We went out to dinner last night. A local restaurant had a New Year’s Eve special. Unfortunately, it wasn’t very special. Lion had to send his food back twice before it was right. We got home in plenty of time to watch reruns and for Lion to have a sizable nap.

Before he fell asleep I brought out a paddle to do some of our new punishment swats. Lion said he still had sore spots from Sunday. I couldn’t see any bruises but I don’t doubt he had sore spots. I offered to wait a day to swat him. He’d been the one who suggested swats every day. One day in, he was asking for a reprieve. Yes, I know. I give in too easy. He asked for it and I should have held him to it. However, once there is a bruise, it’s best not to hit that same spot right away. If I can’t see where it’s sore, how can I avoid the spot? Plus, for once it’s not me forgetting or giving up. There’s some satisfaction in that.

This morning, Lion said we could play our football game when we watch one of the bowl games we’re recording. I don’t think I want to do that. I’d much rather do the punishment spanking practice than whomp him for points, especially since it’s so close to the last football game. If we’re going to see how this new technique works we’ll have to give it a fair shake. We’ll just enjoy the game and worry about the swats sometime this evening.

The other night, I gave Lion a ruined orgasm. I wanted to see if I could give him another one right away, as he’d requested some weeks ago. He said he didn’t think it would work. I don’t know if it was just that night or in general. I’ll have to try again sometime. It’s worth a shot.

We rang in the new year quietly. We had some eggnog and counted down with the TV. I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a New Year’s eve party. People and parties just aren’t my thing. I’d much rather spend the time in bed with my sweetie next to me. [Lion — Me too!]

The last day of the year is always crazy at work. Can we possibly get X done by the end of the day? Nope. What about Y? Nope. And Z is off the table too. It’s not like it’s a surprise. We’ve been planning for the end of the year for at least a month. We’re short staffed and we know what we can accomplish. Don’t spring new work on us at the last minute.

Luckily there’s no pressure at home to get anything done by this evening. As you know, Lion asked for a method of punishment. We tried it yesterday. I gave him short bursts of swats with time between to recover. I took a before picture and an after picture so we could compare them. His buns were quite red and bruised.

I’m sure he could have taken more than the 300 swats I gave him. I’m also sure he would have been redder and more bruised had I continued. It was the first foray into this type of swats. We’ve tried all sorts of combinations of swats. I think it’s best to start out slowly so we can see the effects before we move on. It’s trial and error. Hard, fast swats that lasted a long time yielded certain feedback. Rapid-fire light swats that became harder as we went yielded more feedback. Now we’re trying bursts of hard swats. So far the feedback is good. Lion “likes” this way best. He has made some suggestions. I should do more swats at a time and I should wait less time between bursts. I’m sure we’ll tweak things more as we go along.

The other thing that stopped me from continuing beyond 300 swats is that his buns were bleeding in some spots. I knew we had our football game coming up and I didn’t want to make the bruising/bleeding worse before the game.

As I whomped Lion 142 times for the points scored, he asked if he was getting redder. He wasn’t. With one exception, the scores were spread out enough that his buns were able to recuperate between swats. Even the two interceptions that our idiot quarterback threw were early enough in the game that the tenderizer side of the paddle didn’t have much effect.

Lion wants to do a round of swats every day. I get it. He wants it to become routine before we back off to just punishment. Practice makes perfect. We’ll see how far we get and what changes we make along the way.

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Over 30 sets of 10 swats each. Lion held still and didn’t seem to be in much distress. Next time 15 swat groups closer together.
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On Friday afternoon, we were getting the garbage ready. Lion’s knee gave out on him and he fell before he even made it out of the bedroom. His elbow started to swell but we managed to get the garbage cans into the truck and down to the end of the driveway. Despite icing his elbow, it swelled up into a nasty bruise. Needless to say, we didn’t play that night.

Saturday we ran some errands and went out to dinner. It’s been a long time since we’ve been out of the house for any length of time. Lion hasn’t felt well enough. It was nice to see him enjoying himself outside the bedroom.

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I used this paddle this morning. The holes may have caused some of the spots on his butt.
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When we got home, we wallowed in our fullness. Well, I guess I did. Lion was fine. When we snuggled, he asked if I was ok. I’ve recognized this as code for: why aren’t we playing? I said I was fine. He said we hadn’t played all weekend. All weekend? It’s Saturday. It’s true I said I was going to paint his toes and put him in panties, but he wasn’t talking about that. He wanted to get started on his new spanking idea. Lets do it now. How about now? Now?

It was too late (I thought) to do it last night. So I suggested starting today. I thought maybe every few hours I could whomp him a bit. He said his idea was for every day. Ok. I can live with that. We have our football game today. If I do the spanking early enough, he’ll feel the football swats even more. I owe him swats for not reminding me yesterday was punishment day. Should he get the punishment and the football swats on the same day? Why not? He’s always telling me what a tough old butt he has. Besides, if I don’t do the punishment I’ll forget.

Lion is still sleeping, but the plan is for punishment swats before noon and football swats whenever we watch the game. Poor Lion butt.

I waxed the front half of Lion yesterday. Parts of him were very furry. All in all, though, it went surprisingly quickly. There were only a few spots where the hair hung on for dear life. Eventually I won. I left some bruising on his upper thighs. It’s difficult to stretch the skin there and pull. Today I’ll hit a few places I missed and I’ll wax the moon side.

We also played our football game. I don’t know how many penalties there were but I started out on a fairly high setting. In his post the other day, he said he thought I’d been taking it easy on him. Challenge accepted! He also said he thought I wasn’t swatting as hard as I should be. I decided I could fix that, but after the first score I found myself wondering if he should get whomped so hard right out of the gate. When it’s play, I start out slow with my hands and then progress to harder swats with paddles. Punishment starts out with rapid fire easy swats and progresses to harder swats, all with a paddle. Why would the football swats be hard with a paddle? It’s not a punishment. I kept going because he wasn’t complaining.

I’m still not sure it’s the right tactic. If it’s play it should start out slow. But we don’t know how many points will be scored ahead of time. What if the final score is 3-0? Six swats is all he’ll get. There’s no time to warm up. And if there’s a lot of time between scores, his butt will cool back down. Since he didn’t say anything when I started off with hard swats, I guess all is well in the Lion world. Who am I to argue?

I was able to edge him last night too. It was a very eventful day for someone who hasn’t had much sexual excitement in a while. He was plucked, whomped and edged. What more could a Lion as for?