Meme from Eva

Yay! All my Photobucket pictures came back! And in celebration (okay, just because it looked fun), I'm going to do this meme I got from Eva.

1. What is your occupation? Mom, wife, and company bitch apparently.

2. What color are your socks right now? Invisible since I'm not wearing any.

3. What are you listening to right now? Morgan trying to decide what earrings she wants to wear.



4. Last thing you ate? chocolate pudding


5. Can you drive a stick shift? Yup


6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Why,
of course!

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My friend L

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Definitely!

9. How old are you? 30

10. Favorite drink? Sweet tea

11. What is your favorite sport to watch? I'm not much of a sports fan.

12. Have you ever dyed your hair? Yes

13. Pets?
One very cute puppy

14. Favorite food?
Prime rib sandwich

15. What was the last movie you watched? Knocked Up

16. What was the last book you read? Romeo, a book I read about 10 years ago and I'm rereading now.

17. What happened to 17?

18. What was your favorite toy as a child? My army of dolls

19. What is your favorite season? Fall

20. Hugs or kisses?
Both!

21. Cherries, Blueberries or Strawberries? Strawberries and blueberries.

Okay, seriously...

Now I have...strep throat. Ugh! Okay, so this has been a bad month for me. And even better than the strep, guess what happened this morning. I went in to work because I missed Thursday and Friday and am out of sick time. Well, technically I have like 4 more days of paid sick time this year, but not with my department. See the way my company works, all your sick time for the year resets on your hire anniversary date, which for me was in December. But in my department, you don't get your time back until one year after you use it. In other words, if you miss 5 days with the flu in November 2007, you don't have permission to use the 5 days again until November 2008, despite the fact that everything resets with the company in December 2007.

So anyway, I don't have another sick day free up until next month, according to the department guidelines, so I went on and went in today, doctor's note in hand. And they sent me home, kindly informing that they'll be writing me up for missing today. Arrrggghhh! I mean seriously, I don't want to be there infecting everyone, but if they say I can't miss without getting written up, what can I do? So I figured that at least if I went in and they made the decision to send me home, then they couldn't write me up for it. Ha! Sometimes my job drives me insane. It's a good company, with good benefits, and I don't want to go somewhere else, but I would loooove to change departments!

Anyhoo, that's what's been happening in my life since I last posted. Anything else? Hmmm...Morgan got to go skating for the first time Sunday afternoon. Her best friend's parents took her (and her best friend of course), and she had a blast, which made me happy, but kind of sad too that I didn't get to be there to see it.

Valentine's Day was pretty quiet for us. I got Nick a tattoo, although it was less of a Valentine's gift than just something he wanted. It was a good day though.

My papaw is not doing well at all. He's been battling pneumonia for a bit now, and it's weakened him to the point where they feel like it's only a matter of time before we lose him. I have mixed emotions on this. I have found that when I lose someone like this, my grandmothers, my other grandfather, Nick's mom, I end up in a state of suspended emotion until they are actually gone. When I lost my grandmother a couple of years ago I really thought I was prepared. She was in her nineties, in very poor health, and definitely better off once she passed. And it was awful to see the physical and emotional toll taking care of her put on my parents. But when it came time to bury her, everything crashed inside me, and it hit me a lot harder than I was expecting.

I feel like I'm facing the same with my papaw. While he's not quite 80 yet, he is in very poor health, no quality of life at all, just confined to a bed right now, and more often than not he's not aware of his surroundings. When he is, he's very upset to be so sick, and he's made my mom promise not to ever put him on a respirator. With the pneumonia, that may become a very real issue. My parents are both run ragged, one of them out there with him almost all the time, and it's tearing at my mom to see him in this shape. At this point he will be in a much better place when he passes, and while I don't want that to happen, I also don't want to see him suffer, and my mom with him.

In other news, one of my very dear friends is facing a divorce. In fact she had to file the papers on Valentine's Day. When I say she had to file, I mean that literally. Her husband has gotten into some very serious drugs, and he's become a danger to her and their three year old daughter. She's had numerous problems with him in the past, but it's mostly been infidelity before. This time when he told her he didn't want to be a part of the family anymore (followed by the "I've been doing crack for a year" revelation), she told him to go. Still, she's understandably struggling with all of this, and I (and she) would appreciate any prayers for their situation.

