“I am hypocritical and inconsistent.”
That’s the book on being a parent.
“I am hypocritical and inconsistent.”
That’s the book on being a parent.
Today a friend said, “You have a remarkable number of stories about children throwing up on you. Talking to you reminds me that I am totally committed to not having children.” I giggled a lot. Yes, dear friend, if you aren’t ok with being covered in vomit, shit, piss, and snot… don’t have kids. Kids have puked on every limb, my hair, in my mouth. Rivers of shit have cascaded down my body. I’ve been peed on more times than I can count. They have blown their god damn noses all over me and into my mouth.
And the blood. So. Much. Blood. My own, theirs… so much blood.
Do you know what bothers me more than bodily excretions?
DO YOUR GOD DAMN CHORES WITHOUT ME HAVING TO ASK 958 TIMES A DAY, PLEASE.
It’s funny where we all have our limits.
I don’t know what it is… but this child likes to empty the pipes in big volleys. We hear a big poop (she’s so loud) and we wait 1-5 minutes before getting up to go to the bathroom because there is always more. Sometimes we stand at the changing table and get her undressed in slow motion because more is coming.
We wait for the second big volley. It arrives. Ok. We’ll try changing you.
We get the diaper off.
I swear to cheese at least once a day she pees on our hands as we are putting the new diaper up to her. It always lands on the new diaper. Ok, so there’s two diapers and a full change of the changing table so far.
We get her cleaned up (a task) then get a fresh diaper on her then set her on the floor. Proceed to change the cover and everything on the changing table. Get everything ready to go again. Poor Noah usually has this festivity rain down on him (ewwww) while he is changing the baby. I get it too though…
Pick her up and put her back on the changing table and start the process of getting dressed again. Finish. Pick up the baby.
She poops again.
This. Is. Daily. (or almost daily. It’s freakin constant feeling.)
I do not remember my first children being prolific in this manner but it is hilarious as it frustrates me.
Every. Single. Day we have a diaper change that involves a minimum of three diapers. Sometimes she gets to a fourth diaper in a half an hour period without me leaving the bathroom.
Given that when she was born we had some concerns about kidney function I will choose to just be grateful that all the plumbing works so well.
Oh, and every single time she gets put on the changing table she instantly spits up and soaks the entire front of her clothes and creates a puddle around her head.
Cheers.
Many of my neighbors are immigrants and I’m kind of hyper friendly so I introduce myself as soon as they move to the neighborhood. This means that they come and knock on my door when they have questions. Today the question was about why these people keep knocking on her door to try and give her pamphlets about all the disasters and the end of the world.
I explained Christian missionaries and talked about different sects and how they are pushing the book of Revelations and… don’t worry about it. They are crazy and they want you to share their crazy because if you don’t then they think their God will get mad at them. It’s ok to say no thank you and shut the door in their faces. They have rudely inserted themselves in your day to demand you stop following your religion… you don’t owe them anything.
She was happy to hear that they weren’t from the government trying to help her be prepared for natural disasters.
In a side note: saw a different acupuncturist today. I think I like her. I have a new terrible physical symptom: sciatica. Just fucking shoot me.
I am almost done with Christmas shopping and I seriously don’t want to still be doing this shit come November. Not this fucking year. I just… don’t fucking want to. So I’m doing the annual “What the fuck do I put in Noah’s stocking” hunt. When I go through lists of “recommended for men” stuff for stockings I’m all “Wait… did I marry a man?!?!?!” He isn’t interested in any of the shit they recommend.
I feel like this is awesome. That’s the kinda man I want. The kind who… only fills some boxes off the man checklist. Perfect.
This is like when people used to tell me I wasn’t a woman because I didn’t like chocolate.
WHAT DOES GENDER MEAN ANYWAY?!
I’ve had two frankly hilarious interactions lately that fall into “Oh my god I’m a geek” and I have mixed feelings about that. First is the fact that Noah was telling me about old programmers and new programmers discussing “real apps” vs “non-web apps” and the fact that I got kind of indignant about youngsters not respecting non-web apps as unreal just… I had this internal “But web apps waste so much bandwidth!” reaction that just… THIS WAS WORSE THAN EXPLAINING VPN AND CLOUD COMPUTING ON THE ROAD TRIP. I SHOULD NOT KNOW THESE THINGS. DAMN YOU SILICON VALLEY FOR INVADING MY BRAIN. I NEVER WANTED TO BE A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THIS SHIT.
