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[lyssabard]

Hey guys, I know I have not kept up here, but I have some updates! Now, hopefully this won't bore the piss out of many of you, but lately, I've been working out as part of Getting My Health In Line/Ass In Gear/Unfucking My Life (as the awesome yuki_onna would say and so far, so good

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[elenbarathi]

Yay, huzzah, you rock! Dancing in the kitchen with knives while cooking is a most excellent thing; it keeps one toned and cheerful, and keeps other people out of the kitchen - as long as you're not juggling the knives in there, everything should be fine. Actually, even the juggling wouldn't be a problem, if it weren't for the inevitable dropping of the juggled blades, which is bad for them as well as hazardous to your bare feet

[lyssabard]

I want to think of something articulate to say, to thank you for the insightful response and the time you took to make it. Yet all I can think about is, "YOU QUOTED GOR AT ME, OMGSQUEE! SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME!" Ahem. *giggle*
My articulation flies out the window to a big naughty grin plastered across my face, and I'll just say, "Yup. That's it. " *GRIN*

I actually think I have one of N&V's videos, actually, as well as some other cds and DVDs a good friend of mine gifted me, which I need to break out and dive into.
I also need some more dance/workout clothes, but I am still working out what I want for that. Also the trauma of shopping for clothes is sometimes full of suck and fail. But I am a little more optimistic, as I found a great skirt over the weekend-that fit. (Thank you hippie shop at the beach. :))

Oh, and the fruit juice with jello idea is great! I am going to steal that. I am perhaps weird cause I do like jello. Um, and pudding. Lots of pudding.

[elenbarathi]

LOL, Tal! Yes indeed, I'm a troublemaking, blade-wielding Torvaldslander Free Woman, and my poems and songs are still known in Gor - I won the Free Women's Nard-Kicking Contest at Winterfest in Vanir's Fjord, and was once Ubara of glorious Ar for almost two whole months, woo! Quaint, scenic Port Kar will always have my heart, though - ah, the tharlarion-haunted marshes of the Vosk delta in the autumn fogs....

I've even actually taught a little white-silk kajira to pole-dance - tell you what, I'd have taught her ever so much better if I'd seen Jenyne Butterfly''s videos, but this was many years ago.. The best Gorean dancer I know is Na'Tea of the Jewel of Gleaming Thassa - if you ever go there, tell her Mistress Jess sends love

[lyssabard]

While I know some of Gor, I have not done Goreanesque scenes (though adapting elements of such seem wonderful to me. (Ideas of being the beloved/kept property, cared for and valued as the object, yes, please.) Just depends on my mood at the time. I'm open to a lot.) It's on my list to check out, for fun--the books, I mean. Other things are optional. ;)

I am so trying the Knox jello. Yogurt is...well..vile, sadly. Unless it's a dill and garlic based sauce, then it's awesome. :)

Oh, also at the head shop hippie store, I got THE BEST PATCHWORK BAG EVAR. EVAR. 10+ pockets of lovely color and patches and it's wonderful. I will use it until it falls apart into dust.

You know, we should meet sometime. :) laurelindel has a lot of good to say about you. :)

[elenbarathi]

I'd love to meet you, and I thank laurelindel for her kind words. :)

Really, what I'd love is if circumstances allowed me to make it to Walking the Threshholds some time, and then I could meet all y'all at once, when we could just kick back. That's not too likely in the near future, but maybe you'll be out to Seattle one of these days.

I look on Gor as more of a literary thing than a kink thing, though certainly the general air of high kinkiness is inescapable, and adds a lot of charm to the place. Realtime Goreans overlap with the SCA, martial arts and biker communities as well as the D/s folk, so not everybody's there for the same reasons. In a lot of ways, Gor healed my broken heart after my divorce

The books are a trip - I would say, read the first ten; after that, both the plots and the writing go right downhill. My favorites are Nomads, Assassins, Raiders and Marauders. More about my adventures in Gor here and here - LOL, what a wacky place

[thewronghands]

Sounds to me like you don't hate exercise at all; you just hated gym class, which is perfectly understandable.

YES THIS. It took me years to think of myself as an athlete despite everyone and their brother telling me that this was ridiculous. But I hated gym class for very similar reasons. I just happen to love kayaking and hiking and martial arts and weightlifting is actually pretty cool and dance is a path to divinity and and and. Oh. Right.

So, fuck it, don't let the ghosts of some moldy old gymnasium get you down. Love what you love, including your body and what it can do.

[lyssabard]

Yes, Sir! No more ghosts, Sir