As far as spanking goes, if you took a look at my house, you could see that I've got one heck of one owed to me, but so far I've been too sick to do anything to me but bring me medicine. Hope things are better for you guys!

I promise I'm not dead!

Hey, guys. I know it must have looked like I'd fallen off the face of the earth, but I promise I'm still here. I've been sick for one, although I'm pretty much through that. Right now we're having some issues with my laptop, so I've really only had access through work - definitely not a friendly environment for posting and surfing. Also, my Photobucket account has exceeded it's bandwith for the month, so my blog looks like it's under construction. Hopefully we'll get it all fixed very soon and I'll be back up and running. Thank you so much for all your sweet thoughts and comments. I miss you all!

Sick

Sorry it's been so quiet on here lately, everyone. I've been down with the flu, and most nights I've just fallen right into bed as soon as I got home. Hopefully I'll be back up to posting soon.

New Leather Thorn Name This Paddle Contest

John from Leather Thorn Paddles is holding another Name This Paddle Contest. This one is a beauty, and very wicked looking! We have a couple if John's pieces, and he does exceedingly high quality work. Pop over and check out the contest, and order something for Valentine's Day while you're there. You won't regret it!

Cool Meme

Someone sent me this meme, and I thought it was really neat. There were a few questions that were a bit too personal to be answered on here, so I substituted a few that would be more apt here. WEG.


1) Answer the questions below.
2) Take each answer and type it into Photobucket.com
3) Take a picture from the first page of results and post (use the HTML code or else it won’t post).
4) You cant copy the persons answers who posted this before you!

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1. The Age you will be on your next Birthday .

2. A place you would like to travel.

3. Your Favorite Place( Somewhere you've been).

4. Your Favorite Object.

5. Your Favorite Food.

6. Your Favorite Animal.

7. Your Favorite Color.

8. Your dream job.

9. Your dream car.

10. The Name of your Pet.

11. The 1st name of your current love.

12. Your nickname.

13. A bad habit of yours.

14. Your 1st Job.

15. Your Grandmother's Name .

16. Your Favorite Book.

17. Your Favorite Band.

18. Your Favorite character.

19. Your favorite thing to do.

20. Your favorite implement.

21. Your favorite position.

Yay!!! Spanking!!!

I got a spanking! I got a spanking! I got a spanking!

And now I'll quit dancing around and post about it. Last night my mom kept Morgan overnight. She was out of school for the holiday today (Martin Luther King Jr. Day for those of you across the pond), and rather than have me drop her off there at six AM on my way to work this morning, Mom and Dad just picked her up here on their way home from church yesterday evening.

That left Nick and me with some unexpected time alone. My amazing husband decided that he'd been neglecting ny bottom, and so yesterday once he found out we'd have the night to ourselves he took every opportunity to give me little previews of his plans for bedtime. We had a late dinner at Waffle House and headed home, where we wasted no time at all getting naked together. He pulled me over his knee and gave me a wonderful long, hard, sexy bare bottom hand spanking, just what I needed to get me back in the spanking game. There was lots of other lovely stuff as well, and I slept very soundly last night.

Today I was deliciously sore and I can't wait until I can return the favor by spending a night concentrating on his needs. And on top of all that, he came home today with another gift card for The Chop House, having won last week's contest at work too! What an awesome husband!

Thank you, Baby!

A Date

Okay, so there's no spanking going on here. I mean none. For like two months now. So if you're looking for spanking stories, you might want to go elsewhere. But if you're interested in hearing about my actual real live grown up date with my husband, then you've come to the right place!

Tonight Nick took me to my very favorite restaurant,The Chop House! He won a $50 gift card there at work for turning the most man hours - see what an awesome hard working man he is! And I have been seriously feeling the stress of the last few months, so tonight he handled all the baby sitting arrangements and took me out for the world's best prime rib sanwich and stuffed mushrooms. Oh, and blackberry cobbler with ice cream! Yum! And so we completely stuffed ourselves and pretty much rolled ourselves out of there. And we did it all totally kid-free! Not that we don't adore Morgan and want to spend all our time with her. It's just that sometimes, well, we like to spend some time without her. And so that's the story of my lovely, yummy, grown-up night out.

