Sunday, August 4, 2013
Overcoming Lazy
And this isn't a new realisation, either. Daddy has spent a lot of time and effort trying to train me, to make me a good, conscientious boy who gets his chores done, but no matter what he tries, nothing seems to stick. Worse, while I am well aware that I need a harsh taskmaster to keep me in line, pushing me out of my lazing activities makes me grumpy and unhappy, so the taskmaster role is a thankless task around me. Even if I tell my taskmaster that this is what I need, I balk at being told what to do. And this is a problem for my Daddy, who, like many Daddies, is a kind soul at heart. He has no problem being harsh to his charges, but he's not a cruel man, and gets nothing out of being harsh if the charge gets nothing out of it. In short, he'll be the kind of taskmaster we like.
And this is a problem with me. Because the taskmaster I want is the taskmaster I dislike.
And Daddy doesn't really get this. He's not used to dealing with someone who actively fights their own development, like me. It's not that I want to fight, but the behaviours I want to discard are so ingrained that I fight them purely out of habit. I dislike anything that's not familiar, it feels like a threat, which you can understand makes me my own worst enemy when it comes to self-improvement, even when I know that it's necessary. To Daddy, it seems like I'm telling him one thing and then acting completely contrary, which to be honest is completely accurate. It's just that I am genuinely acting contrary - I am acting out against the things that I know are good for me, purely because the things that are good for me are not things I do by default.
This week me and Daddy looked at the issue again, because this situation is just completely out of Daddy's ken. Daddy takes self-improvement in his stride, because when he identifies an issue, he can devote himself to rectifying the issue, as opposed to me who's always having to fight the desire for familiarity. To him, word and action match, and when they don't match, it's usually because the word is inaccurate. So, he works to my actions, which is great for my comfort levels, but terrible for my self-development. I had to describe it to him as "I want to want to do things - I aspire to be the kind of sub who does things without prompting, but I block myself every time".
So, once I'd gotten that out, we came upon a possible way of making sure we both get what we need. Daddy will work at being harsh with me, by reminding me at each step that this is what I want. In short, to try and break the comfortable familiarity by directly appealing to my aspirations. And in return, I will make sure that Daddy is always reminded by me that I'm grateful for Daddy taking this thankless task, and thanking him for it whenever I can.
I really hope this works.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Things noone thinks to tell you about tattoos...
Just a quick one for this week.
So, the last week or so I've been recovering from my tattoo, which means that I haven't been able to lie on my back. It's not been painful, but the stuff I'm using to promote healing (called bepanthen), is a really greasy, sticky substance (by design), so sticking my back on things is a terrible idea.
Which means that I can't lie on my bed on my back.
Which means it is really awkward to jerk off.
I haven't beem this horny since the first couple of weeks into the Year of Chastity. It's amazing how touch-happy you start getting when you can't get off...
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Up from Scratch
Marked
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Boy Improvement
I recently posted about how I'm trying to treat my submission as a challenge, to engage my competitiveness to become a better Boy. I'm starting to take small steps in that direction, and one step that's seemed pressing recently is my attention span.
In a lot of ways it's been a major obstacle to me being better, not least of which because of how often I "drop" orders. For a lot of people, the problem isn't so pressing, because if they haven't paid attention to orders, it's easy to tell. But because of my job as a call centre worker, and because of my family and romantic history, I've become extremely good at making acknowledgement cues, even if my brain hasn't actually processed the request. Worse, it's nearly automatic - I often don't realised I'm doing it until someone (often Daddy) knocks me out of whatever thought process I was on.
It's been incredibly frustrating for Daddy, and I'll freely admit I haven't been doing a lot of work on fixing the problem on my end. So, this morning, I decided to work on improving my mental workspace, and I found a website called Lumosity. It's a website that engages you with games that practice specific mental skills - including attention and global perception, two skills that I really need to improve more on.
I know this isn't a cure all - there's still plenty to be done with working to stay in the present, which is a big component of my lack of attention. But, improving my mental skills can only help, I think.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
New Pain
Calm down readers, it's not quite as bad as all that.
Put simply, we've come to the realisation that our BDSM life has seriously stagnated - we rarely play, and in a lot of ways we were almost avoiding play, because of a number of issues, one of which being my legendary inability to communicate. Because, and here's the thing that's been dogging us for a while, Daddy just has no idea what I want out of BDSM, and if I had to be honest, I'm not sure I really did for a long time either.
