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Every day I wake up and wonder what the day will bring because every day is weirder and weirder, or at least something very intense happens every day, either to me or to someone very close to me.  Maybe it’s this way for everyone and I just don’t realize it because I am narcissistic.

Yesterday I woke up and found out that BestSexBloggers.com had been picked up by Fleshbot and our numbers went through the roof on the third day.  Then I was asked to do a live call-in radio show in Spanish about BDSM and fetish.  The challenge is - I don’t normally talk about BDSM or fetish in Spanish.  They just aren’t conversations I’ve really ever struck up while traveling or living abroad.

Communicating eloquently and gracefully becomes much more of a challenge in your second language and I have more and more of an appreciation for it every time I am put outside of my boundaries like this.  Don’t get me wrong.  I have near native fluency and I consider myself completely bilingual, but your second language is just that - and there’s a reason why you choose your first language to express yourself best.  However, my Spanish is quite formal and academic, as my Master’s thesis was written about a 17th Century Spanish and Italian literature.  My travels have given me the skillz I need to communicate on a practical level, but like I said, the Kinktionary is a little different in Spanish than in English.  I’m so clueless that I don’t know what BDSM things mean in English when people bring them up until they explain the term and then I say, “Oh, thaaaaaaaaat.”

Nerves aside, it is a good opportunity for me professionally, for personal growth, and to legitimately practice speaking Spanish since I don’t get the opportunity often anymore.  Even as a high school teacher, I spoke a dumbed down version of Spanish.  This is a challenge and I love a challenge.

I’ll leave the station and visit my Cookie Friend for a while and then make my way to M’s for my Friday Night in Uptown tradition.  We may just stay in, or we may go out.  We’ll see.  Either way, it will be nice to get away for a few hours.  M and I cross paths, but our paths don’t cross.  We live in different worlds.  We don’t have any mutual friends, there is just M and Me.  It makes for a very close friendship that makes it safe to say or be whatever you want to, without fear that anyone else would ever know.  It’s a tradition I will miss greatly while he’s away exploring faraway lands with faraway women for two weeks.

And now I’m off to get beautiful.

Not even RR with his bullshit tactics today can ruin my day.  It’s Friday.  I should enjoy it.

Today's Lolcat Image is Specially Selected for The Dude

Yet another late night.  It’s 5:21 am.  I always like to keep track of what time I begin so I can see just how long I spend pondering my day.  I mean I never sit here with a plan, I just start writing and then think about what I’ve been doing.  See?  It’s 5:32 am now and I just spent 11 minutes chatting with The Dude.  I think I could be a more efficient job if it weren’t for Gchat because now it’s 5:39 am.

I spent almost all of my day doing admin stuff on BestSexBloggers.com, which is what I expected to happen on Day 2.  I think we’re getting our kinks worked out.  It’s coming together nicely.   We are lucky that the best of the best continue to join us, writers and photographers.  It’s very exciting to see my name there with theirs.

I had a really nice chat on the phone with Radical Vixen.  It was, in a word, delightful.

Then I had a nice little text interchange with D.

Enjoyed a very sexy little Gchat with Mr. F, discussing our upcoming plans for a very kinky weekend.  If it had worked out that I was in his neighborhood at the right time, we could have gotten together today, but… life.

While I was running errands today, Lochai called.  So I’m sitting at my Cookie Friend’s house and my phone is ringing and I’m frantically trying to answer it, which is I think the first time that CF has seen me really freak out over a phone call.  I’m a pretty cool Cat(alina).  So out of the blue my phone is glitched, stuck, nothing I could do - couldn’t silence it, answer it, ignore it - nothing but sit and watch as Lochai’s name flickered on the screen.   So I restarted my phone and called back and got voicemail.  Aargh!  So as I’m on the final stretch home, my phone rang again and this time it worked!  As it turned out, he had just called to say Thank You.  Just hearing him say it was all I needed.  It means the world to me that I genuinely helped him.

I “met” Madison Young via email and I’m going to interview her and also she is sending me some DVD’s to review!  I’m way excited for that! (Thanks for the introduction, Lochai!)

Lelo.com contacted me and asked me to review one of their products.  I chose the Luna Beads.  It seems kind of fun to have something like that to play with - and honestly, I love their vibrators, but I had to try this.

I made Twitter friends a while back with Rachel Kramer Bussel - she is the editor of Dirty Girls - the book I’m writing up for Seal Press on CatalinaLoves.com.  I sent her a twit today and asked her if she’d do a short Q&A with me via email for the review and she said, “Sure!”  So score one for Twitter!

