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December 22nd, 2008 — D, EmJ, Email, FetLife, La Profesora, M, NYC, Stuff and Things, The Dude
Image from Postsecret.com
I’m wrapping things up to leave for Alabama. It was a great week here. A very nice package from a friend in NYC showed up unexpectedly with a bottle of Chartreuse and little finger puppets for the baby. It was very sweet and we are very grateful. Thank you, D!
Another package that I am expecting from NYC did not make it here yet, which is kind of a bummer. I sent money to a friend to have something sent special for Marky and it hasn’t arrived. I’m hoping it gets here before we leave for the Holiday.
My friend, EmJ, has a birthday while I’m away on vacation and I sent her a birthday package that she did actually receive on time. This shocks me, since she didn’t get my Christmas card! I am truly baffled by the USPS lately. Happy Birthday, EmJ! I hope that the 364 days between this birthday and the next are full of love, joy, and peace!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to La Profesora! Your card won’t make it to you on time, but it’s worth it, because I included a couple of pictures for you. I love you! I am so proud of all you have done in the year since your last birthday. You are truly inspirational.
I went out to dinner with M on Friday and was called home in the middle of dinner - the poor baby was very ill and nothing but Mommy will do in those times. M was very understanding and we wrapped up food and I left very quickly. It was disappointing to not spend much time together before leaving on vacation, but he will still be here when I get back.
The Dude had sex last week and refuses to give me details until I can honestly say that I did my ab workout, but since I can’t and he knows when I’m lying to him, I’ve heard no details about his sex. By the time I get back from vacation, he will have forgotten and the story won’t be as juicy - what’s the point now?! ;-)
I am really, really behind on writing and email. I’m hoping to catch up while I’m on vacation. I owe email to friends that wrote me like a month ago! My content list for Catalina Loves is up to something like 30 posts. That’s on my list of things to do not even my fantasies and experiences and adventures, and need I remind you I still have hardly written about my adventures in NYC! Yes, I’m hoping that this vacation I manage to get some work done. It sounds silly, but I have to go on vacation to work.
I worked on a very secret elf project this week and it was a lot of fun. I wish I had another month to work on it, but time passes whether or not we like it. I had a huge battle with a large pharmacy, who I won’t even name here because it will only give them a Google hit, who fucked up prints of our family photo that was done as a gift for my in-laws. They look like they were done on a color copier, and poorly, in 1986.
And that’s about my week in summary. I’m behind, I’m out of touch, and I have no social life to speak of. Work is really cramping my style! I have the best job in the world, actually, and the fact of the matter is that work is very much my social life.
December 18th, 2008 — Altered Aperture, BestSexBloggers.com, Blogs, Books, FetLife, Lochai, M, Madison Young, Movies, Mz. Berlin, NYC, Photos, Shopping, Stuff and Things, Toys, Updates
Photography by AlteredAperture.com
I’m a very lucky girl. I wake up to my husband, who has already gotten up before the alarm goes off and gotten the kids off to school and daycare without me even knowing it. No, it’s not my birthday (yet). It gets better. I don’t drink coffee first thing in the morning - the idea of drinking something hot when I wake up makes me gag, so he brings me a cold Diet Pepsi instead. I get snuggled awake and gently introduced to a new day. It’s just one of the nice things that Marky does every day for me. Funny that a sadist can be so sweet. I think it’s the combination that makes him so perfect, actually.
One week exactly until my birthday. I will be spending it in Alabama with Mark’s dad, stepmom, and something like 9 other people that I don’t know. This is the sucky part of having a Christmas birthday. No matter what, it’s still Christmas and my birthday is an afterthought. Imagine celebrating your 21st birthday with your grandparents and cousins at the kids table. Good times.
Let’s see, it’s getting late so the week’s synopsis:
- I’m in love with my new lipstick, recommended by Mz Berlin, who swore up and down repeatedly that I must own Black Honey lipstick from Clinique. She was right. It is the perfect lipstick. Mz Berlin rocks for beauty advice.
- I did a shoot with Altered Aperture on Monday, some of the images have been posted on Facebook, some on FetLife, some on my blog, and some on BestSexBloggers.
