Quiet, busy.....

Personally, i think the Holidays have been very quiet here. i mean, we did all the usual - The Aunt, The Other Relatives, etc but somehow i didn't get frenzied this year - which was a very nice change of pace. my Solstice was quiet also, but very, very nice. Master and His Aunt got me some nice kitchen equipment -Knives! Calphalon pots! i feel the urge to chop and saute....

We took both pups over to The Aunt's house and they were... well behaved! By the time we got home, they were unable to keep their eyes open and were like two over tired children at the end of Christmas day... right to bed with them. Master and i got to have a quiet night with cups of tea to settle our over-fed bellies and then we hit the sack also. Nice.

No holiday bonus this year...Wah! Very sad, but a bonus is a gift and not to be expected. However, i did get a nice, very nice raise and a teriffic review. i did get a very unexpected gift from my clients - some of the Ladies there chipped in a got me a lovely business card holder. In the 25 years my company has been taking care of them, no one there has ever given a gift to us. my bosses feel this is a direct reflection of the relationship i've built with them and acknowledge that i saved that part of our business! That, my friends, is better than a bonus! Now, if things go as anticipated and i end up going on the road as part of my job duties this year.... :-)

Some One had a half day today and so He baked some cookies all by Himself {first time solo baking, i might add!} DELICIOUS!

Recap

A recap of the week:
Very busy at work. i spent most of the week getting ready to visit my clients next week. This is my favorite client visit of the year - i get to deliver presents and gift cards and since i really like about 90% of the people i get to visit, i have a blast!
Wednesday was Jury Duty. Blarg! i enjoy doing my civic duty as a Good American, i just wish the process was so awful. my company doesn't pay for jury duty, i am out of vacation days after going to Black Rose and the Court system pays $5.00 per day to serve. i'm sorry, but that amount of money is more of an insult than a help. It's not enough for gas or parking or lunch. Grr... but i wasn't selected for jury and ended up getting out at noon. FREE day!

i ended up going to Target, buying a big shelf unit for the Master's bedroom and re-organizing all His boots and toys. Now easily accessed, neat looking rows of boots (my eye beholds!) and somehow the bedroom seems brighter.
It's a continuation of the decluttering going on here. i also got rid of another bag of clothes and a bag of papers we don't need and a lot of stuff that i ended up looking at and wondering "now, why did i save this?" i was reading a blog on being spiritually stifled by your stuff. It's true. So very true. Whether you go the Feng shui thing or what ever your spiritual practices are, all that "stuff" is just so much spiritual goo that's got to be removed before you can move ahead. Interesting food for thought.

Last night i took Master out to a new restaurant in town. Pretty good food. i would eat there again. Then off to toy shopping for the Argonauts toys for tots drive in Asbury Park tonight. We don't have any kids to buy for so any excuse to shop for toys is always fun.

Listening to Master's old band Sticks and Stones. First off, it was just weird downloading all His music from I-Tunes, Secondly - wow, such good memories about traveling with the band in that big ugly ORANGE VW van. i realized that just about every band the Man has been in has sampled stuff from the movie Blade Runner. Weird.
Waking up each morning to the Black Crowes sing "then she said my name" It just sets the whole tone of my day and makes me feel good. Great song...

hat - check. coat - check

OK, i'm all ready to go outside and watch the shuttle. Nope, launch is scrubbed! Safety first and foremost! Maybe they'll try again tomorrow, maybe Saturday....

Shuttle

For those of you, my faithful readers, on the East Coast of the U.S. - you can view a rare night launch of the Shuttle (assuming the weather cooperates and she gets off the ground!)

Here are the instructions. i don't know if i can see it from where i am, there are a lot of trees and it's only going to be about 10 degrees off the horizon (roughly the width of a clenched fist) But give it a whirl anyway. Thos of you by NY Harbor may have a great view!

Amazing that it only takes 8 minutes from launch (9:35 pm) to get over NYC! Cool! *space nut* that's me!

to Black Rose and back again....

Wow, what a busy weekend! BR was a blast, Master and i had pretty good turn outs for both classes (considering having the first session and the last session) Amazing people in both classes, with great questions. A surprising (to me anyway) amount of people from NJ - hopefully we'll get them out to the NJ or MAsT Metro NY meetings. i was surprised and happy to see a Gentleman in the Sunday class who has been to several of our classes at other events. i really enjoy his questions and feedback and just his energy in general. *Super!*

We got to spend some time with Quality People who we don't get to see often enough. Very nice! Excellent time in the dungeon, i was a bloody mess when all was said and done. That just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. There was some cool/funky/weird energy stuff going on between Master and i. i've done energetic healing before and i'm also "Reiki I" initiated, so that feeling of energy flow is familiar to me. To feel it flowing out from the needles was amazing! Master felt it flowing OUT of me and i felt it flowing IN from Him. Lots to think about after that scene...

Home to the puppies and MUD everywhere! They were frantic to get hugs and puppy love. i spent all day Monday comforting them, tripping over them and feeding them. Between the 2 of them they've eaten 12 cups of food and are still going!! i also spent the day doing 4 loads of laundry. How we wore so many clothes in 4 days i have NO idea! :-)


i'm going to wrap up my evening, finish folding Mount Laundry and go root for Master's fantasy football team! (and beg for a few puffs on His relazation cigar....) G'night.....