Work for it.........edited to be interactive!!

Did you know today is International Day of Sceptics??

It is also Friday the 13th (I HATE Friday the 13th cause I am so superstitious)

I also have nothing much to say today............

SO.........

I decided why not turn this superstitious skeptical day into a day for YOU the readers ...


How this works........ 

Your job - to ask questions:


Want to know something / anything - about BDSM - post a question.........
Want to know something very specific about my life ...... post a question....... 
Want to know the meaning of life .......... post a question.........

My job.............. to try and answer all your questions to the best of my ability...........

Come on folks - help me out here... let's try a little interactive blogging for a change....... 


Even all you anonymous folks who pop by day after day after day - you can post a question............ I will moderate (cause I am not lifting the moderation for any reason) but as long as you are polite your question will be asked............. and answered..

So who's gonna go first???? 

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oh you wonderful wonderful readers!!!!  Here are your questions.... AND... as I am home for quick lunch and don't have time to answer them properly - I will start answering them this evening... I promise !!!

  How is the Canadian press treating kinksters nowadays? Are they giving you a reasonable image or are you still getting the tired old knee jerk reactions from the journos. Prefectdt



 Renee' said... If you dont want to post this I will understand :) I've been following you and W for a long time now and always wonder why you have been together so long yet have never made that step into 24/7 living together. Again, I totally understand if that's a bit too personal. You said ask and it's the only real question I have so there it goes :)

Anonymous said...

          What age did you start to like pain?

           How much pain do you really like?

          What happen to the man who was the father of your children?

          I thought I would ask several questions since no one had?

          Enjoy reading your blog.

SirMike

           BlazngScarlet said...

            How are you doing with your Accounting program?

            Do you get to the Capital often?

            Will you be there in Feb?

Ana said...

Is this the first/only blog you have had? And why did you start blogging? Two questions OK? (oops does that make it three/four?) Ana  

Buyer Beware

Ok so I am not entirely a stupid person....... I certainly have managed to live this long without committing any gross stupidity (in my opinion anyway)

I have heard all the warnings - even listened to and absorbed and lived by - all the warnings about shopping on line.  I have - honest I have !!!

EXCEPT 

for when I didn't.

Like on December 3rd.......... I was playing some stupid mind numbing game on Facebook - when I noticed an ad on the sidebar that was really quite tempting....free face cream.  A miracle worker on dry skin...... Arganliquid gold.  Even the name sounds good - don't you agree???!!!

AND my skin is dry - so very dry that it scales off regularly - like a snake's skin (let's all say ewwwwwwwwwwwwww now) 

So with one half of my brain on the stupid game on Facebook - and the other half of my brain reading the hype about this oil......... I ordered the 'free' sample.  I had 15 days to try it out....... and cancel ........... With this half brain working I gave them my credit card number....... and then went back to playing my game.

The very next morning there was a charge against my card for $4.16 Canadian for shipping and handling.  I sat back to await this miracle oil that was going to cure my dry skin.

Two weeks later with no sign of this free sample of Arganliquid gold - my credit card was charged again - this time for $89.36 !!!!!!!!!!!!! for Arganliquid gold.


I sent off a nasty email telling them to cancel my order... IMMEDIATELY!!  I had not received this oil and now they were billing me AGAIN????


But - hey - this oil finally arrived right after I sent off the email.  So I tried it.  What the hell right?? I had it .. It was supposed to work miracles - so I tried it.  


I can honestly say it was.................oily.
I used it day and night for 3 days and it was still............. oily.  My skin seemed less dry - but then the thought went through my head baby oil would achieve the same effect.


On the 4th day the pump action thingy broke and I had to figure out how to get this precious oil out of a bottle with no screw top.  I broke a pair of scissors trying to pry off the lid.  


I kept using the oil - well I had paid for it right?? and maybe it was gonna work..... (I had noticed if I didn't use it twice a day - the skin was still very dry and scaly) 


On December 19th I noticed yet another charge on my credit card for yet another bottle of this oil.  I was still working on the sample bottle....... I had cancelled the order..... WTF??!!


Last week ArganLiquid gold called me.  They told me I could NOT cancel by writing to them I had to phone them.  WTF??!!


So I called them yesterday.  I spent 20 minutes (at least) on the phone with them trying to get them to cancel.  They tried to tell me all the uses for this oil.. they tried to give me a discount (3 times!!)  They tried everything to keep me.  I kept saying ....... over and over and over - cancel it... NOW.  I landed up yelling at them.  I NEVER yell at anyone 


They said they had cancelled.  I asked for a cancellation number.  They said they would email it to me.


