Army Commissioning

today and it was a joyous occasion celebrated by Gail's family including her father who is a 2-Star Sargent General and her sister, a 2nd lieutenant in the US Army. Her proud father was the commissioning officer swearing her into duty. Numerous friends and family were on hand to help celebrate. While the rain let up for a few hours, we were able to hang out on the deck to enjoy some much needed fresh air. Inside, Gail stumbled through a few lines due to her nervousness but she recovered with flying colors. Gail's sweetheart, Ramona, was there to make sure the party ran smoothly and towards the end of it all, she was ready to collapse. Proudly Ramona stood watching Gail get "pinned" by her father and mother. Ramona was also in her detective uniform blues and looking just as handsome as Gail. With the festivities coming to an end, Lynn and I departed and drove toward San Francisco's Chinatown looking for a Chinese style blouse for Lynn's fundraising event in February. After some years working in the Pier 39 area, I am very familiar with the streets of San Francisco and Lynn found her blouse on the first shop we stopped at. It was a beautiful magenta color with gold accents and she received a very good price on it. We had tea and some appetizers at a local eatery. The staff were wonderfully nice and the delectable food arrived sizzling hot to the table. We walked through Chinatown park where the older Asians were playing mah-jong while the children stayed busy at the playground. Making our way home amidst the traffic, we were finally glad to sit still after being out all day. Lynn's daughter, Camden, stayed home from the Lake Tahoe trip and occupied herself with projects throughout the night. I read one of Lynn's book on Autism by Daniel Tammet called "Born on a blue day" and finished it within several hours. I found it to be a very good read.
Midnight arrived too soon for Lynn and I as we watched T.V. and enjoyed the closeness of being together in her bed instead of restricted to our sixty minute hot tub time. With no time limit attached to our nocturnal frolics, we were free to explore again, our boundless love. Our lovemaking is always beautiful if not fiery. Our fervent desire for one another, passionate kisses and sultry dance of the flesh igniting our emotions from deep within our souls. Breaths steamy, fierce and vivid stirring our primal urges, fighting to let go, to be free. Sounds in the night calling my name, calling her name. She, whispering her commands as I instantly carry out her directives. Our mouths find each other as our tongues surrender control and our hands interlocked, tightly, overhead and the other hand is left to explore, search and recover treasures of untold desires. The atmosphere is warming as her essence rises to fine me waiting, wanting and lusting. I find myself lapping at her effusion, her elixir, drunk as she retreats into my spirit. Our energies quieted, tranquil and serene, we lay next to each other in bliss as the darkness gives way to light. We hold each other for a time and drift off to sleep.

Stay

if only but for a moment
our passionate inferno of kisses
cease to relent

your warmth of what I know
rises up to greet me
my eager hands trace your curves
you're a vision to see

locked in your embrace
your essence, your scent
as my lips find your island
my primal urge will not spent

your fruit so ripe
edible to taste
hot, melting sweetness
I will not waste

your long brown hair
flows on the bed sheet
like a long winding river
never ending to greet

your familiar thighs
within, I nest
nibbling, kisses, biting
I know, no rest

as my ocean lashing begins to churn
and your turbulent river starts to rise
your once delicate moans
turn to soprano cries

I grip your beautiful body
within my hold
made for me
poured from a mold

our time shortened
as the night moves on
with a kiss on my lips
and she was gone

your essence, your glow
a fact that is true
Merry Christmas, my darling
I love you

Sleep

I love it, I crave it, I want it but can't always get it. My life has been so busy since being off from work and I don't always get to sleep in. This morning, Lynn and I are going to Watercourse Way and we have room number two. The drive to Palo Alto is always nice but with the gas prices inching higher and higher, it makes me want to stay home. Lynn and I rarely get a chance to go out because of your children's school schedules but we manage to find the time like this morning. Our appointment was for 10:50am and we were right on time. The woman who escorted us to our room was new and had to give us a briefing before she left us to our own devices. We couldn't wait to shut the door, lock it and now have a nice hour and a half of tub time. This room is particularly warm and inviting. There are dimmer light switches for a more romantic mood as well as sound for the one channel in this room. At the time of this writing, we were being serenaded by melancholy music from Ireland. It was very Celtic. Aside from small talk, we got undressed and skimmed down to our "birthday suits" ( you could do that when your lovers) and plunged slowly into the hot tub which was very hot but not scalding. This hot tub could probably hold 6 people comfortably. There is a dry sauna which is wonderful for that congestion in your body. Once you get the jets going in the tub, this is probably the most fiercest tub out of all of them. The jets are very strong in this room and is aimed at your middle to lower back and shoulder areas. Can we say heaven!
Well, small talk leads to small kisses, then deep kisses and soft caresses. After an hour of foreplay, lovemaking and cool down, an hour and a half is not that long. We had time to shower and enjoy each other's company at a slower pace than our usual hour long tub time which is too short and right when your in the middle of a climax, here comes the incessant knock at the door. "10 minutes!" Which we both reply in out of breath voices, "OK". Now the question is, do you stop, leave your loved one hanging and get dressed? Or would you go for it and love her for all she's worth? I agree, we chose the latter.
After hot tubbing, we always have incredible appetites and usually a good lunch at Whole Foods is the kicker. We love their salad and food bar which is wonderfully healthy, a bit expensive but always filling. I turned our conversation to a morbid subject of refinancing my house which is due in February 2008. I am one of those millions of people that got into the 'interest only" loans but, in my case, with substantial money down. For the first two years, I enjoyed a relatively low monthly mortgage payment and this year because of deferred interest rate expiring, it has now doubled my payments to an instrument that I can no longer afford. A good friend of mine, Sarah, is a loan officer and hopefully, she can give me some numbers and wake me up out of this mess and find a good loan for me. If not, I will have to sell my home and try to recoup any losses and possibly try to move into a mobile home or manufactured home in Daly City, Sunnyvale, Mountain View or rent an apartment. Lynn seemed sad at this prospect because it would mean that I would have to uproot my son from his school in Pacifica. We left it at that and will hope for the best next week. Now, Lynn was ready with my "honey do-list".
We made our way back to her house and today we put up her decorative Christmas lighted colored balls that we hung in front of her house. When the sun goes down, these lights are on a timer and light up when it's dark. They are beautiful! All the colors of the rainbow. We hung little plastic candy canes and ribbons on her neighboring trees. It was very festive and she seemed quite happy to get that done since her family rarely participate in the decorations now that her two daughters are older. As the coolness of the afternoon wore on, we sat down to her homemade pumpkin pie and a cup of coffee while watching the lesbian comedy show with Sabrina Mathews and a few other women comedians. They had me laughing so hard, Lynn would just look at me when I yelped so loud. The light of day was fading slowly away as we watched the remainder of the comedy show from her bed, entangled in each others arms and legs, comfortable, warm and quiet. We fell asleep tired from our day only to be awaken by her dog, muffin, barking away. Startled, we woke up, delivered our long hugs and slow kisses. This is the hard part, it's the time when I leave her to back to my home.