- I sent out tons of holiday cards.
- I got to talk to Lochai a couple of times.
- I spent a night away from the kids with Marky, a gift from a very dear friend of mine. We went to a nice hotel, had a private jacuzzi room, ate at Copper, and spend the entire night doing nothing (and then having great sex at like 5 am and sleeping in the next morning!) It was our first night away in 5 years. It was great. I want to write about it separately so that’s all I’ll say for now.
- I arranged for a very special Christmas surprise for Marky with a secret Santa cohort in New York City. He has no idea what it is, and will be very surprised to see it.
- I received a very nice book in the mail from a good friend who knew it was just what I needed!
- I started running again. I ran 2.25 miles, so I’ve lost some endurance and speed, but I will get it back.
- I worked on a secret Elf project that I can’t even hint about yet.
- I ate the best sushi with M on Friday night and hung out with him for the first time since I went to New York. It was great to hang out. He gave me a very nice bottle of Rioja that I’m taking to Alabama for my night away from the kids in the cabin. Anyway, I will really miss M if I don’t see him this weekend, so I’m hoping to have a chance to see him again this weekend before leaving for Alabama.
- I found out that a friend of mine is pregnant (this is good news for her!)
- I went out for French Toast with The Dude and then borrowed his vacuum cleaner and vacuumed my entire house. The Dude rocks, I’m telling you. Seriously. I think he has a girl at his place tonight. I texted him to ask if he had gotten laid. The fact that I got no response is a good sign.
- Izzabelle tells me that she’s coming to visit this weekend, I can’t wait to hang out with her!
- A former student of mine, who is just as adorable as can be, called and is going to be nearby to visit family and is coming to visit while he’s here. I taught him several years ago when I worked in the boarding school in Ohio. He was one of “our kids”. We love him like the teenage son we never had. Now he’s grown up and in college. How bizarre!
- I got a new movie from Madison Young to review, a Lelo Mia from VibeReview.com, and an entire shipment from SexToy.com of goodies to investigate and report on. I’ll write a separate post about it on Catalina Loves.
and now… I have to watch tonight’s Top Chef and go to sleep to get up and do it all again tomorrow. It’s late, or early, depending on how you see it. For me it’s late. Goodnight :)
November 21st, 2008 — NYC, Photos, Spanking, Stuff and Things
Click Tess' Bruised Ass To Read More From Natt's POV
Starting now! I have exactly 10 minutes before I have to pick up W from her school dance, so I am going to get as much in as I can in 10 minutes. Here we go.
NYC Story #1: I watched as he grabbed her by the hair and pulled her arm behind her back so that she couldn’t move. He’s her Dom. They have been together a while and they know each other well. She loves it when he grabs her hair and pulls her across the floor and beats her with his belt. We get to witness such an event. Another friend pulls down her panties and we start to spank her, and then paddle her, and then off comes his belt and whap! A fellow perv watches with me with the paddle in hand. She yells, “No.” No is not her safeword. He nods to my pervy friend and I. I hold her down and he paddles her ass until her Dom looks at him and he knows to stop. Out comes the belt again. Bruises, there will be beautiful bruises. “Asshole,” she hisses at him. He grabs her hair and hits her again with his belt…
That’s what you get in 10 minutes people. Imagine the rest. I’ll write as I have time! Off to get W and then to M’s!
November 18th, 2008 — Audacia Ray, NYC, Stuff and Things, Weight Loss
I love you, Marky! (Image from PostSecret.com)
I won’t be writing much yet. I’m still trying to catch up from being in NYC for the weekend and I haven’t really stopped all day. I need to go for a walk but it’s so fucking cold outside. What the hell? Tomorrow I have to go to the gym and go running, as in I will make time for it and do it. I gained 5 lbs. in NY, and I don’t regret a single calorie of it, but I have to lose it and then some! I ate like a pig - NYC Pizza at 3:00 am with the owners of Njoy, a hotdog wrapped in bacon and deep fried with avocado and sour cream and drinks in a secret bar with the owner of VibeReview.com, and lots and lots of brie with Tess. Jamye was ridiculously nice and let me stay at her place which was just off the train and made it easy to hop, skip, and jump into Manhattan to meet up with Natt Nightly for brunch and shopping. I ate chicken apple sausage, eggs, potatoes, a biscuit with butter, and a corndog and pink lemonade! In retrospect, I should be grateful that I only gained 5 lbs. Man!
