Monday, November 4, 2013

Weekend Update

Happy Monday, all. I've really been trying to figure out if I have anything interesting to write about from this weekend, and so far I can't think of much. I know, I know; not having anything interesting to write about hasn't really stopped me before, so I guess I should just press on.
Let's see: Friday we took the niece to dinner at a local joint. She'd had two wisdom teeth taken out Thursday and the place we went has some pretty good soup, which is about all she wanted to eat. I won't get into just how hysterical she was about the blood from the surgery Thursday night, but I will say I don't know how she can bear to have her period. She had calmed down considerably Friday, though, so it wasn't a chore to be around her. Well, no more of a chore than it normally is.
The wife worked Saturday morning for a few hours, and when she got home we went to visit my parents like we usually do. The rest of the day was spent at home watching college football (Virginia Tech lost again) and I cooked "Better than Takeout Fried Rice." I made it with a mix of chicken and shrimp, and it came out really good. We had the leftovers for dinner Sunday night too.
L and B stopped by for a few minutes earlier in the day so she could pick up a couple of the boxes she left at our house one of the times she was moving from one guy to the other (I can't remember which one, honestly.) It was good to see her, but I was in a bit of a snit because I knew they'd been in town most of the day and didn't make an effort to see if we wanted to meet up for lunch or dinner or something. I don't know if she noticed, and it wasn't like I was grouchy or surly or anything, but I just didn't feel all that enthusiastic about her coming by.
The niece came home from work and got some things together an left to spend the weekend with her dad, so we had the house to ourselves. Neither of us were really in the mood to take advantage of the time alone, so we had some drinks, watched more football, then went on to bed around 10. It was really 11, of course, but we'd already set all the clocks back for the time change.
Sunday morning, after breakfast, the wife and I did finally take advantage of being alone. It was... okay, I guess. After 22 years I suppose I shouldn't expect it to be mind blowing; I do wish the wife was a little more "there" though. Anyway, we headed out to run some errands, then headed home and spent the day watching football (the Cowboys won, but barely, and against a bad team, so it didn't get me all excited.) We had a few drinks after dinner, then went on to bed before 10.
So that was my weekend, for what it's worth. How was yours?

Friday, November 1, 2013

Joke of the Week


Bill (it's usually Bill) catches a taxi home one evening, the cabbie charges him almost double the usual fare and when Bill complains he becomes abusive.
Bill resolves to get his revenge if he comes across this taxi driver again.

A week later Bill goes to get a cab home and notices the driver from the week before is third in the taxi rank.
He strolls up and gets in the first cab, once inside he tells the driver that he doesn’t have any cash but, if he takes him home he’ll give him a blow job.
The cab driver goes mad and kicks him out of his cab.
Bill now gets into the second cab and makes that driver the same proposition: a blow job for a lift home. The second driver also refuses and kicks him out.
So now Bill gets into the third taxi, the guy who ripped him off, and asks to be dropped a few blocks away.
As the cab drives off Bill smiles at the first two drivers and gives a big thumbs up…

Flash Fiction Friday - Happy Holidays! - 11/1


Required Phrase- "Oops, wrong picture"
Word Limit - 250 words
Forbidden words - College, Collagan, Colloquial, Cauliflower
Bonus Points - Share a real "oops" story if you haven't already as your main post
Extra Words - Christmas time is coming. You get 100 extra words if you make this about a holiday greeting.

“Bill, did you take care of the cards?” Linda called out to her husband.
“Yes, dear; I took the memory card with the picture you selected to the printer this morning. I showed them the catalog with the card you want circled, and gave them the slip of paper with the Christmas greeting you wrote.”
“Did you give them the mailing list too? When did they say they would be done?”
“They finished them this afternoon, and have already started mailing them out to the addresses on the list. It’s all taken care of, and it couldn’t have gone smoother.”
“Whew, that’s such a relief!” Linda exclaimed. Giving Bill a kiss on the cheek, she said “Thank you honey. You did wonderfully. How did they look?”
“Look? Oh… I didn’t think to look at them first.”
“Honestly, Bill!” she cried. “Didn’t they offer to let you see them first? What if the image is crooked or they messed up the greeting?”
“I’m sure it’s fine, Linda,” Bill answered, starting to feel a bit put upon. He’d done everything she’d asked, and the printers were professionals; what could possibly go wrong?
“Well,” sighed Linda, “you’re probably right. Did they give you a proof?”
“No. Wait, maybe they did!” Bill went out to the car and picked up the envelope the printers had given him. Realizing sheepishly that it was the size of a greeting card, he now understood that they might have expected him to look at it and approve it. Oh, well; what’s done is done. He strode into the living room and gave it to Linda, then went to fix himself a drink.
Linda opened the envelope and pulled out the card, happy to see that had gone correctly. She opened it just as Bill moved behind her chair and leaned it to see it with her.

