Day 41- Pretty, Ugly

It’s both really, wouldn’t you agree?

What I can’t figure out is how that shape on top was formed!

Grrr….

Wednesday morning I’m “working from home”.  Why?  Because I’ll be waiting for the plumber.

And why am I waiting for the plumber? Because I can’t seem to unclog a fuckin’ sink by myself.

Keep in mind, I’d like to consider myself pretty handy around the house [and not just in the bedroom ]. In the 6 or so years that we’ve been homeowners, we’ve had to call someone for a repair exactly 3 times- when our water heater burst, when a broken window needed to be replaced, and when our dishwasher was having issues.  That’s it.  Everything else, I’ve been able to handle.

We have 1 1/2 baths in our house, and they share a common wall.  Somewhere inside that wall, somewhere that I can’t see or get to, the drains from the 2 sinks join together.  And luckily for the plumber I’ll be paying, that’s where the clog is, somewhere downstream of where the pipes join together.

Drain-O? Didn’t do a thing

Liquid Plumbr? Nope, no luck

A plumbers snake? Hahaha.  I can’t even describe the amusement that resulted from that idea…

And there is limited access to the pipes inside the wall from the basement, since it’s a finished basement.

Looking on the bright side, I get to sleep in.  If I’m really lucky, the plumber won’t get here until later in the morning, once the snow storm we’re supposed to get has started.  And that will give me the perfect excuse to “work from home” all day

So if you see me in your chat window or or Twitter, don’t hesitate to say hi!

e[lust] #7

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Uncoiling – I slip the blade between your hip and the fabric of the undergarment, and slide. The pretty thing splits easily, and the panty leg opens, revealing your skin underneath.

Ahead of Time - I know you don’t like to know ahead of time when I’m going to let you out, but I just wanted you know that it’s going to be, well, a long time.

Blogging For Choice: My Story – Should I begin with Catholic high school? Sure, why not. I suppose that’s when I first began thinking about abortion, especially when the opportunity for double credit for community service hours rolled around.

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Vignettes: Virtual Peep Show - I kept my bullet vibe on low to draw it out as long as possible for me as I stared, mouth open, at the two cute girls who loved to show off. I let the room in general, and the girls too, know that I was watching, appreciating and jerking off with them. I was encouraged by the greedy, horny men in the room to join them on camera.

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I missed you… – I could smell your cologne as I reached past you, key in my hand to unlock the door. That smell always set me off and you knew it. Your eyes told me what you wanted. You saw in mine what I couldn’t say out loud.

See also: Pleasurists #62 and #63 for all your sex toy review needs.

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Kink & Fetish

A hand in the…
Celery
Breaking Down
Buckling
Drop and Aftercare, A Discussion
Erotic Hypnosis
Erotic Zen: Masturbation Fantasies
Fantasy Vs Reality in M/s
Four kinksters, a wealth of toys
Spanking Story: Head of House
The Kink Club Dinner
The Devil Is In The Details
The Last Chip

Erotic Writing

A Surfer’s Story
Across a Crowded Room, Part 3
Cookie
Her Pleasure
Saturday with my Sweetheart
Sex Behind the Wheel (#5)
SexxxConfessions: Jumping the Fence with My Best Boy
sex sex sexx
Sold
Surprise
Taboo
The Slut Chronicles #12 ~ The Bar
Uninvited

Sex News, Interviews, Politics & Humor

“All men are potential rapists” breeds fear and mistrust. Not caution
JM Darling
NYC Sex Bloggers Calendar is Going National in 2011!
Sex Addiction
S&M video producer in Hungary raided by police
Tauntaun Porn

Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationship

A Non Scene that went to a Bad Place
Blow Jobbing. Confession #413
Divorce
Hard Time Getting Wet
Hindsight
I Can’t Get No Contraception. Part 5
Innocent and Clueless? I Think Not!
Kegel Magic – For Men As Well As Women
Kyle’s Visit – Collaring My boy
One Year: The Story of My Rape
Swing Shift Volume 29- Maintaining Balance
Swallowing is overrated
The Tiger Way to Sex Rehab

TMI Tuesday #226- Veronica Wrote the Questions!

So I guess I don’t really have a choice, it’s time to play!  I wonder if she’s trying to figure anything out about me….

1. LUST: Besides your current Significant Other who do you lust for or have you lusted for?

I have numerous friends in the blogosphere and the Twitterverse that inspire lustful thoughts. They know who they are

2. GLUTTONY: What food brings out your inner glutton?

Chocolate!!!!!

3. GREED: What are you greedy for?

I read this one outline and Veronica opined “cookies?”  She might be right!  I’m also greedy for her body….

4. SLOTH: What is your plan for an ideal day of sloth?

Me, Veronica, a hotel, room service.  Oh, and maybe a friend or two and a supply of condoms and lube

5. WRATH: Describe a time that you let out a can of whoop ass on someone.

Physically? I’ve never been in an altercation as an adult, the last fight I remember was in 7th or 8th grade, I was getting picked on in class so I clocked him right in the face in the hall after class.  Verbally, I’ve written some pretty harsh critiques of manuscripts that have crossed my desk for peer-review in scientific journals.  Does that count?

