Voyuerism…and YOUR ASSIGNMENT

I like it. There. I said it. And I’m not just talking about what would normally come to mind when you mention the word “voyeur” – not the sexual aspect of watching, although, I’ll admit I do enjoy “watching” the raw emotion people can share with one another. No. What I’m really talking about is watching people in their normal every day to day activities. I enjoy it.

I love to “people watch”. I find their actions interesting and often mysterious, and at times, just completely hilarious. And the emotions/reactions I feel when watching people vary from one extreme to the other. I like to try to figure out their story. What are they trying to nonverbally say or communicate. Or are they trying to say nothing at all and do they even care?

Often times I’ll watch someone and see the hurt on their face – and I wonder what it’s a result of. Maybe from a break-up, a death, or a friend they may have had a fight with. Maybe it’s divorce, or lonliness, or financial trouble. Then I’ll see someone that is obviously living life to its fullest potential and enjoying every waking minute of it. Maybe they’ve just found the love of thier life, gotten a new car or house, or maybe they’re getting married, or just had a baby, ….who knows, maybe they just had the BEST SEX EVER!! I love trying to figure out their story — or maybe the better way of putting it is that I love writing their story just from casual observation. When people don’t know they’re being watched they’re usually more themselves, they usually aren’t disguising their feelings.

Most of what we communicate to people is done so nonverbally. What do people think about me when they see me? What do they immediately conclude when they watch my actions. Am I conveying my feelings and letting them inside my walls without my permission? Maybe. Do I care? Sometimes. Do you care that people watch you and try to figure you out? Are you aware when people are watching you and do you change the way you walk or carry yourself? For example, ladies, how many times do you pick up on a guy checking you out? Do you walk a little taller, take longer glides, shift the hips a little more? Do you let them know you saw them? Do you smile at them? And guys, do you change your mode of operation when you realize a lady is staring at you from across the room? Do you make eye contact with them immediately or do you let them watch you for a while and then make contact? Do you try to be funnier or louder to keep their attention? Or do you ignore them. Do you care?

And where are the best places to watch people?

• the beach
• the airport
• the grocery store
• a mall
• a restuarant or bar
• a sporting event
• — what others can you think of?

So, here’s the thing — I’m interested to see what different stories you guys/gals will come up with given the same information & description of a person. Here is your assignment:

You’re at the baggage carrousel in the airport and you’re waiting to retreive your luggage. You notice a young woman and although it’s daytime she’s wearing a black strapless evening gown, high heeled shoes, and coordinated jewelry. She collects a box wrapped in brown paper. What’s in the box? Who’s she meeting? And, why is she dressed to the nines at the airport?

What do you see? What’s her story?

Another funny

Well, today must be the day for all things funny to come thru the filters at the office….. Just another tidbit of humor for your day….

Funny

Ladie, see what we have to look forward to when we get old? haha

I work in the technical arena and one of the things we do at the office is monitor/filter email for inappropriate content. This is one of the things that was caught in the filter today. I had a chuckle at it and thought I’d post it here.

Stay tuned. I’ll be back later today to post again.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Superpowers!

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have superpowers! You know, like:

Superman and his ability to soar through the sky, leap tall buildings, & see through stuff …or Spiderman and his ability to web-sling around the city or climb a wall…or Batman and his physical prowness & martial arts abilities…or Wonder Woman and her lasso abilities and being able to richochet bullets off her bracelets…or The Green Lantern – and his super ring

I think if I could have superpowers these are just a few of the ones I’d want to possess most:

• To be invisible
• To be able to see thru stuff (hehehehe)
• To be able to fly (how cool would that be??? AND I could travel anywhere in the blink of an eye!!)

So it begs the question, if one day you were to awake and find that you have superpowers, what kind do you have and do you use them for good or evil?

Sex, Size, & Dirty Talk, Part Deux

Please be sure to check out “Sex, Size, & Dirty Talk” (Part one) over on Marie’s blog (Scorpio).

