So we move a little slow

[lizblackdog]

The thing I hate most in the world about my dogs is their awful morning enthusiasm. I wake up like Nick Mallory (from the Diana Wynne Jones books, he's in The Merlin Conspiracy and Deep Secret) and I am non-functional for several hours/pints of coffee after waking up. It wasn't such a problem at Mum's, I could leave the back door open to the garden and sit around in my dressing gown till noon if I wanted. Here, though, there is no garden and no back door, and I am required to be fully dressed and at least alert enough to keep hold of their leads every single time they take a piss. I quite enjoy it the rest of the day - it gets me out, it gets me talking to my neighbours and it improves their leash manners (well, Squish's, anyway - Spike still cherishes a secret belief that if he takes off fast enough and has enough faith, the leash will have retroactively ceased to exist and he'll go straight to warp. It's hard on the wrists.)

But the morning one just kills me. Sometimes if I've taken them out really late the night before I can sit for half an hour and get one cup of coffee in, but what with Spike's phaser stare and random cold nose attacks and Squish's little "don't mind me, I'll just starve to death in a pool of my own pee" noises, usually I just bite the bullet and take them immediately. They follow me to the bathroom and jump up and down while I pee, they help me put my clothes on, and when I reach for the leads they explode like a pair of squealing bouncing fangirls while I stand there like a zombie trying to attach them to the collars. It's torture - and I have to do it every fucking morning.

Also, two of my right-hand fingers are randomly sore and unusable this morning. I have no idea why. It makes typing tricky. I'm starting to wonder if I'm getting rheumatic in my old age.

*grump piss moan grumble*

Comments

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

when I reach for the leads they explode like a pair of squealing bouncing fangirls while I stand there like a zombie trying to attach them to the collars.
Bwahahaha! Great metaphor.

Also, two of my right-hand fingers are randomly sore and unusable this morning. I have no idea why. It makes typing tricky. I'm starting to wonder if I'm getting rheumatic in my old age.
That's why you use a vibrator some of the time. *nod nod*

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Vibrators don't work for me, at least not in a vibratey sense - the one I have just stays switched off and gets used as a dildo. Clit is too sensitive for anything like that touching it, it just makes me numb and sore if I try.

I have been a bit overexcited this week, but I think the sore fingers are actually down to Spike misjudging a grab yesterday during a tug of war game - he's bruised one of the tendons on the back of my hand.

Ah well. It's the price I pay for loving boys who play rough... :-D

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

that's ok, as I understand things you won't need to use your hand for that tonight ;-)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Barring accidents or sudden changes of plan, yes... I'd cross my fingers, but it hurts too much.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

crossed fingers aren't nearly as lucky as open legs ;-)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Where I'm concerned, that's a given... :-D

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
Well that's certainly lucky for topbit anyway
Does me fuck-all with this ocean in the way tho

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Flatterer. :)

That ocean's been number one on my hate list for a loooong time...

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

tho if it weren't in my way therre still might be some flooding & puddles to deal with once I got there ;-)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That, too, is a given, dear...

[helensaysping.livejournal.com]

I like the way you write - v. funny. I agree with James' sentiment, in that there are certain fingers one has to keep functional & soft (I play the guitar - there is some pressure for me to have a couple of long nails which would interfere in certain activities.) *finger-lickin-good*

(Hope that you don't find this post too risque for someone who has just met you online)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Nothing, nothing is too risque for this journal.

Well, almost nothing. I get reticent about emotions sometimes...

[helensaysping.livejournal.com]

I try to keep my LJ semi-clean, in the bizarre and hopeless desire that ppl will think I am not obsessed with sex.

I can put you on my friends custom group SEX if you like.

I won't express amy scary emotions - I seem to be emotionally attracted to blokes and mostly just sexually attracted to women. Although I did feel a pang of jealousy earlier (I think you may have the info to know what I mean about that).

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Yes. I do know. I shall doubtless feel the same pang in due course - well, I have already, a little - but I believe we can both control it well enough to keep everything good. There's enough to go round...

Oh and please sex filter oh yes!!! I have a policy of keeping sex entries public, myself, but I don't have a job or kids or anything like that, so I feel safe doing it. And get off on it, too...

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Irrelevant to this post, sort of, but this is a bit of emotional oversharing that strikes a chord with something you said about revealing secrets in your journal:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/lizblackdog/142166.html#cutid1

[helensaysping.livejournal.com]

Topbit said we had similar backgrounds - now I know what he means! I have experienced pockets of homelessnes, alcohol abuse, years of mental ill-health etc etc. People can be amazing when you're down, hey. I'll never forget when I was with my daughter (when I had custody of her) in this shitty B&B for the homeless in a posh area of London: I hadn't got enough money for food, and was staring at this can of tuna for, like, 5 minutes. When I looked in my shopping basket, some anonymous lovely person had put ?5 in it. Now, when I have the opportunity+goodwill, I give someone who needs it ?5 and that story. Maybe they'll pass it on too.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Yes. I don't always have change but I never walk past one without offering them a fag or a moment's friendly conversation or something. And I tell them where I've been, because it helps them to know you can get out of that slough.

[helensaysping.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed chatting to you (via LJ) today. Can you do IM on yahoo or aol? I'm helensaysping on both.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I can do any or all of those. I was just about to add you anyway, but I have two people talking to me and I need to go out because I've run out of tobacco so it'll have to be later today. But yes, I definitely want to talk to you. Even without our main common interest I think we'd get on well...

[helensaysping.livejournal.com]

agreed. I meant IM for the future anyway. enuff communication :-)