VanillaSkyGirl

Thanks, I'm looking forward to it! See you in 23 years...

Awww, this is only for those over 60 years, right? I'm only 37 years old. If you would accept me, I would take this camp!

Thank you so much for the support, J_ung!

Happiest of birthdays to you, hon!

I know that we don't know one another, but happy freakin birthday, sweetie! Sending virtual hugs your way, too.

OMG... is it just me, or does your Flat Stanley look evil! That's cool! g I'm dying! This thread has me in stitches! Gia, PM or call, if you ever want to find out if Flat Stanley can tunnel fly. Maybe there is a way...

Sending hugs and cuddles to you Lisa and to everyone who cares! Happy Valentine's Day-plain old Saturday-whatever day!

That is fantastic! Congratulations, Ian!!! You deserve it, and I am very happy for you, my dear.

Ah, she is so sweet. Dear Mrs. Squeak~ It was a pleasure meeting you in between my jumps, during the 10-Way Comp. at SD Elsinore. Sadly, I had to drive off quickly after the awards ceremony, once we recharged my car's dead battery, or I would have LOVED to chat some more w/ you and Squeak. We're all thinking of you and wishing you both well. Enjoy Mexico and have a truly memorable World Trip with Mr. Squeak! Happy birthday, Mrs. Squeak!

I'd pick Clay, hands down. His posts were hysterical.

Wishing you the most fantastic birthday weekend, sweetie! I love and miss you terribly. I hope that you are healthy, happy and feeling the love! Let's catch up, soon.

Dammit, Sarah's made it out of the shallow grave. Sarah~ Haha, loved our girly day, and we have to do it again in May! Sending my love your way! xoxoxoxoxxx

This thread is so funny. If the man/woman is lying, has not shared a true fetish or is spending so much of his/her money, it affects that person's relationship. I'm confused as to how any person with common sense could not understand why a person would become upset with a SO's secretiveness about these activities. Banes, you are a big girl. I don't know if you truly have no clue about this, but women are not the enemy. By now, you realize that many of your clients have wives or GFs, so you should be able to deal with these "work issues" without constant whining about "them". It makes me wonder if you do not feel a little jealous/competitive of those ladies/their relationships, since you seem to have such a harsh view and harsh feelings towards them. Learn how to work within the situation with the couples as a whole, and you won't get so stressed over the calls from the ladies. If you are providing a true service, you should do all to share it. After all, that is the lifestyle, which the man already desires. If the woman remains in the relationship, maybe she will ultimately get into it, too. You could be a teacher of sorts to both. Otherwise, if you're not willing to share the fetish/job with both, then you are the one who appears territorial.

Yes, but it was done to help women stop wearing corsets, which are even more painful!

The kept the door slightly open, but I'm thinking that you probably win as the coldest seat on the coldest plane!

I drove Sarah back to LAX, yesterday. I promise that I managed to get most of her intact and onto her return flight back. The rest of her is in a shallow grave in...

I feel for all of you so much! Please come back and play with us at the next bigway event. We love flying with all of you out-of-the country girls/guys!

What the heck? I strongly disagree.

I was also rear float. (H plane) Normally, I would love that slot, but I hear ya on the high-freeze ratio of floaters vs. divers, during our journey to 18,000. That second flight, when we had the second pass, and we were flying at 18K for at least 20 minutes was rough times. I heard that the whole flight took about an hour, but personally, I had no concept of time at that point! Not only did we kill our remaining brain cells prior to our final flight and only actual attempted 162-way, but I've never been so cold in my life. The door situation was brutal.

Ahahaaaaa...yes, freedom is right! I understand about the 15 year old. I also felt that way, at first, around Spencer's (ex) son. After all of these years and our trips esp. to Costa Rica, where we shared a room and bath, I FINALLY gave up about wearing layers or baggy stuff to cover up in the summertime. Cory was 17 at that point. Meh, my comfort trumped my modesty at that point! J, it's not as special as you might think, but thanks for giving me attention by being your usual horndoggie self.

