{"id":266,"date":"2007-01-08T14:41:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T23:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/look-its-the-new-year\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T04:26:06","slug":"look-its-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/look-its-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Look It&#8217;s The New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/reflections.jpg' alt='reflections' \/><\/p>\n<p>The new year is as good a time as any for sizing things up and wondering what improvements can be made.  Not only is it the beginning of the year, but it was in January 2004 that I first met my Dan face to face and thus sealed the deal, so to speak.  It sealed the deal so well that I moved in just a few weeks later.  Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s only been three years; I feel like I&#8217;ve loved him forever.  I can&#8217;t think of my love for him in time increments, only in depth.  But still, the arrival of January means we&#8217;ve been together another year and makes a good marker in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>We had a really good year, too.  These last couple of months have been a bit stressful, but it&#8217;s going to be okay and we can actually see some of the good that will come from the whole experience.  We just can&#8217;t wait until things settle down enough for us to get back to being &#8220;us&#8221; again.  We&#8217;ve been working as a team but because of circumstances, together time just isn&#8217;t happening right now.  Soon though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;m getting over a nasty cold and trying to think of constructive things I can do with my newfound &#8220;me&#8221; time.  As soon as I&#8217;m healthy enough, I think my first order of business should be to take down the Christmas tree.  Hey, I didn&#8217;t put it up until two days before Christmas, so I figured I&#8217;d leave it out longer this year.  (That&#8217;s my story anyway.)  But with all the other trappings of the season gone, it&#8217;s really starting to clash with the decor so it&#8217;s gotta go.<\/p>\n<p>Once I get my living room back, I want to start working on me.  I guess I might as well bite the bullet and call these my new year resolutions.  They all have more or less the same purpose in mind; making life better.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bore you with the usual stuff like exercising more because that&#8217;s just what I have to do to offset all the time I&#8217;ve been sitting on my booty in this computer chair.  That&#8217;s not exactly a resolution though, that&#8217;s just reality setting in.  Now all I need to do is figure out how much time I need to spend on the treadmill to offset the time I spend playing Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>I do have some kinky resolutions though. <\/p>\n<p>1) <strong>Give Dan more blowjobs.<\/strong>  I can&#8217;t think of a better way to improve both our lives.  I get to do something I enjoy, he gets something he enjoys, we&#8217;ll both be in better moods overall, and if I&#8217;m real lucky, the recent increase in my ebay purchases won&#8217;t be noticed.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Work on my leather crafting skills.<\/strong>  I made this resolution as soon as I opened my Christmas gifts and saw the new whippy thing that Dan bought me.  Evil only begins to describe this thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/newwhip.jpg' alt='newwhip' \/><\/p>\n<p>squealing and cursing ends my description of it.  I need to start making our toys in an effort to balance out the evil with good.  That coupled with more of my first resolution might actually work.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Anal training.<\/strong>  Yup, that&#8217;s right, I need to get my butt in training.  The last time we tried a butt plug, it didn&#8217;t go so well.  I don&#8217;t know what happened but I just couldn&#8217;t handle it.  We had tried it a previous time with the same result and I had thought that was a fluke.  Obviously it wasn&#8217;t so something needs to be done.  To that end, I bought myself this anal trainer kit of butt plugs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremerestraints.com\/home.html?a=Bethie\" target=_blank>Extreme Restraints.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/atrainerkit.jpg' alt='analtrainerkit_XR' \/><\/p>\n<p>The small and the medium don&#8217;t look too daunting, but that large one has me wondering just how &#8220;pliable&#8221; that&#8217;s gonna feel once it&#8217;s inserted.  If all goes well, this could open me up to a whole new area of play, literally. <\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>Do more yoga.<\/strong>  Maybe that doesn&#8217;t sound kinky at first, but if you knew some of the positions I find myself in, you might understand a little better.  There&#8217;s nothing that puts a kink in the kinky play like a muscle cramp at the wrong time.  Besides, Dan wants to do more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spankingblog.com\/2007\/01\/08\/grumpy-girl-caned\/\" target=_blank>those certain spanking positions<\/a> that mean more positioning for me so I&#8217;d better get myself all limbered up for that.<\/p>\n<p>Those were the only ones I could think of at the time I made my list.  With a little work, I just might get somewhere with all of this and be a better and kinkier me when it&#8217;s over.  Okay, so maybe I can&#8217;t get any kinkier, but I can darn sure try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year is as good a time as any for sizing things up and wondering what improvements can be made. 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