purplekow

Perhaps when the US becomes a Province

Federal assistance for this was just cut a few months ago. The organization stated that they would proceed but without that assistance some areas would not be as well served. They mentioned Indiana and Missouri in particular.

Reports of her estate run to estimates well above 500 million dollars. From Rags to Rhinestones was quite a difficult trip. She seems to have made it with a compassion, tolerance and economic intelligence. I have heard her name mentioned hundreds of times and not once was it associated with a negative thought. Quite an accomplishment.

That is about 1 pound a week which is an excellent pace that allows for maintenance of skin tone and leaves a reasonable expectation on ongoing weight loss. Congratulations. Remember though, your basal metabolic rate is slowing, so you need to make up for that loss of calorie expenditure with exercise.

Most of the time, you get what you pay for. Even if he did agree to a reduced rate, you were relying on him having the same enthusiasm for the encounter and you were short timed, timed and ultimately not happy with the encounter. That said, you are partly to blame as it saved you (x-y) dollars but you wound up with a lesser product. As far as returning his belongings, I am not leaving the cozy confines of my home to return them. I might consider it if I were happy with the service, but since you were not, let him walk the walk. In fact, to be especially uncooperative, I might watch the clock and tell him he had a specific amount of time to get them because you had other plans and would be leaving on time.

For me, I consider if there is going to be a round two and making sure my partner is satisfied and does not need any further assistance. After all, it is not all about me, even if I am paying. If I am alone, then it is right off to sleep.

I will be sure to have a pizza ordered for delivery the next time we get together.

Maybe he figured she would have a strong box and he would have to break in.

He is okay for several hours long appointment. I would also suggest trying him out first before an overnight. He can be more of an acquired taste.

History of drug and alcohol abuse may have contributed to this unfortunate situation. Beautiful woman but with issues.

Addictions are always difficult to stop. Come to Palm Springs in April andwe can have a meeting of Savers Anonymous. Many here have broken the habit without breaking the bank. You can too. Remember the Serenity Prayer. . God give me the serenity to Keep the assets I need. The courage to cash in the ones which can be liquidated safely And the wisdom to have a good financial advisor to know the difference.

My recent conversation with my financial advisor ended with this: Since you are not interested particularly in leaving money behind, the only advice I have for you is to start spending more. So there you have it. I am helping more people and hiring when the mood strikes.

Orgasms are sometimes called the little death. We skipped the little death until later.

I must admit to not knowing about ethyl chloride being used as a "popper" and assumed it was amyl nitrite with a different way of administration. Thanks for that information. In any case, no poppers, no K, no E when I hire in the future. Of course, some of drugs can be used before arrival, so all I can control is that it will not be used in my presence. Having done CPR on many occasions both in and out fo the hospital, I was comfortable doing it, but I realized that there was no guarantee that he was returning. I guess this is another reason not to pay before the encounter.

I have reason to believe he was mixing with other drugs. I did not think that before this happened, but other events suggest that is a real possibility. In any case, he was fine in the end but I think he is walking a tightrope as far as his general health goes. Advised him to reconsider his use of party drugs, but one can only suggest.

No at the time he went out I was four fingers deep. The first clue was when he stopped moaning. The poppers did their job, but a bit too well.

I think having a wing man is a good idea and cutting out the overnight guy. Have the last man from one day and then the wingman be the overnight man. That way you are not paying for two overnights. Granted that cuts down on the number of different men, but you do have someone with whom to talk about the encounters and that conversation could be very hot as you have your viewpoint and he has his.

I do not believe I have seen this topic covered before, at least not in this forum. I had an encounter with an escort I have seen several times before. He likes to PNP. I generally do not do that and I prefer that it not be done on my time. However, I had no problem with an escort who like to use poppers though with the hundreds of encounters I have had, the escort has used poppers only once or twice. Two nights ago, the man I invited to my home was perhaps a bit intoxicated. Not overly so, more a slightly tipsy drunk, but definitely conversant and aware. As we started, he made it clear he would like to be restrained and since I have portable restraints, I was prepared to do this. After he was secured, he asked me to spray some popper spray onto a towel for him. I did so. He took a hit. The restraints on one hand was long enough for him to reach his face with his hand. Soon after, he took another and then managed to spray the towel again. After the third or fourth inhalation, he was not conscious and he stopped breathing and had no discernable pulse. I tried waking him with a few slaps to the face and then, it was clear to me he was not responsive. I gave him a few deep breaths of mouth to mouth and then did a brief round of chest compressions and he gasped. Seconds later he was mumbling and then speaking but not really making sense. A few seconds later, he was fully awake again. At that point, he reach for the towel, which I grabbed from his hand and when he protested, I tightened the lose restraint. I then told him what had happened. Strangely enough, he was nonplussed. I, on the other hand was relieved that I did not have to call the police and explain what happened. Knowing that poppers have a short half life and that fatalities from them are very very unusual, I had consented to his using them. I will never be party to that again. Has anyone elese had a similar experience? Other drugs, especially opiates are well recognized for causing this type of situation and in reading about poppers, this kind of thing is very rare, but can occur even in people who have used it many times and also in a first time user. The need to avoid medications such as Viagra with poppers is well recognized, but his man denied using any erectile enhancing medications. For those curious as to what happened afterwards, after a brief time of unwinding from this, we did complete the encounter. I did take his poppers from him but returned it to him as he left. We had a second encounter before he left in my pool, but that is another story for another posting.

