Summer Fun!

Good morning campers……………Rise and shine! It’s a beautiful summer day and summer activities abound. In addition to summer pastimes like sports I discussed last week there is much to do as the days are longer and the weather warm and hot and for us girls this is a great time of year because we get to wear shorts, bare legs and sandals or flip flops and casual tops and I particularly enjoy this comfortable attire a great deal. Even those of us with exceptionally fair skin can pull this off with the use of tanners, spray on tans and such. Just make sure you keep your body well moisturized and use sun block on your skin. Even at night casual tops go well with shorts, casual skirts and Capri pants. The warm summer evenings are perfect for strolls and walks in parks or to see a new summer release movie. Enjoy outdoor dinning and a stroll afterward with someone you care about and love.
Summertime is a great time to get outside and do all sorts of summer activities. Some girls like to camp although I have never been much for tent camping as its too primitive for this girl and way to many issues like bugs, lack of showers and other such ooogy things! I do enjoy a stay in a cabin as I did this past weekend with friends. This place is so remote and it takes what seems like forever to get to it off the main road in West Virginia I always kid people about the scary toothless fiddle players along the road playing that delightful dueling banjo tune from “Deliverance”. Despite the very remote location the cabins are not primitive at all and provide such luxuries as stove, microwave, shower, hot tubs and a dishwasher. However, they also provide beautiful peaceful scene of the mountains, a the sounds of a flowing mountain stream which provides a wondrous sound at night as you sleep with the windows open and feel the mountain breezes.
I love to hike and bike in the summer and the longer days permit us to do that in the weekday evenings even if you have to work during the day. Take plenty of water with you when you do. Picnics are exceedingly nice in the summer especially before the hot muggy days set in. This past weekend also the annual picnic for PE WV and we had a lovely turnout for an even lovelier day. Eighty degrees and sunshine and a slight breeze in a picnic pavilion by a lake now that is a beautiful place for a picnic with sisters and friends. Nothing beats the taste of a delicious hotdog, brat, or grilled hamburger with cheese hot off a grill and smothered with your fixins of choice. Delicious….. girls!!! They go particularly well with a cold beverage such as beer, chilled white wine, long island ice teas,lemonade, ice tea or a root beer! Other groups are having picnics this summer as well or you can gather a few friends and find a quaint picnic table in a park somewhere.
Other wonderful summer things include sightseeing outdoor sites, outdoor theater productions, especially those that let you picnic beforehand! Another fun activity of summer is going to pool parties and don’t worry about suit thing. Go in a one piece and be with friends especially ones who have pools. If you have a great body and if you do we all hate you (only teasing) wear your bikini. If you got it…flaunt it! Have a pool party at night on a warm evening and throw something on the grill and get the beverages flowing.
Summer also provides time to get to the beach for all you sun worshippers and beach lovers where you can swim, surf or in some places, snorkel or scuba. Not up for all that, plan an outing to an amusement park and ride the rides, especially screaming wooden rolling coasters that take your breath away (and hopefully not your hair for those who use wigs).
Get out there and enjoy summer my sisters and friends and let the world see you for who you are doing what you enjoy doing and having some fun. Life is too short and so is summer. Soon the days will grow short and fall breezes and cool evenings will fade away to cold grey dreary days of winter where you have so many layers on you melt inside and still freeze outside and your activities are limited- unless you like, of course, flying down hill of ice and packed snow on two pieces of fiberglass boards! Not my cup of tea as they say so I prefer late spring, summer and fall. Get out there girls and enjoy all the pleasures of summer and have some fun! See you at the next picnic, on the lake, at the cabin, by the pool or in the park! Ahhhhhhh…summer days and nights!

Chocolate Delights

Chocolate is a dish made by the gods for sure. It is even the subject of one of my intriguingly favorite modern films-“Chocolat”. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve standing on a chair in my mother’s kitchen as I waited till she finished pouring the chocolate batter into the pan and immediately asked if I could like the spoon and bowl of this sweet dark brown flowing delight! I, like most other girls love this delicious rich delectable immensely and I think a true love of chocolate is shared by many true girls both those of the genetic nature and those of us of the transgendered variety. Chocolate melts in your mouth and sends a sensation through me that can almost rival intense passion – almost! I love to make chocolate dishes and treats but most importantly I love to sink my teeth into some just about anytime. Recently, I discovered, although not surprisingly, that my love Paula also enjoys this wonderful pleasure (among many which she enjoys!) as well and it is another wonderful thing we can share and we have as well.

