Losing my Virginity

What’s being a Virgin like? Can anyone remember? The step that I recently took into the world of blogging made me realise that I was still a virgin – a Blogging Virgin. And here I am a few blogs later and the question arises – am I still a Blogging Virgin? If not, what am I? What is the opposite of Virgin? Anti-Virgin perhaps (I don’t think that’s a good word – it sounds as of its against Virgins!) Is there an opposite to being a Virgin? At what point do I stop becoming a blogging Virgin and turn into an Anti-Virgin (for want of a better phrase)? What are the criteria? Is that a test that one must pass? Some sort of initiation perhaps? So many questions, so few answers .....

The whole blogging experience has been quite an interesting one. It gives me the opportunity to share my thoughts, ideas, ramblings etc with anyone and everyone that may or may not be interested. As one of my friends pointed out to me, “Using a blog to let people know what you’re doing is great, but it is not very personal”. It was also pointed out to me that I need to be careful what I put on my blog, just in case there are any weirdoes out there who find out a whole bunch of stuff about me and then go round the world doing impersonating me and doing bad impressionist sketches. This is very true (and we know that there are probably plenty of those out there on and beyond this crazy planet that we live in!). Having thought about it, I’m probably going to move this blog to an “undisclosed location” so, in the next few weeks (may be more) if anyone finds that my blog has disappeared, please don’t call the blogging police – just send me a comment/email and I’ll let you know where it’s moved to. Doing this (i.e. moving to a more secluded location) also means that I could post more personal stuff on my blog to share with you !

Those of you that already blog regularly will probably be able to identify with me when I say that, in some ways, blogging gives one a sense of relief and release. It can be a way of getting something off your chest, a medium to share stories and pictures with others and more importantly, to let people know what I think. I’ve discovered a nice little link at the top of this blog titled
next blog, (towards the top right hand corner of the blog). This is a cool button. It takes you to a random persons blog and I have to say that some of the things that some people have to share is very interesting.

On a different note, my mum’s been here almost ten days. I have to admit that being on my best behaviour for such a long time hasn’t been as difficult as I thought, but then I have cheated – I snuck off to Frankfurt for a couple of days last week (which I’m doing again on Wednesday for a couple of days). It’s been fun having my mum around J and there’s been a transformation in my apartment – it looks and feels a lot more homely (although my furniture hasn’t still arrived).

Here a quick summary of the last 10 days with Mum.

Friday 2nd June – I returned from Frankfurt; Mum arrived from London.
Saturday 3rd June – Met up with my mum’s cousin; went out for lunch to Pratar; walked round the shops in Karntnerstrasse s – mum’s favourite pastime).
Sunday 4th June – Walked round the city and saw some of the sights – Townhall; Hofsberg palace; St Stevens Cathedral; The Parliment; Rathhaus. Mum was tired afer all the walking so she crashed about 4pm – I was tired too, but I went out for my On2 Salsa class and then for Sushi with Katrin.
Monday 5th June – public holiday in Germany; went to Leaopoldsberg and the Sisi Church (in the 22nd district); went for crap Mozart and Strauss concert at Schonbrunn palace.
Tuesday 6th June – Frankfurt
Wednesday 7th June – Frankfurt
Thursday 8th June - Work! Then to IKEA with Mum.
Friday 9th June – More work; Mum went to Belverdere; more shopping in the evening (food!)
Saturday 10th June – Cooling and chilling; Pool party in the afternoon – Fabian’s 21st birthday – got chucked in the pool by Nathalie (my little cousin!). BBQ afterwards – got home about 2am.
Sunday 11th June – Beautiful Weather; more cooking and shopping in the morning; Strawbery Fest in Gunstrumdorf in the afternoon; Hung out in the city towards the evening; Went to see the Vienna Mozart Orchestra at the Konzerthaus – had an amazing time there. The Orchestra, soloists and the Konzerthaus itself were all fantastic.

The next couple of days are going to me interesting too. Here’s the plan as it stands.

Tuesday 13th June - Lana and Tommy arrive. They were supposed to be here today but there was a change of plan. Will probably spend most of today working and also doing more apartment-type stuff.
Wednesday 14th June – Frankfurt
Thursday 15th June – Frankfurt
Friday 16th June – Frankfurt; back in Vienna in the evening. Tommy and Lana back in Vienna too. Christian will be here as well (brother of the bloke who is my cousin’s son’s godfather (I’m not even going to think about explaining that one !) Will be going out for dinner on Friday night cos it will be Mum’s last night in Vienna L
Saturday 17th June – Hang out with Lana and Tommy.
Sunday 18th June – Lana and Tommy leave.
Monday 19th June – Back to work!

It’s going to be a fun few days but I reckon I’ll be knackered by the end of it!

I’m off to Frankfurt again from Wednesday to Friday (probably going to get my bottom wire brushed by Condor if we don’t get their engine out to them by Thursday).


Coming back to Virgins then, has anyone worked out what the opposite of a Virgin is? Perhaps the Virgin King Sir Richard Branson will know … or perhaps Hugh Hefner. If one of you would be so kind as to contact Sir Dickie or Mr. Hefie and asck them, I’d be very interested to know what their thoughts are on this subject and what their answers are. Would any one care to speculate? Also, please send me your comments/suggestions as to what the opposite of Virgin is? I’ll be very interested to know – I will post all entries on a later blog.