The second was with my massage therapist. We were talking about movies and Harrison Ford came up. She said, “I never saw that one movie he was in… oh I don’t remember what it was called. It had a French robot and a vacuum cleaner.” I kind of twitched and said, “Do you mean C3PO and R2D2? Star Wars?”
“Yeah! That’s it.”
I started kind of hyperventilating because I was trying to not fall off the table laughing. She went on,
“It had that dwarf with the plate ears. He was like purple or blue or something.”
“Ohmygod Yoda. You are talking about Yoda.”
I…. I just…
Oh my god.
“And that cute girl with the cinnamon bun on her head.”
“Uhh… that was Carrie Fisher playing Princess Leia and the cinnamon buns were on each side of her head.”
“Oh. Whatever. It looked stupid.”
I almost died laughing. She yelled at me to stop because I was getting hard to massage.
I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A SOURCE OF GEEK LORE. SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.
I said to Noah: “Being married to me is like a graduate studies course that just never ends.”
He said: “Yeah, and just like in grad school the thesis advisor never shows up.”
I don’t know about you all, but I am absolutely baffled by where in the fuck my life will go next.
Anyone want to make any guesses? I’m getting a ridiculous number of hits. What do you think? What will be the next chapter in the saga?
This is too funny. I have to write this down.
So my wonderful friend was telling me that he feels guilty because there isn’t much he can do for me. He said he feels like he is letting me down as a friend. First of all that is Not True. But secondly I said, “Well I’d like to run away from home for a couple of nights…”
He and his wonderful partner have allowed me to crash with them. Yay for guest rooms!
This is funny because in the guest bathroom they have a toilet. Like you do. The toilet itself isn’t the funny part. The funny part is the toilet seat.
The toilet seat/cover are clear, with little yellow duckies periodically. So each time I look down… I see a little duckie checking out my crotch. Every time I need to wipe I get to confront the little pervy duckie who copped a free glance. I see how it is.
I think it is hilarious.
AND THE BEST PART!!!! They are getting a new toilet soon. My friend said they would give me the toilet seat so that I can use it when I remodel my bathroom.
TRULY I AM LOVED. THIS IS SO AWESOME. I am very happy. Heh.
Oh heating pad, oh heating pad where have you been all my life.
Your blue cover speaks of tranquility. Your heat improves my mobility.
Oh heating pad, oh heating pad where have you been all my life.
Just to warn you, if I say that we can’t do something because of diarrhea and your response is, “Oh poo!” I am going to start the poop jokes. You went there first. Just sayin’.
Today as I get dressed I stopped to think. I’m meeting my “niece” and my “nephew” today. One of them for the first time and one for the second time.
Wow. What do I want to wear? Who do I want to be in their memory?
Noah, you say I dress for comfort and not for style (or you did once and you will rue that day for eternity [I love you so much, thanks for putting up with me.]) but there are actually a lot of style choices in the whacky-ass way I dress.
I start out with the requirement that as much skin must be covered as possible. That narrows the field of my clothes quite a bit given the leftovers from my more festive life periods.
I’m pretty happy that my pants fit again. Yay for gaining weight. Ha. How many women do you know who say that?
Ok. I picked a dress I bought with Jenny in Inverness. Because I bought it while nursing (i.e. my breasts had to be easily accessible at all times) of course I have a shirt on under it. HA!! MY BOOBS ARE MINE. Ahem. Sorry. Got carried away there. Those were a long four years.
With the black and white dress I like to wear red pants. Capri’s? Long shorts? They cover all the way down to my shin bone but you can see my Hobbit-hairy legs under them.
Still haven’t shaved. This is getting more interesting.
You can tell I haven’t shaved with the shirt I have on under the dress. There are sleeves, but they are short and kind of flippy.
Cause I like flippy stuff in my clothing. It’s a style choice.