Happy Birthday, Ceeci!

Re-stolen Meme 2007

I'm totally stealing this from Eve, because it looked like fun, and as of yet I don't have any new spanking stuff to report (although I'm starting to feel back in the mood again, and I've asked Nick if he would be willing to give me a nice, not too hard good girl. He was watching a movie when I asked, so I got a grunt, but we'll see...)

1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? I got a tattoo.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Well, I don't know how much of a resolution it was, but Nick and I decided Christmas Day 2006 to try to have another baby and if at all possible let me quit my job and be a stay at home mom. Unfortunately, between some medical issues and a pretty changed financial situation, it doesn't look like it's a viable plan anymore.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, a close friend had a baby in January, and I just found out she's pregnant again.

4. Did anyone close to you die? I lost a friend online.

5. What countries did you visit? Just this one.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? A baby.

7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? March 2-3 when we went to the marriage retreat, June 26, our 9th anniversary, October 26, the day I got my tattoo.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Well, I got all the laundry done a couple of times...

9. What was your biggest failure? Laundry again...

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? In October I was diagnosed with Poly-Cystic Ovary Syndrome.

11. What was the best thing you bought? My digital camera

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Nick's - he's been an awesome husband, and Morgan's, who is now one of the best six year old readers I've ever met!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? The husband of a close friend who was an all around lousy guy earlier this year.

14. Where did most of your money go? Bills, food.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? the marriage retreat, our annual vacation to the cabin, my tattoo.

16. What song will always remind you of 2007? All the Same by Sick Puppies

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer? a) probably a little sadder right now b) maybe a little thinner c) poorer

18. What do you wish you’d done more of? camping

19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Worrying about money.

20. How did you spend Christmas? With family, eating, opening gifts.

21. Did you fall in love in 2007? Yes, with my husband and daughter, every day. Oh, and our puppy.

22. What was your favorite TV program? Lost, Nip/Tuck

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Nah

24. What was the best book you read? Gosh, it would be hard to narrow it down. I read a lot of great books.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Sick Puppies

26. What did you want and get? A better digital camera.

27. What did you want and not get? A baby.

28. What was your favorite film of this year? Shrek the Third

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 30, and I hung out with Nick, watched a friend get a tattoo, got my hair cut and colored, and got my driver's license renewed.

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?More money? Definitely more money, and a baby, or at least having one on the way.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? Same old jeans and cute shirts I'm afraid.

32. What kept you sane? Nick beating my butt when I got too stressed.

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Mmmmm....Josh Holloway.

34. What political issue stirred you the most? No politics here, please.

35. Who did you miss? My friend L

36. Who was the best new person you met? I can't really think of anyone new I met in real life that made a big impression, but I met lots of great people on here!

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007. Whatever my plan is, God has one of His own.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

I dont mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
But I don't like illusions - I can't see
Them clearly
I don't care, no I wouldn't dare

To fix the twist in you

You've shown me eventually what you'll do

I don't mind

I don't care
As long as you're here

Chorus:
Go ahead and tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It's all the same

Hours slide and days go by
Till you decide to come
But in-between it always seems too long
For certain
But I have the skill, yeah
I have the will, to breath you in while I can
However long you stay is all that I am
I don't mind, I don't care
As long as you're here
Go ahead and tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It's all the same

Wrong or Right
Black or White
If I close my eyes
It's all the same

In my life
The compromise
I'll close my eyes
It's all the same

Go ahead and tell me you'll leave again
You'll just come back running
Holding your scarred heart in hand
It's all the same
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything
And do it all over again
It's all the same