But I've been talking with my psych, who had the audacity to point out to me my insane competitive streak. It's really one of the few healthy ways in which I channel my competitve streak. And it occured to me that while the joy of sensation has been fun, it's not something that helped my grow as a Sub, a Boy, or a Person. Part of the reason I'm in this relationship with Daddy is to improve myself, to be better than I am.
But for the most part, Daddy has been reluctant to challenge me - we've known each other for a long time, and the fact is, I tend to get grumpy at challenge. It's hard, he points out, to keep pushing me when he doesn't see anything out of it. So, all we do is a bit of electrical play, some occaisional other sensation play, and that's it. Nothing that Daddy really gets off on, and nothing that really pushes me.
During our heart-to-heart I finally connected these things all together. The reason I'm not connecting to BDSM is purely because I haven't been treating it as a challenge. I've been treating it as a diverson, which hasn't been good for Daddy. And I realised an easy way to fix that was to just change my mindset about it.
And so, yesterday, Daddy bought himself a new cane, and my masochistic streak came out in full force. I started seriously poking at him and the cane, and bought myself a caning. Daddy started slowly, we played around, and at the same time, I got to tell him how mean he was for doing things like drawing the cane away for a second or two and not coming down hard afterwards. He told me to relax, but relaxing just made everything hurt more, so there was a "nope nope nope!" moment for me. And, best of all, he challenged me to take 5 hard canings. And I took them. They hurt like hell, and I was swearing by the last one, but by god I did it.
I gotta be honest, it's the first time in a while that I felt like I'd really connected with Daddy. Well besides the pride at getting through all of it, I could feel that Daddy was pleased with the play as well. We were actually playing with each other, rather than Daddy doing things to me and me just enjoying them. And it's a feeling I really, really enoyed, even if the play was short.
I really hope that this is the beginning of something good. Taking it all felt good, feeling the welts after felt good. I think I'm turning into an honest-to-god masochist, and even better, It's helping me connect better to Daddy. And all it took was me realising there was a challenge here that I hadn't taken on.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
You're getting... Relaxed!
And I think I'm really going to like it. While I'm not sure that I really got fully down to trance state, I really liked being in the suggestible, can't-do-anything state. I felt really nice afterwards!
It's really fascinating to me, thinking about hypnosis. While the fantasy screams all mind control, the honeIst reality is that the power of hypnosis is purely internal - I'm the only person who defines what I can be hypnotised to do. It's almost a distillation of BDSM - I'm the one who gives my power to Daddy, Daddy doesn't exert his power over me. It's given willingly, and sometimes irrevocably, but in the end, the power is always mine, regardless of who possesses it. Hypnosis is exactly the same - in the end, the only person who has a hold on my behaviour is me - it's just that Daddy is holding the reins, telling me where I'm going.
I'm looking very forward to the next step, myself!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Bad Feeling Checklist
- Have I eaten?
- Have I eaten enough healthy food?
- Have I had enough water?
- Have I missed my dose recently?
- Have I had enough sleep?
- Have I had too much sleep?
- Have I exercised recently?
- Have I had cuddle time?
- Have I read anything about sexual assault recently?
- Has my schedule been out of whack for several days in a row?
- Have I socialised with people recently?
- Have I had a bad last call at work?
- Have I been criticised by someone?
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Talking about Hypnosis
Sunday, January 20, 2013
First Top
I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed with the scene. I'm glad that I had Daddy to help teach me things, because I am seriously out of practice with topping. Hell, I think I'm out of practice in general, to be perfectly honest. I didn't have more than a general plan going into the scene, and it turns out that I'm not as great at thinking on the fly as I used to, so I ended up just repeating moves to extend the scene. At a few points, I was just mirroring Daddy, because I didn't really have anything else in my mind to do. Worse, Apparently I'd not remembered a few important limits, which could have derailed the entire scene.
But on the plus side, it seems that Sis definitely enjoyed the scene, she was quite happy to have some messy, way fun, so I was quite happy at that outcome at least. As first scenes go, at least the bottom was happy and got what she wanted out of it, so in that sense it was a very successful scene.
In the spirit of trying to discard my perfectionism, I am merely going to say that yesterday's sessions showed simply that I'm at the beginning of my training as a Top. I think I've learned some very important things, not least of which is that I need to plan scenes in much more detail if I'm planning to go for long scenes. Also, I need to work a lot more on concentrating on my partner's limits - there's no excuse for forgetting about limits, they should be foremost in a Top's mind.