Our first real chocolate experience together came on our first weekend together we spent after the weekend we spent together in which we shared our feelings for each other discussed in our blogs a few weeks ago. On this particular weekend I took Paula to a restaurant in Columbus for dinner which she fell in love with just as I had done last year when I ate there a few times. We enjoyed dinner immensely and we shared good conversation and drinks and a splendid meal. Following the meal, our waiter offered us a choice of desserts and upon hearing them our mutual interests turned instantly to a wonderfully sounding and ultimately decadent chocolate cake with several layers. We decided that although we planned on dancing later, the meal had been quite filling and that we would share a piece of this rich chocolate delicacy. We did not order two plates however and when the plate of this yummy dish arrived Paula and I decided we would do something neither of us had done in a very long time! We took our forks and began taking pieces off this mound of chocolate heaven and feeding it to the other taking turns placing the chocolate in each others mouth and watching the sheer pleasure this delightful offering gave the other. The chocolate melted like a bath of murky sweetness in our mouths and I loved watching the expression on her face as much as I loved tasting it upon her loving offering of it to me. It was truly one of the most intimate acts we had done for each other and somehow I think it will be repeated!
Recently we had another chocolate experience together during one of our recent times together. After a” rough” day of shopping (well I was unable to find a pair of heels I wanted for a dress) we passed a delicious purveyor of chocolate in one of the shops. It did not take an army to get us to quickly turn into this store and examine the treats in the cases below. We studied them well and questioned the clerk and then picked out four little pieces of heaven which she placed in the bag and smiled as she gave them to us. We were driving shortly thereafter and we decided to break into some of this wonderful bag of treats! Upon sitting in the parking lot we each sampled one of them and both us moaned with pleasure as we ate a piece of this wonderful treat. The remaining pieces were saved for later and shared in one of the most erotic evenings we had ever experienced in our young but growing relationship. Let’s just say that we found a few places that one can eat chocolate out of and off of that added a slightly salty taste to the confines of the delicious chocolate treats. Yes indeed- chocolate is the fruit of the gods and I truly love it but my love of Paula has brought me to love it even more! I am trying to expand her culinary interests so I am glad we have this common love of chocolate to share and explore as well! Now- if only I could get her to like sushi!!!

Eclectic clubbing and sausages (Summer 07)

I have decided I love clubs that are “eclectic”. Its not that I have had any problem with so called “straight” clubs as long as I am accepted and treated well and with friends as I am cool with just about any place. Additionally I am comfortable in the alternative clubs and have been accepted at those establishments for many long years but sometimes those clubs seemed a tad focused on a particular aspect of the GBLT community. For example, many times the so called “gay” clubs have cliques of men that seem to ignore us girls when it comes to dancing even though dancing is just fun and its not going to kill a guy to ask a girl to dance even if he is gay. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with having fun on the dance floor. The same sometimes is true of the so called “lesbian” clubs and there are exceptions to the general principles for sure as I not into many labels and generalities for sure.

The eclectic clubs I have experienced however in cities like Seattle, Chicago Washington DC, Lexington KY and most recently this past Friday in Ann Arbor, MI at the Necto seem to be the best for having fun, dancing and meeting people. That is, of course, is due to several factors. First they tend to be younger clubs where the median age of the attendees is about 23-24 years old. My philosophy is this – although I am well past that age- if you want to feel young then be with young people and have fun with them. It makes you feel younger than you are and that is a good thing my friends. Secondly the music at these types of clubs tends to be upbeat techno music that is rhythmic and easy to dance to and thus have fun with all those young people. Most importantly however is the mixture of people at these eclectic clubs feeds the energy and helps makes it fun for everyone. The club I a mixture of all that compose society, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, curious, straights, gothic, metro sexual and everything in between.

The mixture of elements makes them fun places to be and I did have fun with my friends, Paula, Tamera, Mandie and the very old Ranae (born in 63 my who know what!) on my first visit to Ann Arbor. It’s a very nice town and I enjoyed chatting with the girls over dinner and some pool as we waited for Erica to join us. Then it was off to Necto where consumption of the fishbowl concoctions took place. I still like the fact I got my discounted because I had to wait for the bowls to come out. The bartender still got a nice tip from me for sure! The music vibrated the rhythmic beat and soon it called it us all to the floor for dancing with many people joining in to dance with us and many comments by the patrons of how nice it was we came out to party and have fun with them. Now I will admit I have to work on my pole dancing as it has never been my strong point to say the least and Mandie and Paula have the evidence to demonstrate this fact. However, I had fun which is all that matters and I had fun with my friends and that matters even more to me. When the night was over we still had all sorts of people interacting with us and the placed buzzed with energy. The exit from the parking garage with the line from hell was the only down side to the night other than a certain incident, the image of which is still burned into my brain as I write this blog. Oh well. By the way, if you see Tamera sometime ask her how she likes her sausages …..I suspect that it is somewhat on the darker side but heck I am just taking a wild guess there. It’s all part of the feel to eclectic clubs such as Necto and many other I have visited and hope to visit again.