And of course I’ll wear purple shoes. Cause that’s what I own. And I have a red cowboy hat for my sun hat.
Tell me there’s no style there.
(Tongue in cheek.)
At breakfast the other day Noah observed, “I don’t worry about your usage of medication because you are way more hostile about being denied Earl Grey.”
Apparently I don’t flip people off just because I can’t have pot but I will when it comes to tea. I did it under the table and the waitress totally didn’t see me..
But it was funny.
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn”
Noah, Shanna, Calli, Kira, Taylor. I must be made entirely of awesome. And why aren’t I better at giving massage? It does explain why I am much better at cooking than I used to be.
I don’t know what I was thinking. How did I think I would get through over-night without Noah and the kids yesterday? Ha. I came home for bed-time. I called and told Noah to let the kids stay up a bit late and wait for me. When I got home I felt better.
I crawled into the lower bunk between Shanna and Calli. I cuddled both of them. Shanna rapid-fire told me all about her day. I wanted to know. I wanted to know about every second I missed. I was sorry that I missed them. I was sorry she got hurt yesterday and I wasn’t there to kiss it. She survived, of course. Kids get hurt. It’s ok. It sounds like she figured out most of the “class” parts of ballet. No more telling the teacher no one else was present. Ha.
I spent the day working in a coffee shop. That’s tiring work. I worked from the minute I arrived until I left. I took one ten minute break. I was in the shop for seven hours. Then I left to find food because I was starting to feel mean. I can understand why people in the community tell me that they don’t come in because they don’t like the food selection. We don’t have filling food. We have snack food. Hm. And I don’t want to take food from the shop because we need to make money and I’m too stubborn to pay for my food there after working that hard all day. Complicated. Luckily my share of the tip money (which I didn’t expect to get–that was kind) covered dinner. Woo.
At the shop I am working with Noah’s former partner. The one he was dating when he and I originally met. It was quite smooth. She has a very cheerful professional “face”. If she has a problem with me it was totally absent from her training me for the job. I wouldn’t say I felt comfortable but there is no way that I can say that any discomfort I felt was her fault. I was really impressed with watching her as an employee. That woman works like a demon. She takes pride in where she works. (Not this whole Gay Pride weekend stuff.) If something needs to be done she up and does it. She doesn’t wait for anyone else. She certainly doesn’t wait to be told what to do. I’m quite glad the coffee shop has her. I doubt we would have made it this far this year without people who just up and do things like she does.
It was kind of funny. When I got there an employee I don’t know was the only one working. I introduced myself as one of the owners and asked what work needed to be done. She gave me tasks and it worked out. She kind of fished around for how I got involved. I told her I met R many years ago at Shibaricon and then I ran TNG4 with him. D and I knew one another in junior college–we met when I was sixteen. She expressed surprise. Oh! Then you do know these people. Because she has never seen me around it is hard to understand that I existed all that time. Ha.
I like talismans. I like fetishes (in the traditional sense not in the modern “kinky” version). “An inanimate object worshiped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit” Like that. Noah and I do not have a formal all-the-time d/s or m/s relationship. We play with power exchange occasionally but it isn’t a formal all the time part of our life. This means that I have strong feelings about collars.
In the bdsm world that I grew up in there are signals. Signs that help people understand how to relate to one another. Different collars are used in different ways. The thing is, this varies by person. I have seen patterns emerge but there are always people who break the pattern. Nevertheless I observe trends. I have given away most of the collars I shared with Tom. He wished that I gave them back so he could reuse them. I said hell would freeze over first. You are a rich guy. Fucking replace it if you care so much. No you may not use my god damn collars on your long-line of women. Just no. Anonymous people with little-to-no-connection can have them with pleasure. Enjoy them. I still have some collars we shared. I don’t think I will ever have them around my neck again.
When I am going out to a bdsm event and I do not want to be hit on I have to think about signaling. I have a Big Shiny Wedding Ring quite on purpose but in the poly world it doesn’t matter much. In the bdsm world many people are at least open to playing with many people even if they won’t have sex with them. If you represent yourself as property then you aren’t approached as much. People have to feel really fucking confident that it’s ok before they ask to play. And they don’t do things that are pushing my boundaries because they want to respect my partner. It’s hilarious. People don’t seem to care if they offend me but if I look like property they want to not offend my owner. Fuck all y’all.
