Most nights, when I go to bed, I am idle in SL. Usually locked into a cage, or equivalent for the night. I go to bed in RL knowing that I’m all snug and secure in SL and it’s a really nice feeling.
Yesterday I hadn’t seen Miss deka all day. That’s not unusual right now, and it’s not a problem either, we both have a lot going on in RL and it means that our time together is really impacted. She does manage to remind me in wonderful ways that I’m still hers though. Last night was an amazing case in point, and proof that she’s even more deeply in my head than ever. Miss deka has had me in my pony tack for the last week or so, and I’ve really enjoyed being a pony for an extended period. It’s been a while since I had the chance to do that. I’m the first to admit that I’m sufficiently ADHD that staying in the same form for much longer than a week starts to get a bit restless making. Yesterday I decided that I was going to ask Miss to let me change into another form for a while.
When I woke up this morning I discovered that I wouldn’t need to be making that request! Some time during the night she came in and checked on me in my stall on our meadow. While she was there she unlocked my pony tack and changed me into my puppy gear (and promptly locked that on). It made for one of the most wonderful wake-ups in a long time, a very clear reminder that: I am Her’s, that I am cared for, that she looks out for me no matter what. How can you not melt at that?
During the morning as I was having fun playing with a couple of other puppies at the Forum I got a lead on a new place for puppy equipment I’d not heard of before. A quick jump there and a bit of editting and I’ve got a couple of nice new additions.
First, I got a really nice kennel I saw there and put it up attached to the lawn outside the front door of our castle. Ponies and puppies don’t sleep in the house except by invitation is my thinking. Certainly when I’m in pony form I sleep all nice and snug in my stall down on the meadow, I figured as a puppy it makes sense for the same to apply. I’ve still got a nice bed in the castle, but something just feels right about curling up in the kennel unless Miss says otherwise. The fact that the kennel locks all nice and securely while still having a key handy for Miss to take when and as she decides to is a necessary feature. Miss deka was seriously displeased when she got back into SL after being away because she was moving and I was locked into Dollie form and she couldn’t unlock me. I’ve confirmed that she definitely can unlock the kennel when the key is in the lock (which it is), and that I can’t unlock the kennel even with the key in the lock.
I’m all curled up snug in my new kennel tonight, feeling mostly at peace with the world. RL still continues to kick my ass, my wife’s surgery was postponed because she seems to be getting a cold and the surgeon doesn’t want to risk possible pneumonia or another infection in her skull. We’re both really disappointed, but what choice do we have? The surgeon is right, this is not a risk worth taking, we can wait another few weeks. Meanwhile maybe I can get things at work into the state they need to be in by Monday with the two extra days at the office that I hadn’t planned on. We’ll have to see how that goes tomorrow, Friday and over the weekend.
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