I've been really busy lately, but it's been fun for the most part (aside from having the absolute worst bout of asthma and allergy issues this summer!). Last weekend was memorable for two reasons.

First Reason: We had Jenna and Jared over Saturday night. It gave reason and motivation to go about cleaning the house and actually making the table pretty and usable (doesn't happen very often but it's nice to actually sit down at the table for a meal with friends rather than with tv trays in the living room). Everything was really tasty, the company was great, and the conversation was interesting. It makes me wish we did travel in the same circles more often. It was really nice to spend the evening with both Jenna and Jared. I had thought for a while given our history and all that that might not be possible or comfortable, but I'm glad to know that we can be friends and enjoy each other's company. Trying on shiny outfits, browsing our combined toy bags (you'd be amazed at the variety we have between the four of us), and watching Steffie's screen saver as if it was a movie *giggles.* It was all very fun and entertaining. Repeats will be required. I can see getting together on a regular basis for dinner, a movie, etc.

We also reserved a bit of time for a scene too between Jared and I, and that was a LOT of fun. It makes me super happy that everyone involved seemed to be very okay with idea. We've all kinda been batting around the idea for a while, and I just didn't want anyone of the four of us to feel uncomfortable with it. I know Steffie had the option at any point to stop or turn things in a different direction if she'd wanted. That's totally her prerogative in my opinion. Jenna's too. It was definitely an intense scene. It went from warm up to full tilt in next to no time at all. I had forgotten how quickly things could move for us as scene partners, and I'm glad to know that things still fit quite nicely even though the dynamic is different. It was quite a rush. My ass still hurts. Anytime he wants a rematch, I'm up for it.

Second Reason: Steffie and I got to go with Rae to Iowa to her sister's baby shower. I've been looking forward to it for a while now, and I'm so happy my schedule change went through just in time for me to be off work on Sunday. (I did not however think through the really intense scene followed by eight hours in the car and another couple of hours sitting on wood picnic benches). I made a diaper cake for Desi. I'm glad both that she seemed to like it and that it made it there in one piece. Buster has been attacking the ribbons for weeks. I don't have a little sister, so it makes me happy that Rae and her family have adopted me so I get to share.

Wow ... I haven't posted here in almost a month. We've been busy!

We started going to the gym about the middle of January. It hasn't been bad ... kinda good in fact. It's a really nice gym with an indoor pool, sauna, and jacuzzi and every type of exercise equipment I can think of. Thank goodness for the elliptical machines that aren't hell on my leg (I have this knot that swells up whenever I do a lot of walking or any other high impact activity. The elliptical machines don't really affect it and they give me the best workout). We also have been trying to watch more what we eat. Steffie loves the pasta and potatoes and things like that (I do too!), but I know carbs are my weak point. If I can watch the carbs, I know I can lose at least part of the weight. I have done it before. I was miserable on the atkins diet but it did work. We've kinda come to compromise. I'll try to limit the heavy starches to a couple times a week and keep a closer watch on portion size. Lots of fresh vegges and smarter choice snacks. We just have to stick to it. Steffie and I were both feeling kind of icky one week this month and didn't go to gym, and then my birthday and valentine's kinda dashed the diet for a couple days too.

Speaking of my birthday and valentine's day ... it was an awesome weekend. My birthday was on the friday before Valentine's day this year, so I had the day off. It's nice to have my birthday on my off day so I can sleep in and just have a lazy day if I want. Steffie took me to the Bourbon Street Steakhouse in the old stock exchange building in St. Paul off Grand Ave. It was really nice. I loved the whole french quarter atmosphere and Zydeco music. I order the shrimp and crawfish etouffee and Steffie had the jumbo. I tasted of Steffie's gumbo, which was really good with spicy andouille sausage, but my etouffee was to die for. It was rich and creamy and butter with just the right amount of spice. It was best I've had since I was in New Orleans. Along with dinner we had hurricanes to drink (very yummy), an artichoke and crab dip with bread for an appetizer, and a lemon cheese cake with maker's mark whipped cream (MMMMMMMMMM) for dessert. Dinner took a little longer than it should have getting there, and I would have felt a little grumbly about it. But, the waitress recognized it without us having to say anything and gave us our dessert free. I would so go back there again. I haven't even mentioned my birthday gift yet. Steffie got me hotwheels and a hotwheels car mat to play with them on! Yeah ... she got me boy toys. :-D Everyone needs a toy for a birthday now and again. She had wanted to get me a wheel car carrier too so that I could organize all the cars, but she couldn't find one. However my mat did come in a nifty zip up case that I can fit my cars in. I have an awesome girlfriend to try and play to OCD about organizing by getting me something I can use to store and carry the toys she got me.

