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A quick interruption amidst me prepping for my teleclass, workshop, and the rest of my current series I’m writing here.

I was recently interviewed for an article with Details magazine regarding polyamory and Valentine’s day.  The interview was a blast.  I’m intrigued at the evolution of the article. When I was originally interviewed, it sounded like the story was going to be about the interesting challenges of being polyamorous and celebrating Valentine’s Day.  The final version (which you guys can read through the above link), places poly people in a rather interesting light…

You think you’ve got it rough on Valentine’s Day? What would you do if you had to find the perfect gift for two lovers? Or needed to plan a sex-romp weekend for six? Because they clearly have relationship superpowers, we asked a few polyamorous people how they manage to please multiple partners.

I have relationship superpowers? At times I wish I did. ;p

For those of you that are visiting this site for the first time because of the article – hi! If you have any questions about polyamory and the whole “how the heck do you do it?” aspect, please feel free to drop me a line.

P.S.: If you want to read about my relationship experiences – go here… I have a whole section of stories.

Also, I plan on writing about my adventures (and misadventures) of Dale’s 3-week long visit. Expect to see the story here some time next week.

I wanted to take a few moments to let you, my readers, know more about what’s going on in my personal life, and why my posts have alternated between being frequent and sporadic. Hopefully, this will also give you a glimpse at the other side of the overly brainy, strategic, and stern person who authors this site.

Work-wise, I’m reaching the 3-month point with my new job. For those of you that don’t know, I’m a life insurance wholesaler. What that means is that I am a sales coach for financial advisors within a specific geographic territory.   It is an awesome job and I love every minute of it, even if I end up tired and nearly brain-fried most days of the week.  Due to things that are going on work-wise, the number of people I am coaching is increasing by ~ 1/3.  This means trying to balance between keeping up my current workload and coming up with systems so that the growth in my territory doesn’t become overwhelming (which may mean working more hours – I hope not).

BTW – Corey’s also at the 3-month point with his job, and loving it. Dale’s on his final semester of school, and looking forward to the end of his “senior’itis”

I started spending more time on my relationships with Corey and Dale.  I’m spending more time during the evening and weekends with Corey – some of the time we do chores together, and other times we play WoW together.  The both of us are starting to go out more, which includes social time with other couples and families.

I traveled to Delaware to see Dale during Labor Day weekend, and spent 4 1/2 days with him.  Dale and I chat almost every night.  Even with the frequent online contact, I still miss him a lot, and can’t wait to see him again and be in his arms.  I’m looking forward to him visiting me in January.  I’d like to visit him sooner, but with the busyness of work and then the holiday season, that may or may not be feasible

One of my other outlets of personal interest and focus is the slow food movement. I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to make very basic foodstuffs from scratch. Now, when I make spaghetti with sauce, I’m responsible for every step of the process, right down to grinding the flour for the pasta and peeling and gutting the roma tomatoes for the sauce.  During one of my latest treks to Traditional Foods, I acquired two frozen pheasants and a rabbit.  I plan on taking some time to research recipes for wild game animals.

I’ve recently taken on a few graphic design/copywriting projects on the side. I’ll talk about those more in the future.  I’m also coming up with workshop/seminar ideas for the Loving More conference on the East Coast in February. I may be one of the presenters that weekend. *crosses fingers*

Among all this, I’m finding ways to find time for myself.  I recently read A Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited. I’m also 80 pages into Wizard’s First Rule (first book in Terry Goodkind’s “Sword of Truth” series).  World of Warcraft has also become a stress outlet for me.

That’s about it. I’m going to take some time tonight to relax, make and eat some homemade eggplant parmesan, and cross my fingers that MTV doesn’t overly sensationalize things with the broadcast of their documentary on polyamory.

For those that kept track via. the countdown timer I keep on my site, as well as my Twitter feed, Dale was in town for the majority of last week (6 days and 5 nights). This was the first time that he, Corey, and I were together for an extended period of time where live action role playing games were not the reason behind us being within close proximity of each other.

My goal for the prolonged stay (beyond having lots of yummy quality time with my boyfriend) was to see how well we could get along if we were living under the same roof.  Granted, we didn’t have to deal with the extra details like living expenses, but enough stress points came up that the experiment still felt real.