And now for the 16:00 round up of this week's events

So I thought that I should do a general round up kind of thing before I get stuck back in.

Today the weather has been crappy and autumnal so I've been busy cleaning and airing the house and doing the washing and stuff. The event season starts back up for me in a few weeks and so time to get everything in order again I guess. But now the flat is sparkling and I have my snuggle rug out ready for the shitty weather with a cup of tea next to me.

I actually quite like Autumn, fav time of year. I love wet and windy Sunday afternoons curled up on the sofa or bed with a pot of tea and a good book or black and white film.

Anyway, I digress (like that never normally happens!)...

I got back from holiday and went back to work. That's it really! lol How depressing, I know. I'm currently convinced that the rest of my life will consist of: work, weekend, work, weekend, work, weekend for an unknown amount of time until death. Happy thoughts eh?

Tan is fading and I've finally unpacked and now it looks and feels as if I was never away.

Pah! Having a tan is great and I'm going to do the unthinkable and go and lay my white arse on a sunbed a few times a month I think. Especially with winter coming up. Don't want to look like a tangerine or anything, but I do look and feel better with a hint of colour.

Other than that...hmmm...well, I've been spending a lot of time with The Boss and its been fabulous. Yes, he's still kicking around and hasn't rolled his eyes so much at me that he's thrown his hands up and run off. 7 months now....I'm beginning to wonder if he is maybe a bit of a masochist.

After I got my half a sim, I managed to finally convince him that his plot on the mainland was ugly, crowded and shite and that he should get in touch with Joshua Sao and see if he had anything. Josh is great - he had nothing so what does he do? Buys a new sim. lolol Thankfully the other two 1/4 plots went quickly.

It seems that the neighbours keep themselves to themselves and I think that they're on another time zone which is always nice. One has done a nice job on his island, but the other one...oh dear. She's gone and dumped a fugly black cube store on it. I am not a happy bunny! Josh has a policy that his sims have no covenant which is fair enough, especially when it comes to things like taste (or not, as is the case with "her"). But I am a little miffed that commercial stuff can go up like that. Hahaha...and its not even my land, but I spend enough time there for it to irritate me.

I'd be happy if she moved the black box thing up into the sky, but it still remains to be seen if she's actually a decent enough skin maker or photographer to generate any customers. If it gets laggy, then Josh will step in apparently.

I AM very tempted though - I have these huge ghost prims...the actual prim is on your land, but the ghost part can be rotated (normally) to make your sim look bigger as it expands out. I am kinda guessing that if I put on or two on the edge of the island there, that they might just possibly, perhaps be more than highly visible and present on her bit. *giggles evilly.

We shall see...I'm gonna go down the mediation route first, but after that, well...what's a girl to do other than use a visual blocking method?? And if said method happens to be soooo big that it impacts her sim..well...I'm sorry, I'm thick...I have no idea how that could happen!

Thank god I don't have these issues with my neighbours!

I know, I know...The Boss is more than capable of doing this himself, but he's buggered off on holiday. Bastard. lol Well deserved so I shall stop sulking.

Speaking of The Boss and his island..he built a house on it. From scratch. And it looks bloody good! A bit low on furniture at the moment, but its getting there and lil ol popette feels mighty good there. Thankfully he knows well enough to make use of my talent for shopping and rezzing and I've been allowed to make it a little cozy.

Well...I have a few more bits to blog about and shall in due course, but the washing is done and I need to practise my house-wifely skills (who for, I have no idea) and hang it all up.

Drama Queen Alert

So the main reason for staying up way too late (again *sighs) was that I wanted to post this...

The Boss and I were chatting this evening. It is now agreed between us that a). I am a pain in the arse (which we all knew) and b). He can also be a difficult bugger and a pain too.

For the sake of our fledgling relationship, and he being the Master part of it all, it's been agreed that I am the lil pain in the arse and he's the big pain in the arse.

How can I but agree? S'true. *shrugs

And I DO try, at least now and again to not argue with him (*nominates herself for Subbie of the Year 2008).

(As an aside, a friend of mine emailed me and wanted more personal stuff on the blog...dunno if he quite meant in this direction though.)