“Oops!” she whispered, realizing she must have mixed up the memory cards. When would the cards hit, she wondered?
“Wrong picture, I presume?” Bill deadpanned. “You look lovely as always, dear, but I wasn’t aware that Phil had such an impressive member.”
350 words exactly. Head over to Advizor's site throughout the day to read the other outstanding entries.
Now to earn those extra points:
The first (of many) time that L left the boyfriend to get back with the ex, the wife and I drove down to spend the weekend with them. We rode down on our motorcycle that Saturday, and we all rode together (the two of them on B’s bike) to a winery in the nearby city. It was a fun day, and I stupidly thought all of the drama was past, and the two of them would work things out and be stronger than ever.
A week or two earlier, L had asked if I wanted a picture. I said yes, thinking she meant to send something innocent, like her with a new hairstyle or blouse or something. Imagine my pleasant surprise when it turned out to be a picture of her pussy, perfectly framed, with her fingers on each side spreading the lips. It was beautiful, and I was happier than I’d been in some time because (in my mind) this meant we were back on! Over the next few days we exchanged a few more pictures (I sent more than I got in return, but whatever.) Of course days later I was back to wondering just what the hell was going on, because suddenly L was acting distant again. (This has been a common, repeated pattern that I now know will probably continue forever.)
But no matter, I had some really nice pictures, and where there were some there may someday be more. Of course I couldn’t leave them in my main picture gallery in case the wife saw them, but I’m the technophile with a long history of being sneaky, so I moved the pictures to another folder and didn’t think twice about it.
Friday night, before the wife and I drove down to see L and B, we’d been fooling around and she let me take some pictures of her. She’d had a bit of wine, so had loosened up somewhat from her normal stodginess, and I wound up getting some good boob pictures, pussy shots, and even a few action photos of her giving me a blowjob and my cock in her pussy. Of course after the sex was over she insisted I delete the pictures, and though I wanted to hang on to them she watched me and made sure I deleted them all. (Please forgive this tangent, but it is important.)
Anyway, Saturday night we were all sitting around drinking some wine we’d bought, laughing about old times and generally having a good time. L excused herself to go to the bathroom, and the wife suggested I show them both a picture of some stupid thing or another. She picked up my phone (which didn’t bother me at all) and pulled up my gallery, then hit me on the arm and said “I told you to delete those!” I looked at the phone and saw the picture of L’s pussy! It was the representative picture of the folder I’d “hidden” all those pictures in!
I’ve said before that I generally don’t panic in emergency situations, and this is an example of that. Though my heart was pounding and I had no idea how that folder could possibly be in the gallery, I quickly realized that the wife only saw enough of it to think it was one of the one’s I’d taken of her the night before. I calmly took the phone and said “Oops, I thought I had; I’ll take care of it now.” The wife kept trying to watch, presumably to make sure I really deleted it, but I didn’t want her to look too closely or she’d notice the BIG ASS RING on the hand in the picture. Then she’d remember she hadn’t posed in that way for me, and… well, nothing good would come from any of that.
“Okay, I have to go to the bathroom, and I’ll delete it,” I said. I fully expected her to object, but she didn’t. I’d been drinking a good deal of beer and wine, so it was totally believable I was about to piss my pants. I was scared enough to anyway! Once in the bathroom I desperately tried to figure out why the pictures were showing, and how I could get them off the gallery without deleting them.
(I found out later that the Android operating system helpfully scans every fucking folder on your phone and shows all pictures it finds, and couldn’t give two shits if they are pictures you want to hide. The phone I had at the time didn’t have a built in way to mark a folder as hidden, but fortunately my current phone does.)
Alas, it was beyond my capabilities that night to figure it out, and I had only a few moments of “pissing” before the wife would get suspicious; I had to delete the pictures. Oh, they were such nice pictures, especially that first pussy shot. Though I have others similar to it, none are so artistically rendered as that one. I still mourn its loss.
I later told L about it, and she refuses to wear the ring she’d had on in the picture. The wife has a well-known eye for details, and L is afraid, even now some two years later, that she would recognize it and raise a stink. I’ve told her that after all this time even the wife won’t remember; she’d had some wine that night herself after all. However, it’s probably best if L waits another year or two before wearing it, just to be safe.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Slip-N-Slide


