FFF#1 on a Tuesday

Since I missed the first 2 Flash Fiction Fridays, I decided to catch up this week!  So here's #1!  Silly, but just for fun!


HNT was such a bad idea.  Who thought of it?  Why did I post that picture?  Why did he check my blog while we're out of town?  Why did he pack the Loopy Johnny?  Did he plan this?  When will the maids come back to finish making the bed?  Do we have time?  Will someone hear?  Will my short skirt cover up the marks?  What's taking him so long?

Meandering

My thoughts have been meandering and I've decided to gather them together in a post. Lucky you!!

First, you may have noticed that sometimes there are 2 bloggers named PK who comment here. Most of you know PK from New Beginnings, but you may not know PK from Stories from the Well. Lately she's been on a path that led her to grad school in a new part of the country. She's also on the path to a healthier life (aka dieting). Since a lot of us know how important support is when we're dieting, I just wanted to let you know that there's another PK out there who is quietly journeying with us! Hope you'll drop by to give a word of support!

Meandering on! After several days of traveling, allergies, exhaustion, etc., we finally got back to spanking again. How can I miss something that hurts so damn much? I know, it's the reconnection, but we can reconnect in other ways. I guess I really need the reassurance of his masculinity, his strength, his protection. Nothing gets through the b.s. of life like being spanked - hard - with both straps!

We went for a walk today and met up with an 86 year old lady who was walking up and down the unpaved road - and I do mean up and down, we live in the mountains. She had such spirit and strength. She misses her job as a waitress because she loved the people! Very inspiring!!

I didn't get a chance to comment on Bonnie's Brunch question about ritual, but we've added something lately that I like. We always cuddle, then spank, then cuddle. While he spanks, Lash used to hold me down firmly with his left hand on my back, but now he's started holding my left hand, intertwining our fingers. It's very loving and comforting!

Enough meandering for now. Time for lunch!

Yummy cake

Sour Cream Chocolate Cake

with Peanut Butter Frosting

Recipe of the month for Daisy

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 3/4 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Salt
2/3 cup Butter Or Margarine;-Softened
2 cups Dairy Sour Cream
2 large Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 Degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 X 9 X 2-Inch baking pan.

In a large mixer bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt, blending well. Blend in the butter, sour cream, eggs and vanilla. Beat for 3 minutes on medium speed. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a wooden pick, inserted in the center, comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a wire rack.

The frosting is simply butter, confectioners sugar and milk mixed with peanut butter, either creamy or chunky. No particular recipe.

Blogger humor?

Does Blogger have a sense of humor? After trying and trying to post a comment on someone's blog, this word finally came up as a word verification! I retri(ed) 3 times dammit!!

The SBDLJ

Since arriving here (anonymous midwestern city), we've been using the Silent But Deadly Loopy Johnny. Lash has used it two days in a row now and it lives up to it's reputation. We have new upstairs neighbors and we're not sure just how "deaf" they are. (This is a 55+ condo building.) The LJ is so quiet that I can barely hear it. Of course, I need to muffle my mouth in a pillow to keep from having every neighbor on the block call 911! It does sting like crazy, but it hasn't left any long-lasting marks so far.

D#2 is moved into her new apartment. It's dry and has a better view than her old place (trees and houses instead of a carwash). It's a little smaller so she downsized to a new loveseat instead of a hand-me-down sofa and took some stuff to Goodwill. All-in-all it's been a good move for her now that the panic has subsided.

We had a birthday party for my MIL yesterday - her 89th is just after Labor Day weekend. Today I take my mom to church and maybe visit some of my brothers or an elderly aunt. Tomorrow I take her to the doctor and shopping. Lash will be doing the same with his mom with minor variations. 3 more days until we head back home!!

PS: The dreaded outdoor switching didn't take place due to the previously mentioned torrential rains and panicked daughter! Maybe at some later date I'll report on an outdoor experience!!

Travel Woes

As soon as we drove into the good old home state, we were inundated by torrential rains and frantic phone calls from daughter #2. After 5 years in a flood-prone apartment, she was told by the management that she had to be moved out by Sunday - this was on Thursday! They provided an alternate apartment in the next building, but she was naturally stunned to be told move with almost no notice! So after a summer of helping daughter #1 move, moving Lash out of his work condo and helping daughter #1 move more furniture - we have ended up moving daughter #2 to her new apartment these past two days.

I'm too old for this!!

Kids' Recipes

Until I get Mom's cake recipe, I'll share some recipes from kids!

ICE POPS FOR SUMMER

You need:

1 whole can of any kind of drink except beer

11 or 9 sticks, maybe

Regular 'frigerator silver things that turn ice into squares

THAT IS ALL

Shake up the juice for some hours. Be sure to put the sticks in upside down, else you won't have no handles and maybe you could never get the icepops out.

Now it has to freeze good or - Oh Boy - when you open it, it will spill all over and the floor will get all sticky and bad ants come.

Usually it takes 'til lunch time but not always.

SCRAMBLED EGGS

5# of boiled bacon

2# of eggs

3# of ginger ale

1 fat

8 gal. of salt

4# of pepper

1 knife of butter

First you open the eggs with your mittens. Use only the insides. Throw the rest in the sink. Put the eggs in a 10# can and cook the bacon in a plastic pan. Get your pan real hot. If you get your pan hot first, you only have to cook 2 minutes, but if the pan is not hot you have to cook 3 hours.

Eat them in the morning or the afternoon. And you will sure need some orange juice after!

Tawse Report

To all the kind commenters who warned me not to order a tawse - you were absolutely right!!

This is what we have been trying out lately - it's 14 inches long and wider and thicker than our other strap and is slit like a tawse with five fingers.