So I wore a shiny padlock on my sternum. It’s a very simple, old fashioned sort of collar. Dog choke chains make a statement. It’s been a long time since I have gone out in public making this sort of statement. I notice that I have a different kind of wariness now. I assume I am invisible now. I feel like I have learned better camouflage as prey. I no longer feel hunted a large percentage of the time. The space I take up in the world has changed.
I have spent a lot of my life moving from place to place. I always meet people easily. Looking friendly and approachable was part of how I had friends at all. People see me from across the room and come over to say, “You look like a good person to talk to.” I can generally talk to just about anyone. I am quick with words. Part of this was because I was in the habit of scoping every room I was in for people to have sex with. It makes you look friendly. Seriously. You smile a lot. I don’t do it any more. I can feel my facial expression. I always look harried an frustrated. Ha. Harried and frustrated looks like it might bite your head off, not give you a pleasant chat.
I spend my life in a very small and secluded sphere. I live in my role of “mom” for the vast majority of my time. Even given how much time I spend on that role I give it a disproportionate amount of energy compared to any and every other thing I have done. I am no longer hunting. It’s quite simple, really. I am not looking for lovers but I’m also not looking for friends. I have a full roster right now and I don’t even feel the need to particularly seek out new acquaintances. People will wander into and out of places I am standing. I don’t feel the need to chase them any more. I don’t need to fill up idle hours of my life. I’d give anything to have more idle hours. Oy.
I have no interest in modeling m/s or d/s while my kids are little. I want them to see a partnership. I want them to think that women are bad ass, not obedient. I want my kids to see an actual long term partnership. Staying together is important to me. People get distracted and unhappy with one another and they turn to other relationships to keep things interesting. I want my kids to think that their parents find one another interesting. I want to spend a lot of time with Noah. I like him. Being near him and talking to him makes me feel far better than I have felt at any point in my life. There is no other person on this planet who is as willing to put a mountain of time and energy into me. I am special to him. If he took that energy and gave it to someone else I would know. It would be an active withdrawal. There is a limited amount of time and energy in this life. I have something really special. I want to nurture it, not ignore it.
I have learned a lot about being gentle from being with Noah. He is the only big-tough-guy I have ever dealt with who will actively tell me I am hurting him. He’s both extremely picky and not picky at all–meaning that he chooses when to talk about when he is feeling. He can endure things stoically like the next big-tough-guy. He just doesn’t do that with me. He thinks I shouldn’t hurt him. He doesn’t want to be hurt by me. So he tells me when and how I hurt him so that I can lean to do better. Mostly we don’t hurt each other any more. It’s rare to have a slip. I don’t even lick his nose.
I feel really glad that I get to model the relationship I have with Noah. Some day we will do more with other power structures because we want to. I really like that it will happen after many years of earning careful trust. In the modern USA “slavery” is kind of an ephemeral concept. It’s not real. It’s not binding. It’s a choice to have a conscious power structure with someone else. It’s just a consciously and specifically chosen relationship style. There are a lot of Father Is In Charge mentality left in this country, I’m not sure why people are surprised that people want to formalize this. The language is charged, yes.
Right now I am using all of the caring-for-other-people energy I have for my children. They will not always need it and some day it will be unhealthy for me to pour this much energy into them all the time. I will still have this energy. I had this before I had kids. Noah spends a lot of time massaging me. He went to massage school as part of his learn-to-pick-up-chicks training. He really did go to school for how to be a better partner for me. I win. He also did hypnotherapy training. I’m totally going to be able to make him sound like a freakishly good fit when I write about him. I’m thinking about dialogue. I think I am hilarious. This will be a very different book to write.
