Election Day

Today is truly an historic day. Our first non-white president.

And, for me, personally and more importantly, the first time an election has occurred and I found myself, much surprised, feeling *hope* for the US. None have caused that before, regardless of their political leanings.

I hope all the goodness that is possible with Obama as present comes to pass, as there's a great deal of goodness possible.

Saturday night silliness

This is my ugliest rope-work ever, but it's so cute what this shows: Chael's first mummification/sensory-deprivation bottoming... I leaned over his face to check on him and was greeted with snores.

I think he likes it LOL!

Am sitting watching Frasier and watching him twitch and breathe against his bindings while he sleeps...




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Cutting play

Chael and I sat and watched Superman III yesterday while I practiced Halloween-oriented designs for the cutting demo I'm doing this month...

Kitty design we didn't finish:




Skull we did after:






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It never ends

I'm in a good mood; let me preface this with that, otherwise I could sound gripey.

My domestic is off for a few days as his wife is having surgery, I'm recovering from surgery, and my spouse is currently in the hospital.

Now, none of this is for icu level sort of stuff, everyone is gonna be fine... But goodness gracious!

Add on that I've not spent more than one of two healthyish days in the past 4 or more months and this all is getting ridiculous.

Now, on the upside, as I said everyone will be ok (barring freak occurances) and, personally at this minute, my day today is going pretty good.

Boy, when will life shift back to normal.


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Home and Appendectomy

Will have more to say when I can sit comfortably upright for an extended time to type. Right now I am typing on Chael's old laptop while lying on my back in a makeshift sickbed.

General summary: 2 weeks at parents' house finalized by an unexpected appendectomy in MD after pain began during my drive south. it was laproscopic so I'll likely not have any good scars, but I should be healed soon.

Also, I got my 100% -schedular rather than the Individual Unemployability status I'd put in for!- VA rating for my military-related health issues. Yay. Not "complete and total" as there's the possibility for improvement. So good things there!

Bought me an iPhone as the one celebratory, excess, just to make me smile item... although it's not actually excess or just to make me smile. It's already handling my scheduling of appointments, has alarms set for my med times, and so on. Fun and helpful, it's a good little gadget.

All for now...

Testing new toy

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Domestic

My domestic is setting a high standard for future domestics in the area of car cleaning. He just finished it a short while ago in preparation of my trip... it looks gorgeous, makes me happy to have it all tidy for the drive!

As my Twitter stated, he even dusted the inside of the gas-cap cover.

I love watching a servant of mine work. I just sat and read a bit and enjoyed the warm day while I watched him clean and wash and check fluids.

He also brought me a box of treats to have for the road.

Such a good boy, put a smile on my face today!

So once I'm done drying off here (just got out of shower), I'm running by Callie's to see her and her son about piercing details and then on my way north!

To NY

Am starting out either tonight or tomorrow morning to visit my family in NY. Sister has had an operation and asked that I come visit during her recovery period and I said, "sure".

Should be fun. Mom said we're all gonna go up to the Corning Glass Works to tour the museum one day and then another day maybe go wine tasting (which my sister isn't much for, not being a wine liker, but mom pointed out to her that she's such a lightweight that she'll be drunk and happy in no time so she'll have a good day regardless). Having grown up close to there, I've been to the Glass Works a few times -most recent with my spouse a couple years ago, his first time- but I'm looking forward to it. It's always very interesting to see and mom and sis and I have never gone together.

I'll mostly be bumming around my sister's house while mom is at work, laying about, watching tv and chatting with her while she takes it easy. Mom says she's healing well, so far, though. Had a slight hiccup where she had to go back in and have an abscess dealt with, but otherwise good.

I'm going to stop at the VA Safari Park on the way up. I've not done that in years and years. So cute and so stubborn and smart, those zebras and such.

Leaves are starting to drop from the trees up there, mom says. Should be pretty with fall colors starting. I miss that and am looking forward to it.

Went to Atlanta's Six Flags yesterday with Chael. Didn't make it the whole day, got worn out by adrenaline and too much heat/sunshine. God, it was blazing and horrid. I swear the UV has gotten stronger since I was a kid... I used to be able to look almost at the sun back then, now I can't barely stand to look at the horizon... the sky is just painful. And to walk around in it makes me so tired and sick feeling. I was always sensitive to sunlight like that, even when young, but now it's much, much worse.

The "Scream Machine" is a piece of garbage, painful garbage. Not worth riding.

The "Goliath" is great and has wonderful repeated zero-gee moments.

Those are the two extremes.

