unimog rv's
feeling pretty blah today. i think i need to drink more water. started my period yesterday. it has this annoying habit of appearing for a day or two, then disappearing for two or more days, and then starting again and lasting a week. i hate the fact that over 25% of my life is spent menstruating. oh well, guess it's better than being pregnant.
did a few massages today. i spent a lot of time during them thinking about how i would like to decorate that area of the living room.
eros and i have been watching the old Star Trek episodes that Brooks had on laser discs. they are so awesome. everything is over the top.
we went to a dungeon staff training class yesterday for the Imp event (sex club) on May 10. neither of us will be actually working as a DM, but it was really fascinating nonetheless. deborah taught the class, and she was great. the highlight was when one shy black guy volunteered to be the stunt bottom. he and the stunt top came back in and he was buck naked. she flogged him for a while in front of the whole room. that was the first time he had ever been naked in public, been flogged, or anything. for some people in the audience, it was the first time they had ever seen anyone flogged.
it feels really great to be a part of this group. they have wonderful energy. i felt my life focus shifting some yesterday during the class. i still enjoy the wedding photography, but i am thriving more on the sacred sexuality aspects of life. i thought i wanted to write a book on the warrior goddess, but maybe instead i will start working on a book about bondage and discipline for beginners. i know there are already a good number of books out there -- SM 101, The New Topping and Bottoming Books, Screw the Roses Send Me the Thorns, and some newer ones. however, i haven't yet seen something that is well illustrated. i am thinking of a style like midori's Japanese Bondage book, filled with beautiful photos that help you understand techniques. i want it be sort of like a cookbook for kinky sex. i want the writing to be concise and fun to read. i find that most of the bondage books out there are very text heavy. greenery press in particular publishes books that are really long on text. i want my book to be very approachable. i want people to see it and immediately want to pick it up and look at the pictures.
is it worth my time to do something that so many others have already done? i think so -- if only for the process of doing it. i don't expect to make any money from it. but if it helps educate one person, i feel like i will have accomplished something. plus it will goad me into doing some more fetish photography, finally.
i think i have book envy, because dudek has already written two and i have none -- and i was a writer by trade. i will never be a fiction writer. i can't write fiction. but i can write nonfiction clearly and with an engaging voice.
when i was little, my parents had a set of Time-Life science books -- i think it was the Young Readers series or something like that. it included books like The Universe, The Earth, Mammals, Birds, The Desert, Animal Behavior and so on. i really loved those books. they were very similar in format to a National Geographic magazine: very heavy on beautiful color photos, with some main text and then some photo captions. they were utterly engrossing to me. i think part of me always wanted to write books like that. i've always been attracted to both text and graphics. i mean, i designed the original Amazon electronic and camera storefronts, graphics-wise. sure i'm a hack at it, but i still love it.
i also love that modern technology makes it not only feasible, but also affordable to self-publish a big full-color book. if you have any interest at all in writing a book, check out http://www.lulu.com/ I have both books that dudek published using lulu and they look great. they are real books, like a novel you'd buy at borders. amazing.
it's raining out tonight. we've been having some slightly stormy weather. and we had a pretty big earthquake today. it was short, though. nothing fell off the shelves.
starting to slowly get caught up on bills. eros is helping manage the money because i am a financial imbecile.
there is so much i have to do. it seems overwhelming. it is hard basically doing three different jobs, plus trying to keep the house clean plus get adequate exercise. and somewhere a social life has to fit in there, eventually.
i have a lot of sewing to do. i cut all my king-size flat sheets in half to fit on the massage table, and i need to hem them. and i need to make covers for the face cradle on the massage table.
i am just trying to take things one at a time.
in the class, deborah said she had a t-shirt that said, "Namaste, Motherfucker." heh.
i hope everyone had a good 420 yesterday. it is a national holiday here in Humboldt County. there are huge festivals all over the place.
i plan to be completely sober through the Imp event, since i am one of the main leads. i do not expect to be able to actually play very much. but that's ok. i am so happy to be able to contribute to the small but very genuine kinky community here.
here's something i would sell my soul for -- a Unimog converted into an RV:
a Unimog is an incredibly durable, go-anywhere four- or six-wheel drive truck. fuck the winnebago. these are so cool.