I’m thinking very hard about what slavery meant to me. What did I do with Tom? How did that relationship fill my needs? I was under contract for two years. He ended that part of our relationship in a couples therapy session wherein the counselor told me that our problems were all my fault because I was asking too much of him by saying that he should follow the relationship rules of the contract we both signed. Needless to say, I felt quite good about myself at that point, right? That was when I started hounding him about kids. I was nearing the end of college. I had told him that I had no interest in getting married before I graduated from college. There was the strong implication that I wanted to get married after. He prevaricated for a while and pushed me to consider grad school.
I decided I had two paths for teaching. If I was going to do the get married and have kids thing I should teach K-12 something. If I am going to “be a grown up” forever and build my life around the bdsm scene I should teach college so that I can be out. I decided to start the masters program first. Either way I didn’t feel qualified to teach much yet. I felt like there was some magical level of smart I would feel at some point and then I would be qualified to teach. I would know enough about a topic that I felt comfortable saying, “Yes! I know this!” It’s ironic that I failed the final test after years of getting good grades and being told I was good at this–writing, that is. Oh well.
I asked Tom if we could open our relationship in December of 2003. I didn’t technically have sex with anyone till January. I think I knew from the first person that I was hunting. I started the masters program first but I started the teaching credential the next term. I moved out of living with Tom in October about six weeks after I broke up with him. I started the credential and broke up with him at the same time. He would never answer the marriage and kids thing. So I disengaged. I threw that energy out into the world. I went hunting. I started dating Noah in February.
It’s going to be really fun to write about Noah. Knowing how this story goes it means that I am having an interesting time figuring out how to approach tone. This is going to be so different to write. How do I represent my time as a slave? What did I tell Tom? What kind of relationship was that?
I want to wear a lock on my sternum while I am working at Wicked Grounds because I want to announce that I am protected. I am wanted. Someone has already found me. When I was part of those communities I was always hunting. Always willing to say yes. It changed how I talked to people. In the past I have had issues with men taking liberties. I want to discourage it. Signaling is complicated.
I have been raped at a public sex party. I’m aware that it happens. A coffee shop isn’t a sex party. But I have had people casually touch my breasts. I have had people grab my ass. These actions aren’t “rape” but I’m kind of a ticking time bomb. One of these times I am going to break something on someones body as a result of them grabbing me. And it will probably escalate from there and be “all my fault”, right? I’m scared. I don’t like that I am scared. It is very hard for me to be in places I think of as hunting territory when I am not hunting. I feel physically sick. I feel scared. I am going to bring any fetish of protection I have.
Slavery is a way of acknowledging that someone is that interested in me. Different people do slavery differently. I’ll write more about that later. It’s time to start getting ready. Today will be a long day. I need to bring a water bottle and specifically drain it every so often. I think I was dehydrated yesterday. I know I was hungry. I ran five miles yesterday morning before working on my feet for seven hours making food and washing dishes. I ate a bowl of oatmeal, a thin slice of quiche… and that wall before dinner. By which time I was starving and had a raging headache. I think I should take better care of my body today. Today is supposed to be a “cross training” day. I hope this counts. I hope it will be fun. I had fun yesterday. It was fucking awesome to get to talk to people with a counter between us so they couldn’t touch me. I have serious issues. Whatever. It worked. I felt safe. I felt like I was doing something and I had a place and a purpose. I was using some of my caring-for-other-people energy on that community. Twelve years is a long time. I’m not gone. I’m on sabbatical. I’m training for my next relationship. It will be very different to use more of that energy on Noah. I feel specifically spooked.
And I should go take a shower.
We went from having a weekend of lots of planned sluttery to only having sex together. This is rather hilarious, I think. But Noah was approached on okcupid. He’s making a date.
I love masturbating right after sex. I’m sore and overly sensitive so it kind of hurts and it takes me a long time to have an orgasm. I have to really make up a story in my head. I’m just starting to do this again. I haven’t done this in years. I don’t masturbate when my kids are in bed with me. I like to follow the stories that come up. Often they involve sex with one or more of my friends. It usually involves me getting to meet some need in their life.
Having sex with your friends is shitting where you eat. It’s hard because having your needs met feels really good and it’s easy to get upset when you know people in your life can make you feel that good but they choose to schedule their time elsewhere. That’s a hard thing emotionally. It’s a lot of the reason that I am gun shy about polyamory. I have my priorities set where they are set and no I am not fucking adjusting them for someone else.
