CampCrucible

Wow, what a weekend! I'd a great time.

My friends Nugget & Lady Sondra, from the AIRS Augusta, GA group I was in before, clued me into Camp a while back just before I left for Texas. I thought it sounded fun and wanted to see old friends again so I decided to sign up and go.

Am so glad I did.

I got to see them a few times for both lovely and silly stuff. Among just friendly chatting and retouching:

He gave me a massage my first day out in the sun and shade and breezes. It was heavenly. He's very good at massage, as I know, and it's always a sweetness... but out with people moving around you, the sounds of folks nearby and some playing, sunshine warm and shade cool, the air shifting over my naked skin, and that touch of exhibition fun in it made it so much more. It was the perfect start.

I did my first pony cart ride with Nugget pulling after he'd given me a short instructional. I've little experience with horse riding or "steering", so I was nervous. It went awesome! Being in the cart as it's pulled has the scariness of canoeing -that shaky looseness of feeling- but the control and slight absurdity of it all was exhilarating! The guiding felt much as the few times I've been on a horse, quite real, and it was wonderful getting this new experience with an old friend. Big smiles!

I watched Sondra and he in the pony show do a very cute and funny musical skit with my new friend PermanentStudent and laughed and clapped. Another round of smiles, this one on the 3rd day.

Sondra was a sweety -as always!- and offered Nugget for a scene to me, but I was mianly in bottoming headspace most of that day so it didn't happen. I consider it a missed opportunity since we all live so far away now (Nugget was in service to me for a short period before and we had a couple fun scenes back in Augusta).

Roommates were very nice people and the cabin atmosphere was just what I'd hoped. Quite and safe to leave stuff out with no worries, considerate folks, and way more space than people. Two couples (JscRashad & Kestra and MrWest & Mrs West) and one single besides me (PermanentStudent). Started with quiet hellos and ended with everyone on B.S.'ing terms and better by the end.

PermanentStudent and I hit it off quite well and he ended up being (what I mentally called) my CasualCampBoyfriend lol. Someone cool I felt like both holding hands with and high-fiving when he reported getting some good play somewhere. We started hanging out after switching off tying each other in a bondage class and then exchanged staples in Dottie's sharps class, then exchanging beatings (my bum one night, his back the next) and generally just bummed around together when free. Oh, and let's not forget a laughing highlight of my trip: getting spanked in a pool lol. I was surprised at feeling both sides of switching with him, there's only one other person I "go both ways" with. Everyone else is one pole or the other, strictly.

He seemed not to mind my natural quietness (unlike poor MrWest, who felt trying to get me to talk was "like pulling teeth" hahaha!) and he was just plain comfortable to be around... like an old friend one runs into new. God help him, though, someday when I'm in a talkative mode.

Was "virgin sacrificed" as a newbie to camp. Got naked in front of the crowd watching and got fake blood poured down me after camp staff tried to scare us about what was going to happen. Not effectively, at least not me and a couple others, but it was atmosphere. In fact, Quin boning military for it made me more nervous than anything else... I still get upset easy if/when folks approach me military like that due to some things that happened while in, so I was tense watching that I showed no stress from that. Would've been embarrassing to end up upset and have people think it was over sacrifice! LOL! But they toned it down and I got coated in that fake blood and all was sticky, messy wellness. I felt like grinning, and did, walking back to my cabin with clothes in hand held out from my sticky red body.

Speaking of sticky bodies: chocolate pudding "wrestling". It was more just a roll-in-the-pudding-en-masse thing than actually wrestling. We all just bathed in it. Call it 7-12 people in a blowup kiddy pool covered in chocolate. Slip, slide and squish. I had it everywhere, as did everyone. Had to be hosed down with freezing water before I could get a proper shower to get clean.

God, I so hope to do that again sometime.

I saw a crucifixion and didn't pass out or even get dizzy. That's a big deal for me! I had a hard time at the needleplay demo even though I have no issues when *I* put needles into someone...watching is hard. But the crucifixion wasn't bad. Extreme but easy to watch -except I felt bad for the woman pounding the nails in, she had a hell of a time emotionally before and after, understandably. During the hanging I went up and touched him to feel the energy coming off and it was impressive. Warm and throbbing down through the and and over the forearm, sinking into my own body. We all shared a closeness of pain for a time there.

I watched a guy get held down and dressed as a girl and diapered, a man have his scrotal fluid drip out from needle play, and saw beautifully stretched outer labia on one woman. I doubt I could do that, but it tempted me it was so striking looking.

God, what else? Sooooo much in those few days.

Got to drive a golf cart around as taxi duty. Fun :D

Piled in a cuddle pit with a bunch of littles and non-littles, playing with glowsticks and getting wrapped up in two guyfriends and a cute girl for a bit.

Oh, also, laid out in the shade in my undies and read a book and chatted with two friends for a bit. That was another relaxing time.

Next year I'm coming on Thursday instead of Friday.

I'm sure I'll think of and add other things over the next few days. There is just too much right now.

Oh, and pics of my back corset (done by the sweetheart Dottie) and my arm corset (done by the sweetheart PermanentStudent) will be added soon once I'm home and it's easier to post things.

Randomness

Did some more cutting and piercing on Chael the other night. Was fun! I had a great time.

Also, at vendor fair Saturday I got a great black w/ white polka dots skirt and shirt combo.

Jonesy cat isn't doing great. He is eating too little. Otherwise seems fine but tired.

Turns out he likes his climber thing I got him. When I've come home lately he's been seen climbing out of its hidey-hole.

Trying to take care of things here. Put up conduit so that cords aren't hanging ugly. Looks good. Got a few more boxes dealt with. Wine fridge now and it's almost full.

Firewalking

I walked on hot coals last night. That's a blurry pic of me, there. Also broke a board with my hand, snapped an arrow against my neck, and walked on broken glass.

Firewalk was hot, as you'd expect, and my feet felt it... got about 5 tiny (1/8" size) blisters on my feet by the time I'd drove home that were gone by this morning.

Good times, good times.

Jonesy hasn't been doing great since Pixel died. In one month between vet visits he's lost a little more than a pound and his kidney function has decreased in health. I have to shove an appetite stimulant down him every 3 days (was doing that already during this past month per vet's orders) and also give him sub-cutaneous fluids every 2 days. Thankfully, he's such a lovey that he doesn't hold much of a grudge on any of this. He's liking me again in just a couple minutes -in fact, laid there really well during the latest sub-cu today.

I hope it's all enough to keep him healthy for a long time, but I'm worried. His kidneys are a real concern.

-RP

Pixel-cat

Pixel had to be put down last Monday due to enterring shutdown (heart, pancreas, and kidneys) due to FeLV that we didn't know he had until a short bit before it was done. That is what the previous post's pictures are from: my & Chael's last visit with him before the doc came in to do it.

He'd only been obviously I'll since the day before, it was very sudden.

During those last minutes his head cleared enough to know us; he purred as best he could to our petting and words (he was on oxygen with pulmonary edema). When they started the 2 injections he gave one meow as the anesthesia took hold and we continued to pet and talk to him until the doc let us know the second injection had stopped his heart. Then we stayed a while longer with him before releasing him for cremation.

It was, and is still, very hard.

Wednesday we picked up his ashes and got Jonesy screened for FeLV. Jonesy is neg, thank god. We then got a little shelf for Pixel's remains and his toy piggy to sit on until we figure out what to do with him.

Bad week.

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