Holiday season again: what goes around comes around

Once again, I realise that it’s nearly Chrimbo, and I am behind on sending greetings to my friends.

You must forgive me. Living where I do, it’s quite easy to forget that it even happens. Apart from the legions of friends who travel off to exotic places where Christmas is a wonderful experience — New York, London, Lapland (huh?) — and then come back and bring me chocolate, and the almost deathly silence from our O/S office, you wouldn’t know it was any different.

In fact, before i began blogging, i don’t think i ever sent a Christmas card in my life. Maybe one or two. But not many, and certainly not regularly.

Anyway, that said, this post is in lieu of a Christmas card to my wonderful readership and blogfriends. I was going to write individual messages to all, but then something came to my attention which has dampened my somewhat exuberant spirit.

My friend, Minerva, has been a very good friend to me since i began blogging nearly two years ago. I stood by her, even went to visit her in London when she’d had chemo, and then later, when she was post-op, in hospital.

I rejoiced along with her and her legions of fans and friends, when she was pronounced free and clear by the doctors.

Unfortunately, lightning has returned to strike twice. Minerva has cancer again, having beaten the first round. And this time, it’s inoperable.

Please people, go over to her site, and wish her well. She needs as many positive vibes as possible to beat this fucking awful disease into submission.

To all of you out there whom I love, which is the vast majority of you, whatever you celebrate, or even if you don’t, please accept my very warmest love and wishes for a great 2007.

Support needed

A serious post, no joviality today.

My friend Tricia is in strife. Her son was seriously injured recently in a car accident, and managed to pull through some major life-saving surgery after causing poor Tricia no small amount grief, worry and heartache.

Fortunately, he is now home and all the better for it.

Unfortunately, he has to undergo more surgery. And over the holiday season. Which just plain sucks.

Please, go on over to her, and show your support, and leave her good vibes and good wishes. Tell her that the Minx sent you and that everyone at the Minxdom is thinking of her.

Thanks, y’all.

I got Fleshbotted!

I am blushing, and batting my Minxy eyelashes.

My post “Meeting in a Car – Part One” (when will she ever write part two, i hear you cry? When? When?) has been included in the Fleshbot Sex Blog Roundup “The Only Way to Travel” by the gorgeously well-travelled and delightful Chelsea Girl.

I’m flattered beyond words. It’s been a while since i was FB’d, and i’m deeply grateful.

Thanks so much Chelsea!

Sugasm 57 – I made the Top 3!!

This week’s best of the sex blogs from the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasmer participants.

And look! Your Minx got picked! Aren’t you proud, my splendid Minxes? I’d like to thank my parents, the academy… and G (ha! not heard about him in a while, have you people?) without whom this blog would have never have happened, and the world would be a sadder place for me.

Want in Sugasm #58? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the linklist within a week and you’re all set.

This Week’s Picks
The Other Side of Hotwifery (http://junohenry.wordpress.com)
“Since he had been so cavalier about it prior to my ever actually going through with such an event, I had given almost no thought to how it might affect him.”

The Blender (http://radicalvixen.com/blog)
“You want to pick me? Did I win a contest?”

Meeting in a Car – part one (http://emergingontheotherside.blogspot.com)
“His tongue teased hers, and her lips teased his in retaliation”

Mr. Sugasm Himself
Welcome to Googlestan! Google Purges Adult Content from Search Results (http://sugarbank.com)

Editors’ Choice
Desire so overwhelming I could do anything (http://sugarbutch.blogspot.com)

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Thoughts on Sex and Relationships
A Way With Words: Aural Fixation (http://exploreros.blogspot.com)
Breaking the golden rule, Part I (http://www.betweensheets.net)
Confronting Things Head-On: How We Got Here (Part 1 of 2) (http://perverselypoly.blogspot.com)
Sex Addict?! (http://www.model-chat.com)
Sex and the Movies (http://hard-and-fast.blogspot.com)
“Tossing the Salad” (http://sexeteria.net)

Sex & Politics
Anti-Anti-Pornography, Part III: A Concept (http://www.teen-porn-site.com/blog)

NSFW Pics (& videos)
First alone thanksgiving (http://stealthbombshell.blogspot.com)
Get a grip! (http://kitchen-girls.blogspot.com)
Half-Nekkid Sex Blogging (http://www.tarasnaughtyshop.com)
Happy HNT – Sexy Holiday Stockings (http://darkside-journey.blogspot.com)
“I Like Men, Women, Angels…” (http://totalsensuality.blogspot.com)
MILF sucks on a cock (4) (video) (http://deepthroat.ilovejulienight.com)

