NRE and NSFW

I'm very tired tonight. I've been nothing but busy with school, work, dating and hobbies. For the first time in a long time, I had a full two weeks chock-full of events and things I had to do or go to. I've been consistently losing weight, to the point that everything in my wardrobe is starting to double as a poncho. Fortunately, I got Monday night off from work. Pizza Hut's busiest night of the year is the Super Bowl, and I'm pulling an eight hour shift as one of the fastest cooks to help my boss pull it off. We're understaffed, our inventory is absolutely drained from corporate's relentless new promotions (a pizza value menu), and everybody just wants to survive. I've heard some crazy figures about how much we make on that Sunday, and I'm excited for the challenge. I've never missed the Super Bowl in my life, but priorities change.

Tomorrow, I go to a manufacturing rally for extra credit in my welding class, and then I will hang around campus to focus on getting more ahead with classwork, before going to a Couple's Massage lesson. I won't have a partner and the store it's being hosted at has said that's okay, but it's something I've done before for Molly (nonsexually) that I would like to get even better at. Massages feel so good.... Where was I? Oh, Thursday I have more class, then the interesting adventures begin, I'm going to a polyamorous karaoke night at a bar where I can hang and talk with other poly-minded people, something I really need in my life right now, there's some monogamous people out there, that are unfortunately, not very helpful. After the bar and karaoke, if I still feel up to it, there is a local BDSM club that hosts a free introductory night. I don't plan on doing anything or staying very long, I just plan on seeing enough for WeirdAndLovely to live vicariously through me and to get a better sense of what's going on at these types of clubs.

Although I would hardly call it NRE (new relationship energy), I have recently started talking to someone new as well as trying my hand at the dating game, which has me full of energy and excitement (me and WeirdAndLovely practice consensual non-monogamy, and have a polyamorous relationship where we date multiple people). I've only been talking briefly, but it's interesting, I seem to have met someone who was in a very similar relationship when Molly guided me and I'm sort of... setting an example, I guess you could say, but not for polyamory or open relationships. She is exploring her interest in BDSM, and while I know it's human of me to feel this way, but I don't want to fuck this up. Not for my sake, but for her's. There are so many people mistreated when they start exploring the community, it's very disturbing to see going on, even if when it is spotted, is shut down immediately and for those of us who made it through the bad people and even the groomers or were lucky enough not to (doms who coerce people into practicing submission then brainwash them to fulfill their needs, usually this refers to when an older dom takes advantage of someone extremely impressionable and underage), I'm just afraid I'll misrepresent what the community is about and even worse, make a fellow human being feel bad. Which, you guys know me, I like to make people warm and happy.