I was up in Santa Barbara this weekend; visiting family, working, and wooing. I went over to Zoe's place and spent some time with her and I really wanted to make out with her, but I was getting sick from work and I didn't want to get her sick as well. But when I told her this she leaned in and kissed me, and I would have held her there if only I wasn't so damn worried about her health!
The next day though was my younger cousin's birthday dinner out in a restaurant in Goleta, so I went right out there from work and couldn't stop to see Zoe. The dinner party was fun though; my cousins and I get a little wild around each other. We laugh loudly, we play fight, we make bad jokes at each other's expense and just in general we make a lot of noise and act obnoxious. Towards the end of the night when we left the restaurant, the whole family hung out for a while in the parking lot. My mother went to her car and came back holding something behind her back. She came up to me and told me that she had something for me that she had made at work. She works for a crane company that deals mostly with the cables that cranes use to lift oil rig parts out at sea. She pulls her hands from behind her back and in them is a big, soft, nylon rope flogger! She didn't really tell me why she gave it too me, but I think the boys in the shop made it and gave it to her as a joke, and she knew she had no use for it and so she gave it to me. I have never told my mom about my private life, but she suspects things about me and has never confronted me about any of it. I think this was her testing the waters to see how I would react to a giant rope flogger. I still am really excited about it, but at the same time I am creeped out that my mother would give me this. I can't wait to use it on someone though, any volunteers?