Friends of Friends II

It's crazy how interconnected everyone really is. Six Degrees of Separation is no joke. Tonight I talked with two people that brought a smile to my face.

The first was Kelly. Kelly was one of my first readers and made me an AWESOME birthday picture last year. (HINT HINT!!) Anyway, I had been chatting with JR and he was talking about how they went out in LA for a night on the town and speak of the devil, he pops online. We caught up and I'm so happy that he is on his way with life and having a good time! It was so good chatting with him.

The second was this guy from New York, AP. AP is friends of friends with the OTHER JP down in DC (Are you guys following along?)

Well, we talked online and he chatted with me on the way home from work. A very fun conversation that made me realize how small the gay world is. He informed me that a guy I had seen out a few times in New York broke up with his boyfriend. We also have the guy who dicked me over in common, who is apparently now dating the guy he left the bar with the night we were supposed to meet up. AP said I had a sexy voice. Turned me on... Why do I meet guys in NY... AFTER I move for my career?!?!?!?

AP is a sexy guy, we'll see what happens. He's also a blog reader and is reading this and has a cute smile on his face....

Anyway... Mike Biserta, the FDNY Calendar guy that was in a Guys gone wild video, is apparently doing some modeling now. I went to school with a lot of guys that look like him, had many crushes on guys that look like him and thought I would share some of the pics I have found of him. (Thanks Dudetube and JDVISION)

Merry Christmas

Christmas has come and gone. Most people get some time off during this week to spend with family, get drunk with friends and hurry from one place to another to satisfy all the family requirements. For the 2nd year in a row I was working on Christmas Eve. I did, however make it home to see my family for Christmas Day.

I am very lucky to have a family that cares for eachother. It's a great feeling, it really is. was able to see all my family I needed to during this time and received some great gifts. What I did miss the most was sitting around my Aunts basement with my sisters and cousins and playing board games while getting completely hammered. I was stuck at work. I'm the rookie, it's to be expected.

Be on the look out for my 2007 wrap post. I'll be talking about a lot of stuff that has happened and what I have to look forward to in 2008.

I hope all of you had a great Christmas as I did. It could have been better, I mae the most of what I had.

xoxo

Str8 Guys

Whenever it snows I think of Guy. I got out of work today and it was snowing as I was walking to my car. Not heavy enough to accumulate, but enough to make it feel like winter and look pretty. For those who did not click the Guy link, he is a former "Str8" guy of mine from college that I spent a snow storm with at my parents house while they were at the condo down in Florida.

Recently, he sort of came back into my life. He, apparently, works at my sisters Restaurant near my hometown. During Thanksgiving weekend my good friend Pat and I decided to go in and see my sister who is training to be a bartender at the restaurant while going to Graduate school for Social Work.

We got in, ordered some appetizers and beers and enjoyed the conversation of catching up on what we have both missed. My friend Pat is engaged and we were talking about wedding planning and how she comes from a VERY conservative background. Anyway, while talking I lock eyes with a cute Italian waiter. I then realize it's GUY! I get excited and Pat notices so I tell him the long drawn out story and he asks if I know guys like that, to which I respond, "You have no idea."

Guy ended up leaving with his brother that night and did not come over to say hi. He did walk by, check me out and smile. One of the bartenders gave us our check as my sister was getting ready to take off. I gave the bartender my number to give to Guy. I haven't heard from him.

I was talking with K the other night about Guy and about "Str8" boys in general and how they are "TMT" (Totally my type) and they drive me crazy.

Anyway, Check out think LINK (NSFW) It's possibly the HOTTEST clip I have seen on XTube.

XTube is one of the BEST inventions of the 21st Century. Free Porn. Watching hot "Frat" guys fuck on camera and then post it for the world to see. Let me know what you think of the video. I can watch it OVER and OVER again.

Work Crush Speaks

I have many crushes so-to-speak. There is one however that I see on a daily basis, KS. He is about my age and one of my first days in the newsroom we passed each other while I was walking to the bathroom. He is in amazing shape and looks like he may have been a college athlete because he is pretty jacked up.

A few weeks ago, while changing at the gym, my Gym crush was not present but KS was. I was excited to see KS was just beginning his work out and that I was as well. We both have the same "in" time so our workouts would be about the same length. I got in the zone because he was there. Worked harder, pushed my sets, really felt the burn the next day. I watched the clock and knew I had just enough time to shower change and head to the newsroom. I was in the zone and I lost track of KS.

As I was changing for my shower KS walked in. I have always kept it cool in the lockeroom. He took his shirt off and I thought I might have lost control and fainted. His upper body was sculpted like a Greek Adonis. I was amazed.