It is noticeably more thuddy and stingy than the strap, too. I can really tell the difference and I can take far fewer spanks from it before I react.

At first Lash used it at the end of a spanking - after quite a few spanks with the strap, maybe 60-70 or more. It only took a few spanks with the tawse (less than 10) before I wanted to move out of position. Then he tried it at the beginning and I could take more. Today he gave me 10 with his hand (for the first time since surgery - Hooray!), 40 with the tawse and the rest with the strap. It was painful but tolerable.

I'll be so glad when he can use his hand more. We both love hand spankings best of all! It wasn't long ago that 5-10 strokes with the strap after a hand spanking was a pretty strong punishment. Now he can give me over 100 with the strap.

Lash likes to spank me almost daily when we are able and these spankings with both straps have pushed my limits. I want him to push those limits, I've asked him to do it, but damn, it hurts!! It's what I asked for at the beginning, but now it's entirely in Lash's hands. He decides when, what to use and how hard to use it. I haven't really been punished in a long time, but the daily (reminder, maintenance, whatever) spankings are much more severe than punishments used to be.

Be careful what you ask for, little girl........

I'm not complaining - just cogitating about the changes in our DD path since we started in January. I had no idea where we were headed, but I'm very, very satisfied with where we are now! I wanted Lash to be in charge and he certainly is!!

PS: I wrote this a couple of days ago and wanted to add a "Thanks!" to all who sent words of encouragement to Lash after his fall. It's pitiful to see the poor man slowly and painstakingly get into position on the bed, protecting his ribs..... and then whip the hell out of my bottom with both straps!! His right arm doesn't seem to be affected at all! Poor me! (grin)

PPS: Lash thinks that, on our drive to the Midwest, we might look for an outdoor spot for a bare bottom switching. I think the forecast calls for rain, thunderstorms, maybe a typhoon!! Not outdoor spanking weather, for sure!

PPPS: I talked my way out of a punishment this morning. Lash couldn't reach me when I promised to have my cell phone plugged in, so I was going to get several punishment spanks on top of our usual daily spanking. Ouch! Fortunately, the truth worked and I didn't get punished. I really did have the phone plugged in, but we were driving separately and I must have been out of range. Coverage can be spotty in the mountains. I remember having to get the phone out of the car the next morning, so it really was plugged in! Really!!

Real Life! Again??

Updates on our real life:

1. Lash is improving since his second carpal tunnel surgery, but he fell about 10 days ago and injured his entire left side including some ribs. Not fun!!

2. We've moved all Lash's stuff out of his worksite condo, made several trips up the mountain with carloads of boxes, cleaned the condo and turned in the keys. I'll miss our little private get-away place, but that job is over and it's time to move on.

3. Allergy season is upon us, but we're enjoying the cool nights and sunny days!

4. We moved a U-Haul full of furniture to daughter #1 and her hubby's new house. They have empty rooms and we're glad that we don't have to find a place to store all the furniture. PS: All this moving hasn't helped Lash's sore ribs!

5. Daughter #1, who is pregnant, thinks she's feeling the baby move!! She had her ultrasound today, but the Sprout is modest and didn't show if it (?) is a boy or girl. D#1 was very upset, but then she cries over everything now!

6. We're leaving for the Midwest in a couple of days and will see our moms, our sibs, their families and daughter #2. We have some good times with family but get tired of it quickly. I'm so glad we have privacy when we stay at my mom's former condo. Lash told me to bring the strap, the tawse and the loopy johnny! We have new neighbors upstairs, so will have to be careful with the spankings.

7. Tomorrow, I'll report about the new strap (tawse?) we've been using lately.

8. For those who asked for the sour cream chocolate cake recipe, I'll try to get it when we're visiting my mom.

9. Spankedhortic is having trouble getting my blog on his Dashboard list. Anyone else have this problem with my blog or anyone's blog?? Could I have some settings wrong? Or is it some other Blogger thing?

10. With all the packing, moving, falling, allergies, etc., I haven't posted or commented much this month and even though I still read everyone's blogs, I miss the interaction. I hope to make some quiet time each morning at the coffeeshop next week when I'll check email and catch up on blogs - no internet at the condo.

11. That's all for now!!

Spanking Diet Update

So far, August has been frustrating on the diet front!

I've been stalled at the same weight - or thereabouts - for about a month. Finally today, I'm down a little!

I know this is normal, but here's my immediate problem.

Last time I visited family in the Midwest (May), I gained 7#. Since then, I've lost 15# and it's been a struggle lately! Wednesday, we leave for over a week with family and I WILL NOT gain back that weight.

My plan is to tell everyone that we just can't eat out at all - that we have to eat only what we fix ourselves (we'll stay at my mom's former condo with a kitchen). This won't go over well since Lash's family eats out a lot and my mom gets sick of the food at Assisted Living and likes to go out to eat when I'm there. But.... I need to stay on track!! Lash is supportive since he's dieting, too and it will also save a bundle of $$ because we often pay for everyone when we eat out with them.

It will just take a lot of willpower to stick to our plan and resist the pull of family dynamics. Why is this so frakking hard? Partly because: I hate conflict, I hate to disappoint people, I hate to be the one to spoil everyone's fun. Too bad!! I have to look after myself this time and stop people-pleasing. I'm my own biggest saboteur! I know that! I think we'll have to work out rules with spanking consequences for Lash to enforce. Maybe.....

1. No suggesting that we eat out!

2. No giving in to others suggestions.

3. No cafe mochas when we go to the coffee shop to check email.

4. Take the scale and weigh everyday, just like I do at home.

5. Follow all diet rules that I follow at home.

Wish me luck!!