She got me a stuffed puppy (so does not let her off the hook for getting me a real puppy!), and four yummy caramels from the candy company that is near where we live for Valentine's day. I got her a hand picked box of chocolates from Abdallah candies too. I thought it was really cool that they let me pick each piece of chocolate I wanted included. I got a balloon to go with it that's the shape of a monkey. It was so cute! Buster was afraid of it. That was funny. On valentine's day we slept late together and well ... did fun stuff *g*. Then that night we went to the MSDB Valentine's Day Massacre. That was a lot of fun. I liked the whole 1920's Italian gangster theme. It was too cold in the dungeon area though, and I don't normally say that. We played, and I never did warm up. Everything hurt 20 times more than it normally does, and it just never seemed to blend as it normally does to an enjoyable level. A ribbon flogger finally made me cry. I felt ridiculous, but I had to ask to stop. I was uncomfortably cold and it was affecting how everything felt. That really bummed me out since the parties are some of the few times we get to play using the equipment. Maybe next time will be better. I had sunday off, so no having to get up at four in the morning after getting bed after two. Yay for that.

Speaking of equipment, we went hardware shopping last week and bought the supplies we'll need to make ourselves a new cross. We've had it in the works for a while now and haven't had the time/money/supplies to finish it. It's a really cool idea. The cross breaks down to form a plant stand and shelf, so it's completely disguised when you aren't using it. The foxy furniture website listed up their plans for making it, so that's what we're using as a guide. We'd also like to eventually do a bondage bed / coffee table too for the living room. It will be really nice to have it at home so we can play and we can invite friends over to play. Here's a picture of what we're making.

I've been meaning to make a couple entries for a while but with the couple different christmas get togethers and travel preparations and going home to Alabama and everything else I haven't had time. So, I'll catch up now.

Tribe Christmas / Yule was awesome. I had such a good time. It so great to be able to celebrate the holiday with friends and it just be relaxing and low key. I get to (and am actually expected to) wear my monkey pajamas, snack on yummy food and drinks, hang out with friends, and give out fun Christmas presents. What more could you want for a holiday celebration?

Friday night was super low key. We just hang out, hand soup and snacks, and played with the dogs. It was a lot of fun. This year the house was overflowing the people and pets. Steffie and I were there, Rae and PC, Tanya, George and Tianna, and Jen along with Jen's dog Roz (sp?), Rae and PC's dog Porky, and George and Tianna's dog Libby. The dogs took a bit getting use to eachother, but it was good. Roz was so cute feeling the urge to protect Porky from little bitty Libby.

We all got up Saturday morning and had a really fantastic brunch featuring PC's yummy egg bake and an oh so tasty ham cooked by Steffie. After eating we spent the next couple of hours opening presents and watching Hogfather on dvd. Steffie and I gave out kinky stockings which was a lot of fun. They seemed to be a big hit. Steffie was happy that Tanya liked her Aquasaurs and I was happy Rae liked her ceramic fountain pieces. Kinda bummed that PC's shoes didn't fit, but hopefully he'll be able to exchange them for some that do. We were both super happy that Jen's presents were a hit since we didn't know how well they would go over. We just aren't very good at giving "normal" gifts all the time. And we got some great presents. A giant cupcake cake pan, ice cream cone cupcake pans, silicone baking mats, a new bird feeder for our house, pocket knives, glass icicles for our christmas tree, christmas panties, christmas socks, lots of stocking stuffers including glow in the dark hair barrettes. I know I left some out. There were so many cool things.