Sunday night’s surprise sex was the result of my gallantly offering to give the wife a massage. When I hopefully suggested the massage would feel better if I were using baby oil, she knew what I had in mind. Fortunately she wasn’t opposed to a little slip-n-slide, so she agreed and just asked that I not use “too much” baby oil. But that’s kind of subjective, right?
I love giving these types of massages, because I’ll sit on the back of her upper thighs with my cock nestled between her butt cheeks. Now this isn’t just about sex for me, so I do spend some good amount of time actually giving a good shoulder and back rub. I know how to work the aches and pains and unkink the knots, and I do a pretty darn good job at it if I do say so myself.
Whether I start out with a hard-on or not, the rocking motion from leaning forward to work her shoulders and back will get to me, and usually pretty quick. During the massage, I of course move down to work her butt cheeks (there are muscles there; look it up!) It’s not my fault if squeezing and pushing and pulling on her ass causes my dick to settle in closer and closer to her pussy.
Then I move back to her back and shoulders, back to her butt, back up, back down, etc. If she’s really getting into it, she’s starting to get wet by now, and the oil helps too. Plus, I will produce a good bit of pre-cum, so before long my cock head will pop into her opening. I slowly work back and forth, a little more in at a time, but still (kind of) massaging her too. I love the feeling when I slide all the way in, my pelvis nestled against her ass and she’s arching against me.
The massage is all but over now, and it’s down to just some good ol’ fucking! When I’m past the point of no return, I pull out and come all over her ass and back; if I’m feeling mischievous, I angle up a little and tighten my grip around the head just a bit and send a shot further up, possibly landing in her hair. (But not a lot; that stuff is hard to clean out.) I always apologize and act like it was an accident, but I get a little kick out of doing it. I didn’t do this Sunday night, though; it was getting late and we had to work the next morning. Hey, I can be a gentleman!
I cleaned her up, she rolled on her back, and we broke out her toy to finish her off. It didn’t take long before her pussy was clenching and squeezing my fingers, and it always makes me happy when she comes. We snuggled a bit and kissed some more, then turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Weekend Update



Other than the results of a couple sports events, the weekend wasn’t bad. The wife and the niece both worked Saturday morning, so I had some rare time for myself. Of course I took advantage of the opportunity and had a nice, leisurely jerk-off session. I also got the majority of the grocery shopping done and puttered around the house for a while until the wife got home. We went out for a quick, fast-food lunch, then came home and relaxed the rest of the day.
Unfortunately I got to watch Virginia Tech lose to an unranked, mediocre Duke. I honestly wasn’t surprised at all; I told my coworkers two weeks ago that if the Hokies broke the top 15, they’d lose to anybody, including Duke. There’s something about Tech and the way they play when they have a chip on their shoulder versus the way they play when they’re comfortable. I like the chip-on-the-shoulder VT very much; I don’t like the comfortable VT. Now they are out of the top 25, and rightly so.
But it’s just football, and college football at that, so I wasn’t going to let that ruin the rest of the day. I made Cajun sausage and shrimp pasta for dinner from a recipe the wife found on Facebook, and it turned out really good. The niece insisted that she wouldn’t eat it if I cooked the shrimp with the rest of the dish, because she doesn’t like shrimp and even the flavor of it in the meal would turn her off.
I was tempted to tell her to find her own damned dinner, but the wife suggested I cook the shrimp separately and we could add it after dishing out the niece’s. It made it more work for me, but I reluctantly agreed. The point of having it all together is to get the blend of flavors! But it was still good, and the niece got to enjoy it as well. We finished the night with some drinks and more college football, and went to bed pretty early even for us.
Sunday morning I dumped a bunch of ingredients into the slow cooker for a homemade chicken and dumplings while making waffles and sausage for breakfast. (When I complain again about my weight, which I certainly will do, you have my permission to refer back to all these meals I talk about making.) I had to run over to my parent’s house to fix their internet connection, and while we were out we made a few more stops but were home in plenty of time for the 1:00 kickoff of the Cowboys/Lions game. I had a feeling the ‘Boys would keep the game close but lose it in the end just to fuck with me, and damned if that’s not exactly what they did. It seems I’m just destined to root for teams that wind up being average or worse.
But the chicken and dumplings turned out good, and I’m looking forward to some leftovers for lunch today. The Eagles and the Redskins lost, so it wasn’t a complete bust of a football weekend. And I got laid before the wife and I went to sleep. So I can’t really complain, all in all.
How was your weekend?

