Happy with a side of torture

September 15, 2015 Tuesday
10:12am
Good morning kid!

Hope you’re enjoying this New England weather.

1:43pm Phil

It’s gorgeous.

1:43pm Phil

[another photo of him eating the huge lobster roll last night]

1:43pm Phil 

[and yet another photo of him eating the huge lobster roll last night]

1:43pm
Loving it
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I am always glad to see any message from him… happy to know where he is and what he’s doing, happy to see him having fun.  But this is also torture.  To know he is so close… and I am not touching him.  Should I say anything?  Should I wait for him to invite me?  ARGH! 

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7:00pm
Tried Doordash delivery from Tasty Burger and drank my first Cheerwine!


8:56pm
Matt’s at it again! DANCING all over the world. Even Cambridge’s Stata Center at MIT! These make me smile.

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Matt Harding Dancing Around The World


Serious Sassy

September 11, 2015 Friday

Dear Readers,

Hope this is an uneventful Friday for you.

It doesn’t happen very often – Sassy is going to be serious today.  I promise to go back to being sexy and silly soon.

Hard to believe it’s been 14 years since that fateful day in the US.  In some ways our lives have changed a lot due to the events on that sunny Tuesday morning.  In other ways, we have gone back to normal… the new normal…but still… life goes on.

More and more that day feels like “history” rather the fresh gaping wound it was for so long.  We still pause to remember, to hear about the amazing things the families of the victims have done in their memory, see the new buildings in New York, the memorial in Pennsylvania, adore Jon Stewart for pressing for continued help for the first responders when he could be living a quiet life on his animal farm.

Whenever I meet a new man, we eventually share where we were on this day in 2001, how it made us feel, how we helped our friends and families connect or get home from wherever they were stranded, how we changed or didn’t.  I wonder what it would have been like if I had been seeing a nice man from AM at that time, longing to be in touch to be sure they were safe, longing to see them to reaffirm life in the best way.  I wonder what people who were cheating on that day went through, if they were stranded together, or apart and worried, if the strange events of that week complicated their relationships even more.

It seems so odd that I did not know my Sassy side existed then.  And I didn’t know any of you then, that we didn’t share that day or the hard days after it.  I am so glad Philip helped me find that side of me and that led me to here!  You have gotten me through such um… “interesting times,” I imagine we would have supported each other in wonderful ways back then.  The fact that you are out there now makes me feel calmer about any new disaster that might befall this world, or me.  This sexy part of the blogosphere has it quirks, but when going gets tough, it is a great resource in the best way that the strange and sexy connections between people can make it!  Thank you dear bloggers and readers!

Hugs with groping!

-Sassy

Ravenous Butterflies

A friend recommended I check out a Facebook page called Ravenous Butterflies 

It lists its purpose as
To nourish and illuminate with art, creating love and light in an ever darkening world, welcome.and “To enlighten with a passionate aesthetic that inspires or provokes.”
There are over 88,000 people liking it! 
It’s filled with lovely paintings and photos and pithy quotes, mostly of beautiful people, but this photo stood out because of the quote. 
“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have 
And step into the darkness of the unknown 
Believe that one of the two will happen to you 
Either you’ll find something solid to stand on 
Or you’ll be taught how to fly!” 
Richard Bach

250,000K



250,000… that is a BIG NUMBER!  I don’t see that number very often but I saw it yesterday because my humble blog reached a major milestone.  It blows my mind.  Sometime Sunday afternoon while I was out and about, someone clicked on my blog for 250,000th time!  Wowie zowie!   Was that you?  Thank you!  

I so appreciate each of you who read and comment and celebrate my great days with me, sticking with me when life was not so great, and coming back to find out what wacky adventure I get up to next!

I can’t tell anyone in my real life, so I hope you will celebrate with me now! I’m doing the Sassy Happy Dance! 

It took me a long time (over two years) to get to 100,000 hits on March 3, 2014… 27 months.  And then another 17 months to get to 200,000!  Here’s a fun graph from Blogger that shows my blog’s hits by month from December 2011 to now.  Nothing like a great graph!   Hard to believe it’s been almost five years since I discovered Riff Dawg’s sexy blog!  I spent the entire Thanksgiving weekend reading it and realizing I had to start sharing the story of my sex life with the entire internet!


Same Sassy Girl  ·  Stats  ›  Overview 

Graph of Blogger page views
Huge thanks to the top seven blogs that refer people to my blog: 
Please pop in again soon for more Sassy shenanigans!  After quite a few months with very little action, August will finally bring some excitement and new men to my life!  Where will I go next?!  Will the Universe be kind?  Stay tuned!

