Friday stuff
16 October 2020 16:53![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hOK, quit work at 4pm, warming up for toy play!
12 days since an orgasm, been locked up, but haven't been horny this past week, felt too stressed. Haven't even thought about drawing a card from the deck. But now I'm finished with work, and starting to play with toys, so hopefully I'll remind myself how to feel like a horny locked boy :o)
Settling into the "not gonna see K for a while" mindset. It was tougher right at the start than I expected, but, I'm OK. And currently not rushing to replace his company with somebody else. His moving away would always be a shock, I really didn't want it to happen until after Quarantine, but obviously I'm not in charge of his family's life.
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Trying to cut back on optional spending until I figure out how to help my sister. I could replace most of next year's charitable contributions with a lump sum to her now, and that would be a wash for me. Until the lack of a tax deduction the following spring hits me. A hard stop on all optional spending could add up quickly in the short term. The furlough of the maids for COVID-19 exposure, though not my idea, will save us some cash.
I'll figure out something to help her, just not sure I can send all $5K immediately. Really bad timing. We'll see. I need some time. If I hadn't just spent $16K it would've been simple, I'd already have sent the check. Bad timing. I need time to process big spending like that, time to review and alter my budget, time to discuss with T how he's going to pay his half.
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I think my sore throat was viral, given its duration and the lack of other symptoms, and the lack of other causes. Which is strange! But some of my coworkers have been sick lately -- one had the stomach flu, for example. One thinks she caught the common cold from somebody she sat next to on a packed flight from LA to DC. Stuff other than COVID-19 is still circulating, which means we aren't isolating enough to stop COVID-19 -- as the tracking statistics currently show. I know T has occasionally seen people other than me, I've occasionally seen people other than him, T has gone into the office for classified meetings, I've gone shopping. Together we visited another household for my birthday. Even when masked, you can't really stay six feet away from everybody else all the time while shopping or walking along the sidewalk, and masks aren't perfect virus blockers. And other people don't always wear masks or wear them correctly.
And the food that's delivered is prepared by other humans, who might be sick.
Thinking that my sore throat was viral, I'll try to be more careful. But I was already being careful. More careful than some, less careful than others.
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Porn, music, and toys for the rest of the night -- and I'm relieved I don't need to set aside time to pop the hood of my formerly "dead" laptop that was merely having trouble waking -- my own Sleeping Beauty, LOL. The battery ran down while it was "dead", that's how I can confirm that it was truly asleep and having trouble waking, even though I did all those magic key combinations that are supposed to reset the damn thing, it just ignored all input and kept sleeping for three days.
I'd like to do that once in a while myself ;-)
12 days since an orgasm, been locked up, but haven't been horny this past week, felt too stressed. Haven't even thought about drawing a card from the deck. But now I'm finished with work, and starting to play with toys, so hopefully I'll remind myself how to feel like a horny locked boy :o)
Settling into the "not gonna see K for a while" mindset. It was tougher right at the start than I expected, but, I'm OK. And currently not rushing to replace his company with somebody else. His moving away would always be a shock, I really didn't want it to happen until after Quarantine, but obviously I'm not in charge of his family's life.
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Trying to cut back on optional spending until I figure out how to help my sister. I could replace most of next year's charitable contributions with a lump sum to her now, and that would be a wash for me. Until the lack of a tax deduction the following spring hits me. A hard stop on all optional spending could add up quickly in the short term. The furlough of the maids for COVID-19 exposure, though not my idea, will save us some cash.
I'll figure out something to help her, just not sure I can send all $5K immediately. Really bad timing. We'll see. I need some time. If I hadn't just spent $16K it would've been simple, I'd already have sent the check. Bad timing. I need time to process big spending like that, time to review and alter my budget, time to discuss with T how he's going to pay his half.
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I think my sore throat was viral, given its duration and the lack of other symptoms, and the lack of other causes. Which is strange! But some of my coworkers have been sick lately -- one had the stomach flu, for example. One thinks she caught the common cold from somebody she sat next to on a packed flight from LA to DC. Stuff other than COVID-19 is still circulating, which means we aren't isolating enough to stop COVID-19 -- as the tracking statistics currently show. I know T has occasionally seen people other than me, I've occasionally seen people other than him, T has gone into the office for classified meetings, I've gone shopping. Together we visited another household for my birthday. Even when masked, you can't really stay six feet away from everybody else all the time while shopping or walking along the sidewalk, and masks aren't perfect virus blockers. And other people don't always wear masks or wear them correctly.
And the food that's delivered is prepared by other humans, who might be sick.
Thinking that my sore throat was viral, I'll try to be more careful. But I was already being careful. More careful than some, less careful than others.
-----
Porn, music, and toys for the rest of the night -- and I'm relieved I don't need to set aside time to pop the hood of my formerly "dead" laptop that was merely having trouble waking -- my own Sleeping Beauty, LOL. The battery ran down while it was "dead", that's how I can confirm that it was truly asleep and having trouble waking, even though I did all those magic key combinations that are supposed to reset the damn thing, it just ignored all input and kept sleeping for three days.
I'd like to do that once in a while myself ;-)