Mayberry

The princess is home. She immediately launched into a deconstruction of her room, and Chris waited two nights while my mother was here and then expressed a desire to see me naked again. The inadvertent, unintentional two days since we'd last had sex had evidently made an impression. Do you think if I avoid him for two more days, he'll be as deliciously dominant? Actually get out the cuffs and restrain me for once?

It was yummy. I'm still squirmy happy twelve hours later.

I've finally finished "Little Women", at least the traditional first two books that we call Little Women. Amy, Jo, and Meg are married and Beth has preceded them in the inevitable crossing... Don't ask me why it took nearly all summer to read. It's one of my favorite books, but reading did not happen in July. When I was ill I just didn't have the focus for it. In the hospital I read a little Signet Regency by Allison Lane that I've read so many times I had to order a replacement copy from Amazon last winter - the first copy I had simply fell apart. I've downloaded a host of new books to my Kindle, some even on my reading list, and have started wading through the collected works of Arthur Conan Doyle - Mr. Holmes has always struck me as the quirky, geeky intense sort of computer engineer of today. I think he's sexy.

I have an engagement to read Charlotte's Web with the princess as soon as we finish The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by Lewis. We're also in the middle of the Oz books (ready for book 5 or 6), so I suspect reading the entire Narnia series will take quite awhile. Never the mind, it will be worth it. There are also plans for Alice in Wonderland, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, Rebecca, Anne of Green Gables and The Secret Garden. I was also contemplating Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh, Mr Popper's Penguins and The Mixed-Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler. She loves Oz the best, I think. We read about a chapter a night, along with some poetry or a children's book. When I suggested curtailing reading in favor of staying up later last night, she immediately dismissed the idea. I'd love to add more Laura Ingalls Wilder to the collection, too... I have them all, but can't quite convince the princess. That's a school year's worth of reading anyway, I suspect, if you add in 8 more Oz books, plus something Christmas-related (Baum, Dickens, hmmm...)

We have a list of things to do to get ready for school, which starts in a few days. The princess is excited but a bit nervous I think. Me? It means I'll have to get back to work, productively. I should start that today. Given the opportunity yesterday that I ignored, I probably won't, except that I have work I promised to have done by tomorrow.

It's hard to write about contentment. It sounds so... normal.