Blah

I've been pretty blah lately. I can't seem to summon up much interest in spanking. I know that this is just a stage, and one I've been through before. It will pass - it always does. Right now though I guess I'm just struggling with the winter blues. I finally got all our Christmas decorations put away today, and I made a big dent in the laundry, so that has helped a bit. I think part of it has just been the crazy fast treadmill of the holiday season. It seemed like I was just going like mad, bargain shopping, making candy, wrapping gifts, making candy, meeting with family, making candy, cleaning house, making candy, meeting with friends, making candy (I made a lot of candy), and still there was always something else to do. Getting something accomplished and out of the way today was good. Anyway, no big news, there's not really been any spanking going on lately anyway. That may actually have a lot to do with my lack of interest the last few weeks. Being spanked almost always makes me want more (even if not immediately), and going without it for a long time tends to supress the desire. Ugh, this isn't turning out to be much of a blog post - sorry. For sexy, kinky stuff, go read Sparkle...

2007 in Review

Well, I was so inspired by Grace's recap post that I decided to do one of my own!

In January I had lots to be grateful for, including an amzing husband, which led me to write this post, which was one of the sweetest experiences I've ever had with this blog. I also got the hardest spanking I've ever had. Honestly, when I look back on every punishment I've ever had, this is the one that sticks out in my mind. But as awful as it was while it was happening, it was exactly what I needed, and it's one of my most meaningful memories.

In February I lost a dear online friend, much to my sorrow. I also did a rather overwhelming inventory of our spanking implements. And I got to experience them all in one night too!

March was a lot of fun - Nick and I got to go to a marriage retreat with our church, and it was an amazing time! It was so nice to get a chance to focus on us, and a night alone in a nice hotel room didn't hurt either! I celebated my two year blogaversary (a bit late), and my precious angel was baptized!

In April I nearly burned our house down! For which little snafu Nick quite effectively set my butt on fire. I got to take some time off work, during which we celebrated the birthday of my two favorite people!

May was pretty low key for us. A few spankings, a bit of dissatisfaction at work, and some sad news about some of my close friends. Our precious baby also graduated frim kindergarten, leaving me both proud and teary-eyed.

In June Nick and I took a vacation to the lake to celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary. I also had a job interview that didn't pan out, and I had to deal with a small but painful recurring medical problem.

July saw Nick and I in a family wedding, and my dad had a pretty serious accident. Nick almost cut his finger off, and we got a new puppy. I also made some major changes on my blog and was very pleased and touched by the number of people who stood by me.

In August school started, and Nick and I went to an awesome concert - a real live date! Nick helped out with a car accident we came upon, and I got a pretty hard spanking for some overspending.

In September I spent a weekend pretty much all by myself, and the Laundry Monster reared it's ugly head yet again. The rest of the month was pretty quiet.

In October, I turned.....30! How did that happen?!?! I also met some wonderful new friends on Love Our Lurkers Day! I also got to take some more time off from work, and we took a trip to the pumpkin patch with Morgan. And I got a tattoo! Can you believe it?

In November I got my second traffic ticket, and a hard spanking to go with it. We took a fun camping trip and had a crazy girl get high and hit Nick's truck in our yard! We had a lovely Thanksgiving and worked to adjust to Nick's new schedule.

This month has been filled with all the normal stress of the holidays, but Christmas was wonderful, truly beautiful, and now we're off to a friend's for New Year's Eve.

Happy New Year!

'Tis the season for spanko deals!

God bless Wal-Mart's Christmas clearance sale! Looky what I got for $4.00! Very nice for clutching during a spanking, and also not a bad way to announce what kind of night you're interested in having!

And now to decompress...

Whew! A moment to breathe! I know I've been scarce around here lately, but hopefully I'll have a bit more time to play online now that Christmas is past.

Speaking of Christmas, ours was wonderful, truly special. Someone did something for us that just humbled and overwhelmed us. Things have been really, really tight for us the past few months, especially since Nick's schedule change at work. The new system they have them on has them all bringing home about $300 less a paycheck. Add to that the fact that Nick's now making the 52 mile round trip to work and back an extra 10 times a month and no longer has time off to do side work, and it's been a real strain on our budget.

A couple of months ago we started talking to Morgan about how Christmas was going to be considerably smaller this year. Not that she's spoiled, but we didn't want her to be disappointed when the day rolled around and we had very little under the tree. My parents usually buy her way too much, but this has been an especially hard time for them too lately, and we knew they would be cutting way back too.