Can’t say


July 2, 2015 Thursday
Today’s big long conversation with Philip can not be shared.  Sorry.

You know those days when you wake up and listen to the radio news while you’re in the shower and  something big happens far away?  And you know right away that your man is right in the middle of it?

So you text him and yup… he’s dealing with it and says you can help!  Hooray!

So you text back and forth, telling him what CNN is saying on the outside while he’s telling you what’s going on from the inside?  And feeling really close to him, worrying for him, yet feeling useful… and it all works out okay and you breathe a big sigh of relief… and celebrate with some mushy sexy texts?

AND YOU CAN”T SHARE ANY OF IT WITH ANYONE?  ARRRRRGH!

Well… then you know what today was like.

Ah, this double life.  *sigh

Here’s a cute dog and cat photo.  Have a nice day!

Viennese tortoise secrets

May 29, 2015 Friday



6:59pm

From Jonathan Carroll’s Facebook page

“On my first night in Vienna, Jonathan Carroll walked me over to the Danube, where we sat on a flight of steps leading down to the river. The dog walkers were out in force. Greetings were exchanged with small movements of the eyes, and the dogs sniffed one another fondly…Jonathan kept his eye on a woman at the next bridge. She was moving so slowly I thought she might be leading a dogsled pulled by escargots. After an hour, the woman walked in front of us, and she bowed her head in acknowledgment of Jonathan. With great dignity, he returned the gesture. To my surprise, she was walking two enormous tortoises, displaced natives from an Ethiopian desert. The woman walked them every night, and Jonathan was always there to admire their passage. 

‘That’s what writers do, Conroy,’ he said. ‘We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.’”

Pat Conroy
from *My Reading Life*


Sassy Answers: Who Am I?

May 6, 2015 Wednesday

Dear Readers,

So wonderful you are here today! Thanks for stopping by!  It’s time for a little break from the Philip and Sassy and her adventures on Ashley Madison, since Philip and none of my AM men wrote to me today and I didn’t write to any of them! So I am going to answer a question that several sweet blog fans have asked.

Q.  Who are you?  What do you like look like?  How can I recognize you in a crowd?

A. I’ll tell you a secret.

Not the answer you’re looking for but…I am everywhere.  And you can’t tell.  There’s no letter “A” on my forehead!  I am not especially tall or thin or pretty or dressed provocatively.  You can’t tell by how old I am, how much money I have (or don’t), the color of my skin, my religion or the part of the country where I live.

There’s a sentiment I’ve heard expressed by a lot of people when they first start “stepping out” or “cheating” or “leading a double life.”  Every time they are out in public, they wonder who else in the room is doing the same.  They wish there was some way to tell.  Thank goodness there isn’t!  But it’s fun to think of a special handshake, or a ribbon, or a certain earring worn a particular way… some sign, some hint, but only for those “in-the-know” and not their spouses!

Gays and lesbians wished for this for years… a way to find out without risk if someone might be open to sharing their stories or more.  I’ve seen various items that do have a “special meaning” and can be worn certain places, like a leather collar, or a hot wife anklet or swingers jewelry.  But most days in most places, there is no way to tell.  

Men say that is what’s so great about the internet, and Ashley Madison in particular – that you already know the people there are open to your offers.  Well… except for the bots, but that a topic for another day!

In any group… at work, at the store, at church, at your favorite restaurant… I’m there.  I’m that super-efficient older curvy office manager no one notices if things are running smoothly, and certainly never thinks of in a sexual way.  I’m the lady sitting next to you on the plane in a business suit, reading the Wall Street Journal.  I’m the woman at church who comes early to start the coffee and fold the programs.  I’m the woman at the pool who never takes off her extra large t-shirt.  I’m the woman at the next table while you’re eating a pizza with ham and pineapple while Hubby is busy on his phone.

I could be anyone.  The lawyer,  The bakery cashier.  The professor.  The plumber.  The truck driver.  The lobbyist.  A project manager.   The accountant.  The construction supervisor.  The therapist.  The high school teacher.  Even a policeman.  I am “normal.”  I lead a “regular life.”  I’m trying to earn a living, take care of my family and find a way to have sex because my spouse won’t let me touch him, or he only wants it one way or I need more or… so I do it with married men.  For a few stolen hours here or there.  It lets me escape.  And gather my strength to go back to my “normal life.”

So look around… you’ll see me.  And I’ll smile.  And you’ll wonder.  

-Sassy