I made my way to work, only to bump into him a few times. We do the "nod" and "What's up?" that almost everyone does here.

Today, KS spoke. From where I sit, I have a direct line of sight of KS. It's distracting really. I was typing part of a script today, got up to stretch and saw KS walking over to talk to the Senior. He was fumbling with his hands, OH NO! A silver ring.... But wait... it's on his right hand. PHEW! Not married. He spoke, I have never heard his voice and I was surprised what came out.

He walks with confidence, as he should with a fine tuned body as he has. When he spoke it was soft and a little high pitched. I was a little surprised. My work crush and I have a fun relationship on paper. I will be spending a week with his "Unit" in January. I hope to get to know him better.

(The picture posted on the entry is not him, but is DAMN close)

10 Inches...

I was driving home from work tonight and THIS is how cold it was. 12 Degrees!!! Seriously... We haven't seen this kind of weather in December in a LONG TIME.

I feel like I have only been posting about my weekends lately. I have been busy with work... working out... and being lazy.

I know, working out and being lazy just don't go together. We got 10 inches of snow here near Hartford last week. It was crazy trying to get to work. I was fine, but the people driving cars without 4wheel drive were idiots.

Friday was a disappointment. I talked to my best friend for the first time in what seemed like months. He has been having a rough month. In high school our rough month was February. Something shitty always happened after my birthday... it was like clockwork.

Anyway, I called him and he was really down. Lots of personal and job related shit that all hit at once and I wanted to cheer him up. I was his best man. I said I would drive over and we would hang out for the night. Have a guys night. He was pumped. It was one of those moments where I knew it was gunna be a long night split over a 30 pack of beer.

I was making dinner, preparing some stuff to bring over and he calls me back. His wife took off from work early and he was gunna spend the night with her and the dogs. Sigh... The whip was cracked. I called up one of my fraternity little brothers who is still living in state and asked him what he was doing. His GF was out of town so I headed down to see him about a half hour away. We drank our faces off and played video games all night till 5am. Shooting the shit, talking about nothing at all and having a good time.

Saturday was a day that I was looking forward to. I drove down to my parents house on Saturday to be ahead of the storm that was coming in on Saturday night/Sunday morning so I would be there to leave for the Giants game.


I called D... who is the guy I have been talking to online. We met on MySpace and like I said a few posts ago, I wasn't holding my breath. After I had a wonderful steak dinner with the parents I went and met D for a movie to see Gone Baby Gone. I really liked the movie and meeting him in person was great. He is very handsome, Irish with light brown/reddish hair and fair skin. He is really cute and studying to be a Doctor. No moves were made during the movie. After the movie we grabbed coffee/hot chocolate and it just got awkward.

I don't know what was up, but it felt like nothing clicked between us. You know how you meet someone and you know it just clicks one way or another. We have all had it happen, wether it was a sexual attraction or just getting along as friends. There was nothing. Too bad too, he is really cute.

Sunday was a BLAH day. You may think I am crazy but I spent most of the afternoon under a tent, watching football next to a heater in the parkinglot of Giants Stadium in the Swamps of Jersey. We had steak, chilli, scallops wrapped with bacon, pork loin, hamburgers, grilled chicken breast, 5 types of stuffed bread from a bakery in the Bronx and 10 types of beers. Not to mention the blackberry brandy that was being passed around. We have a great time tailgating.

The Giants lost the game and didn't even show up to play. It was a disgrace! I did have fun tailgating. That's what matters.

"We miss you..."

I have been meaning to bring this up since the weekend and thought I would do so now. Last Saturday I hung out with Justin after K left us to go study for finals. We walked around the city and up to the UWS where I used to work. On our way there, I ran into a former anchor I used to work with. It was really good to see him and he has this boy-ish midwestern charm to him. We talked for about 10 minutes about nothing, caught up on everything and after we said our goodbyes I brought Justin into where I used to work.

As I showed him the edit room I would sit and chat from, my old desk in the newsroom, There were 3 desk editors working, one of whom I recently helped out at my new job. Her face lit up and she gave me a big hug. I introduced Justin to everyone working and talked with my former co-workers.

"We miss you JP" she said. "You came up so huge for us." she continued. It made me feel really good that I was appreciated and that I helped out in a good way. "We miss you"

That hit me really hard. It was a big decision to leave New York for this new job, but I really like my new job, over my old one. Granted, I am not doing as much production work as I am coordinating people and such at the new job, but so far, the move and new job are paying off.

I told Justin that it made me feel good that I was missed. I have been thinking about it since that day. I received a card today in the mail at work from the editor I saw on Saturday. It was a really nice card thanking me for all my help and telling me that if I decide to come back to New York in the future to call her and she would be sure to find a job for me.

