Still alive!

Hello, my loves. Just this afternoon I was thinking about how I should let everyone know I am, in fact, still breathing and then I got an email from my lovely friend over at BiandBiLikesSciFi checking in with me. So it's really time for a long overdue update. Unfortunately, there's not much sexiness in it.

It was a little dim for me for a while, maybe even dark in bits, but life has actually been pretty good lately. The short and sweet version of events is that I quit my soul-sucking job in January, spent two months unemployed, and have been working an easy call center temp job since the last week of March. The pay is decent and it's pretty a stress-free cake job, but I work 11:30a to 8p with a 30-45 minute commute each way, which doesn't leave much time for much on the weekdays. And the weekends are usually pretty busy.

During the period where I had all the time in the world to blog and tweet, I just didn't feel like it. Now that I don't I have the time, I still don't really feel like it. The biggest thing is that I have really done a great job of just stepping the fuck away from my computer. I realized that I truthfully have a serious problem with being addicted to the internet. Unhealthily and unproductively so. I would sit for hours and hours just surfing and link-hopping. Not even playing mindless games or anything. And definitely not writing. So I just made myself take a break.

In the meantime I've taken up painting. :) I don't know if you saw the couple of paintings I'd posted on Twitter forever ago after going to a group painting class, but it made me see that I could just do it myself. So I bought some canvases and paints and brushes. I'm still not great, nothing close to an artist, but I can do decent copies of simple paintings and have done a couple of *very* simple originals.

[Ugh, I tried to upload some examples, but Blogger is being a cooze! Instead, here's Dropbox link for those that are interested!]

I still have sexy times, and I even have a girlfriend now, but just haven't felt the drive to put it all out there and share it with the world like I did for a while. I'm sure it will come back, but I don't know when.

The sad thing is that I really truly miss all of my friends on the blogosphere and Twitter. But checking in and spending time with you all means sitting in front of the computer and that's just dangerous territory for me for right now. Hopefully one day I'll be able to be disciplined enough to structure and budget my time online to make wise use of it, but I'm definitely not there yet.

I hope all is well with my loves out there all over the world. Don't worry, this isn't goodbye. I will be back! Stay tuned!

Sinful Sunday - Stretching out

I finally got my prizes yesterday and intended to make a special post today showing them off, but forces conspired against me. Instead I must leave you with this shot of me spending some quality time on the couch with The Doctor. See you next week.  :-)

Sinful Sunday - Hand and foot

Last night was an international Hitchin' Bitches meeting. We linked up via webcam through Google Hangout with a couple of other chapters from around the globe. I'm not sure exactly which chapters we linked up with, but I know the Sydney group was represented. I think we may have been too distracted with our group to really watch a lot of what was going on with everyone else, but it was a cool and fun experience that I'm sure we'll repeat. And I got to learn a new tie for my foot! :)

Sinful Sunday - Hotel Spread

Once again Roland and I visited The Woodshed. We had to wait until we got to the hotel to finish our scene properly.

Sinful Sunday - Bodies and Words

I had lots of different ideas for Molly's Valentine's Day competition today. Unfortunately, many of them were overly ambitious at this time. So I thought a simple image would work best.

Sinful Sunday - On the couch

Last night, Roland and I ordered some pizza and wing, then spent a relaxing evening on the couch watching TNG starting with the first episode on Netflix. (That's Star Trek: The Next Generation for those of you less geekily-inclined, which I know isn't very many of you.) He and I haven't been able to spend very much time together lately for various reasons, so it was good to just be in each other's company. After we watched a few episodes, we got the chance to really connect with each other again.

Sinful Sunday - Bound

Ahhh, my fellow bloggers, I am finally coming out of the dark. I've done naught but post Sinful Sunday pics these past few weeks. I haven't even been looking and commenting. My humblest apologies for that. I'll be back to rights again very soon. In the meantime, as I get myself unwound emotionally and mentally, let me show you myself wound up physically.

Sinful Sunday - Stripes

I almost missed this week. Almost didn't have anything to post. Then remembered last weekend's play party, before the sickness of the past week really set in, I had my first experience with a single tail.

Sinful Sunday - Learning to tie

Last Friday night, I attended the first meeting of our local Hitchin' Bitches group. It's a group for girls to get together to practice tying and being tied. Rope is a new interest for me. I have almost no experience, but I am really ready to learn. This is my first ever rope work by me!

Guest post - Does it hurt?

This is not a guest post, per se, but I have the honor and privilege of having a special treat to share with you today. The words are mine, explicit details of what Roland and I did last night. The delicious voice, however, belongs to Plumptious Pea. I have followed her on Twitter since shortly after she joined us. If you want to hear more (and I know you will!) she shares her sweet, sexy voice with us on SoundCloud and Audioboo, and she also blogs on Tumblr and WordPress.

This is is so much sexier than I ever could have hoped for. Thank you so very much, Pea. I look forward to future collaborations with you, my love!

Does it hurt?