I did Bikram again this morning and I gotta tell ya…90 minutes of that shit after a few drinks last night is not very much fun. I mean it’s not fun to begin with, but with a slight hangover it’s fucking terrible. Some of the poses are getting easier for me and some I just simply cannot get the hang of. My muscles are sore and tired and I fall out of the poses pretty quickly but try my best to get right back in them. I do think that some days it’s hotter than other days. I keep reminding myself that I am burning close to 1000 calories each time. 90 minutes on a treadmill might do the same but I hate running and let’s face, I am no spring chicken and these joints might start to wear. Lauren is on her 28th day in a row I think. UGH.
I walked over to Joe and Vanessa’s in hopes of working on my tan but June Gloom has officially set in. I stayed a minute and then went home to continue sifting through images until I had to get ready to meet a girl I know through Twitter. Her name is Lorena and she has a dating blog that Jarin showed me a few months ago. We have been friendly on Twitter but had never met in person and since she just moved downtown I suggested we meet up for a drink this evening. Some of my friends that are reading this might be like “why the fuck is she making new friends when she can’t even spend enough time with the ones she has?” and that is a valid concern but there is a reason that Lorena and I have connected. (I’m not sure what it is it.) We met at Red Pearl Kitchen and ordered the mule which was awesome and got to know each other a little. She works in real estate (she said “yeah so I’m unemployed too!”) and also has a part time job monitoring the weather at Lindbergh field. When the airplanes fly in a different direction than normal, that is her decision. (I wonder if she ever does it just to be funny. Like on opposite day or April Fool’s Day.) Anyways we got to talking about my job and it turns out she went on a few dates with Ryan! (she did not write about him if you are wondering) She also knows Mike who owns Tivoli from the real estate business and worked at Tivoli for like days before realizing that she could not deal with the drunk idiots in there. Small world! We chatted about our jobs, dating, blogging, traveling, living downtown and shared some ideas we had about business opportunities in the future together. I also told her about a chick blogger convention in NYC in August that I want to go to, so she’s in for that too! She told me about her date with Single Steve (another San Diego dating blogger) and how things didn’t really work out. (His version)I told her all about my dates with It’s Just Lunch and she laughed when I told her how much money I gave them. I told her my idea of letting my friends pick guys for me from Match.com so I can continue my project. I wonder if I should attempt to go on a date with Steve? Anyhoo… I’m excited to have a single friend closeby as a wingman! And since now I am a Bikram cultist I am trying to get her to go with me in the mornings.
We walked over to Tivoli and ran into Andrea who was wearing a long dress showing off her hot body and to which I could not resist ever so slightly touching her bum as I crept up behind her. Omg the look on her face as she turned to see what douchebag was groping her was priceless. Sorry! I was dying laughing. We had a drink and then walked over to the Fleetwood which is probably now officially my least favorite place in downtown San Diego. Awful music, awful crowd and just plain awful.
I was home in bed by 11pm. I knew that the Rock and Roll Marathon would be tearing by my place at some point at some unreasonable hour tomorrow morning.
Topic #1 BETTY WHITE ON SNL (spoiler alert!! in case you haven’t caught up with your DVR yet) (if there are any of you who do not know who Betty White is or SNL.. please stop reading my blog immediately. I am breaking up with you.)
I finally watched the episode from Saturday night and it was awesome not only because Betty White was on, but because several ex-SNL women made guest appearances: Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch, Molly Shannon and of course my second favorite woman of comedy, Tina Fey! (For those of you just tuning in, I am moderately obsessed with SNL) I am not sure if you saw this skit floating around online that was cut out prior to the show… Debbie Downer at a naughty lingerie party.
Betty White was squinting the whole time but delivered her lines like a champ…as much to be expected from an 88 year old. My favorite skit was the jail one with “Wizard of ASS” but I also liked the MacGruber sketch where he proposes to her and she says “What is fucking wrong with you?” Oh and Sally O’Malley was pretty funny, too. Anways, I dug out my negatives from the time I met her in the late 90′s and scanned them for your viewing pleasure. She was doing a fundraiser benefit thing for therapy pets and was the guest of honor. I can’t really give too many details especially since the woman who hired me stopped speaking to me once I told her I was in the adult entertainment industry. I don’t want to piss anyone off on the interwebs and the googles.
What a sweet lady… I remember this Vietnamese pot belly pig was trying to eat the pearls right off her neck. lol
The quality is pretty crappy because I don’t have a scanner so I was taking photos of the prints. It inspired me to go buy a negative and flat bed scanner this week so I can share the 8,347,972 photos that I have from my entire life of shooting. I had my first camera at age 9. It will be fun!
Topic #2 THE RESURECTION OF MY BLIND DATES (I have told part of this story before, so if you are new keep reading. If you aren’t new keep reading anyways because you love me.)
In 2008 I joined a pretty expensive dating service called “It’s Just Lunch” and went on a ton of blind dates over the course of the year. I wrote essays about each of them and emailed them to a group of what started as 5 – 10 people but which grew to about 40 faithful readers. They were very personal and were extremely detailed. Most of them were total trainwrecks and there were a few blind dates that occured because of friends of friends. Bottom line: everyone knew I was available and willing to go on blind dates. I wasn’t into match.com or any of those other ones where you look online and pick someone off a website. I was addicted to the thrill of the BLIND part. The anxiety and nervousness of walking into each one was a total adrenaline rush for me. I also didn’t want to have any preconceived ideas or any kind of prejudices about the person based on his appearance. I never published them because I was afraid that someone I went out with and ripped on in my essay would somehow stumble upon it. I was trying to be polite. As it turns out 2 of my 40 readers DID know the dates. I would change the names slightly but it was pretty easy to figure out when it was, say, YOUR COUSIN. My point is that I am inspired to finish my book, blog, screenplay… what have you. I have 21 under my belt. I have only “dated” 2 people since they ended and well, I am ready again. Part of me wants to join IJL again because I know they will suck at this and the entries will be highly entertaining. There is another company in town and they are pricey as well so I am not sure if I want to spend the money. I am unemployed after all. It will be a very interesting social experiment nonetheless. I am a completely different person mentally and physically than I was in 2008. I have no job (most of the dates were consumed with the fact that I was a porn producer) and I don’t look like an overweight D.Y.K.E. anymore. What I might do is have my close friends go on match.com and choose for me! I won’t be blogging all the details here because I am saving the content for the project…whatever I decide to do with it. If you have someone who lives in the San Diego area who might be a good match for me please email me howilearnedtolive@gmail.com BUT FOR GOD’S SAKES DO NOT TELL THEM ABOUT THIS BLOG. Don’t have them contact me directly… I would rather deal with you first and then go from there. Unless of course YOU are willing to be exploited and written about and you think you are good enough for me to date. Then by all means email me but DON’T include a photo. Pretty simple rules. Let’s see how good you are at following directions.
