So right now everybody is staring at the screen going, Edge really gave her the keys to his place??? Well, not exactly. I kinda found them. But I'm sure he left them where he knew I'd see because he wanted me to come in and stir up trouble because he likes it when I'm a brat. :-) So I've probably left a little jello in the hottub and a few water rings on his coffee table from my cosmos and there are some black cat hairs on his pretty creamy comforter because Pyewacket goes everywhere with me these days ya know. But he'd want us to make ourselves at home, we are sure of it.

So trouble.... what kind of trouble can we stir up? I thought about posting naked pictures of myself but that's no fun. So I looked under his bed and in his closet and went through his sock drawer looking for naked pictures of him to post. This was all I found. Of course I can't swear it's him.......

There was a theme to these guest posts. How we found blogging. It has been forever and ever ago for me. I have always been a writer and journaler. And I have been online since you had to dial up through loal BBS's. Then when internet access was charged by the hour instead of monthly. Since before chat programs were cool like yahoo and we chatted on IRC and had to use commands like /me and whatever you wanted to say. I guess yall are suprised to find out I'm a little bit of a geek and even a tad bit smart. I hide it well huh. I even had my first PC in 1984. It was made by TI and does less than my current calculator and we hooked them up to cassette recorders to make storage devices because they didn't even have floppy drives. Did I mention my geekiness?

So maybe 10 years ago I was on a group, before yahoogroups, egroups or hotlists or whatever it was back then. Maybe for the book Simple Abundance or something like that. And a girl on there, I believe it was Elizabeth Bandura, had a blog, but they weren't called blogs then. I was fascinated. So I got geocities space and borrowed her html code (ummm by borrowed I mean stole and modified..... I was never good at coding from scratch but I stole and modified a ton of stuff in my day) and created my own. I had to modify the html and upload daily. Then monthly create an archive and start over with the blank template. What a pain! I eventually abandoned it. That original one was mostly about the duality of my life. I am.... or was... polyamorous. I say was since I'm pretty much celibate now. lol And was carrying on a wonderful married and family life on one hand and a bdsm relationship as the submissive on the other. The blog helped me, writing helped me, keep my feelings sorted. I have the old html files somewhere but I was too lazy to beat the old computer into submission and boot it up to show you.

Eventually I gave up that blog. Too much work. I was also working and homeschooling. Who has time. Then when the kids were back in school and I went back to school I blogged off and on but just never found my groove. Some of the older posts were lifted from my archives on livejournal and put on the gravity blog. Then Outburst found me on livejournal and brought me over here and indirectly at least I found all of you. A great group of people. Group therapy, soap operas, and Jerry Springer all rolled into one some days. Love, support, advice, encouragement, entertainment.... what more do I need?

And Edge. Well, I read yall saying that you remember the moment you found Edge. It wasn't a great awakening like that for me. We found each other slowly. No great explosion. I could tell you the first post I remember of his but it was not the first one I read of his. It was probably a month or so after I started reading. And the first reply he made to one of mine was an offer to help me with flickr, which I took him up on.... probably 3 months later. I think we both had a "well that's nice" reaction. Just a warm familiar, nothing too grand reaction. I envy those of you who knew what a great person he was from the word go. But then again, sometimes slow and easy is good too. Sometimes it's discovering that you share the same passions (and no I don't mean EE) and pains that make the best friendships. The most unlikely friendships. The ones you wouldn't trade for anything. And that might be the best thing I ever get from blogging, those connections that I made with the people who glimpse a little piece of my soul they wouldn't otherwise see.

Now Edge, darlin', do you really wear those red silk thongs I found in your underwear drawer? Because if you do, I'd kinda like to see...... :-P