Work has been interesting as of late. My hours keep flipping back and forth from day to overnight and back. This has been draining me to the point where I haven't been sleeping as well when I do get to sleep. Thankfully, I will be full time on overnights soon, with a more stable schedule, which is very good. And once that settles, I will look into benefits and insurance. More money means more chances to serve Lady R, including by being a better steward of the money I earn.
Speaking of, I have been trying to work on the assignments She's given me (including blogging.) It's slow going overall, but it's always on my mind. Between writer's block, illness and exhaustion, I haven't had the spoons for much. Here's to positive things on the horizon!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
More School!
As soon as it was over, it's started again. This time, however, I have 15 weeks to finish the semester instead of 5. And I'm only taking two classes. With that being said, those two classes are Macroeconomics and Literature & Composition. Both of them are online. So far I don't seem to be doing too badly. Remembering that I am serving by doing well only spurs my desire and ambition to do as well as I possibly can. My goal is within sight and reach. One more semester after this and I graduate with my Associates in Accounting!
I have also been working a lot of overtime this week to help out with the overload of work at my day job due to Hurricane Irene. Luckily most of the damage wasn't too severe. And I'm getting paid for the extra hours. I'll be using part of that check to apply for graduation so that I can see exactly what classes I have left. Weeeeeee!
I have also been working a lot of overtime this week to help out with the overload of work at my day job due to Hurricane Irene. Luckily most of the damage wasn't too severe. And I'm getting paid for the extra hours. I'll be using part of that check to apply for graduation so that I can see exactly what classes I have left. Weeeeeee!
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Full House
CopperHeron is in town. This is an unalloyed Good Thing, resulting in much happy friendship and extra hands to maintain the household and a bubbly happy Goddess even by the usual standards of bubbly happy Goddess and much general goodness. The only way it could be happier was if all our other long-distance friends and family could be here too, and if it was permanent. (We are working on the practical teleporter. So far I have worked out how to chop things into little tiny bits, but I'm not so good on the sending them places or the reassembling them. In fact, I actually just bought a Kitchen-Aid blender. It doesn't even have a puree setting.)
It might be a little quiet on the blog for a while. There's times to tell people stories, and times to do things we tell stories about later. :)
It might be a little quiet on the blog for a while. There's times to tell people stories, and times to do things we tell stories about later. :)
Monday, August 22, 2011
When She's Gone
Lady Ru'etha is out of town this week, visiting some of Her other pets, so I'm kind of "on my own". In some ways, this is nothing new for us; for the first eight years or so of our relationship, we were in separate states, and so the long-distance thing is nothing new to either of us. (And I never forget how lucky I am to have Her close to me as much as I do; not everyone is able to see Her in person as much as I do, and I never begrudge them one second of the time She spends traveling to visit them. I only wish there was a way we could get everyone close enough to not feel that ache of knowing the person you love is so far away. But I have not yet won the lottery, and science is still no closer to inventing a practical teleporter, so we're stuck with what we have.)
The practical upshot of it all is that this isn't a "sniffle, I miss my Goddess" post, because I try to keep perspective on that, but it is a post about how things change when She's not here. Naturally, it means that I "batch it" to a certain extent...in general, while I don't go whole hog on that because we do have other people in the house even when She's gone, let's just say that pizza and video games feature a little more than cuddling and foot rubs while She's not here. :) I do make sure that my usual tasks are done, because She assigns things to me that are important and good for me, and Her care for me is here even when She is not.
The "sleeping alone" thing is less of a deal than it was, since She's started working nights and we both wind up in bed by ourselves unless one of us takes a mid-day/midnight nap; but when She's gone, it's a little bit more important to me to play Voice so that I can fall asleep listening to Her speak. Voice has always been a central part of Her relationship with all Her pets, a living and loving reminder of Her presence in our lives, and hearing it always helps me sleep so beautifully. (Ooh, that's a good idea for a "theme week". Everyone talks about Voice and what it means to them!)
She will be back on Thursday, and then it'll be just a couple of days before Copper comes up and spends some welcome time here with us. He's a good friend, and one of the many who are always welcome here.