more info here:
http://www.unicatamericas.com/photos_ex70.html
did a few massages today. i spent a lot of time during them thinking about how i would like to decorate that area of the living room.
eros and i have been watching the old Star Trek episodes that Brooks had on laser discs. they are so awesome. everything is over the top.
we went to a dungeon staff training class yesterday for the Imp event (sex club) on May 10. neither of us will be actually working as a DM, but it was really fascinating nonetheless. deborah taught the class, and she was great. the highlight was when one shy black guy volunteered to be the stunt bottom. he and the stunt top came back in and he was buck naked. she flogged him for a while in front of the whole room. that was the first time he had ever been naked in public, been flogged, or anything. for some people in the audience, it was the first time they had ever seen anyone flogged.
it feels really great to be a part of this group. they have wonderful energy. i felt my life focus shifting some yesterday during the class. i still enjoy the wedding photography, but i am thriving more on the sacred sexuality aspects of life. i thought i wanted to write a book on the warrior goddess, but maybe instead i will start working on a book about bondage and discipline for beginners. i know there are already a good number of books out there -- SM 101, The New Topping and Bottoming Books, Screw the Roses Send Me the Thorns, and some newer ones. however, i haven't yet seen something that is well illustrated. i am thinking of a style like midori's Japanese Bondage book, filled with beautiful photos that help you understand techniques. i want it be sort of like a cookbook for kinky sex. i want the writing to be concise and fun to read. i find that most of the bondage books out there are very text heavy. greenery press in particular publishes books that are really long on text. i want my book to be very approachable. i want people to see it and immediately want to pick it up and look at the pictures.
is it worth my time to do something that so many others have already done? i think so -- if only for the process of doing it. i don't expect to make any money from it. but if it helps educate one person, i feel like i will have accomplished something. plus it will goad me into doing some more fetish photography, finally.
i think i have book envy, because dudek has already written two and i have none -- and i was a writer by trade. i will never be a fiction writer. i can't write fiction. but i can write nonfiction clearly and with an engaging voice.
when i was little, my parents had a set of Time-Life science books -- i think it was the Young Readers series or something like that. it included books like The Universe, The Earth, Mammals, Birds, The Desert, Animal Behavior and so on. i really loved those books. they were very similar in format to a National Geographic magazine: very heavy on beautiful color photos, with some main text and then some photo captions. they were utterly engrossing to me. i think part of me always wanted to write books like that. i've always been attracted to both text and graphics. i mean, i designed the original Amazon electronic and camera storefronts, graphics-wise. sure i'm a hack at it, but i still love it.
i also love that modern technology makes it not only feasible, but also affordable to self-publish a big full-color book. if you have any interest at all in writing a book, check out http://www.lulu.com/ I have both books that dudek published using lulu and they look great. they are real books, like a novel you'd buy at borders. amazing.
it's raining out tonight. we've been having some slightly stormy weather. and we had a pretty big earthquake today. it was short, though. nothing fell off the shelves.
starting to slowly get caught up on bills. eros is helping manage the money because i am a financial imbecile.
there is so much i have to do. it seems overwhelming. it is hard basically doing three different jobs, plus trying to keep the house clean plus get adequate exercise. and somewhere a social life has to fit in there, eventually.
i have a lot of sewing to do. i cut all my king-size flat sheets in half to fit on the massage table, and i need to hem them. and i need to make covers for the face cradle on the massage table.
i am just trying to take things one at a time.
in the class, deborah said she had a t-shirt that said, "Namaste, Motherfucker." heh.
i hope everyone had a good 420 yesterday. it is a national holiday here in Humboldt County. there are huge festivals all over the place.
i plan to be completely sober through the Imp event, since i am one of the main leads. i do not expect to be able to actually play very much. but that's ok. i am so happy to be able to contribute to the small but very genuine kinky community here.
here's something i would sell my soul for -- a Unimog converted into an RV:
a Unimog is an incredibly durable, go-anywhere four- or six-wheel drive truck. fuck the winnebago. these are so cool.
more info here:
http://www.unicatamericas.com/photos_ex70.html