It seems that as a society we worry an awful lot about our health these days. Certainly the television news likes to cram our brains full of the latest medical study, funny how so many of those studies contradict each other.

I wonder if red wine is good for me today, or if that was yesterday? Oh well, I'm getting away from my point.

My point is that I think it is fairly easy to ensure ones health. Don't eat too much, get some exercise, don't become addicted to tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs. Most folks agree with those three I think.

There is though, one more in my view, something that we often don't think enough about.

Relaxation.

Stress is a killer, and we all need ways to rid ourselves of it.

Relaxing ones mind and body for an hour a day can I think work wonders for ones health and sense of wellbeing.

My grandfather who's pushing 100 does it with a pipe or a cigar, some folks meditate, others kick back in a hot tub. Still others, my very favorite people in this whole world, come to see me! What better way to forget everything, to leave the world behind than to spend some time begging at my heels?

I hope that the next time you are stressed, feel the need for some deep relaxation, desire to get away from it all, you will think of me!

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Recycling is a huge fad now and in some ways I suppose that is good. Certainly it's not all superlative though.

Recycling of some items works extremely well. It's better for the environment, saves money, and results in products that people want to buy. Aluminum and Yard Waste come to mind as items that can be easily, and effectively recycled.

Other items though can end up costing more to recycle, using more resources than creating new, and indeed can have a greater negative impact on the environment than just disposing of the items. More information about inefficiently recyclable products can be found on the web.

It seems though that lots and lots of folks seek to recycle everything. They just assume that it's better to do so, and get good feelings about somehow doing their share for environmental protection. Certainly there's nothing wrong with doing so, but it remains a fundamental truth that some forms of recycling have tremendously greater positive impact than others.

Today was one of my annual recycling days. Not separating garbage into little bins, and certainly not hauling things to a recycling center. No, today was meaningful recycling day.

I, and this year a neighbor joined me, set up a yard sale of perfectly good things that we just don't need anymore. A yard sale with a twist though in that everything is free. I do this once a year and it benefits me by making room for new things in my little house, and it benefits those who end up with the stuff. Perhaps someone will be a bit warmer this winter, have a much-enjoyed convenience, or even an interesting book to read. As some of the people who live in my area are extremely poor the items never last long.

Perhaps best today was a beautiful vintage embroidered leather motorcycle jacket that went to a fourteen year old kid up the street. He will have something truly unique and spectacular to wear to school this winter, the envy of his class perhaps. That is in my view meaningful recycling, much more so than separating ones paper and plastic.

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A 'tip o' the hat' to Miss X and her Seattle Cuckold for their post about using the local Cowgirls Espresso stand as a part of tease and denial play.

New Poll, And My Frustration Grows

There is a Cowgirls Espresso on the way to my studio, I think that some very hard, leaking, and unmercifully teased boys will be directed to stop there on their way home from seeing me!

Cowgirls Espresso

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My new shower was completed this past week. It's got two showerheads, one standard in style, the other a handheld.

When my great and perverted plumber TammyGag finished hanging the heads, I noticed that the handheld head had an odd piece where it came from the wall, and drained the water from the hose through that piece whenever the faucet was turned off. As I'd not seen a handheld showerhead do that before, I asked him about it.

Apparently the odd piece is a back flow prevention device to keep the water in the hose from mingling with the water in the pipes. Apparently these are now required by the plumbing codes.

I've known about back flow prevention devices for a long time, and they are certainly a good idea. One does not want used and contaminated water to mingle with ones drinking water.

How though could the showerhead possibly get contaminated water inside of it? An interesting question to ponder.

The only answer I've come up with is masturbation with the head. I suppose that it could be possible to be enjoying the massage functions upon ones clit, the position of the head in such use theoretically allowing the head to become a we bit dirty, which I suppose could then move into the head's connecting hose.

In any event, it is indeed the only possible way I can think of that the hose could contain anything from ones body, but it's an awful stretch of the imagination.

Perhaps the guys who write the plumbing codes have too many fantasies of wet and masturbating women on their minds!