Marie posted an interesting question regarding penis size and had quite a few interesting comments. After thinking about the men I’ve had both the pleasure and displeasure of experiencing I thought it might be enlightening to get a slightly different slant on the topic. So, my inquisitive little fingers began searching in the wonderful wide world of cyberspace and came across this article. While I won’t paste the entire article here in this post, the following is what caught my eye:

“There’s one final point that’s of great importance and that virtually every man forgets: it doesn’t matter how long or how short your penis is, because the vagina is so cunningly designed that it will accommodate itself to any length of penis.

You see, the vagina of a woman who hasn’t had a child is only a mere 7.5cm (3″) long when she’s not sexually excited. The figures for women who have had babies are only slightly different. And even when she has been aroused, her vagina usually extends only to a length of about 10cm (4″). So it’s obvious that any man’s penis will fill her vagina completely, unless, of course, he happens to be one of those very, very rare guys with an erect penile length of less than 4″. You’re probably wondering how on earth a man with an average length penis of 6 ½” manages to insert his penis into a normal woman’s vagina at all. Well, the answer is quite simple – the vagina has the most remarkable capacity for lengthening if something is introduced into it gradually. So the exceptional man whose penis is, say, 20.5cm (8″) long can still make love to literally any woman, providing he excites her properly and introduces his organ very slowly. If he does this, her vagina will quite happily lengthen by 150 per cent or even 200 per cent to accommodate him. “


Ok people, “the vagina will accommodate itself to any length of penis………….unless he happens to be one of those VERY, VERY rare guys with an erect penile length of less than 4″…” I don’t know statistically how rare “very very rare” is but it must not be too rare since several of us who commented on Marie’s blog had experienced this. (“Lucky” us, right Marie?)

Well, I couldn’t leave it at that so I went searching again and came across another site. Here are the percentiles for penis size:

Note: If the chart doesn’t show up clearly on your view click here to go to the page where I found it and scroll down until you see the “Measuring Up” section.

Yep, you would know that I would have to be a woman who found a man that falls within the 10th percentile! ****sighing at my lovely ability to pick him out! ****

Although, I guess I shouldn’t complain too loudly. I have had my share of “average/above average” men (according to the chart) and I did manage to also find a man between the 90th and 100th percentile! I guess life isn’t ALWAYS unfair! haha **wink, wink**

So gentlemen, what’s your percentile? Are you where you want to be on the chart? And ladies, what’s been your experience?

Update To Yesterday’s BREAKING NEWS!!!

Hell has officially relocated back to its original melting pot and my office has returned to it’s nice state of cooldom at a wonderful 69 degrees! *hmmmmmm* Additionally, my bitchiness has left the building and my smile has returned to my lips!! All is well in the land of the “Network Nazi”!! (hehe – Mark if you’re reading this you should be smiling.)

BREAKING NEWS — HELL RELOCATED!!!

Where? My office. Yep, you heard me. I walked into the office this morning and it was 97 FUCKING degrees! Nope, not kidding. Wish I were. It seemed as if Satan himself had set up camp there.

I walked into the office this morning all smiles and upbeat – ready to start my week off with a productive bang. I had actually worked from home over the weekend and set my agenda in place for the entire week and when I was driving to work this morning I was feeling ever so confident with the tasks at hand for the day. Little did I know that when I opened the room to my area (consisting of all the cubes where the people for me work, my office, and our server room) I was hit with what felt like a furnace, set on 975 degrees, spitting flames at me. My thought process went something like this:

1. Oh SHIT!
2. Run to the server room where everything is dinging and blinking, etc — check thru everything to make sure all is as well as it can be considering the heat. Nothing is down, etc….
3. While running thru #2, calling the AC guys to get their cute asses over there PDQ!
4. Trying to figure out why the hell I wasn’t paged over the weekend when the thermostat controls climbed above the allotted temperature settings and why the hell NO ONE ELSE was paged as well. — I, mean, correct if I’m wrong, but isn’t that why we have such monitoring tools in place?!?!?!?!?! No need to correct me – I KNOW I’M RIGHT HERE!

