saturday was a busy day! a needle-play workshop in the afternoon, and nimhneach that night!

the workshop was an especially interesting one for me for two reasons. one because it was presented by friends of mine, and two because it was on a subject that is becoming close to my heart, needle-play.

J and i have done needle-play twice now, and the second time in particular was a very intense experience, for both of us. one of the presenters at the workshop is a physiologist, and one is a doctor, so it was interesting and reassuring to get the scientific and medical views! there was also a breaking-the-ice, getting-to-know-each-other table-quiz, which my team won, yay! and J told everyone that the time she put 105 needles in me was the most intense bdsm experience she's had so far, i was so proud!

after the workshop (and a very yummie meal in a nice chinese restaurant) we went back to the apartment that we had rented for the night and hung out there until it was time to get dressed up for nimhneach. it was halloween - well actually sunday was halloween, but saturday kinda became unofficial halloween for most people because, well because who wants to celebrate halloween on a sunday when you have to be up for work on monday morning?  i wore my devil-girl outfit complete with tacky little red plastic horns, tail, and pitchfork! once again we walked the length of o'connell street to get to the club, an invigorating if somewhat nervous - and draughty! - experience!

at the club J caught me somewhat by surprise by leading me to the frame for a good flogging quite early in the night! she usually tends to wait until later. it was nice to get started earlier, set me up in the best mood for the rest of the night! we danced, and J sang 'you look good on the dance-floor' to me! i would have sung it back, but you really don't want to hear me trying to sing! trust me, you just don't!

later, when J was playfully threatening me with a flogger, i grabbed it from her, turned the tables on her and gave her a flogging instead!

this is something i've very rarely done before. i don't really consider myself a switch, i don't think i have a dominant side. but i did enjoy giving J something that i knew she would enjoy, and i do enjoy showing off, so i quite enjoyed the display of physical co-ordination! given that i have very little experience of flogging anyone, it was probably a bit arrogant of me to assume that i had any skill to show off. but i used to have a job that required a lot of fast, accurate, coordinated movement. when you do something several hours a day, several days a week, for years, you don't forget it in a hurry! i was fairly sure that the skills i learned back then would cross over, and judging from the feedback i got i don't seem to have been too far wrong.

it was a little disconcerting afterwards that J ran happily off to say hi to an old friend she'd spotted in the crowd while i was flogging her, while i turned to our other friends, clutched my flogging arm, and said 'ow!' i'm not sure just which one of us was in the most pain at that point! they don't call J 'kevlar-bum' for nothing!