Adventures in Emmieland

It's been quite the week, Found out my grandmother died on my mom's bday and then a few days later the family arranged a plane ticket for me to fly back to the states to attend her funeral. So I just arrived late last night, the funeral is tomorrow morning and I go back on Sunday. The plane trip was eventful to say the least. First I went to the wrong airport. I flew out of this tiny executive airport on an island off downtown instead of the main huge airport. Then the second plane was crazy late so I missed the third connecting flight which worked out because when they did get me on a flight they put me on first class. I finally made it in around 11:30 when I had been scheduled to arrive about 5pm. Oh and did i mention I was sick as a dog yesterday and in a great deal of kidney pain. Yea it wasn't my day, lol.

Apperently the club isn't just an American thing.  I was just sitting chatting and minding my business when a flow of older black women walked by all saying hello and good to see you and see you later. The person I was speaking to asked me when I had met them and I laughed and told her that I had never seen any of them before. Das explained to her that this is a pretty common occurrence for me. He gets tickled whenever he witnesses it.  I guess some things aren't country specific.

It is funny how many people talk about how humid Austin is as I always found it rather dry. My skin and hair were dryer than they'd ever been while living there too. Since we've moved I'm not so dry. My lips aren't chapped constantly and yesterday I noticed my hair was soft and even oily at the root which is highly unusual. The downside is my face has been breaking out more but I suppose it will take a while for the oil production to level off with the new environment.  I'm wondering how this is going to affect my hair growth. I think it grew slower while living in TX than in NC or CA and I've never been sure if it was age or the lack of moisture or perhaps a combination. I guess we'll see over the next year. 

We played an interesting French board game with some friends of Das on Sunday. The objective is to get 30 points and to get points you have to convince people to vote for your story. All players start off with 6 cards, on each card is a drawing. The person who has a turn has to come up with a short story or phrase that describes the drawing somehow. After they do everyone picks a drawing from their hand that matches the description. Everyone but the player whose turn it was votes by number on which was the original drawing. The catch is if everyone pics the right drawing the player who had that turn gets no points but everyone else does. If no one picks that drawing same thing. You only get a points on your turn if at least one person picks your drawing and at least one person picks someone else's. So the objective is to be creative in your description not to vague but not too literal.  It gets pretty funny to see how people come up with their phrases for certain pictures especiall...

I just read an article about the effects of public shaming via twitter which I found interesting. I don't use twitter much and I when I am on it I seem to be out of the loop on the big hashtag events only hearing about them after the fact through other means so I've never personally participated in any of the campaigns. These day on social media the same is happening with people revealing the offending parties personal information, sending threats of harm, and calling for them to be fired. From the article I gather that these twitter waged wars have had real life lingering effects of lost jobs and continued unemployment, personal safety concerns, depression and family upheaval that continue well after the public has forgotten the names of those they vilified. Whether or not these things are on par with the crime has to be taken on a case by case basis. One of the things that was brought up was the idea that going back to when stocks and public whipping were standard punishm...

I found a picture of me that I know is from 2005 and I took a couple pictures today. I was rather surprised that I both do and don't look much different. Ten years is a good stretch of time and a lot has happened over it. Funnily enough with my weight ups and downs I'm at pretty close to the same weight now that I was in the first picture, probably a few pounds lighter but I'm not positive since I haven't been on a scale since we left TX. I know before we left I was lighter but it's been nearly a month and my weight does it's own thing. I look different but I'm not sure I look older per say, maybe wiser? Ten years ago I embarked on an adventure in a new state, I'd moved to TX and we'd decided to officially join the ranks of swingers and see if we'd like it. Now here I am ten years later embarking on a new adventure in a new country. Swinging was not for me I discovered but it did pave the way for me to meet Das which turned me life upside d...

I told Das today that I was going to hoard all the chocolate chip cookies. That lasted for all of a minute or less before he gave me "the look" and I handed over one of the cherished sugar laden disks of chocolatey goodness.  Nothing special in our interaction just us being our usual silly selves. What I find noteworthy is that even within our silliness we don't lose our places and yet it's not something either of us make an effort to maintain, it simply is. I wonder off and on about what people really mean when they talk about incorporating M/s into their real lives, how do you incorporate life into life? Do they have not real lives? I assume they mean public vs private lives but I'm not always sure that's it either. Something that recently kicked off a bunch of half formed incoherent thoughts was a thread on fet in one of my favorite groups. the thread had to do with self reflection and possible mid life crisis. I was actually surprised by how many peopl...

Planning is one of those things that keeps me sane. I've had to learn how to temper it however since Das is not a planner at all. He's a by the seat of his pants type so my tweaked version of being a planner is to have a plan but to not become overly attached to it. That however is easier said than done. Most of the time it actually goes rather well but sometimes I flounder when the plan I thought we had seems to be completely different from what is actually happening, although it's much worse when there seems to be no plan at all. Floundering is not pleasant and I dislike the feeling of walking around clueless. Thinking about it it is a rather funny trait in a slave especially a slave to someone like Das.  Flexibility is the watchword of the day when dealing with him and rigidity will only get me lots of headaches. Balancing my need for a semblance of structure and his need to be unfettered is a delicate thing but doable. While I think I make more concessions by no means...

Today's adventure included walking through the park while it was covered by over a foot of snow. My ass and legs are crying, there are muscles being used that I thought were a myth. I console myself with the knowledge that already in the time we've been here my butt has gotten perkier and by spring I'm going to be so booty short ready, lol.  The cool thing is that it actually wasn't as cold today as it has been so I had a better time. After getting the pups settled back in the room we went and got Das a work coat, next week we'll get me one too since they are crazy warm. Then we stopped for lunch at a Jamaican place. i had saltfish and ackee on a bed of veggies with sweet dumplings on the side. So yummy, the food here is beyond good. It was occurring to me today amidst all this yumminess that I've been embraced with massive enthusiasm by so many people. I purchased a phone yesterday and the salesman was an absolute darling. Today the lady making the food was...

We had a snowstorm that started last night and didn't end until about noon today. I must say it was rather beautiful even when we were waiting for the roads to the park to be cleared as they aren't all that high priority. The quickness that it happened amazed me, we were on the road by 10am and in driving around the city a lot of streets look nearly completely clear by 1pm and it hasn't gotten above 14F today so it's not like anything is melting.