It was a LOT of fun. We were all ready to drift off into a food coma by the end of the day, warm and happy in our respective monkey pj's. I wish all holiday get togethers could be as relaxing and enjoyable as this one. Thank you to each and every one of you for a great Christmas. You are all my family, and I can't imagine spending my holidays with anyone else. I love you all.

MSDB's Zombie Prom was last night and it turned out to be lots of fun. I was really impressed with the amount of people who dressed up and the time they put into their costumes. Everyone seemed to really take the zombie theme and run with it. There were some awesome and fun costumes all around. The food was fun too if a bit scary. Nothing was quite the right color and quite a few things I couldn't even identify what they were suppose to be. The dip shaped like an eyeball was interesting and the cookie tomstomes on top of coacoa pebble treats were really cute.

It was super crowded. The party sold out and there didn't seem to be many no shows at all. The social area and the dungeon was full most of the night. And aside from a few irritations in the dungeon with the over-crowding and things it wasn't a bad set-up at all. Steffie and I had a really good scene (not involving a broken bat this time lol). I has bite marks on both shoulders this morning and all sorts of bruises across my tushie. Apparently my dolly got zombified when I wasn't looking and was feeling the urge to naw on flesh during our scene. She was going "rarrr rarrr rarrr as she nibbled and bit." It was, mmmm, very sexy. I will be a zombie dolly treat anytime. Toward the end anything she hit me with made me giggle. I even giggled with the big paddle. It was so fun!

Overall a very good night of play and fun with friends and dressing up in cute, shiny outfits. Below is a link to some pictures of us at the party in our costumes.

Steffie and I had a blast at the MPX BBQ this year. It was a little more of a drive than we'd expected, but it wasn't bad getting there at all. And once we were there, it was so worth the extra few miles. It's an awesome place. We will definitely go back there again. Naked camping rocks.

*claps for Steffie* She won third place in the Whip competition in the kinky olympics! I was hesitant to have cold water balloons burst overy my head with a whip at first, but it was a lot of fun. She kicked ass. That's my girlfriend ... she got third place bursting balloons with a stripy pink whip. That's just awesome!

We got to swim nakie and then we went back to the canopy where Rae and I had sooo much fun coloring Steffie. I had bought a set of markers that are markers on one side and marker stamps on the other side. Rae brought these cool Elmer's Glue paint brush marker thingies too. Totally didn't know eachother was bringing them either. We had Steffie lay down on a mat and we used her as a canvas for our masterpiece. (See Pictures By Clicking Here ... Not Work Friendly) We giggled so hard and so much I thought Rae was gonna stop breathing a couple times. :-D T

The dungeon area was nice too and we actually didn't have to wait too long to get to play. It was soooo nice to get to play for a while. We never get to play at home cause of the thin walls and the nosy landlord upstairs. Steffie would hit me with the big pink bat and I would giggle ... I couldn't help it! Then the paddles and the floggers (even the evil rubber one)... Mmmmmm. She told me at one point that I couldn't giggle. EEEPS! I just can't control it. I had such a good time. I think we both needed it. It was GOOD.

Well... okay, to be totally honest the camping wasn't exactly kinky, but naked/semi-naked options made the camping more fun.

I loved the Dark Ages Faire last year and the year before. It really has become my kinky event of the summer. It combines my three favorite things: Renaissance festivals, camping, and kinkiness. What could be better than that? It's at a private camping site, so we get to go naked or semi-naked or decked out in Renaissance garb ... whichever we prefer all weekend long. There's a royal feast on Saturday night too and some games and things this year. Steffie and I decided to volunteer to help with registration on Saturday, so we even got a partial discount on the tickets this year. That was really nice too since we have several other tickets to buy this summer.

This year should have been sidelined as being The Invasion of the Barbarian Horde cause we really did invade en masse. We didn't just camp and vend, we set up our own little Barbarian village. We had three canopies and three sleeping tents between the seven of us along with all the leather shop and vending stuff and a make-shift kitchen. Porkchop made his own huge grill and spit to fit above his portable fire pits. He cooked a whole leg of pork on it Saturday. It was so yummy!

