Sweltering Celt

It’s been five crazy, sultry years since I first set figurative pen to electronic paper.  I have loved and hated writing about sex and relationships.  I have been through the depths of depression and felt intense, unadulterated joy.  Many of you have been with me from the beginning, or close to.  Others have visited and stayed.  I am so grateful to all of you who have chosen to stick with me through the highs and lows and have put up with extended hiatus after extended hiatus.

Since I started Microfantasy Monday a year ago, I have newfound reason to make sure I post at least once a week.  Some weeks I don’t have a chance to write my own microfantasy, but coming up with themes incites creativity in me that used to lay dormant.  I love reading everyone’s entries, and in particular this week the entries were arousing and fun to read.  I’ve never asked for someone to develop a fantasy about me, and to be honest I think I’d better do it again next year, since it was so exciting!

As you know, this Microfantasy Monday was also a contest to celebrate the first year of Microfantasy Monday and the fifth year of this blog.  The entries were insanely hot and sexy, and it was so tough for me to pick one favorite that I had to enlist Doc and Ranger’s help to decide.  Finally, after much deliberation, we decided that the ultimate winner of this contest is The Pink Poppet with her entry, The Celt’s Best Performance.  This is a scenario that my husbands would LOVE to see me in, and to be honest I wouldn’t mind doing it myself!  Many of the entries are ones I would absolutely LOVE to act out, which is why it was so hard to decide!

The Pink Poppet will receive a one year membership to Alt.com, a six month membership to Bondage.com, and a Footlong Case from For Your Nymphomation.  I am grateful to all who entered, you made my week SO amazing!  I hope we can do another contest next year and get even more entries to make my work that much harder!!!

A lot is going on all of a sudden.

My new term in school started yesterday, and as a result I am already cowering under the insane pressures of a senior year in college.  I am better prepared, however, to pay the attention to this blog that I want to this year.  My priorities have shifted somewhat, and while I may not be writing every single day I am writing again.  I have realized that in order to be fair and true to myself I cannot allow myself to be swamped by schoolwork without any other outlet, particularly a creative outlet.  I struggle sometimes to decide what to write about, but I’m working on that too – I’ve taken to carrying around a small notebook and when a topic strikes me, I can jot it down for later recollection.

Doc recently was given a promotion, and he starts his new job on Monday.  This is both a blessing and a curse.  While the whole family will benefit from the increase in pay, along with it comes an increase in responsibilities and hours at work.  Doc’s free time will decrease significantly, and combined with  my reduced free time as a college senior with a senior project we are both concerned about getting any time together, much less enough time together.  I will see him today, since we’re donating blood, but I fear that the time hanging out in the Red Cross center will be the only time I get with him this week.  We’re hoping for a little bit more than just that today, but we never know what we’ll actually get.

Finally, the blog is getting closer to its fifth anniversary and a contest and complete redesign is in the works.  I look forward to showing you all what is going on behind the scenes, and especially I look forward to being able to celebrate five years of baring my soul publicly.  It’s been a great run, and one that I hope doesn’t end anytime soon.  Keep your eyes peeled for a contest to be announced in the next few weeks – the winner, announced on the anniversary November 4th, will win a nice little package that I am currently trying to round up prizes for.  That, and the redesign, is taking a lot of my time as well.

Between two major changes, it can be frustrating trying to find time as a family and separately.  All I can hope for right now is that we navigate them as seamlessly as possible and adapt quickly.  This is just another of many trials for our little family.  We will prevail.  We always do.  It just sucks in the meantime.