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I've posted of the fact before, but I should again mention that I am not addicted to nicotine. I do smoke on occasion, a cigar or a cigarette, perhaps a time or two a month.

One of the very best ways of smoking though is as a part of a fetish scene. Some submissives adore their smoking dominatrices, and I must say that it is absolutely delightful to experience a slaves worship while smoking, knowing that his fetish for my smoking is driving his arousal and desire to unbelievable heights.

The elegance of smoking though is all about accessories.

Today I bring you an online shop that clearly understands that fact, and indeed some truly beautiful and stylish accessories from there and elsewhere around the web.

The Lady Smokes

Is the beauty gracing the page not to die for?

Cigarette Holders from The Lady Smokes

To my eye the Cabriole, and the Meerschaum holders are both the height of elegance. The Cabriole would be delightful for it's potential length, yet the meerschaum would be best in it's shorter size.

Dunhill Cigarette Holders from Cup-o-Joes

I find Dunhill to offer the absolute height of smoking elegance, and certainly their cigarette holders are no different. All on the linked page are exquisite.

Dunhill Cigarette Case from Cup-O-Joes

Cigarette packs are ugly, commercial, and filled with warnings. Style demands that ones cigarettes be held in an elegant case. Black leather fits the fetish bill perfectly.

Old Boy from Pipes And Cigars

One must light ones cigarette, and elegant lighters cannot be found at the local 7-11. The IM Corona Old Boy lighter is in my view the most beautiful ever made, surpassing even the Dunhill Unique.

Lastly I must speak of Ashtrays. My fetish smoking is done with what must be the world's finest ashtray. A specially and finely crafted gag to which an ashtray is attached assuring that it is always handy to me as my slave kneels and adores me with his eyes.

Remember my sweets that becoming addicted to tobacco is dangerous indeed, but occasionally using tobacco for the slave who holds a fetish for it is harmless, and done correctly can be a most amazing amount of fun!

For those who may be looking for that perfect gift for the dominatrix who enjoys smoking fetishes, I am quite certain that any of the items mentioned above would be a superb token of ones esteem.

For those who don't enjoy a fetish for smoking, worry not, I never add smoking to my scenes non-consensually!

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I've got a good friend who has been in a bad marriage for a number of years. What started out as good between them slowly changed into a marriage without intimacy and an ever more whiny and demanding situation. He hasn't been happy for a long time so I was pleased when I heard recently that she told him to take his dog and go.

This booting out of the house is the apparent result of her finding evidence of an affair.

It's an old story, repeated all too often in modern society.

What I find interesting though is what she decided about the breakup of the marriage, and the cause for the affair.

She didn't consider what the true causes of the failure could be rather she decided that he is mentally ill. Apparently in her mind she has decided that the only reason why he would not want to be with her is if he is mentally ill.

That's an ego that would put the bitchiest of dominatrices to shame!

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I've run across a great blog, the exploits of a goddess and her cuckold. Right here in Seattle too!

Tease, Denial, Humiliation, and Serving Miss X

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Today I'm going to be touring a very odd and rather rare Airstream, what most Airstreamers call a Squarestream.

I don't think I'll buy it as Squarestreams do lack the style of Airstreams, but I may never get another chance to see one up close and personal.

Squarestream, A Unique Airstream

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I must confess that I love the Anita Blake books by Laurell Hamilton and this weekend started reading her latest, Skin Trade. I must say that just like all the others, it is great!

The series is however interesting as it changes rather dramatically over time.

I first started reading it when it was suggested to me by a friend as being 'great porn.' Imagine my surprise when the first few of these 'porn' books contained virtually no sex. In time though the sex did enter the picture until it was indeed little but well-done porn, the final books seeming to loose virtually all plot as Anita's very open sexuality was explored deeply.

Apparently with Skin Trade we are in for another series change as I was almost to the very back of the book before the first hint of sex came into the story.

Interesting.

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I hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th of July today; it was certainly splendid weather around Washington State.

It's been so dry that I watered all around my buildings today, gotta keep the neighbors from burning the old place down.

The fireworks have started, so I must be off.

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