I really regret not having enough time to even meet up with Dacia for drinks - by the time it could have happened I had just returned from the city and was freezing and exhausted and just couldn’t go back across to Manhattan. I know, when last you heard I was going to be staying with her - but then I found out she had a roommate moving in and I didn’t want to add to her chaos and so I stayed with Jamye. I am sad that we didn’t get to hang out on her couch and talk for hours — on my next visit! I’m definitely returning. I feel as though I’ve made lifelong friends and just begun to get to know others. There is so much to do now.
I met so many amazing people. I could just list them off, but I think I’ll savor each story for a different post. I’d like to keep the feeling I had in NYC alive as long as possible.
Thank you, you know who you are, for making this the best trip ever!
November 12th, 2008 — Ms Nikki Nefarious, NYC, Stuff and Things, Weight Loss
Image from PostSecret.com
So I’ve decided what to wear to the party, thanks to Nikki and her fantastic selection of kinky clothes! I get to wear my favorite dress and corset — now to beg, borrow, or steal some hot shoes to go with it! I already raided W’s closet and snagged all her clothes that I like. It still shocks and amazes me when I wear her little clothes — one pair of jeans is a size 1 and the rest are size 2. My original goal was to be a size 6, so I think I’ve exceeded my own expectations. Yet, as far as my actual weight goal I have lost 140 lbs., I have 20 more lbs. to lose. Maybe I’ll end up a size 0.
Today is all about wrapping up loose ends and packing. I have to get a manicure today, can’t exactly go to NYC without that! I’m a little nervous about the whole trip, mostly just because these are women I’ve admired since the very first words I wrote on my blog! I think it will be a blast.
I really like traveling. I’m one of those people who actually arrives at the airport two hours early so I can sit and observe people, work on my laptop, read a book, listen to my iPod… it’s an oddly soothing place to me. I have always enjoyed airports for some reason, I love to go in the stupid little stores and look at all the ridiculous crap they try to sell. As the survivor of a fatal helicopter crash, I figure my odds of crashing twice in my lifetime are pretty fucking low. I feel like the lucky charm on the airplane. :-)
So back to packing. Where is that strap on?
November 7th, 2008 — M, NYC, Shopping, Stuff and Things, The Dude, Weight Loss
Another Great Postcard From PostSecret.com
My life is weird. I’ll admit that. I spend my days talking to latex retailers, adult baby diaper manufacturers, crossdresser clothing designers, fetish models, and sex writers. That’s not normal. It is fun, though!
I am so looking forward to tonight. I’m meeting M for dinner and drinks. Aside from that, there is some secret package there that I haven’t been able to guess all week - what comes in 4 boxes with a sum total of 70 lbs. that M would have ordered?? I hate suspense! It will be great to get away for a few hours. Next weekend I will be in NYC! That’s almost impossible to believe!!
Saturday I think I’m not doing anything, but Sunday I’m going for my weekly French toast with The Dude and then a very special evening with Mr. Johnson. He also has something up his sleeve, and I’m curious what he’s up to!
Countdown to NYC: 6 days! I leave on Thursday, the party is Friday, and then I’ll spend the rest of the weekend hanging out with my favorite New Yorkers. Mostly I’m stressed because I don’t know what to wear! What a dilemma. I know this complaint may make some of you throw tomatoes at the screen, but all of my clothes are too big for me - I am wearing W’s size 1 jeans. Marky says I have to stop losing weight, but I have 20 lbs. to go still! I’ve lost an entire person - 140 lbs. None of my corsets fit anymore, and I need to get a coat. I hear that there are places where it’s cold in November. Here in Charlotte it’s still in the 70’s most days, and I’m cold!
Have you bought your calendar yet? If not, get on it! If you ask me nice, I’ll arrange to get it signed by all 12 ladies for you ;-) And now I’m off for a nice 3 mile run.