The AC guys showed up within minutes (guess it helps to get them here faster if you’ve been known to flirt every time you see them doing the maintenance on the stuff – haha). I won’t go into the details of what the hell actually happened to the unit to trigger this event but they got it back working relatively quickly. That said, it still didn’t get below around 80 degrees today b/c it was so fucking hot outside and the sun was just beaming down on the building & the unit — it was working overtime all day to cool. Things should be back to normal in the morning since the sun doesn’t shine at night!! We’ll see! (I also decided to put in another unit, as a fail safe – so hopefully they’ll be installing it tomorrow afternoon — we’ve been needing to do this anyway and there’s no time like the present when the Devil is staring at you grinning!)

As for the monitoring systems and alerts/pages we should have received over the weekend — my ever so alert employee fessed up by saying, “Oh, I’m sorry, I was working with the management cards in the servers Friday and took the probes out to ……. blah blah blah, thought I had put them back in before I left.” (Note, he’s trembling in fear at this point.) He’s a new employee and made an honest mistake but I can guarantee you that he’ll NEVER MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN!! He really is a good employee – he just apparently had a lapse of brain power on Friday afternoon. (For the record, Strike 1.)

Now, if you’ve been a reader of mine for a while or if you’ve read thru my earlier archives, you know that the AC in my house decided to go AWOL and had to be replaced earlier this summer. While that was a MAJOR inconvenience for me, at least I could sit naked on my leather furniture under the ceiling fans, not to mention sleep naked, at attempts to remain cool. Obviously, I don’t have these luxuries at the office, so I spent the day HOT AS HELL & sweating! Good thing I wore my long hair up today or I’d have really been sweating and more of a Bitch than I already was. If you haven’t noticed, I don’t do heat! Not unless there’s water nearby that I can immerse myself into! Yea, I know, I live in the south, heat is a given here but that’s also why we have air conditioners that kick ass and why we bitch and moan when they don’t work!

I left the office around 4:30 today and came home to a nice cool house. Yep, a house that’s thermostat stays on 69 degrees year ’round. And what did I do? I stripped down to my birthday suit and sat in my leather club chair, feet propped up on the leather ottoman and basked in the coolness of my home. Ahhhhhhhhhhh…. how refreshing (until my nipples got hard b/c I had fallen asleep and was now freezing COLD!!)

So, tomorrow Hell should be back in its normal location and my office should again be cool. Hey Satan, next time, it would be really fucking nice if you would send a change of address notice out prior to such relocations!

101 Things About Me

On several of the blogs that I normally read I have noticed posts titled “101 Things About Me”. I have enjoyed reading these posts and have been able to learn a good bit about the people behind the blogs I tend to gravitate toward. I thought it would be a fun and interesting task to sit down and write 101 things about myself and share them with my readers. So, without further ado, here’s my list….

