I'm Alive!

Hey strangers!

Yes, Ms. Betty is still alive, and well, and in Denver.

I've said before that the trouble with blogging is that when you have time to blog you usually don't have much going on to blog about, and when you do have interesting things going on you don't have time to blog about them.

It still rings true.

But my God, has it really been 5 months since I posted in this space?

Apparently so.

So what's been happening in Ms. Betty's world?

The cats and I moved into a new apartment for a brand new start about a month ago. So far all of us seem to be enjoying the lack of stress and negativity. Maggie is more affectionate and sociable and less the half-wild kitten she used to be. Trouble is more outgoing as well. The don't skulk in the corners or under the bed anymore.

I haven't filed for divorce yet, but the break was clean and though the ex and I talk occasionally I think we are both happier in our separate lives.

I won't go into details about the split or the reasons for it, but it very much was/is the better thing.

I'm not yet out there looking for love, I'm rather enjoying the time to myself, but I am keeping company with wonderful new friends and old and at least as yet am not feeling any twinges of loneliness.

Hudson and I parted company, for reasons pointless and silly, but pc and the bunny are still with me, loyal and loving as ever.

I am still spanking and playing in many other kinky ways, both personally and professionally. Lady Koregan (my Prodomme name) now has her own blog, though granted there aren't any entries yet. I've also set up to take phone sessions as well as real time sessions, which I am enjoying very much.

My day job is still going about the same. I still love it, even when it makes me crazy. We've entered that time of year I affectionately refer to as "seasonal hell" so it's going to be busy, worse this year as I don't have the great team that got me through last year but in an odd way I am looking forward to it. Nothing like a good challenge to get the blood stirring and wake up the synapses.

We set up the Halloween section last week. There was a nip in the air as I went out to meet my cab Saturday morning. When I looked up I noticed Orion low in the sky, just above the horizon. Fall is on the way.

My one tiny twinge of regret is that here we are at Labor Day weekend and I haven't picked up a paintbrush all summer. In fact I haven't touched a painting since I finished a rather large (24"x30") black and white rendition of the Paris skyline back in March.

I've had a spark or two of inspiration, but nothing's gotten out of the preliminary sketching phase. But that is alright, some years a field must lie fallow. Hopefully it will make for a better creative "crop" next year.

And it's not as if I can't paint in the winter, it's just my preference not to as it means working with artificial light rather than natural and forced air heat makes the paint on the canvas dry to fast. Blending is difficult to impossible and as such paintings do not come out with as much depth or sophistication.

And I do have other things to show for my summer. Building a new life is also a creative endeavor, I cannot discount that.

I have also been putting some time and effort into refreshing my kinky skills in areas I haven't had the chance to use much lately. Knots don't tie themselves, after all. I have a wonderful new set up where everything in the living room doubles as play equipment. I want to be sure I can use it well.

There are two new areas of kink I have begun exploring as well, but that's another post.

Before I close this post, I'd like to take a moment and thank Mitch and Auntie Rhi for checking on me and dragging me back into the world of the living. Good friends are this life's greatest blessings.

Ms. Betty