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MaamJay -> RE: February Roll Call (2/3/2009 6:11:58 AM)
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Well, I've had good news in terms of work ... I am now enrolled to do My PhD in science education and will start receiving scholarship payments soon! Financially that will obviously help and I am relishing waking up My academic brain again. It got some tuning up in January by helping another academic out with a couple of papers, of which I am now second author. Feeling good about all of that! Waiting for My supervisor to get back from vacation to seriously start working on the project proposal details (I've got 6 months to finalise that).
House selling went very slowly, it was on the market for just over 3 months with one agent who only procured 2 very low offers. Have switched agents and within 2 weeks she has 2 lots of buyers both bidding much nearer the mark! It just might get sold in the next few days! We're working on offering a discount for a free "rent back" ... so once the settlement has occurred and the money lands in Our account, We can organise buying and moving into Our RV while still living here (for up to 3 months). That saves the upheaval of having to find a rental (not easy to do, especially with furkids!) and then moving twice! Fingers crossed that will work out.
Could be pretty frantic while finding the RV, packing, sorting and hopefully downsizing, so if I disappear off the boards for a while, don't be too surprised!
Relationship-wise, well Master and violet are still getting along famously, since He survived my tennis-watching season (especially the 2 weeks of the Australian Open when i was staying up late every night!) .. and enduring my steady commentary and coaching! However, NOT feeling as positive about the sub I have been talking to for a long time and have met and played with. As soon as I set him what I consider to be a small personal challenge ... to read threads and post on the forums here as a means to find out more from sources other than Myself and to engage with other like-minded people ... he has baulked, considering it not his nature to talk to strangers! I've told him he doesn't have to spill his guts, merely comment that he has learned a lot etc, but underlying it is a much bigger issue of resistance. he doesn't deem it a worthy task so he doesn't want to do it ... and in My mind, that's not submission. I've given him a full rationale of why I consider it a worthy task and what I hope he will gain from it (and there are other positives outside of bdsm knowledge) but so far, I've held off going for a resolution until he passes the latest test at his work. Will be interesting to see what next week brings, but I don't intend to waste time and energy with someone who is unprepared to submit their will in even a small way to One they purport to trust. Frustrating! *sigh*
One of the furkids (the little girl dog) has had 2 operations in Dec and January, the first expensive one to remove a huge bladder stone (she is way too stoic for her own good!) and the second to remove a fast-growing but benign tumour from her chin! We could have bought 2 new puppies for the money spent ... but she is special! She just got her second lot of stitches out today and is she glad to be rid of that damned bucket for her head!
That's about all the news from here in Queensland. Mercifully We haven't had the 40C+ temps they've endured much further south, and also not had the heavy rains and flooding that the north of Queensland has endured! In this regard, where We are is a great climate, shame We'll be leaving it, but We are very much looking forward to being on the road, being a travelling student and a travelling band! Have got a couple of well-paid gigs at the end of the month that may well set Us up on the touring circuit if they go well!
Hope everyone else is going well, looking forward to checking back in for news from the regulars!
Maam Jay aka violet[A]
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