And I think that pretty much brings us up to date.  It’s now 6:11 am.  I have to add an image, tag, and categorize my post.  Let’s see how I do…

Oh, by the way - you can now email me at Catalina@BestSexBloggers.com, which is kind of cool.

Oh, and The Dude emailed a version of Coldplay’s “Swallowed In The Sea” that was done by an A Capella group that he listened to when he was in college.

Alright, it’s 6:20 am and I’m clicking publish.  I think I should focus more.

I am one of those rare lucky people who have to work 7 days a week.  Not because I work for the man, but because I work for myself.  Since I work pretty much every day, and pretty much all day every day, it’s a good thing that my definition of work includes chatting with Sabrina Fox, Priapus, and Lochai and writing interviews for Claire Adams, Sgt. Major, and Bobby Knight (ProPhotoTours.com).

Today is Lochai’s opening night at the WEAM.  It’s pretty exciting, and I wish I could be there to see it for myself.  I still can’t believe I am a genuine part of making that happen.  The best I can hope for is that he will call me when he gets home, even if it’s late, and tell me all about it.  I lucked out and got to talk with both Lochai and his amazing bride, Janice.  She’s so amazing, I can’t help but adore her every bit as much as I do him.

I spent the majority of my day working on the Week in Kink and The Good Things List.  Both were late, but I noticed that the world did not fall apart.  I’ll take note of that the next time I have terrible anxiety about not getting them done on time.  I openly kissed Graydancer’s ass in The Good Things List, because it was a deal we made on Twitter to get him on board with the bestsexbloggers.com project.  This wasn’t exactly our deal, just that I was willing to kiss his ass to make it happen, and this is the only way I know how from a distance.

I didn’t work all that much this weekend, actually - it was one of the first weekends I truly set out to socialize.  Not all of my plans worked out.  Friday I had a new workout - sprints with abs and triceps.  The Dude has decided that it’s time for me to step it up and … I can’t really disagree.  I’ve been running, but now it’s time for toning.  I came home from an intense workout and managed to go out for wine and sushi with M on Friday night and somehow three glasses of wine fucked me up.  Must have been because I was so tired.  I don’t know.    We normally eat out every Friday night, but he’s training for the NY Marathon and I’m still trying to lose weight, so sushi and liquid calories seemed more appropriate.  He had a bad week and so W baked a cake or him — I know, seems counter intuitive to give a marathon runner in training a cake, but he had to run 14 miles this weekend and the carb/sugar load helped him make it through and it cheered him up, so it served it’s purpose doubly.

Saturday I was all set to go out with The Dude for an evening of inebriation, his not mine.  He flaked out on me.  It worked out in my favor.  I fell asleep at something like 6 pm and didn’t wake up until about 11 pm, when I sat up long enough to say goodnight to Marky and went back to sleep until 9 am today.  Apparently I needed a good night’s sleep.

Now here we are again, the middle of the night - time for me to wrap it up and go to bed.  I’m frustrated as hell because I can’t get images on the static pages on bestsexbloggers.com and it better not be a template issue.  If it is, I’m lucky that JC will come to my rescue and fix it.

No graceful way out of this blog post - I’m just tired and it’s time to end.  Goodnight, people…  Oh and FetLife rocks.  It is 3:46 am.  Buenas noches.

Did You Read Postsecret.com This Week? I did!

I lost count so long ago.  I guess I’m a slut.  Surprise.

This is more a rambling of thoughts than a cohesive blog post.  It’s 6:04 am as I begin this.  Let’s see when I finish.  I haven’t gone to bed yet in an attempt to get ahead.  I have so much to do and not enough time.  I’m looking for a sign that isn’t there.  I’m at a crossroads.  I’m trying to figure out whether or not to go for it or to play it safe.  My instincts tell me to go for it, that I’m on the right path, but my instincts have been wrong at least twice before, as evidenced by my two ex-husbands.

There are exciting things going on.  The Accidental Blowjob just did a site review of Catalina Loves today that was amazing and awesome.  Ellie Lumpesse is not only going to teach me to do podcasts properly, but asked to do an interview, too.  That’s rad.  This comes right after my feature on Radical Vixen’s Sex Worker Solidarity post.  The energy is moving forward.  I feel as though I am on the precipice of something.

I dig talking with JC and his girl.  I absolutely adore, nay I say maybe I love, Thursday and D.  I’m looking forward to some visits from two very sexy women in the near future.  Indeed, life is good - even Mr. F has been texting, trying desperately to connect for one of my top shelf blowjob visits.  If only there were time for it.  He doesn’t understand - I can’t just get up and leave…  I have to get beautiful stunning before I come over.  Still, I owe him one and it’s been way too long!