After all the frustration of working the graveyard shift, getting passed over for promotions and all the other BS I had to endure at the old job, this was a moment I have been waiting for. Not many people get it, and I am happy to have got it now.

She also sent e-mails to my current bosses and they have been happy and surprised that I have caught on to the job so quickly and have been motivated to do more.

Makes me feel so good. What also makes me feel good is a guy I am talking to. He called me on the phone today and we chatted for about an hour. He's cute, loves music, knows nothing about sports and is going to be a Doctor. I'm not holding my breath.

A nice little Friday...

I had a great weekend and was able to put some faces to a few blogs out there, which is always a good time! I was in the city for the Holiday Party and it went awesome! I met my date Ryan up near the club on the East Side and had some pizza with 2 former co-workers. We walked over to the party and it was non-stop hugs and drinks from there.

I was pretty excited that Ryan said he could go to the party. I had the extra ticket and thought he would enjoy because we work in similar fields and also would be a good time to chill with him because he's a great guy. To those thinking he may be a love interest of mine, he has an awesome boyfriend and it's strictly friends.

I was able to see two of my favorite anchors I worked with at the party. The drinks kept flowing and Ryan and I were feeling pretty good as the night was wrapping up at the party.

Open bar at a holiday party is dangerous. You start saying things to people, getting too close and if anyone from HR was there I can only imagine what kind of inappropriate stuff was going on.

Ryan and I jumped in a cab and headed downtown to see Billy, K, Justin and Christian at Barracuda. From there it gets hazy... I remember talking to this really cute boy named Erik who gave me his number. His family has recently moved from the city to Connecticut and he comes home every so often to see them, along with his 5 year old son.

A good time was had the rest of the night heading to GYM Bar for a drink hoping I would see a guy from when I lived in NY but again was dicked over. Said boy even called me mid-week to tell me how excited he was to see me and he dicked me over again.

We headed to G after the dicking over happened and from there some of us had fun.

Overall it was a good weeekend. The GIANTS beat Philly which always makes me smile and are heading to the playoffs!!!

Catching up with Ugly Betty

I'm not saying this because I work for the parent company... but I am really enjoying some of the programming on ABC as of late. One show I have got into is Ugly Betty. Some people may say, "That's very Gay of you." The show is fun, entertaining and I happen to love one of the newest storylines on the show.

Marc St. James is the bitchy, queen assistant to Wilehmina Slater at MODE Magazine. One of the funnier characters on the show because of how over the top he is on the show. The writers this season gave him a love interest named Cliff. After Elton interviewed David Blue who plays Cliff on the show and I have fallen for the character of Cliff on the show because I relate to him a lot.

The character of Cliff is described as, "an overweight, fashion-impaired gay man, Marc’s opposite in almost every way." Cliff is the all around nice guy who is true to himself and just a loveable guy. He isn't THAT much overweight, but I guess it's Fat to people in Hollywood.

The first episode where Cliff comes around, Marc disses Cliff for another guy while out and instead of retreating he sticks up for himself and calls himself a catch. That is what I like about the character. He is a catch. I would want Cliff as a boyfriend hands down.

Drinks beer, watched football, loves to take pictures and really cute... The total package.

There is a Cliff out there for all of us. It takes some time to find him, but he is out there for us searching for a guy like that.

Friends

Oh I love my friends! Cooper and I were talking before I headed to the gym. He was at school, studying and out of the blue he exclaims, "There is a boy here that is totally your type"

I type back, "Send a picture!"

"10 steps ahead of you friend"

The boy is cute, from afar and really is a type of guy I would go for, but have yet to find.

On a side note, I am really excited for this weekend. Friday night, the morning show I used to work for, is having it's Holiday Party and I got invited which is awesome.

After the party I am meeting up with Billy, Justin (who is in town from chicago) and others for drinks possibly down in Chelsea.

I am bringing my friend Ryan to the party as a date which should be fun. I hope the party is not lame.

Off to the gym!

Motivation

I have been talking with a reader off an on over the past few weeks about motivation with the gym. I really blew my workout schedule last weekend and am paying the consequences this week.

I guess it's all about how focused I can be over the next few months to make something happen. I know I can do it, I just need to put up and do it.

The holidays are very hard to do so because of the parties, sweets and other temptations that are there. This is going to be a good work out week for me. I can already feel it.

Thought I would give you guys some hotness to look at for motivation.

I only know this reader by his screen name but he is helping me with centering my life right now and it feels great.

Boston Crawl

So, you have been all waiting for it… My weekend. I haven’t had one of these weekends since I moved out of New York City and now know that living in the suburbs is not really my thing for a social life. I am managing here in CT, but know in the future I will be living in NYC or a large city.