I don’t think I have ever hunted the way I am hunting now. I have never gotten to set the terms before. It’s really hot. It’s really hot to have people be willing to seduce me by email before we ever show up in person. I have a great correspondance going right now. The problem is that people get to the date and then have performance anxiety. I don’t have performance anxiety. I’m that good at sex. As good as I say and better. Because if you write me a script in advance I will make sure it is a script I can play and then I will play it to the hilt. It’s really fun.
People who know me have a hard time engaging with this part of me. They already have so many experiences that have made them gun shy. I should make people gun shy on a day to day basis. I’m kind of twitchy. You don’t know how my moods will flow, it’s true. Pushing an agenda on me is normally a questionable idea.
Except when it isn’t. And I don’t know how to figure out the boundaries around this with people I know. But I am learning how to do it with strangers and it’s really hot. One hiccup is that I was asked if choking is really a hard limit. Uhh, yeah. It is. No hands around my neck at all. I don’t care that you like to assert your dominance that way. Find another way. Hey, I’m a nice girl. How about if I tell you that I have been thinking a lot about face slapping? You’ll believe me because I’ve been so clear about my boundaries in every other place. Start slow, of course. I’m sensitive. But if that is interesting to you… I would feel put in my place. Just sayin’.
It’s hard to do these exchanges with people I know. I don’t trust very many people to that level. It’s hard to use your friends as one night stands. They feel bad. Friends feel used and abandoned. It’s important to not spike that oxytocin too high with people who already are more emotionally connected than I am. That’s shitting on people I like. Because they get hurt. I don’t like doing that.
I am really thrilled about how many dates are happening. I’m having fun. I’m thrilled that Noah’s response to me hunting is to start talking about going to the gym because now he has to compete. He totally doesn’t. But I like it when he is in better shape. Our sex life improves. And given where it is… oh my.
I think it is funny that I hunt so hard for sex with other people when I know that Noah will be a better lover. Every time. It’s kind of like how Noah won’t eat McDonald’s, so I go without him. I have these tastes for things that are bad for me. My vices. I like McDonald’s, ramen, and dates with new-to-me-men. I’m going to get to the point where those are it. (I eat McDonald’s like once a month. Just sayin’. Happy Meal joy.)
Noah tried to wake me up for sex on Friday night and I bit his head off. Thursday I didn’t sleep much so I was cranky. I made it up to him by waking him up on Saturday morning. And we went to a party and played together on Saturday and had hot sex. And we came home and had hot sex. And Sunday afternoon Sarah took the kids out and he tied me up and did wonderful things to me and we had hot sex. And Sunday before passing out we couldn’t stop pawing at one another… so we had hot sex again.
Sometimes just being near him makes me shake with wanting him. I have felt this voracious need for sex basically all of my life. For the first time it’s not only ok it is preferable. Because Noah actually likes me and appreciates me. I worry about how other people will perceive me for being this kind of person. I worry and feel stupid for worrying. Of course people judge me. So what?
I am not at risk of being hurt. It would be very hard for anyone to hurt me just because they disapprove of my behavior. My kids are far more sheltered than average. They have a fierce sense of body autonomy and you can’t get that if you are abused. They shine with good health and love. I don’t have a job that is at risk. Noah tells me he doesn’t care what I write. He’ll take the hit. Because I’m worth it. I am financially secure enough that I will never have to play a public game again in my life.
Still I feel this fear. If I feel this afraid, what is it like for people who have something to lose? I have hubris on my side. I can limit my hunting pool ridiculously. I seem to be only hunting among people who have college degrees, often PhDs. Not because I care but because those are the ones with the cajones to message me. They are the only people who are willing to put up with a long list of nitpicky requests and demands from me before they meet me. People who will write a sex script with me before meeting me and allow me to call a large percentage of the shots. Am I actually doing risk management this way or am I lying to myself?
Communicating clearly that I am a sure thing gives me this sensation of butterflies in my stomach. That moment of revelation, when I have to say I am interested in sex feels incredible. Because I am interested in sex. Not with anyone. With people who can talk to me and help me make a script and help me figure out why I am there.
