the upstairs dance floor was dead!! Of course it was still really early, usually the Baltimore homos don't come out until about midnight...and the DC homos are even worse since their bars stay open later :)

So around midnight the boys start to trickle in...I gotta say this, the boys in DC are pretty f-ing hot! They aren't the most polite boys, but they're easy on the eyes. So Terri's back started to hurt a little so she sat down and told us all to go and dance...which we did after some persuasion. I swear we were only dancing for 5 minutes and we look over and Terri has a gaggle of gays around her...she's the best flame dame ever!! :) So we left a little before 3 and got home around 4...YARG-A-ROO!!! It was good times...I'd definitely go back.

Well that's my weekend in a nutshell...Miss Gay Maryland started last night...finals are tonight. I'll BLOG about it later.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Fish and New Friends...

Last night was Monday night...you know what that means...Hopkins dinner!! Wooooo!!!

So last night's theme was fish and new friends. I was kind of on the fence about going. I wanted to go workout and tan after work, but I've been working late recently and it would be tight getting there by 7:30...but the "new friends" in Andy's text made me curious. So I went to the gym and just did cardio and skipped the fake-n-bake.

I got there a little after 7:30...not too shabby. So Andy always has some finger food out before the meal is served. Last night was inspired by his recent trip to Charleston, SC. It was goat cheese and honey served with strawberries on crackers. I thought to myself...cheese and honey?!??! But it was yummy!!! Loved it!!

Then we had an endive salad with pears, almonds and amaretto soaked raisins. It was fabulous! Among the choices for dressings was one that I just couldn't pass up...Ott's Original Famous Salad Dressing. That's all it said...with a name like that who could say no!! The dressing is apparently all over the place in Kansas and it was very tasty...kind of like French, but not all thick and creamy.

The main course was baked Salmon with lemon and dill, with cheesy red skin potatoes! Everything was delicious! I don't know how Andy does it...he never knows how many people are going to be there, but some how there's always enough.

£267.78 ...

That's about 530 US dollars.

That's what I almost spent on what I affectionately call "art"

As you all know, I kinda love me some Björk. Well my latest idea is to start collecting her albums on vinyl. In my mind I know I'm a little nuts since I don't even own a record player, but I think I can justify it by mounting the albums on my wall as "art" :)

Anyway, I was searching around online and found some delicious art for my house:

That's less than one of those Thomas Kinkade pictures and it's prettier too!!!

Hahahaaaa!!!! I know I'm nuts, but I LOVE her!!!

March Madness...

So the madness that is March has come and gone. In case you weren't paying attention Kansas won last night in overtime!! It was a VERY stressful game to watch.

So in the end, I finished 14th out of 394 people in the tournament. I don't get any of the winnings, but I get bragging rights at work since I beat out all the straight boys! Woot!! Hahaaa!

Anyway, last night was the Monday dinner with the Hopkins crew, hosted at Chris' place. In honor of the NCAA finals, we had pizza and beer and watched the game from on this projection screen so it was larger than life! See...homos can be butch too! :) Our normal host Andy is from Kansas so he was VERY into the game...his squeals of delight could be heard all over the neighborhood when they won.

To make things a little more interesting, Chris would switch over to some porn during commercial breaks! Have I mentioned that I love these dinners??

Now that the madness has ended, my testosterone levels are back down and I can return to my fag-tactular self!! :)

Hey girl heeeeyyy!!

Ok...I know it's been a while...I'm such a bad blogger!
But I'm back to say "Hey girl heeeyyy!" :)

I can't remember where I saw this clip, but girlfriend is a hot mess!

So I've been UBER busy at work the past few weeks and there's no end in sight...well at least not until I leave for Key West in 22 days!! Woot!! Anyway on with the show...

I'm doing well in my NCAA pool...I could finish as high as 6th out 0f about 400 people if my teams don't lose. Currently I'm tied for 27th place, which is 11 points behind the leader...not to shabby for a giant homo! :) Regardless, there's no chance of me winning, but I do have the best record of all the people in the office...yay!!!

In addition to being uber-butch, I've been busy making up for lost time at the BR. As you know I gave up Banana Republic for Lent so here are some of my recent acquisitions:

Ok, this picture doesn't do this shirt justice...I just LOVE it!!

This sweater looks ab-fab on me... I know it's getting warmer, but I love me some cashmere:

This one was on sale and I liked it well enough...it didn't WOW me though:

This is a nice dark chocolate button down I ordered on-line...hopefully it'll look delicious on me:

This is another one that was a "must have"...it's HAWT!!

Anyway...Thank God Lent is over!!! Woooooo!!!!