Using:

Sorry I went missing.  I’ve been busy holidaying, restyling my anti-badware blog, Faster, PC! Clean! Clean!, and –

Heavily researching Form 3, a new waterproof, rechargeable vibrator that Jimmyjane mailed me.

Form 3 is Jimmyjane’s latest, and the vibe vibes with the adult luxury line’s usual elegant minimalism: an iPodesque charging dock, a subtle settings switch, and form-is-function design that curves Form 3 into an extension of your hand.

I’m afraid I’ll need to dedicate a few more weeks to lonely R&D…

Missing:

Did you miss me as much as I missed you?

I’ve returned from roadtripping across Los Angeles, Sedona, the Grand Canyon, and Vegas. And back. Finally.

I fell in love with the desert palette’s seamlessness: how the sand smudges into the dusty pink sky, which melts into the purple-blue of the creeping night, which dissolves into the smoke-black mountains to the east, with silhouettes that echo the outlines of burning clouds in the west…

The Grand Canyon was unbelievable, but Sedona’s beauty is better: it has a scale you can grasp, with buildings formed for pleasure, instead of bowing to a giant slash in the earth.

We stayed at L’Auberge de Sedona Resort, which I picked for its dining room on the creek. It’s those unnaturally white tablecloths against the muddy creek that sold me. Nature is best as a contrast to the urbane…

Hating:

I’ve a good enough imagination to imagine I’ve a good enough imagination.

So what’s so choice, so cheeky chic about these Agent Provocateur “finger cuff” rings?

Stuff like this vibes Emperor Wears No Clothes — am I supposed to pretend to be blown away since only the stupid don’t see the invisible duds?

I can’t imagine…

Using:

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One of my favs is Booty Parlor’s “Vanilla Chai Latte” skin honey.

Wait, did you make it with soy…

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Wearing

I love this sterling silver inner message ring by Jungyun Yoon. Inspired by a Korean pop song about finding the tattoo of a suntan after finally slipping off an ex-lover’s ring, when you take off this inner message ring your finger is stamped with a message. Jungyun Yoon asks you to imagine slipping off this plain ring after your lover’s just given it, to discover your finger reading “Marry me.” Or sliding off this simple ring to wash your hands, and seeing that your ring finger reads “Always.”

So romantic, espesh since I’m gifting this choice ring to myself…

Hating

Booty Parlor’s tickler and spanker is cute, but does a tease of pleasure always have to be balanced with a slap of pain? Is Booty Parlor’s tickle and spank wand a metaphor for America’s Puritan approach to sex? Don’t you find spanking rather degrading, for a man or a woman?

No?

Bad dog.  Let’s find out if we can change your mind…

Using

Booty Parlor Skin Honey is “kissable three-in-one body topping, massage gel and personal lubricant.” Laced with aphrodisiacs, honey extract, and goji berry, Booty Parlor’s Skin Honey in Vanilla Honey Chai is as delicious as it pimps itself.

So is it wrong I’ve taken to snacking on it?

Literally?

Wanting

Made of plum satin, waisted with black chiffon, and finished with a triangular peephole in the back, this Brulee open-back teddy is a choice piece for special occasions.

Like the rare time I feel the need to get dressed up for work at home, such as this Thursday, when I’ll enjoy Thai takeout at my desk.

It’s this level of dedication to professionalism that’s kept me from firing myself over the years…

Wearing

I love lingerie like this Brulee empire waist chiffon chemise: it shows nothing more than a charming blouse,  while revealing more than a La Perla teddy…

Wanting

Nomade Exquis is a collection of fingerprint-unique, vintage jewelry curated by Mo Clancy. Nomade Exquis’s beginnings are as organic as the jewelry vibes: a former trendcaster, Mo started collecting the antique jewelry out of a passion for modernist, brutalist, and biomorphic pieces from the 1950-1970s .

Mo charmed me at lunch months ago. She shared that one of the artists behind Nomade Exquis’s collection used such harsh methods to create his brutalist jewelry that only deaf people could be employed at his factory…