An example of this: my adored Boss has been very good to lil Popette. There was a little *situation* earlier and the first thing that I did was shoot off an email to him, saying that I wanted to speak to him. It wasn't a soft, tender, cutsie email, no no no. It was...well....ok, it was worded quite strongly.

*sighs and holds her hand up, "My name is Poppy and I am a Drama Queen"

Well...basically I thought that he had lied about something. Turns out that he hadn't.

Whoops.

No, he didn't lie. But, he WAS a prat of the highest order.

Which can happen to us all. *looks out of the screen at you. Yes, you too. We all do something idiotic at time.

So...conclusions:

1). The Boss and I are both right royal pains in the arse, though he more than I (hehehe).

2). I'm a drama queen and am learning to listen and THEN react.

3). Masters are truly masterful when they can apologise (because yes, they can get it wrong).

4). Being submissive NEVER means rolling over and accepting every bit of crap thrown your way (keep them on their damned toes!).

5). The leash truly does tie at both ends, equally

6). Making up is great.

And something else? When I jokingly asked The Boss why the hell he puts up with me...he said the sweetest things.

One of which was about all the many and different facets to me.

None of this is about seeing the other in the perfect (Wind)light.

Its about the other being human. Both. The one who messed something up. The one who over-reacted. About communicating and listening (*repeats that word 100 times).

And I guess..for me the hardest thing ever...trusting in the trust.

And then letting it go.

So...The Boss got to know a tiny aspect of a new side to my character: the hissing, spitting, furious harpy.

Another friend made a comment to me today:"Its all about the beast that you feed".

This one doesn't need feeding. But it IS maybe good that she saw the light of day. So that both The Boss and I saw her and could decide that we really don't want that beast to come knocking at the door of our relationship all that often. There are other hungry beasts who are better served when they're not hungry and are well-fed. Isn't that right my darling Master? ;P

*smiles at her Master very sweetly and innocently, bats her eyelashes and pouts seductively at him...because we wouldn't Popette's hand to slip and do any long-term damage whilst doing that really yummy thing that drives you crazy, would we?

No, I didn't think so.

xxx

The Boss

Well, its about time, I guess, to introduce a few people, before they start to get bored of purely my ramblings. Plus...I like the idea that I can sneak onto the web at work and smile at you all. No AjaxLife for me I'm afraid.

Oh god....what smaltzy crap am I writing now?

Anyways...The Boss.

Apparently I'm his pain in the arse, well, I hate to disagree (lol! as if!), but I think that its more the other way around! ;)

This man, what can I say? Well, what can I say which won't have you all puking onto your keyboards?

I met him a few months ago. And it has been one hell of a ride ever since.

Alejandro Ferraris - first and foremost he's my friend. I'm lucky enough to have bumped into and found someone who is on my wavelength, who's funny as hell, who has THE sexiest chuckle (which I do as much as I can to invoke). His patience seems to know no bounds, he has a delicious mind and can keep up with me in whatever direction I run. And sometimes knows not to run, but to let me exhaust myself. His mind is a wonder, he can challenge my heart and my head.

He helps me to heal myself.

Don't get me wrong, he ain't a saint! He's a difficult bugger at times, but its worth it. I have what I deserve. And vice versa. A complex, interesting, fun and intelligent person in my life.

He's mastered me like no other could. He leads me along the edge and I'm learning. Learning that as long as I keep my eyes on his, then I won't stumble and fall. That he doesn't want me to fall, that he won't let me fall.

And how he's worked for that trust. From my first cheeky-to-the-point-of-aggressive IM that I sent him, through the laughs and the tears, through the times when I flinched from trusting, when I question, when I demand, when I doubt.

He's seen so many of my sides. And has accepted and embraced every single one.

He even still likes me in spite of them. ;P

He leads and nudges, points something out. And then lets me amble or run along at my pace. He never pulls at my collar. Never threatens.

And be it exploring SL, talking, beating him at backgammon, exchanging ideas and thoughts, being harsh, tender, silly, intimate..he always, always expands my mind, enriches my heart and god, does he make me grin.