Money is a limiting factor for some. I had a visitor last night who mentioned that a client of his lives in a large home on the mountain here in Palm Springs and that person has several other luxury homes. Clearly that person is not worried about money the same way I am. I, on the other hand, have a nice home and am prudent with my hiring and other expenses, so money is a concern but not a total limitation. For others, this hobby is a treat in which to be indulged infrequently or for special occasions. We all have financial issues, some are more pressing than others. As with other indulgences, your ability to enjoy them is dependent on your individual circumstances and priorities.

I have had one encounter, which I may have written about before. I hired a new escort in Las Vegas while on a trip with friends. I met the man in the bar of my hotel and spoke with him over a drink. Well, a drink for me, two or three for him. That should have been the red flag but he seemed nice enough and definitely was hot enough, so we went back to my room. He asked me to put on porn, straight porn as it were. Another red flag, if what we are doing is not sexy enough to have him perform, perhaps he is not the right man. Subsequently, he refused to kiss, though he advertised that he did, so another red flag. Ultimately he asked for more money before anything too intimate happened and then made some remarks and made some actions which confirmed I did not want to continue. For example he grabbed me in a threatening manner and started speaking of violence and slurring his words. Whether it was him, the alcohol or something like drugs, I do not know, but I did not have him stay around to find out. I did give him his fee, as I was the one calling it off. I did not give him the increased fee he demanded earlier in our interaction.

You live with the choices you make and you accept the consequences. The choices one makes says plenty about them. I would assume from your statement that you would gladly accept as a friend a pleasant person who is a hitman for the mob, or perhaps an executioner, a professional thieft. My guess is you draw a line somewhere and for each of us it is different based on our own beliefs. I do not think this is prejudice. BTW my use of FROSTY and COLD was more suggestive and not truly the tone of our conversation.

We live very close to one another and very close to the airport. We had coffee and talked and then the 5 minute ride to the airport. No big deal when you are retired and have free time.

Except when you volunteer for a job, you volunteer for the consequences of that job. These are adults that at some point made a decision to do this job, whatever the reason. I believe in personal responsibility for your decisions

Back a bit, I lost 70 pounds in a year on diet alone. I was working and did not make time for exercise. Notice, I did not say I did not have time for exercise. I think that is the biggest cop out to exercise saying you are too busy. But in any case, I did not exercise much in that year. I did follow a strict diet with large salads for lunch and dinner. Those salads included protein, small amounts of cheese, dried cranberries, crumbled rice cake, lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, carrots topped with a low calorie yogart based salad dressing. All told, about 350 to 500 calories per meal. For breakfast I had two boiled eggs, grapefruit and occasionally oatmeal or toast. Dessert, if I chose one was a rice cake with a tsp of peanut butter. Once I got used to the regimen, it was fairly easy to follow. Now a big help was to keep a large calendar posted on my refrigerator. Each day I would give myself either a gold star or a big red X. The stars were the kind you see on kindergarteners papers and the red X was done in marker. It was a very visible reminder of how well I was following through on my commitment. My limit was three red Xs a month. So no cheat days or cheat meals scheduled in, just a day when I either purposely or weakly did not stay on the diet. I did not weigh myself except on day one and day 366. The daily fluctuations of weight can be disheartening. At the end of the year, I had lost 70 pounds and felt great. Unfortunately, a year later, I became ill, any semblance of control was lost and I did gain the weight back. To truly say you have lost weight is to keep it off for at least two year. Good luck with your diet. I am now doing diet and exercise and though I have been good about both, especially the exercise, the weight has not come off very quickly (my trainer weighs me every six weeks and I know the variation but not the acutal weight). However, I have lost 2 pants size and one shirt size and that is reinforcement enough.

I would say that a gay man has lost his virginity the first time he either feels elation or shame at the time of a physical encounter with another man.