101 Things about “Wanting More”

1. I’m a true southern girl, born and raised in South Carolina.
2. While I enjoy the small town I live in I find that when I visit big cities I’m always drawn them and I get this deep down desire to move to one.
3. I love the big cities because it seems that you can be who you want to be without fear of judgment. You can be your true self — no walls.
4. I love to travel. I haven’t been to as many places as I would have liked to have visited thus far in my life, but I’ve been around I guess. I’ve been to:
   Atlanta (not a big deal since I live in SC)
   Charlotte (also not a big deal for the same reason)
   Charleston (Yes, I know, it’s in SC but it’s different from the town I live in and I love it there.)
   Tampa
   Orlando
   Boston (I absolutely LOVE Boston and could really see myself living there.)
   New York City (What to say about NYC? I LOVED it too! There is so much to do and see in NYC – I love the atmosphere, the hustle and bustle, the shopping, the theater, the night life, just everything about it.)
   Las Vegas (Let’s see, I’ve been to Vegas 4 times and every time is an experience. I enjoy gambling but I’m not addicted to it. I can take it or leave it. There’s so much to do in Vegas other than gamble and there’s always interesting people to meet and see. — If you’ve never been you really should – and while there be sure to visit the Grand Canyon. It is spectacular by helicopter.)
   Los Angeles (I went here a LONG LONG time ago and I don’t really remember a whole lot about it.)
   Portland (Oregon, not Maine) (What a beautiful place. The scenery in and around Portland was spectacular. The Columbia River Gorge was beautiful and Multnomah Falls was breathtaking. I met some wonderful people from Portland that I remain friends with today and hopefully I’ll get to visit there again sometime.)
   Seattle (Anytime someone mentions Seattle they are usually talking about the weather and what a dreary rainy place it is. When I visited there it rained once out of the 9 days – everyday was beautiful. The weather was pleasant as well as the people. I took a river boat cruise while there and passed by good ole Bill Gates’ house. Since I’m in the technology field this was a real treat. The Public Market was a blast and the guys at the fish counter there were HOT!!! I waited forever to be able to take just the right picture of one of them….. It NEEDED to rain after I left there so I’d cool down! Haha)
   Tiawana, Mexico (Ok, quit laughing – I went here at the same time I was visiting LA – I just wanted to say I’d been outta the country! Haha – This place sucked and I wanted to leave there as soon as I got there.) My dream vacation is to visit Australia.
   There are other places I’ve been around the country but these are the main ones that come to mind. Like I said, I love to travel and I’m always up for going places. Right now I’m saving money for my first trip overseas — planning to take a vacation to Italy, Rome & Florence to be exact.
5. I enjoy my work – although it’s stressful at times, it is also very fulfilling. It’s nice to be able to say that I enjoy what I do. My only complaint is that I wish I made more $$$$$$$$. I’m not hung up on money but it certainly helps to pay the bills and because of where I live you just can’t make as much. If I were to move to a larger city I could easily double my pay. Eventually, I know I will move.
6. I love love love Football! I am a season ticket holder for my favorite college team and during football season that’s where you’ll find me. I enjoy watching both pro and college and it matters not who’s playing – if football is on, I’m watching!
7. I also enjoy Baseball. I dated a guy for several years (back in the day) that played baseball and my love of the game is a result of that relationship. Thanks D for turning me on to the sport.
8. I own my own home and car and am happy when I have a weekend to myself to relax in the comfort of my own place.
9. I enjoy reading. Some of my favorite authors are James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks, John Grisham, Dan Brown, & J.K Rowling – yes, I enjoy reading the Harry Potter books – guilty as charged.
10. I have a bad habit of not being able to put down a book once I start reading it. If it’s a great book I just can’t lay it down until I’m done – I hate wondering what’s going to happen so I have a tendency to just read nonstop until the last page. I’ve been up many a night reading – only to lay the book down and get out of bed and have to jump into the shower to get ready for work. Bad habit I know. I gotta work on that!
11. Scrapbooking is also something I enjoy doing. I’m not sure if it’s the scrapbooking itself or the fellowship with my girlfriends when we get together to do it that I enjoy so much.
12. I graduated college – yippee – with a Political Science degree. I originally wanted to go to law school but decided to do otherwise. Anyway, because of my interest in politics I enjoy keeping up with current events and knowing what’s going on in the world.
13. I enjoyed English classes in school.
14. I hated math – that probably explains my grades in it!
15. My parents were married 43 years before my father passed away. I never saw them fuss, argue, fight, etc – ever. I come from a very loving home and I saw what they had together. That’s what I want out of marriage and I’m willing to hold out until I find Mr. Right.
16. I am the youngest of 2 girls and yes, I was spoiled. I admit it! (Thanks Daddy!)
