shed :-(

I had my annual check up last week. By annual I mean full - pap, blood tests, breast exam and weight. (By the way, if you are sexually active be sure to get a pap a year.) Anyway, my doctor called me today and everything is fine. No STIs to mention (yeah!) and everything else is within the realm of normal except my body weight. Especially as the extra I'm carry around is concentrated in my belly. Apparently my reacquired taste for bird's custard - what is cosier in the winter than a bowl of hot custard? - has hovered me back into the danger zone since my last check up. "Just shed five pounds". They always make it sound so easy.

However, it occured to me that working out may be a great way to casually meet women. "Can you spot me?" It worked for the guys on Queer as Folk, how different could it be for women in Montreal? lol! I signed up at the downtown YMCA, which cost a chunk of change, in order to investigate.

Rachel ***(anything for the cause!)

Best Women's Erotica

It's almost May and therefore time to polish off your submission(s) to Best Women's Erotica which are due May 1, 2008.
Happy Tapping,
Rachel (***** polishing off stories that kept me warm throughout the winter).

Spring Summer SUN

It is so gorgeous and sunny in Montreal today! Thirteen degrees now and an expected twenty degrees this afternoon. It is not even ten in the morning and I already want to be on the roof terrace at Le Drugstore. After so much snow it is so wonderful to be able to go outside with out a jacket and soak up rays on my coffee break. By the way, my apologies for all my posts containing winter complaints but it really was too much then but who cares now le soleil est arrivé! :)

I am beyond horny. But everyone else seems to be, too. A guy winked at me on the metro after we caught each other checking out the same woman's ass. Oops! blush, giggle!

I really need to get laid.

Rachel

Tonight April 18
Faggity Ass Fridays
Main Hall, 5390 St-Laurent Blvd
Clothing Swap starts at 8 pm. Party at 10 pm.
$5++

Tomorrow April 19
Meow Mix, Fundraiser for Project 10
Sala Rossa, 4848 St-Laurent
Doors at 9:30
Spectacle - 10:30
DJs at 11:30 (2 teams from Cruise Controle)
$10

Um ... what?!

This morning I woke up to a news report on the radio that part of the Port of Montreal still remains contaminated five years after a toxic spill of more than a million litres of paraxylene. Paraxylene (or para-xylene) has been known to cause cancer in lab animals and is listed by Breast Cancer Action Montreal as a toxic carcinogen in cleaning products. Great.

Rachel (* ticked at Andre Boisclair who was the environment minister at the time of the spill)

Pussy Party Pack

A recently posted safe sex interview at the nouveau*queer online magazine, has inspired me to put together a Pussy Party Pack to carry with me at all times. (It is Spring! :)

Pussy Party Pack contents :

• Nitrile gloves (6)
• Flavoured Condoms (6)
• sachets of water based lube (6)
• pair of sheathed scissors (for cutting gloves or condoms into dental dams)

And it all fits into my pink metal Hello Kitty pencil box from elementary school. See, somethings are worth hanging on to!

Play safe,
Rachel (*** inspired)

Lesbian Phone Sex - tee hee!

Spring has Sprung!

Spring has finally come and it is time for some Spring Cleaning. Longer days have bright sunshine revealing the dust bunnies well into the evening, the dustiness of the magazines on my floor and the nasty looking build up of grime in my bathtub. Time to tidy up and rid my place of its winter residue for both my comfort and to make an impression on any overnight guests. Likewise, a good time to replace some bras, acquire fresh panties and trim my bush down to a navigable length.

Lately, though, I've been thinking a bit about some other accumulated clutter I need to eliminate. Some misconceptions I need to discard from my body and brain. I am trying to release myself from traditional views on relationships. I know, I know, I've been telling every one and their mother that I am looking for someone to settle down and have babies with. And I am, really, still but um ... that was last autumn and now it is spring, a spring after a very long cold winter - is it over, it is snowing as I write this in April! - and everyone looks so tasty. Literally, the women look delicious. I carefully choose which distractions to sit near while I write in cafes as writing erotica at home, with my bed and vibrator nearby, is currently not an option. So I am out and about. Looking. Admiring. And thinking maybe that Spring is the time for fun and not for restricting myself to one.

But what are my options? I review my copy of The Ethical Slut and am thoroughly shocked with this statement on page 49 concerning woman on woman sex:

"Think of all the fun you can have with never a worry about pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases!"

Yowsers! What an ignorant myth. Do women actually believe this? That because they are sleeping with other women they don't have to worry about safe sex? WHAT! Trust me fair readers, bacteria and viruses don't care what your gender or orientation is.

Rachel (* in shock)

Cruise controlled

Sometimes I like to go out and play with the cool kids at Cruise Control. Apparently, this party has been happening on the first Thursday of the month for over a year. Hilariously, last night I overheard that cruise control "used to be so much better" as a few cruisers bemoaned the "Queer McGill" invasion. Queer McGill? Oh dear, how completely ridiculous for me to be in a room with so many asymmetrical hair cuts and mismatched socks. And the young owners of said ... well, they could actually be my kids if my reproductive organs hadn't happily remained unfertilized during my misbehaving younger years.

I've heard all those complaints about "kids today", where are we at now Generation Z?, but I find that at these younger nights, e.g. Cruise Control and Faggity Ass Fridays, people tend to be polite, friendly and fun. So, does it matter that I'm more than a decade older than most of them? Does it matter that they include fancy terms like "gender presentation" when complimenting my ties? At least they are up dancing. Anyway, maybe I'd feel a bit odd picking up a 19 year old but I figure that in a decade or so I would definitely be well too old for that. Besides I'm there to party not to find a life partner.

Tonight, however, is a different story. It is one degree, the snow is falling in moist wet flakes and I've got my swim suit in my bag ready for the village tonight. Nope, the Sky Complex's roof terrace jacuzzi is not open, I've been invited to a sauna party. Enough said.

Play safe!
Rachel

Cruise Control's clever facebook profile/ "market-cha-ching":

vinyl
2109 de bleury (coin sherbrooke)
NO COVER

Queer Dance Party and we mean it.
Bring everyone you know and then bring
the people you don't know, as long as
they know that:

Cruising Is Serious Business

Cruise. Dance. Drink.