I cut my hair off last night at about 3am. I've a "faux-hawk" of sorts. I've the "chelsea cut", as others have told me it's called, around my face as I like it; a full mohawk; and the sides are shaved to 1" in length and moussed upwards towards the 'hawk. I'm debating shaving them all the way off, as I really liked it that way before, but I went this route first to see how I'd like my hair with a leetle bit left on the sides... I can always shave it the rest of the way off, growing it in is a bit longer taking.

I'd like to add some accent color like purple to it before I go to my mom's, but don't know if I'm going to bother... it's still 2 shades of green right now.

Domestic should be here soon to do my car, gotta get the hose ready..... wait, no, I'll just have him move it when I take him on the backyard tour today, what was I thinking?

Europe, Germany

I can't say how very much I hope we get orders back to Germany. I loved it there.

Germany itself, its landscapes, its language, its culture, its cities and tiny towns.

But also, as a gateway to the rest of Europe. I've spent a few days to a few weeks in most of the western Europeans countries and there are more I need to see and more of the one's I've been to that I need to explore... or just revisit favorite places!

And I love riding trains. That's so silly sounding, but it's true. You can't do that here and I fell in love with it the first time I used one.

Sure, people will say, "but what about Amtrak?". Yes, we have a train "system" here in the US... but honestly, Amtrak is an ass-difficult, limited and over-priced "system" (I hesitate to call anything that hard to get around on a system in any seriousness). Amtrak is a joke comparatively, and annoying even with no comparison made.

Speaking of, I've heard some vagueness about a possible move towards government subsidization of a better/full train system here in the US...? I'll do some googling and see what is up there, later. For now, I can just say I hope it is so, both for the convenience and environmental angles. In the short-term it would be quite a lot of money, effort and confusion, but in the long-term it would change the US greatly and, I think, show itself worth the stress of implementation.

Anyhow, I'm rambling.

Short is that we're in our window for PCS orders. We may end up getting "moved" to right here and nothing changes for years, we may end up moved almost anywhere. Branch has expressed themselves to seem willing to work with us in trying to find an agreeable assignment... we'll see. Needs of the Army always come first.

I've no idea whether I'll be here or the other side of the world in 6 months. I've my preferred places, but really I'm now just at the point where I'd like to know so I can plan my life some.

We're Not Alone - Peeping Tom

This is so catchy for some reason... Ever since the first time I stumbled across it, while viewing other Patton youtubings, it has repeatedly jumped back into my head and demanded occasional re-viewings.

Short but harder play tonight

Today I beat my domestic the hardest so far and he yellowed out just as we were coming to my planned end time. It was an exercise in both stress-relief/playfulness for me and in further testing of his reactions and limitation. I've gotten a better feel of him from it.

I'm getting a cold... my spouse gave it to me. One thing after another, nowadays, it seems.

In theory, we're going to Six Flags Saturday.

A couple of pictures

Just sharing a couple pictures from this weekend: the light test cutting and piercing I talked about in my earlier post. Please note, if you are squeamish at all, there is blood showing.

Also, a safety note:

My bottom and I are completely fluid-bonded so many of the normal safety steps were not taken in this sharing. I simply prepped his skin and my hands and then used sterile blades, needles, and drapes.

When working on anyone who I am not blood-bonded with I use sterile tools, barrier methods and sanitization steps. Please do so yourself, for both your and your partner's safety.

When blood-bonded, please still take steps to sanitize the skin and use sterile tools at the least. Especially in piercing play, and moreso the deeper you go with it. While there are (usually and presumed) no blood-borne pathogen issues there are still bacteria that are of no great concern on the surface of the skin but can be very nasty inside a puncture wound.

Weekend

I'd a lovely weekend.

I was (rope)suspended for the first time, which was floaty and fun, by Artemis. I also learned a new chest harness and Chael, my spousal unit, started getting familiar with ropes.

Chael let me cut him for the first time and also tried out play-piercing at my hand. On the cutting, we were tinkering to test how well he could take it as he's volunteered to be my demo-doll in October, he did great... I started with just some light random cuts to let him get the feel and then played around a bit with a pattern once it turned out he was fine with it.

The play piercings, well, he's been excellent in the past allowing me to do permanent-style piercings in him for work practice/experimentation/portfolio-building, but we'd never done just random temporary play before. Again I just stuck a few in, quite shallow but in varying lengths to see how he'd do. Chael didn't like it, but he was okay with it.

He's not so much a bottom as just a good sport, haha.

Saw some old faces, met some new. Enjoyed chatting, laughing and lounging with a few particulars. Not sure who is okay with mentions and linkings so will keep such to myself until a later time.

Lots of other goodness... The only things that marred the time was Chael coming down suddenly with a nasty cold and my kidney pain. Both of which were able to be worked-around: for my part, I "sucked it up and drove on" as the Army saying goes; for his part, Chael slept a lot.