17. I enjoy taking LONG HOT baths surrounded in candlelight.
18. I never meet a stranger.
19. I’m always comfortable making new friends.
20. I’m an extrovert in most situations, but I’m an introvert when it comes to telling someone about my deepest, darkest wishes and desires. This is my defense mechanism.
21. I loved and lost.
22. I’ve never broken any bones.
23. I’ve been in several wrecks – none of which were my fault.
24. I have a weakness for cars. I love them.
25. I’m 30 and I’m on my 8th vehicle!
26. I’m an aggressive driver.
27. I consider myself to be an amateur photographer. My friends always tell me that I should enter some of my photos into contests. I never do.
28. I love to decorate.
29. I enjoy making floral arrangements for my home. Exotic and different arrangements are my favorite.
30. My favorite flowers are star gazer lilies and roses.
31. I listen to pretty much any type of music. It depends on my mood as to what is in my CD player. Right now it’s a mixture of Kelly Clarkson, Maroon 5, Eminem, Guns-N-Roses greatest hits, Norah Jones, Metallica, and Sinatra. Go figure.
32. I work well under stress.
33. I enjoy flying.
34. I’d love to skydive.
35. I enjoy riding roller coasters.
36. I want to go white water rafting.
37. I view myself as a risk taker.
38. I procrastinate at times.
39. I’m a good listener.
40. I’m a great friend.
41. I’ve never been married.
42. Being single isn’t a bad thing – I enjoy doing my own thing and picking up and going whenever I want.
43. I’ve been told that I am a great catch.
44. I do want to settle down eventually and have a family.
45. I’ve been pregnant before.
46. I don’t have any children.
47. I’d love to learn to play golf.
48. I’d love to learn to play tennis.
49. I wish I had a pool and could swim daily.
50. I love to sing and when I was younger I competed in competitions and won fairly often.
51. I used to fear speaking in public but I think I’ve overcome this fear since I have to do this at work at times.
52. I have a “type A” personality.
53. I enjoy fine dinning and experiencing new things.
54. Being online and meeting new people thru blogging and chatting is a late night habit of mine.
55. I have met many people in person that I’ve met online. So far I’ve had decent experiences with them all and in some cases have made really great friends.
56. I’m a voyeur – I love watching people – doesn’t matter what they’re doing – I just enjoy observing them.
57. I like to find out what makes people tick.
58. I enjoy cooking.
59. I enjoy eating – too much.
60. I need to lose some weight.
61. I weighed 109 lbs. when I graduated HS some 13 years ago. Man – those were the days!
62. I cheered in junior high and high school.
63. I have a shoe fetish – I have a walk-in closet that is nothing but shoes!!!
64. My favorite colors are black, red, and purple.
65. My favorite number is 7.
66. I admire my sister and her ability to raise 4 wonderful children and have a successful, happy marriage.
67. My sister is 7 years older than me.
68. My nieces and nephew are my heart.
69. If I turn out half as good as my mom or dad I’ll be happy.
70. My mom is the best cook EVER!
71. My dad taught me that I could do and be anything if I put my mind to it.
72. I have a “won’t quit” attitude.
73. I often attempt projects around the house b/c I tend to think that if anyone else can do it (lay ceramic tile, change faucets, etc) that I can do it.
74. I usually do pretty well with home improvement projects.
75. I hate cleaning house but I also hate living in a mess. Cleaning is a necessary evil.
76. I’m an impulsive buyer.
77. I’ve been working on not being so impulsive when shopping.
78. I want a dog but won’t get one because I don’t feel I’m at home enough to tend to one and I like being able to just pack and leave for a days without having to arrange someone to take care of it.
79. Every plant or flower I put on my front porch dies. I water it for the first week or so I have it then I just get lazy and what do ya know – it dies!
80. I have a fondness of jewelry – but what female doesn’t?
81. Making love is the best therapy for any problem that arises.
82. I love being adventurous in the bedroom.
83. I once had a motorcycle license. (A guy I was dating at the time bet me that I couldn’t pass the test! Hahahahhaa – I proved him wrong!)
84. I enjoy going to the movies and tend to like action, drama, comedy, and sappy love stories.
85. I enjoy spending time at the lake.
86. Riding jet skis is a favorite past time of mine.
87. Reading a good book while relaxing on a boat is a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
88. I don’t smoke.
89. I drink occasionally – and when I do its liquor, not beer. (I’ve never acquired the taste for beer.)
90. My first massage was in a spa at Treasure Island in Las Vegas. Damn it was nice. I’m due for a massage – they’re so relaxing.
91. I enjoy getting manicures and pedicures.
92. I enjoy shopping alone much better than shopping with friends.
93. I hate talking on the phone, but I couldn’t live without my cell phone.
94. I like to be spontaneous.
95. I’m very independent and I think sometimes that being this way is a threat to men.
96. I hate to admit it, but I love reality TV. My favorites are Survivor and Big Brother.
97. I’m blatantly honest at times and need to work on my delivery.
98. I’m a giver.
99. I’m an analytical person.
100. The only piercings I have are on my ears and I don’t have any tattoos.
101. I am a habitual night owl! I hate going to bed for fear I’m going to “miss something”! haha