It rained a bit as we were setting up camp on friday, but doesn't it always raining when you are trying to set up camp? It stopped just as we were finishing, so it wasn't bad. Saturday during the day was gorgeous too. The only down side was the plethra of mosquitos around the camping area. They were eating us alive. Thank goodness for good bug spray and foggers! And lots of 50 sunblock. We spent the day visiting and cooking, vending and doing registration, hanging out with friends. It was good.

We finished up our assigned "jobs" just in time to get dressed for dinner and have the royal feast. Um, feast, not so impressed with for a few different reasons. After my discounts, I only paid 10 bucks for my ticket, so I'm not going to complain too much publicly about it. If I'd paid full price, I would have a major bitch though. We did come fully prepared to feed ourselves and half the rest of the encampment though, so we didn't go hungry in the end.

Just as the feast ended and they declared the dungeons open for the evening, a huge storm blew in from nowhere! One minute it was sunny, and the next the trees were snapping back and forth in the wind and rain and it was really dark outside. I'm use to tornados and bad thunderstorms growing up where I did. I've slept through a few tornados overhead. This made me nervous though. There wasn't really a great place out there for shelter if it turned out to be something dangerous. We were in tents and canopies. We saw a few of the canopies go cartwheeling across the campsite too. Luckily ours was staked down with railroad stakes. That made me feel much better know ours wasn't going anywhere unless it go really really bad.

Needless to say, it did not set the mood for anything kinky to happen though. I had been really looking forward to playing Saturday night. It's been since the DADG party in April since Steffie and I have played. Everything has been so busy here and we really don't have a good place at home to play. The very thin walls and the landlord living upstairs makes that difficult prospect even though we do have a couple places that would make good, temporary play spaces. Plus, the last several times we've played something has caused them to be cut short wether it was the really loud/distracting noise or the temporature (this has been a huge problem). It's hard to have a long, satisfying scene when you're so cold you're shivering. We were both really looking forward to getting some time in the dungeon at Dark Ages, but it didn't happen.

I let it get to me more than I should. It was a bad week at work, and a busy week at home rushing around trying to get things ready for the Faire. The ever multiplying clutter at home has been making me a bit stir crazy too ( I really need to work on that, but with all the sewing projects going, I know it's pointless to try and do a full cleaning until they are done). I was stressing about getting the projects done and never did get a chance to even start on my stuff that I need for this coming weekend. All that along with a serious need to work out some stress with a good, hard night of play compounded all together and made not getting to scene at all even more disappointing for me. It was an overreaction to the situation, and I totally even knew it at the time too. Once the dam breaks though, it's hard to push it all aside. A bit overwhelming.

Rae offered her place to come out and play sometime, and I'm really grateful for that. We may have to take her up on it before too long. At least we know her and Pork Chop won't be freaking out at the sounds coming from downstairs. lol

Overall, the weekend was still really good despite the few downsides. It was even better if I just choose to look at it as a fun camping trip with friends. That was excellent. I always enjoy spending time with the tribe esp when it's camping stuff and being outdoors. Not at all kinky really, but *shrugs* we create our own kinkiness often enough. It's not like we're that deprived.

Here's to hoping that I get the rest of my sewing done tomorrow and/or Saturday sometime and the MSDB party turns out to be a really good night.

Okay. I just updated my visual kinky wishlist for about the third time. I keep finding more stuff that looks fun to do!

Just click on the link below if you want to check it out. If you aren't able to view the gallery and you want to, just let me know and I'll add you to my special friends list.

I had an idea this evening ... People are always making lists of things they want or things they want to do, kinky things ... vanilla things ...etc. I thought, why not make a visual wish list. That would be so much more fun and actually show examples. So, I've been searching the web, saving pictures, and uploading them to a new photo gallery. If you want to check it out and you can't see the gallery, just let me know. I can add you to my friends list so you can see. Some of the things included: bondage, medical play, piercing, and hook suspension. Not work friendly.

Just click the picture below.... and the list has been ever growing since I posted the entry ...

I think I found what I want my next tattoo to be a variation of... It's adorable and when you think bout Steffie's tattoo, it makes it even better...