Spoke too soon...

Kidney pain began all over again. Thought I was done with it... had hoped the backache that started Sunday was just from yardwork I'd done Sunday.

Monday with the domestic I fiddled in the yard despite it, hoping that just working lightly would let it fade. Later that night it became very recognizable kidney pain and it's been with me today more. I'm back on meds and taking care of me, hoping to stop it before it gets as bad as it was before.

Long time, no update

General update of the last couple months:

I've been ill and largely non-social, and have put pro-d session indefinitely on hold. Am getting back into things and getting back in touch with folks now.

I've attended a couple of local social/BDSM events and am planning to attend one this weekend, it's on fire/ice/wax play. Not sure if I'll be attending the after-party; I'd like to but I still get tired pretty easy yet.

Things have been going well with the domestic and we've made great leaps and bounds recently on the front yard; it should be presentable and just waiting for baby grass to become real grass starting in about a month. He has offered to install a permanent sprinkler system for me and after speaking with my spouse I've told him he is to do so. I mix physical and power play with "normal" everyday activities as my general tendencies, but we've just started specifically with devoted scenes. We've had two so far, only one of any real intensity and that was more a familiarization with his responses (physical and behavioral) for me. We've yet to really get into it at all, but we're moving that way. All together, I am pleased with both his service and the beginnings of our play.

Have thrown out to Moki the idea of a "girly-night", getting together and just chilling, chatting and doing whatever we feel like away from folk over at my place. We've not hung out in months due to my not feeling well. Have another one or two I'm thinking to invite over, too.

I've toyed with but am not serious about the idea of starting a TNG group in the area to extend our local community, since the primary group does not allow anyone lower than age 21 and many in their 20s are uncomfortable joining a group where all adults aren't allowed and where the average member age is older than their parents. I'd not want to have it separate from AIRS, but rather just another group that intermingles those who wish to but is open to all of legal age. But reality is that my life is not such that I could head and arrange such a thing, at minimum with no thought to other considerations I live in a military household where we are in our "window" for orders... meaning we could be told to be ready to move in 30 days or still living here 6 years from now.

Instead, I'm thinking I'll maybe throw an occasional private party/hang-out, with basically the same arrangement as described above since it would be a private party rather than an established group's event; 18+ and just open to anyone I'm okay having visit my home. My house is pretty small so there isn't a huge play available, but with friends who are comfortable and casual such things can be worked out... it's not tiny, just not huge.

I've started learning Spanish plus am refreshing and trying to extend my German.

So that's the randomness of the past 2-3 months. Hopefully I'll soon be back to my normal self and have more interesting things to talk about again. Life has largely been on hold!

SELF and The Cure

I attended the Southeastern Leatherfest last weekend. It had its good points and bad points.

Best parts were Archer's and Elegant's demos, Miss Victoria's and Viola's demo, and seeing friends (to include piercing one for a special occasion, playing with two others -topping one, bottoming to the other, sharing one's birthday, and lots of chatting).

The Friday night carnival was quite cute.

Met some new folks who I hope to keep up with.

Then, after all that exhausted fun I went to my delayed birthday present of The Cure in concert. Amazing performance. I just can't express it, really. So good, that if I'd the money to spend so frivolously I'd follow them around the US to see as many shows as I could make it to. But that's just not realistic haha!

So tired when I got home that I had to call my domestic and post-pone our meetup to Friday or Saturday. I just needed to lay around and catch up on rest. In fact, am still tired but am getting back on track bit by bit. So much driving and doing and meeting and feeling in so short a time requires some recuperation, though it was entirely worth it!

SouthernBash, Atlanta

Attended SouthernBash this weekend. It was a lot of fun and I met some great people, some of which I exchanged info with and hope to be staying in touch. Some I'll be seeing at SELF.

Also got to have the pleasure of topping a lovely submissive girl who was a fun bottom. We both came away with some bruises, haha.

Some special highlights, though by No means the only special moments or people, was getting to attend another demo of and to later chat some with Vi Johnson, meeting Master Pam, and meeting Elegant and buying a beautiful and hand-comfortable matched flogger set made by her Master Archer.

It was well worth the drive.

Personal domestic slave possibilities...

I've been contacted recently and am now in the process of trying out and getting to know a domestic servant/play partner named Domesticservice here. I'm optimistic.

I'm still and always open to other subs/slaves and play partners in both my personal life and my professional, so if interested don't think I'm not. But, if you wish to serve me personally, you need to know that I am not exclusive to one person.

This weekend I go to Atlanta to attend Southern Bash, a LGBT/BDSM event. I'm hoping nothing causes me to not go, I'm quite looking forward to it!