Well, there you have it….. do you know me any better now? I hope so. If you think of anything that you’d like to know that I haven’t answered here please post a comment and ask.

Hope you’re all having a fantastic weekend!

Upward Swing

Well…seems that Murphy’s law has settled down and things may be headed back to normal — at least that’s the way I’m going to look at it. I’m usually a very optimistic, upbeat person and lately I’ve just been so stressed with work that I haven’t been my normal self. Hell, I haven’t even wanted to be around me so I’m sure others haven’t either. Thank God I have great friends that just overlook my infrequent & random bitchfests and keep on being my friends. Since I have the ability to control my own attitude/mood I’m making a distinctive step to put my smile back on my face…..So, with that, I’m on the upward swing….

C called tonight — haven’t had time to really talk all that much this week. Both our schedules have been hectic and getting together has been nearly impossible. It was great to hear from him — it’s nice to know he misses me as much as I miss him! He has a meeting with his attorney next week so I hope that goes well…..we’ll see. I can’t wait to see him….for a lot of reasons!!! hehe I NEED HIM! And I know he NEEDS me!

So, on to you guys, my readers. Who has great plans for the weekend? Anything much happening with you folks? I am in serious need of sleep so I’ll be “sleep banking” tomorrow morning and then who knows what I’ll get into. If any of you have any fun things planned please report back — if I can’t find anything interesting to do at least I could live vicarously through some of you!

Until then…. Adios Amigos….Hope you all start your Saturday’s with a smile!

The 13th……

Oh Man…. what a day. Work was a total bitch. I think Murphy’s law took over from the moment I got out of bed and has been going strong alllllllllllllll day! I was at work before 7:30 this morning and I didn’t get home until after 8:00 tonight. I know, for some that’s normal, and I wouldn’t normally complain about it but it’s just been a sucky day all the way around. I have little to no patience for dumbasses, idiots, morons, or anything relatively close to dumbasses, idiots, or morons. I don’t like to repeat myself when I’ve already explained it once and have given you proper documentation, etc. I don’t like people who expect me to jump thru hoops because of their inability to manage their own responsibilities. Procrastination on their part does NOT consititute an emergency on mine. I’d love to line a few people up and just go down the line — “you – stay, you – go, you – stay, you – go, you – go! No explanation, no other comments given — just get your shit and walk your dumbass out the door. Okay. Enough about work.

On a more personal note, I may be a little bitchy & down in the dumps today. July 13th marks the 4 year anniversary of the death of my dad. If you’ve read my blog long enough (or have read thru older posts trying to catch up on me) you may already have an idea of just how much my dad meant to me. I miss him so badly and it just seems like yesterday that he was here. My how time passes. …….Always a daddy’s girl I’ll be.

On to happier thoughts – I have new batteries for my girl toys! Yippee!!!!! After today, you can bet I’ll be….um……the little energizer bunny with my toys! I’ll keep cumming and cumming and cumming! hehehe

(I probably shouldn’t have put that last comment in the same post where I talk about my dad — but I’m sure he’d want me to be happy and – well, I WILL BE HAPPY after playing with my toys!) ………..Besides, C is out of town tonight or he’d be here drinking some “wine”……..