Day 47- Home Improvement

In yesterday’s Swing Shift column we talked about fixing up our basement, making it less like an office.
Monday afternoon I started by spackling some holes and divots in the wall.
Now if I only had Lisa as my tool-girl to help out…
[Bonus points to whoever gets the reference and actress]

Swing Shift Volume 32- Location, Location, Location

Veronica is taking the lead this week…

Veronica: Once you’ve gotten past the searching the profiles, emails, IM’s, phone chats, nervous 1st dinner, farewell grope in the parking lot and are up to planning the all important sex date, a big question comes into mind:  Where will we play?  Hubman and I are fortunate that the layout of our home allows for playtime and we’re in the midst of re-arranging our basement, primarily because it doubles (triples?) as the kids playroom, home office, and adult playspace for when we have friends over.

The kids bedrooms are on the first floor and at one end of the house.  The playspace is downstairs and at the other end of the house.  Between that, creaky floors and our less-than-stealthy kids, we’re comfortable having playmates come over after the kids are asleep.

Not everyone is that lucky.   This leads to people booking hotel rooms and paying for a whole night, when you really only need the room for a few hours.  (Something I am sure the hotel people love as they can send housekeeping in at the crack of dawn to get the room ready for the next night).  We have noticed that with the couples we have played with, most of them have not been able to host, due mostly to having teen-aged children.  (Baby-that means we have four years to find a house with a mother-in-law apartment)

Yes dear, I know.  Let’s not forget that the demands of my profession will likely have us moving sometime in 2012, so we’ll have an opportunity to find a place that is conducive to swinging AND having almost-teenaged kids!

Veronica: So since it seems that we’re often the hosts, it’s up to us to make the playspace welcoming and hospitable for our guests.  Our first concern is making the space welcoming and sexy.  Since the basement is also the kid’s playroom, the home office and a guestroom when we have overnight company (4th bedroom, how we miss thee) the challenge is arranging the space so our guests do not have to look at tons of kid crap or lots of personal filing.  Now a bookcase filled with books can be an interesting conversation starter.  Looking at a month of bills and other assorted paperwork sitting on the desk, not so much.  Hubman and I are working on  that problem by replacing our behemoth desk with a smaller secretary desk which can be closed up to hide the office items.

Our desk really is a behemoth.  When I was a doctoral student and we had that 4th bedroom that Veronica mentioned, it was perfect.  That bedroom was my home office and having lots of desk space for books, files, journal articles, my computer, etc, was great.  But we’re both at a point in our lives that we work at work and don’t bring anything home, so this desk has outlived it’s usefulness.  Anyone in the Boston area want to buy a desk? It’s on Craigslist!

Veronica: The kids crap is taken care of by a curtain we strung up to divide the room.  We looked into using some bookcases to accomplish the same thing, but then it blocks out a bunch of light, and when you are working with a basement, the 1st thing you have to deal with is the lack of natural light.

Most of our HNT pictures taken against a black backdrop are actually taken in front of the divider curtain.  Veronica bought a black sheet, we put holes in it using grommets then I strung some 1/8″ airplace cable using eye-screws.  It actually looks pretty good!

Veronica: Moving on to the floor, that is where  a lot of the action can happen.  We have good quality Berber carpet, but it still leaves rug burn with the least amount of friction.  For now, I throw down some blankets from the blanket box, but I think at some time we are going to need an area rug.  The lights are on a dimmer and we have a fireplace, but I think its time to move some candles to the basement to have some nicely scented mood lighting.

I don’t think that we need an area rug for downstairs.  One thing she hasn’t mentioned is that we have a futon, which is currently on the “kids” side of the basement but once we’re done rearranging, it’ll be on the “play” side.  So we won’t have to have sex with our friends on the floor anymore.  Unless we want to

Veronica: And then music.  Hubman and I really need to do something to have music down there.  We do not usually have sex to music, but some of our guests do and we take our hosting responsibilities seriously.

All we need to do is get some stuff on iTunes, create a playlist and have the laptop out.

I’m also thinking I need a discreet bin for some towels to wipe up sweat and other messes that comes from sex and have a nice place to keep the condoms and lube.

We have a sex swing and liberator pillows but never are sure when to bring them out.  It seems a little much for a first encounter, and due to the fact that we have the kids with a sitter before the company comes, we can’t exactly leave them out in the basement during the evening although the kids would be beyond thrilled that we put a swing in the basement!

Since the room is multi-purpose we can’t have it be sexy all the time, but need to be able to convert it into a sexy love lounge very quickly.   I would like to have items in the room that can easily be converted to play items, but do not look out of place in a multi-use room.

I wonder if the Design on a Dime team or any of the people from the HGTV or DIY network would want to take this on as a project?

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For some couples, there are other options besides homes or hotel rooms.  There are always hotel parties and on-premise swinger clubs, and house parties.  But those settings often involve larger groups, multiple partners in one night and lots of being watched, none of which particularly appeal to us.  We prefer to connect with a couple and play in private.