…I did get to actually talk to Lochai today… as in on the phone, and I did actually talk to a very famous photographer and cinematographer, Bobby Knight also.  I’m getting ready to interview Bobby very soon.  (Note to self, finish those interview questions!)

Today I spent the majority of my day finalizing a press release for Pro Photo Tours.  I wanted it to be 100% absolutely perfect.  It took a little time to get it just right.  I think I got it.  We’ll see.  I think the meat of it posts on Catalina Loves on Wednesday.  See, I know this because I just posted a blog post for every day between now and Saturday on Catalina Loves.  I think that buys me some time to work on other projects I need to be working on.  I also did a week’s worth of posts on The Momme Domme.  There is one that will post this week that is a really hot fantasy that r wrote a while back about Ms. Nikki Nefarious and I teaching him a little lesson.  Fun.  Here’s a secret:  I hate having posts written and not publishing them right away.  It’s the same reason I can’t store Christmas presents in the closet between September and Christmas.  Story of my life, I give it up too easily (ha ha).

Ugh, it’s 6:24.  I’m not in bed yet.  I’m running with The Dude today - a little bit different routine though.  I’m going to do sprints for 15 minutes and then he has a whole other workout, weightlifting, abs routine set up for me.  I asked him to give me a 100% guarantee that I’ll end up with a bod like Demi Moore, and he said he would fully refund my money if unsatisfied.   My goal weight is 120 lbs.  That seems reasonable for a girl who is 5′4″ (and a half!).  I’m getting closer so it’s time to not just do the cardio, but tone things up, too.  I’m kind of excited, and terrified.

It is 6:43.  I just finished adding the tags, checking off the categories, choosing and resizing an image, placing it and linking it, and now I’m going to hit publish and close my eyes for a few hours.  MDS is going to be so mad at me for staying up all night to work again.  One of these days I’m going to take an entire day off.  It’s weird that I’ve worked longer hours and put more effort in since quitting my job teaching, yet I’ve never been happier.

Buy The Coldplay Viva la Vida Album - Coldplay.com

Everything is as it should be, when it should be.  That’s my mantra.  I believe in it, too.  That doesn’t mean that shit just magically happens, it just means sometimes you have to accept the now for what it is.

As I began typing this, I was listening to Coldplay’s new Viva la Vida album, which I’ve yet to review on Catalina Loves or on Coldplay Live Archive! (I love it!) And as I opened up the window to write, Chris Martin says, in my earphones, “It’s such a perfect day,” and really, it has been perfect.  Allow me to share.

I woke up this morning and talked to my favorite photographer in the entire world, Lochai.  Talk about a treat!  I love to hear his voice on the other end.  Then I talk with another world-famous photographer, Roberto DiMarco.  I cannot believe that he agreed to do an interview with me.  With me!  I was flattered he even took my call!  So, I’m working on some good questions for him.

I spent some time talking to The Dude about his date last night.  I could tell that she was Miss Right and not Miss Right Now when he told me that she kissed him in front of her friends.  I told him that he would have to wait until the 3rd date for slutty.  He said, “I knew you women had a secret timeline.” Nice.  He described to me that she was dressed in a little black dress.  “Well then, the little black dress means she was dressed to impress so you know she had on the matching panties and bra underneath.”  Really, what self-respecting woman wouldn’t pay attention to her panties and bra on a first date.  Even if you’re not planning on getting naked, you still put forth the effort, no?  I do just to go to dinner with friends, so I figure she must to go on a date.  So I got the scoop on the date from The Dude and then we talked about going to the driving range to hit some balls.  Just saying it now makes me giggle all over again.  “Let’s hit some balls tomorrow.”   Well, maybe not tomorrow because tomorrow I have to spend some time with M.

I also find it entertaining that apparently The Dude has found the posts about him, since he recognized himself in them and texted me something like, “The Dude, huh?  Ok, I can take that,” at 2:35 am the other morning.

Ok, so the M thing.  Normally we go out to dinner on Friday nights, but this week he thought he would be out of town, so we planned on Thursday night.  I had to cancel on Thursday night, though, and so that has left us with, “Let’s do something this weekend.” So the plan is to get together tomorrow, have some drinks maybe, grab some lunch, do something, and hang out.  That means that hitting (striking? clobbering?) balls with The Dude tomorrow must wait.  But, here’s the thing.  The Dude doesn’t have to work next week, so we can go in the middle of the day, or in the morning before it’s hot.   Besides, The Dude is also my little Catholic naughty texting friend, so he has to go to mass tomorrow.  He can’t be hitting balls on the Lord’s Day.