I hear ya, sista! I freakin hate wearing bras. I'm working from home on my laptop, so I'm not wearing one right now. I was wearing one, but it started to hurt, so I took it off. Haha!

The CA State Record was not broken, but all was not lost. We learned quite a bit from the experience. Beginning with the dirtdives...seriously, they are irreplaceable. We also learned how to keep out spirits up and fatigue (esp. mental) down, during stressful times. Those rides up to 18,000 using oxygen and being told to abort, after waiting in the door in -9 degrees (first attempt) and worse weather were very difficult. I had the pleasure of being rear float, so I was literally chilled to the bone, while looking out the door for so long. Although it was disappointing that we couldn't jump the 162-way more than once, we loved being with our coaches and getting the best guidance possible from them. Despite it all, I'm realizing that I'm still glad to have had the experience. Next, comes the JFTC ladies, and they will surely get it done. Plus, it is such a beautiful event for such a good cause. Go pink ladies!

You are not missing much jumping, Kallend. We are hoping that tomorrow is much better. This is what's been happening: Day 1 - Meet at 8 am, ready to jump. We did not get to jump at all, but we had lots of dirtdiving. During the morning dirtdive in the landing area, my whacker section was working on it for a while and even kept going in the rain. All groups also practiced their exits and line-up in the plane with full gear. We dirtdove the whole thing with full gear, and we basically waited to get more instructions. We were released at around 4pm. Day 2 - 8 am call, again. The LOs decided to section the groups into whacker sections, which was the plan before beginning to attempt the 162-ways. However, due to the bad weather, we were not going to get enough altitude for those. Therefore, the LOs decided to break the whackers into smaller sections of 20-way formation loads, instead. We had a lead and trail plane. We had two passes - one for each formation. Our exits were completely different, than what they will be on the 160-way. The goal is to see the picture of what each whacker line-up will look like prior to attempting the real thing to adjust any issues, which may arise. I was switched back and forth from plane to plane about three times. Ultimately, I was last diver on the trail plane and flying over to meet up with the rest of my section of the whacker. For the 162-way, I will be rear float on Plane H (rear, rear, rear plane on right side). When it was time to jump the sectioned groups, the base jumped first and had full altitude. The first whacker to go had less altitude, and the next had less. There was a weather hold prior to my whacker going. We waited for quite a while. Finally, my whacker (both sections of 20) had a go. Ultimately, by the end of the day, my whacker had 2 jumps from around 8500. The base had a final of three jumps. Throughout the day, we alternated between dirtdiving the 162-way and 20-ways. We went through exit frames, stadium and radial work for all. We were feeling good about, hopefully, jumping the 162-way the next day. Day 3 - Meet at 7:45 am. Sadly, no jumps were done on Friday. There was more dirtdiving (full gear), door jamming, etc. Lots of break and down time...and really bad weather...rain. It's never a good sign, when we see the organizers playing poker. It finally turned into stupid human tricks towards the end of the afternoon. Please post photos, if anyone out there has them. Those games looked hilarious! Once we were released, officially, in the late afternoon, I went back to my hotel to take care of a cough that has been threatening to turn back into the flu. Some of the crew went bowling with full gear, and I hear that there are pictures floating around. Actually, I've seen them, and maybe someone will post the hilarity for all to see! Day 4 - We met at 7:45 am, again, and we dirtdove in full gear on the landing area/field. We were on quite a long weather hold, again. There were some fun jumpers, which manifest kept referring to as "crazy people", but it looked bleak. We finally jumped at around 3 pmish. We had one jump to altitude, and we worked on the sectioned off whacker 20-ways, again. We had the dinner banquet, which was nice. Day 5 - PLEASE pray for good weather for us, everyone. We want to at least get the chance to try the 162-ways at least a couple of times. That's all that we'll probably need. We are so hungry for these jumps right now!

Wow, that's fantastic, Kris. I'm so happy for you! Congratulations!!!

Wishing you a very happy birthday, Sean!