I’m sorry for the complete lack of updates over the last few days. Today is the 3rd day in a row i’ve been in bed with the flu. I took myself off to the doctor this morning and he’s given me some antibiotics which hopfeully will have me back on track quick smart. Today I don’t feel quite as dead as the last couple of days.
I’m so sorry for the slackness in my postings for the last few days. Yesterday I left the house for work and went straight out to see “Dark Knight” after work and a meal and didn’t get home til midnight.
Work has been very busy this week, sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a less good way. I’ve been out and about all day today going here there and everywhere and I’m about to put clean sheets on my bed and go curl up for a night’s sleep. I promise to do better tomorrow.
Tomorrow… It’s going to be a tiring but fun day. It’s my niece’s 3rd birthday tomorrow and we are having a party and in the afternoon I’m taking my nephew to the movies to see Kung Fu Panda. I love having a niece and nephew. Not only do you get to share fun times with them, they are a great disguise when you want to go see a kids movie without looking odd.
Sorry posting is a bit slow this week. I have started a 6 - 8 week contract and working 8:30 - 5:30 has been a shock to the system after barely having any work for weeks but a welcome change. Last night I babysat my niece (nearly 3) and nephew (5.5) and for once they were REALLY good for me. Laughing, giving me hugs, doing what they were told and still having fun. Loved it.
I haven’t had much work the last few weeks and regular calls to my agency that gets me work are starting to drive them mad I’m sure. They are great people and have always seen me through but things are getting tight at the moment. If anyone is feeling generous, please feel free to click the donate button on the right to help keep Aussielicious afloat!
Surfing from link to link on youtube I came across this Naked Vlog tagging challenge that is going around. The idea is to post a vlog or video blog but you have to be naked, it’s been going around the world with heaps of people doing it and I thought it fit pretty well with Aussielicious and it’s nudity challenge roots. I’m tagging Matt, the guys from Frisky Frolic and thinking about it I’m also adding Chris and Tony to that challenge! Are you up to it boys?
The guys over at the online lifestyle mag U4MEN.com have just posted a profile of me, my photography and my blog on their site. Thanks guys!
I put this together today. It’s 4 minutes of images and short videos of our trip away last week to Fraser Island. I have to say it was a really good short break and so beautiful.
Every now and then I come home to find a package waiting for me or a delivery notice in my letterbox saying I need to collect something. Despite what you all think, I don’t have a compulsive online shopping habit. No, I have some very generous readers who take their time and hard earned money to buy me something from my Amazon Wishlist which is so kind. I really don’t expect that kind of thing but I do like surprises!
One kind reader even clicked on the “Donate” button on the right and sent me money! Given my current erratic earning power, donations are always welcome but I’m actually just really happy any of you bother to read this blog. So I just want to say THANKS to those people who send me things, gave me money or even just write nice comments.
Tomorrow morning, I’m meeting at a friend’s place at 5:45 to get a cab to the airport. 6 of us are flying to Fraser Island, the southern hemisphere’s largest sand island til Sunday morning. It’s going to be a nice, if short, relaxing break. Sadly I doubt that there’ll be any nudity, but I’ll hold out hope for a cheeky skinnydip.
So there won’t be any posts from me til I get back. Enjoy the break.
Discussions with a friend last night and often with other friends are always a source of surprise. Everyone makes assumptions about people we meet based on how they look, as to how they should act. Last night’s dinner companion surprised me when he told me he gets intimidated in certain situations, which shouldn’t surprise me as other close friends are always chastising me for not being more confident. They perceive me as being good looking and therefore I should be totally confident. The truth is I don’t like going out on the gay scene, not just because it’s shallow a lot of the time, but because I feel like I walk into a club and everyone’s thinking “he’s not all that”.
The one thing I’ve realised and I’m working on is that we all have to find our own source of confidence and contentment. Find it within, not from what other people think is important about you, and run with it!
I’ve always loved this photo. Sure the guy has all the physical reasons to be confident with an amazing body and beautiful face, but I reckon a smile like that comes from a fair way inside.
Last night I was enjoying the El Circo experience with one of my other pole dancer colleagues enjoying the shows. One of the acts is a magician who had a cane that he seemingly made float around by itself. After his act his assistant/boyfriend (?) came and cleared his props away but accidentally left the cane propped in the corner. My mate and I were joking about having a look at it when he came back to get it. I joked with him that we were hoping he’d forget it so we could try and figure out how it was done, to which he turned and replied “Write about it on the blog and I’ll tell you how it works”. That just floored me. I do get recognised a little bit by people that read Aussielicious but usually at the nude beach or something that I’ve written about. A couple of my friends joke that I’m famous but if Kathy Griffin is on the D-List, that surely puts me way down on the Y (or why) list.
It’s funny, writing this blog I think I’m giving a fair representation of myself. There are elements I will leave out for privacy reasons and others so I don’t bore you to death.
I had an email while I was away, that I’ve just read, from a reader “Tom” who said that I was going to have to get out of the scene before I meet anyone and that it seems like I’m quite wrapped up in the gay scene. I’m actually surprised by that statement as my friends are always trying to get me out on the scene more. I don’t feel comfortable in the gay scene all that much so rarely venture into the more popular gay bars. Sure I’m doing pole dancing at a gay bar with gay men and most of my close friends that I see regularly are gay but that is actually a big change for me from a couple of years ago when most of my close friends were straight couples.
It’s fascinating that people can get such a different impression of me from my blog than I think I’m giving and different to what I think is accurate.
Today I’m heading up the coast about an hour and a half for the traditional family easter getaway. Our family, along with two other families, who are more like family than my real extended family, have been going away together at easter since all our parents were newlyweds.
We’ve been going to a seaside town for the last few years because it’s simple now that my sister and some of the other “kids” have children of their own. It’s not particularly exciting but we have a really good laugh. It’s like a soul food kinda break.
So the blog will be kinda quiet til I get back on Tuesday as I won’t have any internet access.
I got home from work yesterday and had every intention of doing a few posts but I think the server was down or something and I couldn’t access my own site. Oops. Not sure what happened but it still seems to be a bit glitchy.
The guys over at Restoring Love had another poll for valentines day and asked some of the gay blogging world to submit their favourite post about love. The readers have voted and Aussielicious got 3rd place! Thanks to everyone who voted for me!