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Hello Rope Lovers,

The team has been working very hard & registration for ShibariCon 2009 is officially open!

The BEST rope CommUNITY in the world!

ShibariCon 2009
May 22-25, 2009
Chicago, IL USA

4 DAYS OF CLASSES
Whether you are a novice or advanced rigger ShibariCon has something for you! We will offer over 80 classes by the best instructors around including Mark Yu, Mike West, Jimi Tatu, Lee Harrington, DogTrainer1974, Lochai, Mark of DV8 House, Sir C, Dov and too many more to list. Check http://www.shibaricon.com for updates in the coming months.

3 NIGHTS OF PLAY
Practice your newly learned rope skills in our fully-equipped play space until 3:00am for 3 consecutive nights!

SHOP!
ShibariCon will have a great selection of vendors selling all sorts of kinky goodies including rope, toys, corsets, shoes and much, much more!

15% DISCOUNT IF YOU REGISTER NOW!
ShibariCon is offering a 15% discount off of our early registration price of $155 through the end of October! That means you can register now for only $132.00! Registration will be limited so this is a great time to reserve your place.

Register here:
http://www.shibaricon.com/registration/register.php The link should be up on the site within the week.

Please join us for what will be a wonderful weekend of education, fun & friendship.

Okay, so apparently the demands made for cleavage were met by the deadline and we were all blessed with Tess’ beautiful, soft, perfect boobs today.  In fact, you all must have bought more than the 10 calendars she was holding hostage, because she even did a pic with her Njoy Eleven between her boobs (and one sucking it!)  So whatever you did, do it again!

The 6 Degrees of Catalina list is being called HABO (instead of HARO), I see today in a message on Twitter, instead of Help A Reporter Out, I think it has become Help A Blogger Out.  Cool.  I like it.  It’s nice that it’s being twittered around and people are telling other people.  I have several things to put out on the list already, but I want to make it a semi-regular event rather than just sending a thousand emails a day to people.   It is very cool to see graphic designers and bloggers and photographers sign up!  It will be a project forever, I can’t imagine it ever being complete, but I like the way it is shaping up!  Send an email to me at catalinaloves@gmail.com if you want to be added to the list.  It’s really that simple.  Spread the word, twitter it about - the more the merrier.  Submit your requests for the first official HABO list launch!  And think about the crowd on the list - nothing is really too weird.

I’m dying to see the pictures from the shoot with Nikki yesterday.  It drives me nuts to know that there are pictures there and I can’t see them!  It is truly a disorder of some sort.  I spent part of the day cleaning my bedroom/office to get my mind off of it.

So I’m texting back and forth with The Dude trying to talk him into joining me for yoga on Friday - I want to go to the same class with the same instructor.  He has to play baseball or football or something like that in the morning so he asks, “Can I come all sweaty and dirty?” and a thousand thoughts raced through my mind at once before realizing he meant to yoga class. Looks like Susan will also be going.  WooHoo!

I’m going to try out a new yoga class tomorrow at 10 am.  This is different than hot yoga Saturday - there is a gym near my house that I’m hoping to join.  I would still go to hot yoga as a treat, the vibe there is nourishing, but it would be great to lose those last 21 lbs sooner than later!  I have a new goal, size 4, 119 lbs.  And no, Dude, I haven’t done my abs workout and I probably won’t unless someone is standing there making me do them.  I miss your sadistic ways!

I really need to work on The Good Things list and The Week in Kink.  The Good Things List I’m only doing on Catalina Says now, because it was just too much work the other way.  The Week In Kink I have opened up to submissions, so if something strikes you as especially kinkworthy, please send the link to me!  I’d like to mix it up a little bit.

Also, I thought I’d mention for those of you who prefer to order your intimates online, I found some amazing Cuban Stockings on Amazon.com.  It’s hard to find them in the average department store and some people just don’t feel comfortable at the local adult store.  Nothing suspect about ordering from Amazon.com!  If you are a little more daring, go to where Mz Berlin goes and Julie Simone go - try Magnolia Hosiery.  I have an obvious fetish for stockings, so I spend a lot of time looking around for them.

Well, back to work for me.  I have a lot to do in a short amount of time if I want to have sex before my poor husband, who gets up every day with the children, falls asleep at 11 pm.  Thank You, Marky…  I love you.

You play… you pay.  That was what my Mom would say as she punished me as a child.  Well, I’m paying in spades.  Too much play means I’m way behind on work.  Last night M and I decided at the last minute to go out for drinks, which gave me an excuse to wear my new clothes.  Before that I made a trip in to Charlotte for a separate errand.  Saturday I went to yoga with Susan.  Basically, I got a blog post or two written and that was it.  I have a bajillion emails that I starred in gmail to respond to when I have time.  Now I have to devote time to responding or else they just fall off the page.  I need to get my ass in gear and work!

Sometimes it’s a fine line between playing and working.  Today, for example, I was totally playing, yet I could say it was a long day at work - we did two different sets of suspension bondage shots, a MILFtastic office pic, a sex nerd photo, and a few other product sets for upcoming reviews.  So while I was technically working, I feel like I was away at play all day (plus I wasn’t at home).  I did come home and review a Madison Young movie I watched recently.  Is that work or play?  A combination of both, really.

I am really excited to dive into the Better Sex Through Yoga 3 DVD Series that Garvey sent to me.  I reviewed his book a few months ago.  In his package he also sent fascinating documentaries and books that I will keep a mystery for now.  They are completely unrelated to yoga.

I am re-watching Joseph Campbell’s DVDs, The Power of Myth.  If you have never seen it, I highly recommend it.  If you have seen it, but it’s been a while, you should re-watch it.  I’ve gained so much more from watching it this time.  The timing was perfect - I came home from yoga with a sense of being connected to the collective unconscious and present in the moment and watched Joseph Campbell talking about living in the moment and following your bliss.  I realize it is exactly what I’ve done.  I have taken The Hero’s Journey and this makes me incredibly proud.  Slaying dragons.  Seriously - (re)watch it.

