A Vegas Birthday – Part 1

Other than my Netherlands trip, I had more solo travel planned for months. In July, I floated the idea to one of my oldest friends (2nd grade), K, about going to see the Backstreet Boys in Las Vegas at the Sphere, for my birthday weekend. To my surprise, she said YES. We roped our other friend, A, (who I have been friends with since infancy, and we all did girl scouts together!) into going also, and got to planning. K and I are very Type A in terms of planning and A is very “I’m just happy to be here!” so we planned and got the tickets and all. We had such a hard time in the queue when tickets went live, we simply said fuck it and bought a Vibee package that included 2 nights at the Palazzo + tickets and worked out to being $750/each. A great deal, given ticket prices.

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Going Dutch

Last week (err a few weeks ago…errr a few months ago, sorry!!) I got back from a solo trip I took to the Netherlands that I have had planned since our mini-getaway in July. A scene friend planned a small house party to celebrate her 30th birthday and I accidentally invited myself. Whoops. Hey, she was amenable! I tacked on a few days at the beginning and end, for my first ever European solo travel. I spent the first 3 days in Amsterdam, the weekend in a small town to the north of Amsterdam, and the last 2 days in Haarlem. It was cup filling and fun and full of spanking! Note: there are lots of photos after the jump – both vanilla and kink.

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December Book Round Up

The end of the year! In books anyway. I managed to squeeze in 10 reads between all the end of year work and personal tasks, holiday celebrations, and travel prep. I ended at 123 books for the year which blew my 37/50 goal for 2024 out of the water (for reference, I did 100 in 2023 and 92 in 2022, and just 12 in 2021 – but I wasn’t as good at tracking before 2022, as I read a lot for both school and pleasure).

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