Lion didn’t have any items on his punishment list for last night. Until he did. I allowed him to eat first at dinner. We don’t normally eat dessert until later. This is where he had a problem. Dessert counts. He ate first. I didn’t say anything. I was waiting to see if he noticed. He didn’t. He did, however, notice when I picked up the paddle.

I didn’t give him that many swats. Lion would probably disagree. More than one is “many”. I don’t even think he felt the swats for very long. So what was the point? He needs to realize eating is eating. If he’s eating something and I am not he usually asks if he can start. For example, at a restaurant if he orders soup he will wait until I tell him he can eat or he’ll ask if he can start. We’re both a little more lax about dessert. Since I’m still in training (and probably will be forever), I need to notice everything. I think I surprised him that I noticed last night.

I keep telling him he has to watch out for me. I may appear to be distracted, but then I pounce. You just never know when I’m going to wake up and pay attention. I guess I keep both of us on our toes. Poor Lion. I lull him into believing he can get away with things and then I realize I’ve been inattentive. I start noticing things out of the blue and Lion is caught off guard. I need to do better. It’s clear I still have a lot of work ahead of me. Consistency was never my forte.

Last night was the day after an orgasm so we didn’t play. We just watched TV and held hands. Some people might think that’s boring, but I love quiet time with Lion. I bet he wishes the quiet time wasn’t interrupted with punishment swats though. Tonight will be a little more exciting for him. What kind of excitement? I don’t know. Maybe something Lion loves to hate. Maybe something he just hates. 2.0 will come up with something.

To my surprise, Lion was horny last night. He hasn’t been lately. He also said he was very tired when I got home. I figured it was another night with no play. Then he asked if I was going to unlock him.

I didn’t grab my bag of tricks this time. I didn’t want to scare Mr. Weenie again. Instead, I grabbed the Magic Wand. If 2.0 can’t get a rise out of him, the Magic Wand usually does. It did. We were off and running. Until I went too far. Damned ruined orgasms! And Lion was instantly worried that he wouldn’t be horny again. Then he surprised me again. He said he still felt a little horny.

Granted, the ruined orgasm didn’t produce much semen, but we hadn’t played very long before it happened. There isn’t necessarily any correlation between semen produced and time spent playing. But it seems to me that if Lion is very horny and I’ve gotten him very turned on, there is more semen. And sometimes there isn’t. You never can tell. But if he’s still horny after a ruined orgasm, that bodes well for more play tonight. And I promise not to go too far again.

Perhaps tonight I can twist his arm and he’ll want to be tied to the bed for a nice play spanking. I know he loves those. As much as he dreads punishment swats, he loves play swats. First of all, they don’t start out as hard. Then, I do a lot of tushy massages and kisses along the way. And, of course, I lead up to the harder swats, which generally aren’t as hard as punishment swats anyway, but his buns can handle it if I take my time.

While both kinds of spankings come from love, they are definitely different. The I-love-you-so-I-don’t-want-you-to-make-this-mistake-again punishment swats are evil right from the beginning. I may give him a few, then pause to let him catch up, but there is no rubbing of the butt to take the sting out. He needs the sting to know I mean business. Play swats start out with love taps. I may throw in a few harder swats, but they are not too hard and are usually followed by kisses or a massage. If it’s clear I’ve hit too hard, I immediately tone it down again. If a punishment swat is too hard that’s just too bad. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Play swats are designed to get him to his happy place although he’s said he doesn’t want to get to far into oblivion.

It’s always a balancing act. Swat too hard and I may injure him. Stroke too far and I may give him a ruined orgasm. I don’t really like heights. Luckily this tightrope isn’t too far off the ground.

Lion was not happy about having punishment added retroactively, especially for something he didn’t know he did. Oh well. I can punish him for any reason or no reason at all. He knows that. I could give him a few whacks any time I pass a paddle. I could even have a holster made so I always have a paddle on me. He also seems to forget that it’s his job to remember what is on his list. Just because I’ve dropped a penny in the bank doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be able to recite the list. His retort last night was he could do it if he knew what was on the list.

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Silly boy. I always tell him as I add to the list. I assume he’s referring to yesterday when I added forgetting the collar and interrupting to the list. Of course I wouldn’t expect him to know before I added them. But once I said he’d be punished he should be able to tell me. He must have been frazzled by the retroactive punishment because he forgot to thank me for punishing him. I realized it while we were playing. When I got around to swatting him, before I could finish saying “we’re done” he was thanking me for punishing him. He did not want a repeat performance.

I do this because Lion gave me the power. He wants to be punished for his sins. Of course he hates it at the time it’s happening. I think I’d worry about him if he didn’t. He likes the long, slow buildup of a play spanking. It gives him time to get used to the sensation. Punishment swats are a shock to the system. They are meant to snap you out of whatever reverie you were in when you committed the offense. For that reason, I understand why Lion wants to be punished immediately. Sometimes it’s just not feasible. However, even after the fact, they should be painful and not something you want to repeat, otherwise you might be tempted to continue making the same mistake.

Another reason for delaying punishment is that 1.0 doesn’t necessarily want to do the punishment. It’s still difficult for her. She prefers to wait until 2.0 shows up. It seems 2.0 comes preloaded. She doesn’t mind punishment. She doesn’t mind Lion’s grumbles or protests. She is, after all, a bitch. She is Lion’s ideal top. Maybe not ideal. There are still things she doesn’t want to do. But Lion loves when 2.0 shows up. Except when she swats him too hard. Or does mean things to him. Or makes him wait for an orgasm. I guess it’s a love-hate relationship.

Things don’t always work out the way you want them to. I had plans for Lion’s toes, but I never bought the necessary nail polish. I thought we’d have the purple dildo firmly in Lion’s butt by Sunday, but he had some burning (I didn’t do it) so we stopped all anal action. We did manage to do some Lion defurring on Saturday. Does that mean the weekend was a complete bust? I’m fairly sure Lion enjoyed his surprise orgasm last night.

I was giving Lion a long slow blow job, with stops along the way for him to recover. Then I decided to keep going. Toward the end, he started bucking and I probably should have stopped because I really wanted to continue slowly, but I didn’t. Afterwards, he asked me why I did it. That always amazes me. Why ask why? Just enjoy the moment. In turn, I asked him why he started bucking. Did he think I was going to stop and tried to get there before I stopped? He said he wasn’t thinking. Perhaps next time I’ll stop if he bucks. I don’t know. It all depends on my mood at the time.

Lion asked if his date had changed. It’s not the 26th yet so no real reason to change it. Who knows? He may get another orgasm after that date. I like surprising him. It keeps him off balance. And the next date isn’t that far off anyway. Why get bogged down in details? Besides, I need to get better at catching Lion when he breaks rules. He forgot to put his collar on Sunday morning after he asked to remove it for sleep Saturday night. I actually caught him that time but forgot to punish him for it. I didn’t give him a penny either. Slacker lioness. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Not to worry. I can punish him tonight. It seems to me he also interrupted me a few times along the way too. I guess that’s one good thing about having designated punishment nights.

I do understand that Lion prefers to be punished closer to the time of the infraction. Immediate consequences might make him pay more attention. On the other hand, I sort of like the idea that he’s stewing about what he did, just waiting for me to punish him. It’s the 2.0 equivalent of “go to your room and think about what you’ve done”. And I can ask him from time to time how many pennies he has or what punishments are on his list. Then he’ll give me his heavy sigh and tell me why I’ll be punishing him. I think there’s value in that.