Nick has a good friend whose mother is a foster mom. She's been fostering kids for about 15 years, and Nick's friend got his own foster license as soon as he was old enough. These are super nice people, and wonderful foster parents. The lady (we'll call her Mrs. N) has been keeping 3 foster children, a little boy and two girls, all about Morgan's age. Two she's had for a while, but the last little girl she only got a few months ago. This last little girl is pretty wild, stealing, fighting, etc. Mrs. N does not put up with this sort of thing. She's not hard on the kids at all, but she's very firm. Unfortunately the little wild girl decided she didn't like having boundaries, so about a month ago she called child services and told them Mrs. N had been abusing her.

Now understandably Child Services has to take action in the face of an accusation, no matter how unfounded (and this one is most definitely unfounded), and they pulled Mrs N's foster license and took the kids away pending an investigation. I can only imagine how awful this must be for her, and for the two children she's had for a long time. Anyway, she'd been buying Christmas gifts for them all year long, and suddenly she had no one to give them to.

A few days before Christmas Nick's friend told him that he knew things had been tight for us, and he and his mom wanted to give some of the gifts to Morgan. We were enormously touched, but of course we told him that there must be someone in a more difficult position than us who could use the toys. He insisted that this is what they wanted to do and asked us to please let them do this for us. So he loaded up Nick's truck with maybe a dozen toys that could have been bought with Morgan in mind so perfect were they. On top of that two of Nick's other friends each bought her a gift.

She ended up having more than we could have dreamed, and she declared it the best Christmas she's ever had.

Nick and I agreed not to spend very much at all on each other, but we still ended up with a lovely Christmas. He bought me some iced tea glasses I'd been wanting, a Tinkerbell hat/scarf set, some pretty pens with a matching notebook and pencil bag, and....this:

Very, very, VERY nice!

For him I had very little. I got him a coffee pot for work that cost all of $3.88 at the Wal-Mart Day After Thanksgiving sale, a coffee cup to go with it, and a few songs he wanted off of iTunes. Then, on Christmas Eve, on my way home from work I happened to stop by Steve & Barry's. There's one near my job, and since I had to work Christmas Eve, I thought I'd stop since I was down there anyway. Much to my surprise and delight, everything in the store was on sale for $8.89, and even better, they had wool pea coats in Nick's size in two different colors! Nick has wanted a pea coat for years, but it's hard to find them for less than $50 or $60, and we've never had the money when they were available in stores. But how could I pass up $8.89? I got him one of each, navy and charcoal gray and got out of there for under $20. He was tickled to death with them both, and they ended up being his favorite gift from anyone.

Last night we spent some time with my little cyberskin treasure and he did some very impressive um, stocking stuffing. A lovely way to blow off some of that constantly-on-the-go-gift-wrapping-candy-making-Christmas-craziness stress!

I hope you all had a wonderful, wonderful holiday!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Remember the Reason for the Season!

'Tis the season to be busy...

Hey, guys. I promise I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. We're right in the middle of the yearly whirl of Christmas commitments and obligations. I hope you guys are having a wonderful holiday season, and hopefully I'll have something spanky to post sometime soon. In the meantime, some holiday humor for you...

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday, PK!

Still around...

Hey, guys. Sorry it's been so quiet on here lately. Life has been really busy the past couple of weeks, and there's not been much in the spanking category to report. BUT, don't let it be said the holidays have blinded me to spanko stuff. Here's a couple of gems I ran across in the archives of The Collar Purple. Merry Christmas!

(via Colorado Spankers, where I also found the next one).

I also found this one from Brian Tarsis in my files.

Don't miss it!

John of Leather Thorn Paddles is having another great Name This Paddle Contest and, as always, the prize is fantastic!

I can personally vouch for the extremely high quality of John's work and the outstanding personal customer service he offers. We have two of John's pieces, a Buster Paddle with AngelBrat embossed on it, and a Brat Paddle with a customized handle that was such a hit with everyone that it became part of the new design. I LOVE both of them, and they're definitely two of our more frequently used toys.

I've got my entries in, and you should all submit yours too - you never know what Santa might bring you this year!