Sipping some tea and enjoying a quiet morning. Santa brought us a new garage for Christmas! We don't have a garage door yet, but the property manager said it's okay to start building shelves this weekend. We will build shelves in two of our neighbors' garages as well.

The garage door won't arrive until the third week of January, but once it is installed, we want to be able to move the stuff out of the storage pods that have been sitting in our parking lot since October 2024. To say that I'm excited is an understatement. Having the chain link fencing removed from our property before Christmas was a lovely gift! The only fencing left is around our pier.

2025 was a year of many highs and lows. I'm looking forward to 2026!

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year, too!

The wait is over...

Hot Wife Hotel - Olivia's Submissive Vacation (Part Twenty-Nine) sees Olivia having some one-on-one time with her husband, Steve. But he manages to find a way to reclaim her anyway.

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁❤️

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my final story of 2025 has gone up. It's steamy couple days in the life of a gay teen as he explores his sexuality and his lust for his best friend.

Finding Myself

Merry Christmas!

This is a really good story. I hope all y'all will give it a read over the holidays!

Bravo! 🥰🍾

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Oh no!!!!! That’s awful!!! 😠I remember when someone found a site years ago where someone was swiping multiple authors work from here. Please let us know what happens! I’m so sorry!!!

I was one of those authors whose stuff was posted on that site. But this is more disturbing as she is SELLING MY STORIES.

Fingers crossed that it gets taken care of.

More wine please and thanks.

Having a shitty day. I'd like a very large glass of Moscato.

I just spent time reporting that an author named Elaine Phillips stole and published Hot Wife Hotel and The Office Whore in October and November of 2020 on Amazon. I am so angry.

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Welcome back, Kat! Glad you all had fun, and we're looking forward to hearing all about it!

Well, maybe not the private parts, although that would be fun, too! 😜

Having our own cabin made it possible to have “private parts” on the cruise. But those scenes will end up in a story somewhere down the line. Lol.

The family fun was wonderful on the cruise. Our son’s family opted for staying two nights with us before they go home. (one down, one to go). But the littles are a lot. Waiting for it to warm up a bit so we can go down and have a beach day. Hard to get into trouble with sand toys. My heart is full. (but so are my hands. Haha).

We had a wonderful family cruise. So many fabulous moments! I will treasure that time forever.

I'm back on dry land and still have my son's family with us until tomorrow morning.

I know I have several comp stories from Rumpies to read, and I will get to them in the next day or so.

Bear and Ape for sure... if there are others I missed, drop me a message.

I am not back to modding until tomorrow.

😘

Lately, I've been reading stories that are either AI-written or AI-enhanced. I find them boring and a total turn-off. If I'm going to spend my time reading a story, I want it to be human-written and have sincere eroticism.

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Morning all, coffee to start my day. It's been such a hot summer so far and the four year old is so into the beach. I've hit pause on the competition story I mentioned in my last post; I can't find the energy after Sunday's tragedy at Bondi. But I will try and read a few more stories later in the week. Take care out there.

Such a senseless tragedy. 😔

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having some rain up here. so far, we're not affected and i think the worst of it is over.

Be safe! Mother Nature can be a vicious bitch.

Hugs!

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Hi Rumpies

I’m with you, Annie. Such horrible events in the news lately. I have trouble handling such hate in the world. Big hugs to you!

I hope you get the urge to enter the comp, David. I always love your entries!

I’m outta town at my company office. Will return home tmrw evening. My performance review is tmrw afternoon. I’m going in yelling, “Show Kimmi the money!”

I submitted a weird Christmas story to SS. An even weirder creepy ass Christmas story is in my head and I may write it up, too. I deleted my comp entry here after publishing. Just not feeling like being in a comp right now. There are some super duper entries though!

I’m bummed you deleted your comp story. I really enjoyed it.

I will have to get over to SS to read that story on our way to pick up my son and his family from the airport tomorrow morning. 😎

Empath

This was what I received 2 days ago:

REPENT AND ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR

Seriously, I think after writing over 500 erotic stories it’s a little late to be asking me to repent. 😳😹

Katarina’s Stories have collectively earned over 50,000 flames 🔥

And while flames don’t make a story worthy of your views, your comments inspire me to keep writing.