So does our arrangement sound inviting? Once we’re done rearranging, I’ll take some pictures to share.  For our swinging friends with kids, how do you approach hosting friends at your house, if at all?  How to you feel about playing at a house where the hosts kids are asleep upstairs? How much does the kids age matter in your comfort level?

As always, comments and questions are most welcome, as are suggestions for future volumes of Swing Shift.

Day 46- Busy Body

Sometimes she gets so wrapped up in what she’s doing, she doesn’t even notice the flash of my camera. And she loves to have her picture taken! The best part of this picture for me is the pigtails, which she rarely sits still long to have done.

Day 41- It’s a tree?

[Click here for the story of our hotel visit with a friend on Friday]

At least, it started as a tree, once upon a time!  But now it sits outside a restaurant a few miles from my house.
If it’s not obvious, the representations of food items on top are wood carvings.  Someone put a lot of work into this!
Which makes it that much more of shame that there is a telephone pole right next to it.  I wonder which was there first..

Initiation

We all walk into the room together, the 3 of us. Veronica and I were meeting our friend Lisa at a mutually convenient motel for a couple of hours of fun and games.  Lisa and I had already played together before, but Veronica and she had not met in person yet.  Lisa was nervous, very nervous.

She had never been with a woman before.  Today was going to be her first time having sex with another woman.

Veronica: I was nervous too.   I am always nervous before meeting with new people as it is.  But I get especially nervous when I am with someone who is having her first girl/girl experience.  I worry that they won’t like it, and in a one-on-one situation it’s not a problem as the two of us can get dressed an do something else, but in a FMF threesome situation, if both girls don’t like to play it limits the options of what you can do and can also lead to someone feeling left out.

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Knowing how nervous she was, I get things started while Veronica quickly used the bathroom.  I pull Lisa next to me on the bed and start kissing her.  Veronica returns from the bathroom and joins us on the bed, with Lisa between us. I notice what Veronica is wearing, or rather, what she isn’t, and laugh a little.

“Honey, where are your pants?” (Lisa and I were still fully dressed)

Well, I figured that they were already down around my ankles in the bathroom, I might as well just take them off now.  It’s not like I planned on leaving them on for long anyway!

That’s my wife, the subtly aggressive disguised as practical one!

I lean across Lisa’s body to kiss my wife, then return to kissing Lisa, while Veronica’s hands are starting to wander across Lisa’s body.  I whisper in Lisa’s ear “Go ahead and kiss her.”  The ladies kiss for the first time, embracing each other.  Soon clothes are flying off and they are both down to nothing but their thongs.  I move out of the way, content to watch the action.  And take pictures of course, lots of pictures!

Veronica:  Lisa has smooth skin and soft lips.  She is tentative at first, but gets more passionate and assertive as we continue to kiss.  She shyly explores my body, as I explore hers, enjoying her large nipples and velvety skin.  We writhe on the bed and intertwine our legs, rubbing up against each other.  I dip my fingers down her thong and am soon stroking her pussy, gently stroking her lips and clit with my fingers.  Her hips rising to meet my hand tells me that she is ready for more, so I push her down on the bed and work my way down with my mouth, kissing her breasts and running my tongue on the undersides of them and work my way down until my mouth is level with her very wet pussy.  I start tonguing her clit and exploring the inside of her pussy with my fingers, I move a little to the left, then to the right and I find her happy place.  While flicking my tongue across her clit I slowly move my fingers over her spot until she explodes in orgasm and I don’t stop until the last wave brushes over her.

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Watching the ladies is too much for me and I want some of what Veronica has been getting, so after she moves aside I slide between Lisa’s legs and quickly bring her to another orgasm with my mouth.  Something tells me that having a man go down on her while a woman is kissing her and playing with her breasts worked for her!

Veronica: After a little bit, Lisa and I start fondling and kissing.  She looks down at my pussy and looks at me quizzically.  I whisper in her ear that she does not have to reciprocate if she does not want to.  She assures me that she wants to but is nervous about pleasing me.  I just smile and tell her that if she does to me what she likes having done to her, I am sure she will be just fine.  She works her way down my body and tentatively tongues my clit.  I moan and she intensifies her efforts.  She is a little all over the place, and since I like a more focused tongue, I grabbed her head and led her where I wanted her to go.  Once she hit my clit I tell her not to stop and soon I am having my first orgasm of the day, courtesy of the lovely Lisa.  Coached a little by Hubman she got me coming to the point where I fall into uncontrollable giggles which means that I am now overstimulated.  However she starts up again, but soon loses focus.  It seems that Hubman was getting too worked up watching Lisa’s ass sticking out and swaying gently with her efforts.  I then hear the distinctive sound of a condom being removed from its wrapping and soon, I hear a gasp as Hubman enters her wet pussy in one stroke.