The practical upshot of it all is that this isn't a "sniffle, I miss my Goddess" post, because I try to keep perspective on that, but it is a post about how things change when She's not here. Naturally, it means that I "batch it" to a certain extent...in general, while I don't go whole hog on that because we do have other people in the house even when She's gone, let's just say that pizza and video games feature a little more than cuddling and foot rubs while She's not here. :) I do make sure that my usual tasks are done, because She assigns things to me that are important and good for me, and Her care for me is here even when She is not.
The "sleeping alone" thing is less of a deal than it was, since She's started working nights and we both wind up in bed by ourselves unless one of us takes a mid-day/midnight nap; but when She's gone, it's a little bit more important to me to play Voice so that I can fall asleep listening to Her speak. Voice has always been a central part of Her relationship with all Her pets, a living and loving reminder of Her presence in our lives, and hearing it always helps me sleep so beautifully. (Ooh, that's a good idea for a "theme week". Everyone talks about Voice and what it means to them!)
She will be back on Thursday, and then it'll be just a couple of days before Copper comes up and spends some welcome time here with us. He's a good friend, and one of the many who are always welcome here.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
School's over!
As you know, I've taken a hiatus over the last however many weeks as I concentrated on school. The term is now over and I know I've made at least 2/3 A's. The final class I'm not sure about because the teacher is being supremely slow in grading my project, so I guess we'll see. What this means is that I should be able to get back on track of posting at least once a week.
Yay!
Yay!
Monday, August 15, 2011
I Had a Birthday
This post is a little late, for those of you who've been keeping track of who posts what when. I actually am posting six days later than I wanted to, which is due to a lot of things ranging from the important to the mundane and from the serious to the oh-look-City-of-Heroes-has-a-Double-XP-Weekend-and-I've-got-a-level-45-tanker! (Who is now a level 50 tanker.) But somewhere in those thirteen days, I had a birthday. I am now thirty-six years old.
And when I first met Lady Ru'etha, I was twenty-five. It was sometime late in 2000 or early in 2001--neither of us can remember exactly which, and Yahoo's inbox unforgivably ate the email I had saved for years--and She sent me fanmail for one of my early stories. (We think it was "Simply Irresistible".) That led to exchanging mail, and that led to chats, and that led to plans to attend a con together before I even realized how deeply in love with Her I was.
I had my twenty-sixth birthday while eagerly anticipating my first face-to-face meeting with Her, the tenth anniversary of which will be in just over two weeks. By then, I already knew I wanted to be Hers, even if I didn't yet understand how deeply that ran and how much of my life I wanted to devote to Her. We have been friends and lovers and owners and owned for ten years, give or take a little bit of Internet time...and my thirty-sixth birthday was as much a celebration of that as it was of my getting another year older (and possibly wiser.) My birthday present was to lie down in Her arms and sleep, and I loved every second of it.
And my other birthday present was Penny Arcade Book Seven. That was pretty good too. :)
And when I first met Lady Ru'etha, I was twenty-five. It was sometime late in 2000 or early in 2001--neither of us can remember exactly which, and Yahoo's inbox unforgivably ate the email I had saved for years--and She sent me fanmail for one of my early stories. (We think it was "Simply Irresistible".) That led to exchanging mail, and that led to chats, and that led to plans to attend a con together before I even realized how deeply in love with Her I was.
I had my twenty-sixth birthday while eagerly anticipating my first face-to-face meeting with Her, the tenth anniversary of which will be in just over two weeks. By then, I already knew I wanted to be Hers, even if I didn't yet understand how deeply that ran and how much of my life I wanted to devote to Her. We have been friends and lovers and owners and owned for ten years, give or take a little bit of Internet time...and my thirty-sixth birthday was as much a celebration of that as it was of my getting another year older (and possibly wiser.) My birthday present was to lie down in Her arms and sleep, and I loved every second of it.
And my other birthday present was Penny Arcade Book Seven. That was pretty good too. :)
Saturday, August 13, 2011
A Job!
Starting Monday, i will finally have a job again for the first time in about ten months.
i will be able to do things that i haven't been able to do on unemployment, like being able to afford eating healthy food, getting massages when my muscles are sore, and actually being able to afford medicine and doctor's visits.
i'm going to actually be able to afford to do things for #dailyselfcare, and this is a great thing.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Self Care improvement
I haven't had any real insurance since I turned 18. None of the jobs I've had have offered packages that were worth it or affordable, if they offered them at all. So, since 1999, I haven't been to the doctor or a hospital for anything other than emergency care. That's about to change.