I hung up and called my credit card company.  They told me that unlike a cheque they can't just put a stop payment on something.  WTF???!!!


They told me IF I sent them my cancellation email they would get my money back.  IF I got the cancellation confirmation email - they would make sure no more charges were put on my card. 


They said ..... IF..... I didn't have the email or didn't get the confirmation I would have to cancel the credit card.  WTF??!!

So I found the email (thank god I didn't delete it - I tend to empty my email every month or so) and now am awaiting the confirmation email (yeah right !!)

I probably will be cancelling my credit card - my one and true credit card.


I am trying to see this as a "lesson learned"......... but god I am cross with myself........ stupid stupid me !!  


All that to say - if YOU see an ad for ArganLiquid gold - do NOT get suckered in.  (like you would - you are probably a whole lot smarter than me!!)

 

The Blahs

The last couple of days it has been like pulling teeth to come up with a blog entry.... hell not just a blog entry - but any sort of enthusiasm for greeting the day...... or getting through the day.........

Now usually around mid January - people blame the winter for the "blahs"....... but we haven't had "winter" yet here - well not our usual winter... and still people have a good dose of the blahs...........

So what's up with all this blah.............???

Maybe it is not mid winter blahs - but more post holiday let down???  Yet I can't honestly say I have post holiday let down... I am glad it is done... I had fun despite my monster cold bug (which if anyone is interested - I STILL have - well the snuffling and sneezing and coughing - not the sick monster cold it was - but still a cold)


I take a look around "blog land" and there isn't much going on..... I should - some time when I have 5 minutes or so - research how many blogs are put into moth balls during this time of the year................. 


Well rest assured The Journey isn't going into moth balls....... nor are 'The Blahs' going to run me into the ground............. BUT.......... still - there doesn't seem much of interest to write about these days....... certainly nothing in the realm of BDSM...... hell I am not even masturbating these days........


There is a tentative trip to our Nation's Capital for a play party this weekend - but it's tentative and W and I really haven't even discussed it........ but I am hoping whether we go there or stay here........ that some sort of play will happen this weekend..... cause I know I need something to jerk me out of these "blahs".........

Snippets

Yesterday was my first day back at school.......... last evening as I sat in the quiet of the living room snippets of my day floated and danced around in my memory........ 

My little L who suffers from extreme anxiety had dissolved as he walked in the front doors ... inconsolable....... even my hugs and quiet words of reassurance couldn't break through the panic........ 

My little girl - the one who haunted my days over the holidays - wondering if she got to see her mom - bounced into my office all smiles to tell me that Mom had come home at Christmas and they had spent the day together..........yes Mom had gone back to the hospital - BUT - they had had Christmas together....... best present ever if you ask me!

Tough lil M who slipped into my office quietly at noon to ask if I had any food cause she didn't have a lunch.......... tiny skinny tough lil M who carries the weight of the world on her shoulders


All the voices over the lunch hour - chattering away - snippets sneaking into my office to dance around the room......the new student teacher who thinks he's all that and then some - being introduced to me - telling me I couldn't forget such a handsome face (??!!) over confident pompous ass....


Parents in the late afternoon coming in to collect their little ones - again more voices dancing around - tales of holidays....... skating, swimming, dancing - overindulgence - trips south - swimming with the dolphins - not so happy voices - skipping over the rehash of the holidays - smiling softly - talking of having to work...... or losing work.... 


The mom who flounced into my office to declare her son was innocent of all wrong doings and I had to fix the school that didn't recognise his worth..........biting my tongue hard - harder - hardest - because to say something would bring on a fire storm I don't want to be responsible for.......... 


And then as the day drew to an end - and the voices wound down to 2 or 3 .. quiet talk of quiet things..... of new schools and no friends -  of grandpapa's funeral on Thursday ..... of daddy not working and no money......... 


An awful lot of weight for such tiny shoulders to carry.............. 

Just snippets from a busy noisy day

It's all about patience

Monday is my usual Monday Morning report - and today is no different.  Only not much of interest happened this weekend.  

I stayed in my pjs.. took my meds.. prayed for a miracle cure ... stressed over my budget (which we already talked about) ... and ............ 

In two weeks we (the kids at school and I ) are going to our next country.  We are going to the Orient  (yeah I know that's a big surprise)

So on Saturday afternoon I decided to do some work on our next country... mostly in my head...but I did start work on the decorations that will adorn our room...... 

If I learned nothing else this weekend I learned patience .... here's what I did..........

an origami crane

origami fish

origami sailboat

origami butterfly

(ok this one needs work)

 origami penguin

origami box

and all the ones that didn't work out...