And I'm happy to report, that I think that I do the same for him too, now and again at least. *grins

Mio Padrone, you know that your popette could write pages upon pages of all that she thinks about you, but you know it, so I shall spare the rest of them the gut-wrenching embarrassment of having to read my gushing words of adoration. *snorts with laughter and goes to throw up at her own words of schmaltziness.

Kisses to you.

And yes, I know what happens shortly after people go public with their ridiculous romantic statements like this - it is guaranteed to go pear-shaped. ;P

Smart(ie) Arse

God, I'm knackered.

Haven't caught up with the clocks changing yet. Events on at work so I have to drag my arse out of bed earlier. And The Boss yacks on and on and on and on until the wee hours of the morn.

*sighs

Hehehehe..."yacks on" - that'll make a few start flicking through their online dictionaries! And no, he doesn't really. Well he does, but its always yummy stuff being whispered in my ear.

So yes.

My flash of inner reflection sparked and died. And it seems that that was that really.

By the way...I did write "ass" as my title and then was horrified to realise that thanks to SL (have you read the furor over the trademark thingie with LL?? Fekking idiots they are at times, but anyways...I don't think that they'll be coming after me just yet), I have almost forgotten that "ass" is actually an animal. Another word for donkey. What The Boss likes to get his hands on is actually an "arse".

Anyways, yes...sorry...this is Poppy rambling at her best - a totally nonsensical, random load of shite. As promised.

So...what I wanted to actually ask you all - smarties. Why is it, that all smarties taste the same? Other than the orange ones?

*flicks to Wikipedia as she's wittering on...

I don't know how many different colours of smarties there are (scoffed them too quickly, sorry. This isn't a scientific blog you know!), but...well - red, brown, orange, ummm...there used to be blue, but they got banned I think didn't they? Pink is there maybe as is a dull green too. And they all taste the bloody same! Except for the orange. Well...at least the orange USED to taste differently!

(Yup...put "ass" into Wiki and....ha! D.O.N.K.E.Y! The part of your body, also known as "buttocks"...A.R.S.E. In fact...ass doesn't even get a page. And did you know that "arse" was first recorded as being used in the 1400s? And "ass" started to get used at around the 1800s? Typical Americans! You have no history and so have to dumb ours down!)

No, really, sorry...the arse thing keeps interrupting. So, the orange smarty (one smarty, many smarties?) was the only one that actually tasted of anything and now that's stopped. Huh. Why do I still buy the things then?

Other than nostalgic memories for the UK, I guess that I hope that I'll be lucky and find that one packet where the orange ones still taste like they used to. Or maybe they never really tasted any differently and I'm just looking back with rose tinted spectacles.

And smarties..now this is a GREAT question for you! Smarties - do you open the tube and tip them down in one go? Or do you pour them out onto the table and pick out your favourite colours and eat them? And then...do you eat all of one colour and work your way through each group (and save the orange-which-don't-actually-taste-orange-anymore until last!)? Or do you take one colour and then next and then the next?

Answers to all the above on a postcard please.

Oooh...and don't forget to also add - when you have a smarty; do you munch and crunch your way though? Crack the shell and then let the chocolate melt slowly?

*wonders if she'll dare post this...everyone's gonna think that its total and utter drivel!

**to any Americans reading this (and my Google Analytics tells me that there are a few who are so bored that they have nothing better to do ;P)...pinch of salt, sense of humour and all that eh buddy? *gives you a friendly slap on the back

***It IS very possible that you don't know what smarties are. I'm not quite sure that they're terribly international. In which case, sorry. But...good ol Wiki again (and see, ! have been away from the homeland for too long - the blue ones have been re-introduced apparently). Substitute...ummm...M & Ms.

****I don't want to go too overboard now coz it might be different later, but The Boss...he's my orange smarty, an oh-wow-it-tastes-like-it-looks orange smarty.

Get it now?

*smiles sweetly and looks around with wide innocent eyes - who's mad? Me??

Quite possibly, yes.



(photo courtesy of BigFoto.com, coz let's be honest, I would have scoffed them all quicker than I could get my digi cam out!)