Friday I spent the afternoon working with Ms. Nikki Nefarious on her blog.  It is coming together nicely, if I do say so myself.  She’s been working hard on it.  She also gave me a whole new wardrobe of clothes that she has shrunk out of that are my perfect size.  w00t!  I needed new clothes, and her wardrobe rivals that of some of the biggest clotheswhores you’ve ever seen.  She is the clotheswhore extraordinaire.  Bitch.  So I took W with me to Nikki’s to hang out.  She’s off school and bored to tears, so she played wii while we worked on blogs.  It was very nice.  I like it, actually, that W grows up in a world where it’s not really that weird to her that Nikki is married to her husband and lives with her submissive, mia, also.  She’s pretty libertarian at 14.  Her attitude is, “Well, it’s not like they’re hurting anybody else - and they have kool-aid and fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with syrup!  They’re nicer than most of my friends’ families.”  It’s true, it’s almost 50’s housewifishly perfect - homemade recipes baking in the kitchen, two cars in the driveway, flowers outside, a pink flamingo in the flowerbeds even!  There is truly no one else like Nikki.

This evening I had an invitation from Mr. F to come over, and really nothing is stopping me except a lot of work to do.  I can’t believe I actually turned down a chance to spend time with Mr. F.  Had to happen.  Here it is 11:28 pm and I am still working.  Yes, this counts as work!  I think he’s excited at the thought of my redheaded friend and I going for a visit, as he texted something along the lines of, “Are you asking me if I’m down for a blow job from two beautiful redheaded women? LOLOLOL” and I texted something back like, “Is that a yes?” and he said, “YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”   I’m pretty sure the anticipation of that is feeding into his need for a perfect Catalina blow job, but … my ego says it’s just because I’m that good!

That seems like a good place to leave off…  (oh, and I had great sex last night!)

Hey, I have mentioned this before, but I want to mention it again.. all of these postcards are from Postsecret.com, which I’ve written about a few times. It is a great site that I think most people probably already know about, but just in case you didn’t now you do. Check it every Sunday. Good Stuff!

Wednesday is almost over. My Mother-In-Law was in town today and we went to lunch with her. That actually worked out okay, because I haven’t seen her since losing 120 lbs., and so I got to hear all about how great I look these days and they bought us lunch :)

OMG Lochai called me today again. Okay, so it wasn’t to tell me to be in Florida this weekend on my knees, but it was still nice. I am working on an interview for Him. Says Lochai, “I love doing interviews.”

Mz. Berlin lost her phone in the ocean. Random, I know. So no wonder she wasn’t answering my calls! Ha ha, at least it’s not because I pissed her off (she is a redhead!)

W is miserable on the West Coast. She already wants to come home. She’s texting me like crazy all day long. I am a textaholic, no doubt. My friends will attest to this, I’m sure, but W can outtext me any day of the week.

My good friend, Nikki, is not feeling well. I hope she feels better tomorrow - I miss seeing her on Gchat.

Mr. F has been out of touch - he’s in the process of moving - I miss him.

FetLife rocks! If you look in my comments, you’ll see that John, (the Dom version of Tom), even left a comment in my little blog. Wow. Catalina, you’re good enough… you’re smart enough… and Gosh Darn it! People Like You! Ha ha! Actually, I seriously considered whether or not I should go on and on about FetLife in my blog because I’m concerned that it will get too big and stop being the nice community that it is. If it turns into Myspace that would be sad!

I’m almost out of my herbal anti-depressant and that is a sad state of affairs.

I think that Thursday’s Child and Narration by D would be a hot couple to play with. I’m really into both of them.

r fucked up seriously today and was punished fairly severely. It was not a physical punishment, but more psychological. You can read about it on today’s Momme Domme. In the end, after discussing the situation with him, what I realize is that r is not necessarily acting out, but was merely improperly trained. I was under the impression that r had trained with Mistress of Sorrows (I don’t know her, personally, nor have we ever spoken). What I have recently decided to be more accurate is that r had roleplaying cybersex with his ex-Mistress and needs to be trained properly. The fact is, in the beginning of our relationship I did not put the effort into training him because I don’t really do the online D/s thing, but as time has passed and our relationship has evolved - my dedication has deepened - and I do think that if he’s to do it, he must do it correctly. So… this means you can follow along on TMD and see what happens. The truth is, it is especially fascinating because r is a fully mature adult male, yet as a result of spina bifida, r is confined to a wheelchair, living at home with his parents, and remains sexually immature. Good stuff!