Starting tomorrow, I've got 2 insurance packages to compare and think about. One through my employer, and the other through the state. So I may actually be going to the doctor, the dentist, a chiropractor, etc.. pretty soon.
I have a feeling my Lady is pleased at this idea. =^_^=
More as I look and plan things.
sleepykitten
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Still Here
Again, sorry for being incognito. When you take things one day at a time, as I may have mentioned I do, you run the risk of losing yourself in the day, and things slip away. However, Lady Ru'etha has pointed out to me that this is something that I've let slip, and so I return.
Merriam-Webster defines "majordomo" as the chief steward of a large house, or a person who speaks, makes arrangements or takes charge for another. In our family, Jukebox is Lady Ru'etha's majordomo. He helps make sure things run relatively smoothly. Since I formally joined the family at the collaring ceremony in May, I've begun helping out with that, being his backup, if you will. I've helped keep time for appointments and run interference when things get hairy. As I've settled into this some, the idea came to me to call my role "minordomo." When I brought this up with my Lady, She liked the idea then mentioned I should blog about it, so here you go! =^_^=
Merriam-Webster defines "majordomo" as the chief steward of a large house, or a person who speaks, makes arrangements or takes charge for another. In our family, Jukebox is Lady Ru'etha's majordomo. He helps make sure things run relatively smoothly. Since I formally joined the family at the collaring ceremony in May, I've begun helping out with that, being his backup, if you will. I've helped keep time for appointments and run interference when things get hairy. As I've settled into this some, the idea came to me to call my role "minordomo." When I brought this up with my Lady, She liked the idea then mentioned I should blog about it, so here you go! =^_^=
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Care of a Domme
Lady Ru'etha has been mildly ill the last few days--not anything that actually required a hospital stay, thank goodness, but She was flat on her back for a couple of days and needed care. This, too, is part of my service to Her; I had to balance it with my job, of course, because they don't really approve of giving you sick time because your sweetie is ill, but it was deeply important to me to help any way I could as part of my devotion to Her.
Honestly, ministering to Lady Ru'etha when She's ill is a lot like pampering Her when She's well, only to a greater degree and with even more tenderness. She needed food that wouldn't make Her stomach upset, so I made special trips to the grocery store for chicken noodle soup (and later on, when She felt a little better, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I did say it was a lot like pampering Her when She was well, didn't I?)
When She was lying in bed, I read to Her the same way I did when She was well, only this time for therapeutic purposes. I scritched Her back because the endorphins helped with the nausea and cramps; when She slept, I curled up with Her because I'm a natural bed-warmer and She was having chills. These are all things I do for Her when She's healthy, but they feel slightly different doing them for Her when She's sick.
She didn't respond the same way She does when She's healthy, of course. She was deeply grateful, but She wasn't able to muster up the energy to express it in a "Domme-y" sort of way. But you know what? That's kind of a wonderful part of having a D/s lifestyle instead of a D/s play relationship. You find that your respect and devotion to your top isn't reliant on what She can give you in return; it's a part of the love you share, and it's there always. It's special, and it's worth experiencing.
Even so, I'm glad She's feeling better. :)
Honestly, ministering to Lady Ru'etha when She's ill is a lot like pampering Her when She's well, only to a greater degree and with even more tenderness. She needed food that wouldn't make Her stomach upset, so I made special trips to the grocery store for chicken noodle soup (and later on, when She felt a little better, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I did say it was a lot like pampering Her when She was well, didn't I?)
When She was lying in bed, I read to Her the same way I did when She was well, only this time for therapeutic purposes. I scritched Her back because the endorphins helped with the nausea and cramps; when She slept, I curled up with Her because I'm a natural bed-warmer and She was having chills. These are all things I do for Her when She's healthy, but they feel slightly different doing them for Her when She's sick.
She didn't respond the same way She does when She's healthy, of course. She was deeply grateful, but She wasn't able to muster up the energy to express it in a "Domme-y" sort of way. But you know what? That's kind of a wonderful part of having a D/s lifestyle instead of a D/s play relationship. You find that your respect and devotion to your top isn't reliant on what She can give you in return; it's a part of the love you share, and it's there always. It's special, and it's worth experiencing.
Even so, I'm glad She's feeling better. :)
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