Journal TTK Ciar's Journal: A New Position! 1

A New Position!

Cobalt and I discovered a wonderful new position today. It makes her sigh, and moan, and cry out, and compliment me on the strength of my hands. I'm writing it down so that we remember, and to share it with anyone looking for something new and wonderful.

To make the position, you start out kneeling on the ends of the bed, facing each other, about three feet apart. Then she bends forward, still kneeling, until the top of her head is on the bed, so that her forehead is almost touching her knees. Her posterior rises a little so that the back is curved from almost vertical at her neck, to about 30 degrees from horizontal at her rear.

Then he leans forward slightly, placing his hands spread-out across her shoulder blades, thumbs against either side of her spine, so that he can apply a little weight as needed.

From this position, he runs his thumbs over the knots in her back, applying steady and even pressure from the base of her neck to the small of her back. A little lotion can help keep the action smooth -- we used IcyHot (your basic menthol-and-camphor), also using the ball and heel of the hand to press down and in on the tight muscles on either side of her neck up into the back of her head. It should take about eight seconds to do a complete "cycle", starting at the base of the neck, massaging down the spine to the small of her back, and then the same speed and pressure back to the back of her head. I didn't know it was possible to coax such verbalizations from that woman. After ten or fifteen minutes her eyes were glazed over and she was positively purring. She asked if I'd been having an affair with a masseuse, and noted she wouldn't mind right now, as long as I "brought home the rewards". :-) It's nice to make her so happy.

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Oh yeah, by the way, about three weeks ago I was in a traffic accident on highway 101, coming home from work. Wham, bang, nobody was hurt, but my car was totalled. I am so incredibly bummed. I loved that car (a 1999 Toyota Corolla).

It's taking forever for the insurance company to get its ducks in a row, and in the meantime I've been working from home some days and taking cobalt's truck to Archive HQ other days. She's unhappy to be without her truck, I'm unhappy to be without a car, my coworkers are slightly miffed that I'm not in the office every day, and I am very much looking forward to getting the insurance money so we can buy me a new (used) car.

The Corolla was great -- plenty under the hood for my modest needs, an excellent 34 miles to the gallon, a five-speed manual transmission, and enough trunk space to carry a few computers or snake tanks or weedwhackers or whatever. It was a little noisy, which annoyed cobalt more than it annoyed me. Very reliable and low maintenance. It will be a hard act for the new car to follow.

So far I've identified a few cars which I think might make me happy -- hyundai accent, honda accord, mitsubishi lancer, mitsubishi mirage, suzuki aerio, suzuki esteem, volvo S40, and volvo V40. I also wouldn't kick a toyota mr2 out of bed if one falls in my lap (I've been lusting after one since highschool), but realistically it doesn't have the cargo room to satisfy all of my automotive needs. All of these would make good to fair commuter cars, plus the capability of lugging a lot of stuff. What remains to be done is check out what Consumer Reports says about each of them, and cross out any with significant reliability dings or high maintenance needs, and then go to our local dealerships to see what they have in the ways of slightly used models (I'm thinking between 2001 and 2003) with a manual transmission, and give them a test drive to see if any of them are grievously incompatible with me. My money will essentially go to the lowest bidder -- I don't have enough of a preference for any one of these cars to make me choose one over the other based on anything but financial cost.

Wish me luck.

-- TTK