Friday I headed up to Boston College to hang out with my good friend and fraternity brother Cam. We said it was going to be an “easy” night since the Crawl started at 3pm on Saturday. Cam works for BC and has an apartment on campus that is pretty big. A few of his friends showed up and it turned into a Crazy night with some friends from college showing up, beer pong and drinking games. I woke up the next morning, very hung over, and pretty excited for the Crawl to start.

We got to the first bar and Timmy was there. He is the reason we all came together. We are raising money for him and his family to help pay medical bills (information at the bottom of post if you would like to contribute)

A bunch of friends from college that I haven't seen in a while were there, buying everyone drinks, shots and walking from bar to bar. At the second bar I was introduced to this guy named Dan. A really cute guy, just graduated from a liberal arts school nearby. We kept talking and I got this vibe from him. He kept smiling at me with a cute smile and his deep blue eyes.

We ended up at Boston Beer works at one stop and I wanted to get some food, as did Dan. He kept asking me on our walk over if I wanted to eat and if I would share something with him. It was cute. He sat next to me, and his friend Meg sat across from him. Meg gets up at one point and Dan cozzies up really close to me. Dan is in faily good shape and we were talking about my chest hair. He liked my chest hair, mind you I was wearing a longsleve thermal on so he must have been checking me out when I took my shirt off at one point because I had beer spilled on my top layer.

He lifted up his shirt a little bit to reveal a nice stomach with a happy trail to which I said he looked good anyway. He smiled at me.

As we were walking to the last bar, I was pretty drunk and so was he. He came up to me and said that he had to go to a friends birthday party but didn't want to leave without my number. I gave it to him and he asked me to walk with him while he got a cab. My friends waited in line and we turned the corner and ducked into a Bank so he could get cash out.

It was nice and warm inside the ATM room and he said he was happy he met someone like me and really wanted to get me alone. I took it upon myself with all the signs there and went in for the kill. I smiled back at him and leaned in. We embraced inside the bank ATM room for a solid minute. "Next time you are in Boston call me" We held hands until a cab came by and he left. He texted me a smile at the end of the night.

I was very surprised that the night had gone like this. I had two girls fighting over taking to me, until I had to break the news to them telling them that I liked guys.

The last bar we were at was called The Harp. It's right near the Boston Garden and an okay place. Beers were too much but I had my friends with me and we were dancing downstairs. My friend Shelby, who lives in Boston came by and we had a GREAT time. I guess at the beginning of the night I was introduced to this really cute guy, but was so caught up in Dan that I hadn't really given him the attention he needed.

I was getting a beer and he was behind me and made some comment about the price of the beer. We got to talking and while everyone was dancing nearby we were talking pretty close. Talking led to flirting. Flirting led to dancing with one an other. We took some time to dance with close friends and he came up behind me and gave me a squeeze on my ass.

I turned around and he winked at me. For the rest of the night he had my full attention. At this point my friend Vic wanted me to leave the bar and head to a gay bar which was kind of far away from where I was. I decided to stay, which Vic should forgive me for.

Living on a prayer comes on and it's CRAZY. I see my cutie dancing so I go up behind him and grind up on him. My friends are all very awesome and when I did that it wasn't that big of a deal, within the 60 people that we had dancing. Some random guy comes up to us, while we were dancing and waves his hand in between our faces, which were not very close at all. He says you guys are too close and stares me right in the eyes. I looked shocked, as did my friends who were close by. My testosterone pumped up and I said, "Do you have a problem?" The guy, who was drunk and trying to be all macho, looked surprised that I mouthed back to him. He responded back, "That shit ain't cool."

I looked the guy straight in the eyes, turned my hat around and said "Do you have a fuckin problem?" Shocked again, he backed away and left. My friend Austin thought i was going to punch him in the face and was about to jump in, but he was impressed with me standing up to the guy.

It was a straight bar after all, but seriously, we were not in the middle of the dance floor making a spectecal of ourselves. Just dancing, having a good time. Ok, I will admit we di steal a few ksses here and there... but we couldn't resist. He asked for my number, and I gave it to him.

I don't know what it was but my confidence was VERY high in Boston and I had a great time. For the most part it was hanging out with friends and enjoying being with eachother and celebrating our friend Timmy.

Enjoy some pictures that I am sure you will enjoy.

We are currently taking donations that will go directly to Timmy's family for his care. Any donation amount you can give will mean the world to Tim, his family as well as his friends.We promise you that every penny of your donation will go straight to Timmy and his family. Thank you so much.

Please make your check out to the'Timothy Morris Medical Fund'and mail to:

'Timothy Morris Medical Fund' Citizens Bank115 Indian Rock Road NH-473Windham, NH 03087