me on top!

sometimes, if things aren't rockin' your world the way they ought to, you just have to take charge.

turn things around.

get off your back and get an angle on the situation -- be in control.

sometimes, all it takes is flipping things over, and all of a sudden, you've got a lot more freedom to move, you can position things better, you can shift and tip and find the sweet spot until ...

pow!

the cork is popped ...

clang!

the bell is rung ...

va-rooom!

that engine turns over and roars.

of course, if there's somebody else involved, you probably ought to say "please" before taking the bull by the horns.

but if you sweet-talk them, they'll probably say okay.

photorama

we did some dressing up and getting down at our house recently, and msg snapped some pictures along the way. here's a sampling ... i may post more later!

i like this one:

it makes me seem like i'm all, "don't make me come over there!"

meanwhile, i think this is a pretty good view of my assets:

later, taters!

claire

seashores and sunsets

toes in the sand ...

sounds ... birds and waves and wind ...

nice!

i like to be told i'm beautiful

who doesn't?

ode to me

i asked msg to write me an on-the-spot poem tonight, just while he was looking at me as we got ready for bed. here's what he came up with:

gentle

faithful

thoughtful

playful

wise

caring

soft

sharing

unreserved

undeserved

and

lovely

lovely

lovely

i thought it was pretty good! i told him he was wrong about the "undeserved" part, though. if anyone deserves to have someone bugging him for a poem, it's msg.

goodnight, sweetie!

: )

can i touch you?

can i put my hand on your shoulder or your face and make you feel better?

it's a big, bad world, but i'd like to make it smaller and closer and better.

i'm pretty sure there aren't too many people reading this blog.

but even if there's just one or two, and even if i just make things a tiny bit brighter for them, well, that's a start, isn't it?

anyway, if the things i write touch you, do me a favor, okay?

take them out in the world and use them to brighten the place up for someone else, too.

oh ... and if you were hoping i meant the other kind of touching, go check my other blog. i'll write an entry there for everybody who was disappointed in the non-sexiness of this one!

hugs,

claire

lucky, lucky me!

i am a happy person.

it's my best and most treasured characteristic, and i am constantly in awe that i have been blessed with it.

i'm also lucky that i'm a person with very few worries, on account of msg takes care of pretty much all the financial stuff and i don't have to work and i don't know anybody that i don't really, really like.

the only reasons i ever have for being unhappy are when i make the mistake of watching the news and see all the frustrating crap in the world, which even then i don't let bother me too much, or when msg is unhappy and there's nothing i can do about it.

he and i have both those things in common, only he makes the mistake of watching the news more often, and he has a lot more people he wishes he could make happy only he can't. so he gets down a lot more often than i do, and sometimes i can perk him back up and sometimes i can't.

but i try, and he appreciates me for it, oodles and gobs, i know.

so what is my secret for being happy?

i make the world around me with my mind.

now, don't freak out and think, whoa, this chick is crazy. i don't mean i really make the world around me with my mind. i mean i take all the good stuff from all the books i read, and all the tv shows i watch, and all the movies and music and so forth, and when i look at the real world, the actual world, i just look for the bits that i recognize from the imaginary world.

i know there's ugliness out there and we all have to work and fight against it. but i don't look for it.

i look for the pretty stuff. the good stuff. and i try to encourage people to dig on that stuff.

the ugly stuff won't disappear just because we ignore it. but some of it will disappear if we stop actively looking for it. because when we look for ugly stuff we'll always find it. and when we find it, it takes away some of our energy for finding - and creating - the good stuff.

and there's good stuff everywhere, trust me.

it's like, piled up in heaps all around me.

and probably around you too, if you just look.

love,

claire