November 3rd, 2008 — FetLife, NYC, Politics, Stuff and Things
Image from PostSecret.com
I don’t think voter fraud is the way to go - it would be better if people turned out en masse to reject proposition 8 in California. And for the love of all things American, vote for Obama. John McCain is a war hero, no doubt, but he has one of the most anti-feminist voting records and then runs with Caribou Barbie to try to win over women. I think he underestimates the intellect of women. I hope I’m right!
If you’ve noticed that I have been writing less and less, that is because I am working more and more! John is working full-time on FetLife and he and I push each other more and more. It’s good for me. I learn more in a day from John than you can imagine and for someone like me, learning is such a rush that I have to have more!
I’m really looking forward to a weekend away in NYC. In case you somehow missed this, and I mean you would have to have just found my blog today to have missed this, I’m going to NYC Nov 13th to 17th for the 2009 NYC Sex Blogger Calendar release party on Nov 14th. Why am I going? No, I don’t live in NYC and I’m not in the calendar, yet somehow I became ridiculously involved in the project and so I’m now going to celebrate the end result of a lot of hard work!! I’m really looking forward to meeting everybody in person and getting to know some people a lot better. See, the after party has an after party - as a few of us ladies have arranged to stay in a very nice suite together. Oh, with any luck at all there will be much to write about and much to keep to ourselves!
V O T E!
October 31st, 2008 — Audacia Ray, BestSexBloggers.com, Blogs, Bondage, Fetish, Lochai, Madison Young, Mz. Berlin, NYC, Photos, Politics, Recommendations, The Week In Kink
Photos of Rachel Kramer Bussel by HilaryMcHonePhotography.com
Catalina’s Favorite Sex Blog Posts Of The Week! Vote on Tuesday for Obama!!
::psst… for more hot sex blog links go to Sugasm.com::
October 24th, 2008 — Blogs, Email, M, NYC, Stuff and Things
Who will be the lucky one? So Tess, Diva, and I (yes, mostly Tess) cooked up this plan to find ourselves some nice, submissive, servant, arm candy for the launch party - someone to get our drinks and help us in general. I posted about it on CatalinaLoves.com. The first response I got was Hilarious. You must read it. Also, I didn’t post it but some guy sent a picture of his freakishly huge cock (note: the ad specifically says no cock shots).
Aside from that, nothing weird really happened — run of the mill day minus dinner out with M. I think I may actually take some time off and try to enjoy an evening at home. I know, right?! Weird.
October 24th, 2008 — BestSexBloggers.com, Blogs, M, NYC, Quid Pro Quo, Stuff and Things, Updates
Hooray for Supergirl and Postsecret!
I was amazingly productive today. I contacted several people about joining BestSexBloggers.com. One blogger, Mollena, has already gotten all set up! You’ll like what she has to say. It’s worth noting that four people recommeded her blog in one week. I’m waiting to hear back from the others, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
I sent out the official NYC Sex Bloggers Calendar Launch Party Press Release. Whew, huge task completed. Worth it though. We are already having a good response on the RSVP list on Facebook. Oh and get this - Tess, Diva, Rebecca and I are staying the night together. You can read about it on Tess’ blog. Yum Yum. Can I add that I am lucky to be Catalina? Meet me at the party :) It will be fun.
No dinner/drinks with M tomorrow night. Sad, but he is working on a deal this weekend and that’s just how it goes sometimes. Next week we won’t get together either because he’ll be in NYC for the marathon. I’ll be watching on tv - maybe I’ll catch a glimpse of him - hopefully not on a stretcher ;-)
I also heard from Cindy’s aunt who is trying to work on family genealogy and scan anything I have, newspaper clippings and such, from the crash. I’m going to dig that stuff out tomorrow and see what gaps I can fill in for them. They were really nice. I still haven’t heard from her son, but I’m holding out hope that his Dad gave him my message and that he gets in touch.
And so that’s about it. Anyone interested in being a volunteer minion for some little tasks?
::yawn:: it’s 1:17 and I have to get some sleep.