…time for chilling out with Marky D. Sade… I’m really hoping to reach that place that He can take me. I need it.

PS: I have a girl crush on Kinkerbelle. I want to turn her into My slut, just for a night (or two). I hope she’ll come and play one day.

After reading the Q&A I answered the other day on my blog, another friend of mine sent me a message. He thought the questions were a little mild. So he sent me his own questions.

Catalina’s Erotic 20 Q&A:

• When did you have your first orgasm? Alone, masturbating (in the bathtub under the spout) around 13 years of age.
• Most orgasms in 24 hours? I think something like 12. I honestly lost count.
• Most erotic thing you have ever seen? Marky D. Sade and I on video together.
• Most lovers in a day? 5
• When was your first professional domme experience? I did my first professional scene about 10 years ago.
• Most unusual request during a session? It’s funny that as I think of the answer, things that might seem unusual to others aren’t that unusual to me anymore. I did once have a client that wanted me to use an anoscope on him and pour Listerine into his ass.
• When did you first know you liked to be spanked? With my first Master, who had a maintenance spanking schedule as well as discipline spankings.
• When was your first lesbian experience? I was 17
• Better lovers: women or men? Better element: air or water? Apples and oranges. But in general I think that men are very generous lovers.
• How many corsets do you have? 2 that fit. The rest are now way too big (I need a new collection!)
• Favorite sex toy? Easy. The Hitachi Magic Wand.
• Blow job, hand job or foot job? Blow job
• Sperm: in you or on you? Both
• Spit or swallow? Spit, lick it up, then swallow. :)
• Favorite scent on a man? My pussy.
• Favorite scent on a woman? His cum.
• Most erotic part of a woman? Ass.
• Most erotic part of a man? Tummy.
• Quickest way to get you aroused? Sucking cock.
• What makes a great cock? Ideally it’s big and it’s attached to someone smart.

I love doing interviews with my friends. Apparently, I’m not the only one. A friend of mine sent this to me to answer and I’m posting it here.

• What time did you get up this morning? 8:00am
• Diamonds or Pearls? Neither
• What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Clueless
• What is your favorite TV show? The Simpsons
• What do you usually have for breakfast? Diet Pepsi
• What is your middle name? Graciela
• What food do you dislike? Liver
• What is your least favorite season? Rabbit Season. No, just kidding. it’s Duck Season. No, it’s Fall.
• What kind of car/truck do you drive? A Hyundai Tucson
• What characteristic do you despise in people? Stupidity
• Favorite clothing? A corset, of course
• If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Amsterdam
• Favorite brand of clothing? I like Gap
• Where would you retire to? Costa Rica
• Most memorable birthday? 30th.
• Favorite sport to watch? Gymnastics
• Furthest roadtrip you’ve taken: Eugene, OR to Cleveland, OH - 5 days, 2 adults, 1 child, 5 cats, 1 U-Haul (never again)
• When is your birthday? Christmas
• Are you a morning or a night person? Night
• What is your shoe size? 7
• Pets? 3 cats (Mr. Whiskers, Mr. Peepers, and Nala)
• Exciting news you’d like to share with us? I’m editing and writing the foreward for Melvin Moten, Jr’s new book and also I’m doing PR and Marketing for Mz. Berlin and Satine Phoenix.
• What did you want to be when you were little? A midwife in Ecuador
• What is your favorite candy? I don’t eat candy. At all. Ever. But if I did… I would eat Sweet Tarts.
• What is your favorite flower? Calla Lilies
• What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? June 15th - the first of 30 nights of spankings.
• Right or left handed? Right
• What are you listening to right now? Marky D. Sade
• What was the last thing you ate? Cum
• Do you wish on stars? Yes
• If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Black
• How is the weather right now? Hot and Humid
• Last person you spoke to on the phone? Mz. Berlin
• What is your favorite soft drink? Diet Pepsi
• What is your favorite restaurant? Blue
• Color of your hair? Red
• What was your favorite toy as a child? My Quiz Whiz
• Favorite hobby? Writing
• Hugs or kisses? Hugs
• Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla (heh)
• What is under your bed? Liberator Sex Wedge and a Liberator Sex Ramp
• What did you do last night? Snuggled in bed next to Marky, smoked out, and watched the Simpsons.
• What are you afraid of? Snakes and Pedophiles
• How many keys on your key ring? 5
• How many years at your current job? 1
• Favorite day of the week? Caturday
• How many towns have you lived in? 10
• Do you make friends easily? Not real friends. I meet people easily.