See that picture above? Now imagine the view from by Lisa’s feet, her legs spread, pussy open, wet and waiting, her face between my wife’s thighs.  I slip a condom on and quickly take Lisa from behind.  After a few minutes I flip her over and her back, push her knees up by her head and slide back inside her pussy.  Grinding deep, I feel myself hitting bottom, driving her over the edge until she has another orgasm.  After several more minutes of fucking while Veronica watches, takes pictures, and occasionally leans in to kiss or touch one of us, I begin feel my own orgasm building.  Withdrawing from Lisa and pulling off the condom, I replace my cock with 3, then 4 fingers in her cunt, stroking myself at the same time.

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Hubman and I had sex on Wednesday morning, but by Wednesday night we were too worn out from our day to have sex that night and went to sleep.  I decided that since Lisa likes a mouthful and faceful of cum, that he would not be able to achieve orgasm until he did it on Lisa’s face on Friday, so we didn’t have sex on Thursday.  Now Hubman always has a nice load for me, but I was truly impressed by the copious amount of cum he shot in her mouth and on her face.  It was truly the cumpocalypse.

Veronica was just waiting for the chance to use that term she made up! lol…

From our first time together I knew that Lisa enjoys swallowing my cum as much as Veronica does, and Lisa also let me know that she enjoys a facial cumshot.  So I happily took the opportunity to miss her mouth and cum on her face.  And in her hair.  And on the sheets.  Oops…

Veronica: It was a lovely experience, especially as it had been weeks since I went down on a woman, which is something I really enjoy and had been missing.  Lisa is a great woman and we got along well and had some nice conversation going on before and after the sex, when we all dozed in the Queen sized bed until it was time for Lisa to leave and head home.

We had a great time with Lisa and sincerely hope that she enjoyed her initiation into the world of girl/girl sex!

Day 44- No-tell Motel

Okay, it’s actually a Day’s Inn.

Why am I showing a sign outside a seemingly random hotel in Concord, NH?

If you follow me on Twitter, you might have a clue.  Otherwise you’ll have to come back sometime later this weekend to read about why Veronica and I were there.

Time for a Change

And to leave Hubmans Hangout behind.

I think.

Okay, not really, I’m just thinking about changing where I’m at on the blogosphere.

Since I migrated Hubmans Hangout from Blogger to WordPress.com on January 4 2009 I’ve been very happy with WordPress, much more so that I was with Blogger.  But I think I’ve outgrown this platform and it’s time to purchase my own domain and move to WordPress.org.

What does that mean for you, my (hopefully) faithful readers? Not much, except that the url that you bookmark/have in your blogroll/subscribe to in a feed reader would need to be updated.

So why make the move?

WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to edit the code for the template unless you pay for the $15 upgrade, but that would only allow me to edit the CSS code, not any HTML code.  The annual fee to have my blog hosted elsewhere is less than that.

A ton of plug-ins would become available.  WordPress.com-hosted blogs are not compatible with anything that requires Java script, limiting what I can do.

I can post videos, without having to pay a storage space upgrade.  So that would mean home videos

Of course, there would be some downsides.  The dip in blog traffic wouldn’t be that big of deal- I’d leave this up blog up for a while and have it automatically redirect to the new URL, plus I expect some of my blog friends would help publicize my move. At least, I hope they would, if I asked nicely

My biggest concern would be migrating all of the content from this blog to the new one.  I have 465+ posts, almost 6000 comments, over 500 uploaded pictures, etc.  I’d hate to buy a domain, get everything set up, only to learn that not everything comes over when I export the content of this blog to the new domain.

Oh, I just thought of something else- what would happen with all of the permalinks?  Yikes!

Does anyone have any experience with moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org and can help answer some questions for me? I’d greatly appreciate it!

Obviously, I have a bit to think about before I commit to making this change…

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In other news, remember this post from back in November, about a romp I had in a hotel room with a fun and sexy friend of mine? No? Well, click the link and read it, I’ll wait…

I’m seeing this friend again today and this time, Veronica is coming with me.

Did I mention that this friend has never been with a woman before?

And I’m bringing the camera

I’d suggesting coming back on Saturday and/or Sunday, I suspect that we’ll have some details to share…

Day 43- Sunset

I was driving home with Darling Boy on Thursday evening when he proclaimed “Hey dad, check out that sunset!”
Thanks for finding today’s picture, son!

HNT Snow-pocalypse 2010 Edition

It’s going to be the storm of the year! Batten down the hatches, stock up on milk and bread! Cancel schools! Ohmygodthestormiscoming!!!!!

Hey, Mr Weatherman, you fucked up!

This is my yard around 10am Wednesday morning.  The storm was forecast to hit around midday.  My intention was to repeat this picture every few hours to chronicle the accumulating snow.

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Here’s the yard again, 11 hrs later.  So much for 7-12″, it’s more like 2-3″…

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Veronica is working on her flexibility in preparation for next weeks Winter Olympics HNT theme.  Visit Osbasso to see who else is getting half-nekkid this week and to learn more about the theme.  And as usual there is The Other HNT for a more NSFW brand of nekkidness.

Happy Half-nekkid Thursday!!!

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!