Many thanks to all my readers, friends, and followers. You’re simply the best! 🥰😘🔥

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Well, FUCK. Now I will never get another story published on Lush. lol

I guess being a Lions fan is better than being a Vikings or Bears fan. 😊

Lucky for you, I won't hold your contempt for the Lions against you. (not to mention there ARE other mods besides me). 😉😘

Going to my friend’s birthday party tomorrow afternoon. I'm hoping we make it back in time to at least catch the second half of the Lions-Rams game. 💙🦁🏈

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I get it about the tree. Unless we have people coming to stay, we rarely put up a tree. We still put out some other decorations, but the tree… Yeah, that is a LOT of work.

And go Rams! As an avid Packers fan, anything the Rams can do to knock the Lions out of the playoff race… Well, I will be grateful! Granted, once we get into the post-season, my perception of the Rams may change. lol

Just so you know…diehard Lions fan here. 😉

Hugs for you David. If you aren’t feeling the tree this year don’t push yourself. Just don’t burrow too deeply. Reach out to your friends here if you need us. 😘

More dental work this morning. Still trying to discern whether or not there is a correlation between teeth and sinus issues even though scan said no. At this point I will try anything.

These comp stories are impressive. Thanks to those who have read mine. If you haven’t, here is the link: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-stories/ill-be-home-for-christmas

If I haven’t gotten to read any of yours yet, rest assured I will today or tomorrow. 🎄🤶🏻

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No, I wasn't born in England, David, but I lived in Cambridge for a while.

And, of course, I married an English girl…

So I'm not English, but I know something about Blighty – and her denizens!

Speaking of your English girl, please say hello from Kevin and I. Perhaps some day we will be able to enjoy a meal together again. 🥰

Mr. Bear, what a lovely thing to say! But you misunderstood. I'm being extra good with my diet this week so I can enjoy whatever I want with the kiddos next week.

Congrats on making the list, David. The only trouble with being up on top is feeling the need to stay there. So, I try not to pay attention to that detail. It tends to spark my competitive nature. 🙀😻

A dear friend’s wife is having surgery on a brain aneurysm today. All positive thoughts and vibes welcome and appreciated.

Lots of great stories in the Advent comp. I am going to try to read a bunch more today. 🎄

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sigh I suppose the bukake scene will need to be implied. Lol.

You can describe the first squirt or two...we'll get the rest. 😉

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Struggling through my comp edit. Can we change it to 2,000 words?

Recently got my scout story up, and I am already excited for the sequel. But I’m excited for a lot of sequels… I need more time to write.

Mine was roughly 1900 words, on its way to 2000, but somehow I managed to edit like a fiend. You can do it!

Olivia has been patient. I'm determined to finish her new Hot Wife Hotel story before I work on anything else. LOL!

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Story of my life…

Write both. Go with your gut on which for comp. I like more story, but masses will like more sex probably.

Which is exactly what I was going to suggest. My story doesn't have enough sex in it, but it was the story my brain wanted to write.
Coke Zero, please! But no goodies! I'm trying to be good since I'm going on a family cruise next week. Taking the kids and the grandkids on a Disney cruise as their Christmas present this year. (Used every single DVC point on their cabins and had to pay cash for ours...so I'm guessing their gift to us is spending time together...which works for me).

I've thrown my hat in the ring and managed to trim a nearly 1900-word story to 1499 words. In doing so, the story took a different turn than intended. And I'm honestly not minding that.

Here's the link for anyone interested:

I'll Be Home For Christmas | Lush Stories

I've tossed my hat into the ring. I'll Be Home For Christmas is a story about anticipation, emotion, and love.

Oh, and there's some erotica sprinkled in there as well. 😉

I have the beginnings of a rough draft of a comp story. We shall see where it goes.

I'm also in edit mode for a new Hot Wife Hotel chapter - Olivia is finally getting the vacation she was promised.

Other bits and pieces on my flash drive have seen a little progress as well. My brain has been like a pinball lately. (shocker! 😹)

Plus, I've got some buttercream cuppycakes and Coke Zero for Kat.

Bless you, Bear!

Happy to have my man home, despite Delta's Network glitch that delayed his flight by 4 hours. We even managed to get a couple of hours down at the beach in the late afternoon. Glad we did because today is quite foggy!

Enjoyed seeing a friend of ours last night at a piano bar. So much fun!

10 more days till we take the kids and grandkids on a Disney cruise. I can't wait!