BDSM and Fetish
A Nawty Story: Kitten’s Reward and Punishment (http://anawtymouz.blogspot.com)
On Loan, Finale (http://engrailed.com)

Sex Work
What Happened to Good Old Fashioned BDSM? (http://lipstickexplosion.com)

Erotic Writing and Experiences
A Break From The Dance (http://mandyseroticlife.blogspot.com)
Crush – Part II (http://lafillemariee.blogspot.com)
Eyes (http://designingintimacy.blogspot.com)
Guy #2: November 24, 2006 – The Swing (http://mysexualmisadventures.blogspot.com)
He Says (http://sexcakes.blogspot.com)
I am yours (http://wetbeyondbelief.blogspot.com)
Late Night Meeting (http://dirtylittlecockslut.blogspot.com)
Lori – Part II (http://masterenigma.blogspot.com)
My girlfriend the stripper, part 1 (http://erotischism.blogspot.com)
Phoenix Has a Long Night at The Office (http://dirtydetails.blogspot.com)
The School Camp (http://wanklog.blogspot.com)
Why I Love My Job… (http://stilettodiaries.blogspot.com)

Sex News & Reviews
Girls with Guns: There’s Nothing Sexier (http://www.taratainton.com)
Most Erotic Sex Movie Scene (http://ncnewcpl4u.blogspot.com)
Ray Spade Retro Collection (http://retrosexblog.com)
Welcome to “Sir Dirty Joke” by Sir Dirty Joke (http://sexblogwelcome.blogspot.com)
Why You Shouldn’t Spend Money On SkinVideo (http://ylovesporn.com)

Sexy Humor
What did Simon Cowell do before he was famous? (http://sextoysinsider.com)

Tagged by Spirit

Well, my very good friend Spirit tagged me to write 6 weird things about myself.

I should point out that it’s rare that I ever tell anybody (here or in the real world) anything about myself without them looking askance at me, as if I’d just swallowed a live porpoise whole, wiped my lips delicately, and asked “What’s for dessert?”

I’m just saying. It’s all weird.

According to the rules…

1. Each player of this game starts with the “6 weird things about you”.
(OK, got that.)

2. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly.
(I believe i have done this, wouldn’t you say, gentle reader? I mean, I don’t want the Meme Police after me, do I?)

3. At the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says “you are tagged” in their comments and tell them to read your blog. (Well, duh.)

Crap. I hate choosing people. It’s like netball at school all over again. Well, it’ll wait.

OK, first things first — six weird things:

1. I hold my breath when I’m close to coming, mostly when I masturbate, often when I’m having sex, but never when i use my dolphin vibrator (think Rabbit, but substitute a dolphin).

2. (Thanks to my good friend Madeline, for inspiring me to write this one:)
I will eat almost any food, except coconut, which I don’t so much hate as despise. Bleugh. Also seafood (yeuch *shudder*). Apparently, I was never destined for life on a deserted island. It’s why I never applied for “Survivor”.

3. I still keep up with a British soap, 13 years (to the day, I might add) after leaving the windswept shores of Blighty for the warm and sultry, if somewhat unsettled Middle Eastern shores which I now call my domicile. I do it online, here.

Yes, I am a soap dork. Although, in my defence, soaps in Britain are very very different to soaps in the US. VERY. Way better. (Back me up, people.)

4. I truly enjoy writing erotica. That’s not weird to y’all… but if you knew me as my family and childhood friends do… it would be! (Feel the subtext, my friends… it ripples in thunderous waves beneath the surface.)

5. I used to be so repressed about my appallingly bad love life (while i was married and not getting any), that I spurned watching a stripper at a hen night in favour of having a cup of tea in the kitchen with the bride’s mother. I also used to listen to a radio sex-psychologist talk show every day in the vain hope that the hostess of the show would say something about how sex wasn’t essential in a marriage, and how a marriage could be successful without emotional closeness.

I look back and I sigh heavily. I am amazed at how far I’ve come… and at how far I have yet to go.

6. Only two people in the world, apart from myself, know the real me. All of the real me. And they stick around, through everything, thick and thin. I’m blessed to have them in my life.

I tag:
Megan of Pick up the Pieces
Madeline Glass at Madeline’s MySpace
Art of The Secret Brain
Kerry at Clothing Optional
Scarlet the Harlot and
Filthy Rotten Angel at Good Girls Don’t, I do.