I’m a weirdo in that I own copies of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Obedience Experiment and I’ve watched them both with W - it helped her to understand Abu Ghraib and other crimes against humanity.   She also taught her art teacher about Fernando Botero’s art exhibit of his interpretation of the Abu Ghraib images.  I thought that was kind of cool, actually.

Other things worth noting before abruptly ending this post:

My friend, Tess, is on a “Cleavage of the Day” strike.  Until the terms of her demands are met, there will be no boobs.  Please, people - for the good of humanity, do whatever it is she asks - we need daily cleavage shots!  Tess’ boobs make the day so much easier to greet.

The 6 Degrees of Catalina list is growing each day - there are about 200 people on the mailing list and people are starting to put in calls for submissions for anthologies, etc.  So I think I’ll give it a shot.  If you are somehow related to the sex writing, sex blogging, podcasting, sex education, BDSM, fetish, erotic art scene (including the techies that keep us together!) and would like to be added to the list, please send me an email at catalinaloves@gmail.com and put “6 Degrees” in the subject line.  I’ll add you automatically.

Alternatively, if you have a request for the list, please send it to me using that same email link.  There are currently a few things in the queue including calls for submission for anthologies that sex bloggers might be interested in.  It would be nice to see variety in the list - someone must need something? No?

Roxy Harte wrote a really interesting post on the Femmes Guide called “How-To Guide For Female Ejaculation” that is worth reading for all of you who are seeking out the squirting experience.  Obviously, I thought it was interesting and worth mentioning.

Welcome Home to Lochai, Janice, and the Kitties!  I am certain that this weekend you will feel your new CommUNITY welcome you with warm arms.

A final plea - please buy a day on the NYC Sex Bloggers 2009 Calendar.  You don’t have to be a sex blogger and you don’t have to have a product to sell.  You could send a special message to a special someone, you could put your anniversary there, you could write a message of peace, love, and hope to the world.  Keep in mind that you are paying $10 for the day, but that day shows for 30 days!   Please, I beg of you - I need the Cleavage of the Day to survive.

It’s hard to make a title and then write on CatalinaSays.com, because I generally just start writing and whatever ends up coming to my mind, I write about, then at the end I try to make sense of it and add an image.  Nothing makes sense today - this image has nothing to do with anything and it’s linked (click it) to an old post I wrote about being Mrs. Robinson on CatalinaLoves.com, which also has nothing to do with anything.

For example, today I traded a baby for a dog.  No, not literally.  I took S to the sitter’s house and The Dude brought his pup over today for us dogsit.  It turns out, it’s easier to take care of a semi-potty-trained puppy than a semi-potty-trained preschooler.  Our cats behaved vehemently.  The poor pup was scared of them.  She spent most of the day hiding between Marky’s feet.

Cleis Publishing contacted me today — I’m writing a review of Rachel Kramer Bussel’s book, Spanked, which is an anthology of (yep, you guessed it) spanking stories for Amazon.com.  Marky and I together are reviewing her oral anthologies, Tasting Him and Tasting Her.  They are super(duper) hot!  What’s the connection? Rachel Kramer Bussel had given them my contact information to be added to the 6 Degrees of Catalina Networking project I am working on.  Thanks, RKB!

I ate my first McDonald’s cheeseburger in over 18 months tonight.  That’s worth noting.  I don’t eat fast food.  However, my family does and for dinner tonight they wanted McDonald’s.  In my attempts to be a more reasonable person, I am trying to adapt to their life more.  So I ate a cheeseburger.  According to their site, that little cheeseburger was 300 calories.  By those same figures I used to eat 1,300 calories in a meal.  I also ate a Nutri-grain bar today.

If you were on the edge of your seat over the quilt that was sent by La Profesora, yes, it made it here and it is unbelievably beautiful and an absolute heirloom.  W and S have both tried to claim it.  Nice try, I’m still alive.

Now I’m expecting a package from Liberator.  They have a new shape that I’m going to try out!  I’m pretty excited about that.  The challenge will be, how many different ways can we use this?  I love a good challenge.  If I’m not mistaken, they are also sending a Throe to me, which I’ve been looking forward to for quite some time, since first hearing about them!  Thank you, Liberator, for the chance to review for you again!  I absolutely adore your products.

I considered moving to San Francisco for a few seconds, then came back to reality.  Of course, that’s where Lochai will be - The Armory.  My dream job, I think, is at Kink.com.  I want the job with the clipboard where you get to tell men (and women) to undress.  If only…

Well, I still have a movie review to write - Madison Young sent me her new movie, “Lesbian Life: Real Sex San Francisco”.  I watched it last night and so now it’s time to put it into words.  I’ve got to say, I think that where she has done a really nice job is in providing a lesbian porno for actual lesbians, which is a very special niche in the industry that is underrepresented.  I think she’s really smart to market a real lesbian movie rather than porno lesbians.  It’s not that they’re unattractive, the women in the movie, it’s just that they’re not the blonde haired, blue-eyed, fake boob bimbos that I think of when I think of porno lesbians.  In my opinion, real and authentic is always preferable, and Madison always brings that to the table.

Three companies have contacted me about writing columns for them this week.  I am still waiting to hear the details on that.  Getting paid to write would certainly be nice!

So that’s where I end up, it’s such a mishmash of stuff and things.

Oh ya, and buy an ad on Fetlife!  Why?  Because we just crossed 40,000 members since January!  We just passed Bondage.com in our Alexa rating!  Because FetLife.com rocks!  And Because Catalina Says!