6. ENVY: Who or what do you envy? Why?

Never mind 6-pack abs, I’ll take a flat stomach, thankyouverymuch.  I also have a little bit of house envy.  When we moved to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania we had to downsize a bit, since housing is so goddamn expensive here.  I miss the space we had there and envy those with a home that size in this area.

7. PRIDE: Have you ever had to swallow your pride? What are you proud of?

Of course I’ve had to swallow my pride- I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong.

I’m very proud of my kids, they’re the bestest.  Veronica’s professional growth and development has been a joy to watch over the years, rising from mind-numbing retails jobs to senior management in municipal government.  As for myself, there are 3 little letters after my name that I’m rather proud of earning.

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Veronica is writing at In the Real World: Venus vs. Mars today, about coping with job loss

Tits for Troops is up, Veronica and I are both going topless along with a number of others

Day 40- The Straight and Narrow

No, I’m not reforming my manwhorish ways, I’m talking about the tracks!

I’m going to have to come back to this location when there are leaves on the trees…

Swing Shift Volume 31- Excruciating Emails

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Veronica: In Volume 14, Hubman and I talked about the importance of writing a good introductory email.  After all, the email is supposed to help start the dialog and get you to the personal meeting.  Obviously the people who sent us any of the emails below did not take advantage of that post.

Here’s a good one. What are we supposed to do with this? They say hello in the subject and that’s it. Is it too difficult to say something beyond hello?

But in the grand scheme of things, that one is pretty benign.  We get a number of these- they seem nice and polite but there really isn’t any indication that they’d like to hear back from us.

Here’s a good one.  They clearly didn’t read our profile, since while we might be interested, Providence is an hour away and we clearly state in our profile that we have young kids and need a day or two notice to arrange a sitter.  Contacting us at 5pm on a Saturday isn’t going to get a reply.  But I look at the profile anyway and it gets better- it’s a single guy masquerading as a couple,  in order to work around the “block single males” option that we selected.  Nice try pal.

Then there is the couple that inspired Veronica to say “we ain’t no “holla back” couple”!

And they’re persistent, they contacted us again the next day!

But you know, all of those are just examples of different styles of contacting people.  Maybe for other people e-mails like that would earn a response, but they don’t appeal to us.

Veronica:  Now if any of these couples had been smokin’ hot, we might have made allowances for their lack of literacy, because we are a little shallow.  But in all honesty, it really frustrates me when people do not send a decent email.  I am not saying you have to write a novel, but something simple with a note about what in our profile caught your attention, something about yourself that might not be on your profile or a recap of something on  your profile that is very important to you and most important, a CLEAR request for us to contact you is all we ask.  As an HR professional, I shudder to think what  a resume or cover letter from these people would look like since they don’t seem to have the first idea about selling themselves. Every communication method you use is your marketing and branding tool.  Figure out who you are and what you want before you go willy-nilly all over the internet.

On the other hand, this last message just offends me. Can you guess why?

Never mind that swinging is largely about attraction, physical attraction being very important.  The reason for their comment was that Veronica and I had given them access to our private picture gallery, which includes face pictures, and we had asked them to reciprocate.  Am I wrong to think that they are somehow insinuating that others don’t have respected roles in the community? And even if we didn’t, what the fuck should that matter or not?  We’re done with them.

Veronica: This is annoying.  I can understand that you don’t want a face picture out there in public.  But once you are trying to set up a meeting with people, and they have sent you a face picture, it is time to put up.  Hubman and I have had one date where we did not see face pictures first.  The code phrase was introduced before the menus even came  out.   I guess Hubman and I will have to stick to disreputable bums like us.

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Has anyone suggested an idea for Swing Shift that we haven’t covered? I feel like I’ve lost track of suggestions.   As always, comments and questions are welcome, as are stories about your own experiences, so don’t be shy, because I’m a comment whore!

Day 39- Lazy Sunday (3 picture special)

I set the tone by never leaving the house, hell I never got past putting on sweats and a t-shirt.  Darling Boy chose the perfect book

Princess Persistent spent some time quietly playing on the floor

The dog? She’s always lazy, Sunday was no different!

Day 38- Black Box

*click-click*

Several years ago someone got DB a Cranium Superfort for Christmas (ignore the price on the link, it’s discontinued so the price has skyrocketed).  I swear, as long as we’ve had it in the house it’s been a challenge to keep the pieces organized when the kids aren’t playing with it.

Saturday night Veronica and I got a sitter and had a little date night.  But not just any date night, this night we went to *gasp* Ikea!  Wandering the housewares section, we stumbled across the perfect container for the pieces, a laundry hamper!

If you want to read more about our uber-exciting Saturday night, you should read Veronica’s blog today.

Keeping Momma Happy

Each day Veronica gives Darling Boy (DB) the choice of buying lunch at school or she can pack something for him. The other day lasagna was on the school menu for the first time, so DB elected to buy lunch.

That evening Veronica says to DB “How was lunch today, was the lasagna any good?”

DB: Yeah, it was pretty good, I liked it

Veronica: Was it as good as my lasagna?

To read the rest of this post, please visit Hot Dads today!

Day 37- Ice

It’s winter in New England, so pictures from me of snow and/or ice are kind of like pictures of beer from Emmy