Friday, October 25, 2013

Delusions of Grandeur


I used to play guitar when I was in my teens (what teen didn’t, amiright?) and though I was never that good at playing well-known songs, I did write my own. Before going into the Army, I had a notebook full of stupid, angsty-teen poetry set to ridiculously simple chord progressions. I wasn’t talented enough to play anything complex, and I was too lazy to work at it enough to become talented. I took lessons briefly at a local music shop, and even won a talent competition through them with an original song, but I couldn't stick to the lessons because I'd get distracted going on tangents and writing more songs.
I never really lost my drive to write songs, even though I rarely play anymore. Most of the time I work on a line or two mentally, enjoying a little word play, then discard everything. When I’m really into it I’ll pick up my usually forgotten guitar in the basement, tune it up, and run some rifts while I think of words to go along with whatever sound comes out of it. I'll get bored or distracted soon enough and the bug leaves me, and I neglect the guitar for another year or so.
About 15 years ago my wife and I used to hang out with a woman she worked with and her husband. He’s an outstanding banjo player, and he has a bunch of friends who all play various instruments at skill levels far above anything I could ever hope to achieve. Sometimes I’d take my guitar and sit in with them, trying to follow along as best I could with the chord progressions. They didn’t seem to mind that I was off a lot of times, and there were a few songs that I could sing pretty well because they were in my vocal range. Mostly they played bluegrass or “old time country” (a subtle but distinct difference), and when you get immersed in it like I did it tends to grow on you.
It grew on me so much that I decided to write my own “bluegrass” song. I never could get the chords right to match what I heard in my head, and I didn’t feel confident enough to play it for the guys so they could help me work it out, but I did think the lyrics were pretty good. So, for your amusement, I present my first foray into bluegrass:
How Could You Tell Me that You Love Me
I knew when we first met that we would marry
We’d live our lives in perfect harmony.
I loved you just as much as I could, dear
But not enough to keep you here with me.
(Chorus)
You said that you would stay with me forever
I’d never face this world on my own.
How could you tell me that you love me
Then go and leave me here all alone?
They say for every man there is one woman
And after all of this I guess it’s true.
‘Cause I can’t stand to spend my time without you
The only woman I’ll ever want is you.
(Chorus)
Our friends all say I should be happy for you
But I can hear the sorrow in their tone.
How could you tell me that you love me
Then go and leave me here all alone?
(Now you’ll have to imagine a kick-ass bluegrass break here, with competing solos from the banjo and either a mandarin or really good guitar player. If it’s recorded, give it about 45 seconds. If it’s live, it could go ten minutes or longer and involve everything including the jug.)
You said that we would meet again someday, love
And begged me not to follow you too soon
But I can’t live another day without you
I’m joining you beneath this dying moon.
(Chorus)
The ground you’re lying in is cold and barren
but not as dark and empty as our home.
How could you tell me that you love me
Then go and leave me here all alone?
I didn’t do a FFF with the Halloween theme this week, but maybe this will be a good substitute.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Darker Smiles


I’ve written before (recently, I think) that I like when the weather gets cooler because it means I can cook with the oven again. I also love that so many food options open up again that really don’t work that well during the hotter months, like soups and casseroles.
The bad part about the change of seasons, though, is the lack of sunlight. I don’t mind the cold, and I’m one of those idiots who love the snow (especially driving in it), and even the wind doesn’t bother me that much. But between the shorter days and the dark gray skies, the long periods without sunlight just really drag me down.
I don’t think I have full-blown Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or anything, and I feel bad for those who do. But I am usually down more than up this time of year, and I have a more negative outlook about everything, including myself, than I do in the spring and summer. I try to hide it, but I don't think I do a very good job of it.
It’s not all doom and gloom; I still have fun doing certain things. I generally enjoy Halloween, and though I always eat too much (thereby increasing my own self-disgust) I love Thanksgiving. Christmas is kind of a mixed bag for me; there’s the family and food aspect, but gift-giving is always so stressful because more often than not we don’t have much money and even when we do have money I simply have no idea what to get anybody. I wind up giving gift cards, but it seems so pointless if everyone else is doing the same thing. I’d like to suggest doing away with gift-giving altogether with my family, but then I’d feel like a cheapskate.
On top of that, as an Atheist I keep getting conscripted into the “War on Christmas.” Bill O’Reilly assures me that it happens every year, so it must be true.
This year there are some work-related things to look forward to that I haven’t had before. The employee stock purchase program should give the wife and I a nice little lump of money at the end of November, which I’ll use for Christmas gifts and to pay down some of the smaller bills. Also, there’s a decent chance of getting a bonus this year; it’s not guaranteed but signs are promising. The company didn’t pay out bonuses last year to the rank-and-file employees, but since I was a new hire I wouldn’t have gotten anything regardless. And I should see a pay rise, though it will most likely be pretty modest. I’m thinking 1.5% to 3% because it’s based on my own performance as well as the performance of my division as a whole.
So I’m trying to stay as positive as I can about things, and keep my spirits up. I know I have no right to bitch about things; plenty of people have it worse than I do. But the next three or four months are going to be a battle.