That’s what I’m doing with the pre-writing. I’m giving myself a chance to create the back story on why the kind of girl he is fantasizing about would show up for the experience he is about to have. Everyone wants a different why. I’m very curious about why people think they should have sex. It’s different from the why they have for love. The why people have about sex tells me so much about their life.
Most people think they should have sex because they are in love. It’s kind of a weird thing, to me. Why do I think I should have sex? Because it feels good. Because I like carefully balancing how much of my life is devoted to things that feel good to me. The specific kind of feel-good I get from sex with new people is apparently worth a lot of effort and angst to me. I’m trying to get to the point where I can attenuate the effort and get rid of the angst. I’m not for everyone. The kind of people who are in the right place to do exactly what I want… that’s serendipity. I need to be honest about the emotional cost.
I need to stop being messy with my emotions in my house. Sarah has nightmares and I make them worse. I’m not yelling or screaming. But I am huffy. I do visibly shake with anger. To someone who grew up in a violent household I look like I am on the verge of hitting. I need better control. And that means I need to back off on hunting. It’s taking a lot of my brain cycles and that makes me short tempered elsewhere.
I need to figure out how much energy I actually have left once I am meeting my obligations at home. Right now I don’t feel like I understand that balance very well. This is where I don’t have a map. I guess I do though. I painted it on my wall. I’m going into the cave. Sometimes. Or I’m wandering off to have an island retreat.
Have I mentioned that due to plumbing mishaps I have a white wall in my house? The possibilities are endless. I still haven’t painted the garage door. All of these things take energy. Energy I am currently holding in reserve because later today I am going to go shut down the Port of Oakland with a few friends. I’m bringing my kids. And after the Port Shutdown I will be dropped off for a date.
There is only so much of me to go around. I only have so much energy to give. It’s really awesome; I have to be pragmatic. What do I want to have in my life? What are my actual, actionable priorities? What am I doing with my time and energy and how is it balancing throughout my life? I have to think about these things.
I am sad things went the way they did with muse, but I can’t say I’m surprised. I shouldn’t have tried for a month. I know better. I know I don’t have that kind of energy for a relationship. I should have left it at the first date. If my one night stand hunting culminated in a night of bath house sex where I don’t have to talk to the person after that… that would have been great. I was stupid. I tried to get the short-term boyfriend experience.
Know yourself. Know your limits. Noah has different limits. Hell, near as I can tell everyone has different limits than me. That’s ok. It’s tricky trying to figure out where I get to have rock hard limits around what I can and can’t request from people.
I’m interested in one night stands. If you aren’t, that’s fine. We aren’t a match. Move along. Don’t get mad at me and I’ll try not to rant about you. I’ll make that promise to all the future boys. I’ll try not to rant. Which is to say that I will rant but try to be balanced. You did good things too. We just aren’t a match. No shame in that.
That’s why. That’s why I’m hunting. Because I am continuing the behavior I have done my entire life but not I am trying to do it without shame. I want to find a way to balance this part of me that feels bad because other people do not value it with the knowledge that it does bring good to my life. It gives me the energy to go conquer the world.
I’m probably not going to schedule a one night stand attempt in January. I need a rest from that energy drain. It’s time to re-evaluate the energy I’m giving to my sex life. I promised Shanna that I would make her a play house in January. I can’t be tired from staying up all night for sex and do that. It’s going to be awesome. Just wait. But it will take creativity. It has to fit into Wonderland.
How can I talk about parenting and being a slut in one post? Because I’m both. That has to be ok. I’m not actually doing anything shameful. I have an unusual hobby that most people don’t share. Like people in this valley should fucking judge. You are all a bunch of weirdos. What the fuck is this geocaching shit?
I think that if you look at history you will find a lot more people who pursued sex voraciously than people who beat some video game. Who is the freak? Ahem.
A nice person told me I am inspirational and a nice lady. I wanted to say, “Actually I’m smug and self-satisfied but I guess you say tomato and I say toe-mah-toe.
And do you want to know why I will never use twitter much? Because the fucking thing told me the above wasn’t clever enough. Well fuck twitter.