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We have been enjoying our long weekend home with Daddy. I have actually been a little bit productive, but also been able to just chill and relax. It has been heavenly just to be able to recharge and gear up, in order to hit this week running.
Em and Daddy hung the hammock…

And read a little Owly…

And then Addie had to join in the fun…

Which led to my Best Shot Monday for this week…

They are such beautiful little sprites.
Hope you are all having a lovely, relaxing Labor Day weekend as well. For more BSMs pop over to Tracey’s.

By: Tony L. Jefferson, Jr.

That special lady
She has style
class
sexy looks
a banging body
intelligence
independence
a sense of humor
she’s totally committed to you
Some men go on a lifetime quest to find her or someone close
while others just settle for scraps
When you finally find that special lady you feel like the happiest man alive
She completes you in every way possible
She’s a ride or die chick
She’s there through thick and thin
sickness and health
bad times and good
She’s your one and only
The sex is so amazing and beautiful, the kind that you never tire of it and you always crave more
She’s truly a queen in the bed and she’s all yours
She’s not only a lover but a friend as well.
The conversations are deep and interesting and you can confide in each other about any and everything.
She’ll never fuck around on you or do you wrong.
Yes, arguments happen
they only make your relationship stronger

Lydia Pappas has so beautifully written every emotion the DV survivor goes through as she is trying to rebuild and maintain her life. When I read this poem, It touched every fiber in my body. Thank you Lydia for showing us that we are not alone.
He Can’t Hurt You Anymore
Those ghosts of the past
How long do they last?
Each year
Their power over me lessens
But they’re still there
Filling me with
Terrors of old
And taunting me by saying
That when I’m old and greying
There will be no one to love me
Because I’m too scarred inside
Too broken by all his lies
And all the torture
He put me through.
But I have to remember
That I don’t have to be ashamed
Of what the past has done to me
Of my limits and fears
My unwept tears
Whatever’s left
Of those woes
Of long ago.
And I no longer have to be afraid.
Instead I can say:
It’s okay
He can’t harm you today.
It was yesterday
That you were struck [...]

He said I was different. You are different kind of woman, were his precise words. I just smiled, because I’d heard that before. However, I’d never heard the answer that satisfied my ‘Different? How?’
Men have told me that I’m quirky, eccentric, sweet, kind, expressive, fiery, intelligent, funny, cultured, ditsy, mysterious, a boho, a bap, bougie, down-to-earth, calming … In short, they’d describe my difference based on, I believe, the opposite attributes of women they’d dealt with; and they would only tell me things I already knew about me.
But he answered, “Somebody loved you. I can tell you’ve been loved.”
He said he saw it in my security and in the way I treated him. Citing other examples of how I wasn’t self-conscious about my quirks and inadequacies, I was mystified that he’d paid that much attention to me.
“I’m a writer,” he said. “I don’t see things like everyone else, at least [...]

Wow…
How diwani can cheez be around gori lately na? It’s been since Gay Pride that I’ve not posted.. uh, wait a sec.. I’m talking like garam arab yaar suddenly lmao.. who is yeh ‘Garam Arab Yaar’, u ask? Notice the acronym: ‘GAY’, which Sri Metrosexual insists he is decidely (supposedly, somewhat homophobically) NOT… despite being in love with his mataji, who apparently bears some superficial resemblance to gori (hello, Freud/Oedipus complex = ‘GAY’, na? (j/k Soufi)
I digress… Besides quite possibly being the source- at least a close 3rd guess after the Olympics aur US Presidential candidate nomination(s)- of gori’s suddenly dropped vlog ratings.. notwithstanding near constant hacking by yeh M1M, the usual suspect.. garam Arab/Algerian yaar has been taking up bahut bandwidth, lekin ‘putting out’ for gori nahin.. so we’re gonna leave that situation for a bit (especially during Ramadan, the period in which [...]

I haven’t done one of these in a while…
I decided to dedicate this week’s montage to my long time crush! I was so “in love” with this person from the time I was 11 until, well, recently. The first time I heard his music I was captivated… then I saw a video and I was hooked. I am still a fan of his music, and when I am feeling nostalgic I will play it. I have collected so many things related to him since I was young… but, I don’t have much of it left anymore.. mostly just memories. And thankfully, I have the internet!! These are just a small sample of my favorites.. there are more things I could have listed, albums, b-sides, interviews, movie clips, etc.. but, there is just way too much and I like it [...]

Woke up today around 10am - if I had my choice I would have stayed in bed until noon but for some reason staying in bed that long just isn’t possible anymore. Nothing really going on besides a little homework to start in advance and a VT women’s soccer game at 6pm. I didn’t do too much at all today…just kind of stayed in my room, struggled remembering Fourier transforms, that sort of fun. I also think I ate something at West End that left me feeling sick. Feeling it now, ugh. Food was good though. All I’ve really been eating at home are frozen meals and poptarts for the last two weeks.
Tonight was my first go around with the 300mm + 1.4x. I’m very satisfied with the results, I didn’t notice much or any IQ loss. A lot of my pictures actually came out well, I think I’m finally [...]

Woke up today around 10am - if I had my choice I would have stayed in bed until noon but for some reason staying in bed that long just isn’t possible anymore. Nothing really going on besides a little homework to start in advance and a VT women’s soccer game at 6pm. I didn’t do too much at all today…just kind of stayed in my room, struggled remembering Fourier transforms, that sort of fun. I also think I ate something at West End that left me feeling sick. Feeling it now, ugh. Food was good though. All I’ve really been eating at home are frozen meals and poptarts for the last two weeks.
Tonight was my first go around with the 300mm + 1.4x. I’m very satisfied with the results, I didn’t notice much or any IQ loss. A lot of my pictures actually came out well, I think I’m finally [...]

She says:
Shame on YOU!
It’s a good thing John made the first post on our brand new blog today because I’m FIRED UP and feeling a little feisty! I just read the most ridiculous blog post…so ridiculous in fact, that I had to pinch myself to make sure it was really there and that some poor misguided soul really wrote it. So, I pinched myself and sure enough, there it was staring me in the face.
The post is about the republican vice president nominee, Sarah Palin. Not so surprising since she was just picked as the running mate of John McCain that people would be writing about her. I was surprised as anyone that John McCain would pick her as a running mate since she has virtually no experience and there are SO MANY MORE republican women that could have been chosen WITH substantial experience. But, okay, McCain’s not the brightest [...]

Glass surface inputting is the new hotness for almost every gadget maker today. From from the iPhone to Microsoft’s Surface technology, flat is where it’s at. Introducing the flattest full size QWERTY keyboard to date, “No-key Keyboard” by Kong Fanwen. Consisting of just a glass surface, camera and lighting, this alternative keyboard concept will use the latest motion capture technology to watch your fingers nervously select just the perfect smiley for your online bantering.

- sigh -
Too bad it’s still a concept.
- double sigh -
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