I've spent the weekend researching the new condoms.

We started with Yellow - Safex Sensitive. Supposedly they're thin and make it all feel much more, well, sensitive. I've been waiting patiently for the Durex version of these to be made available in the UK but so far no luck. But, anyway, they weren't really that thin. To be honest, they felt like your bog-standard condom. Neither good nor bad, just an average condom.

Next was Grey - Safex Ribbed. I think maybe I'm just built differently than the girls these ribbed condoms are meant to pleasure. Fair enough, so far I've only tried two different kind of ribbed condoms but both did nothing to help me along the way ;) To be honest, I think these ones actually delayed my orgasm (that could have just been me, I guess, though).

Last of all was Green - Safex Natural. These are meant for if you have an allergy to latex, neither of us do but they were part of the pack I bought so we gave them a go. In my opinion: the best of the three. Gave the best orgasm for me ;) Ray said they were a bit snug for his liking, though.

So all in all, I think Safex are not really the brand for me. I think they must make your average kind of condoms; you pay the price they're worth, which isn't that much. Still, I'll be happy to give the rest of the pack a few more rounds just to see if my opinion changes ;)

The one condom I must reccomend above all others is: Crown Skinless. For a start they're pink! The perfect colour for a condom cos obviously skin is pink so you can barely even see it (hence why they use it in the adult film industry). I thought that was an ingenius idea. Why on earth are condoms made that awful yellowy colour anyway? It is super thin, which makes it all feel very natural. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it makes it feel better than bare in a way because it shapes around the penis and just pulls it all in nice and tight; sort of like a push-up bra, maybe ;) The only problem we have with them is that Ray is slightly allergic to them (typical!) so we can't use them too often. Definitely the best condom I've found so far :)

Still my favourite condoms (aside from Crown) are the Durex Elite. Weirdly enough, they were the first style of condoms I ever bought. Seems subconsciously I already knew what worked for me ;)

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I'm having one of those Oh Jeez how old are you, girl? moments. Because I spent a large portion of this morning contemplating why butter is the same price in all the supermarkets - be they the big ones like Tesco, or the cheaper ones like Farmfoods. I thought it strange that I can shop around for pretty much every other item on my shopping bill and find lots of different prices (and varieties) but with butter it's all the same. Why is that, do you think?

The visit last night was really fun. I do really like having visitors. I'm sure I suck as a hostess (the fact that Ray's mother had to ask for a cup of tea, and then me giving her sugar when she didn't want one, pretty much proved that ;D) but it's just so much fun to get new people to talk to - fresh conversation and new reactions, and an excuse to babble ;) I've noticed something, as well. When we visit Ray's family they treat him like a kid but when they visit our house they treat him like an adult. It makes me giggle. Because I expect them to be one way and then they act completely different. Except his mother - she's the same whatever house we're in, precisely because she is his mother :) It's probably simply because he's always been baby-Ray at home, and then here they realise he has a house of his own and a life of his own that he's able to run by himself like a grown-up. What they don't realise is that I'm the one in charge - and he'd better not forget it, hehehe ;)

Sweepie was anti-social and barked for the first ten minutes they were here. Simon offended her somehow. By being a man, I think. She calmed down eventually and sulked in her bed, being a princess and not letting him touch her head. I picked her up in the end and after the cuddle she felt much better and ran off into the front room to sit with Jemma. She's such a slob. She never wants to leave the sofa for long ;)

Reverting back to the money topic: I got some Safex Condoms to try. Never tried that brand before. There's Sensitive, Natural and Ribbed. Any one tried those ones before? Any good? I'll be sure to review them once I've given them a go. I'll tell my opinion of the Crown condoms at the same time then. Good bargain, though, weren't they? I can always find a bargain ;)

Labels: condoms, food, in-laws, life, money, shopping, sweepie, visitors

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After all that serious talk about life and the future, let's get back to something much more fun: sex.

Now, you know I'm on The Pill but because because we also use condoms as well. Because they're not needed for protection, as such, anymore, we've started using all kinds of different ones to see which ones feel the best. This month I saw this ad:



Says the porn stars love it so why wouldn't we, right? ;) I'll have to let you know. So far I haven't been overly impressed with the supposedly amazing-feel condoms on offer.

We tried the Love Condoms, which were meant to be the thinnest you could find. They were not at all lubricated so not much fun from my side, and from the male perspective Ray said he couldn't feel a thing. Pleasuremax: I could feel the ridges and dots when I was putting the thing on but once inside? Nothing. Same for him.

So we've stuck with the ones that feel the best for the both of us, funnily enough the first style of condoms I ever bought, Durex Elite. I can't say enough good things about them: they feel good for both of us, well lubricated, nice fit. All good. Seriously, we should have stocks and shares in these condoms! I know they're a little more expensive than the old favourite Extra Safe, but if you have another form of protection then these ones are really no fun anymore.

Any good condom recommendations? They don't have to be Durex, although I've just realised they do seem to be a favourite of mine. As long as they give good fit, lubrication and a natural feel then I'll be happy :)

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The day didn't start well. Ten pound missing from the Shopping Money Pot on the kitchen unit. I searched the pot, tipped all the contents out, quizzed Jem to make sure she definitely put it in there and not somewhere safe - you know that Safe Place we all have where things always end up getting lost forever. But she was adamant the tenner had been put in the pot.

There's another pot by the Shopping Pot, this one is called the Dog Biscuit Pot cos it holds, yes, the dog biscuits. Ray brought a ten pound tip home last night for Outstanding Tiling and Grouting (I'm so proud of my man) and I put that ten pound in the Dog Biscuit Pot, sticking up so I'd know where it was, so I knew not to out it somewhere safe. It was to be Ray's Getting His Hair Cut Money.

So I took a guess that maybe Ray had got the tenner's mixed up, put the Shopping Money tenner in his wallet and skipped off to work this morning. So I just took the Ray's Getting His Hair Cut tenner into town to finish off the shopping. I texted him to make sure, all the while cursing him lovingly for his lack of knowledge about different pots meaning different money which belong to different people. Yes, the ten pounds look the same but they're not - they're not! Nearly at the shop and he texted to say he had not taken the ten pound, that he'd given it to me to keep safe 'til tomorrow (when he gets his hair cut). Don't worry, he said, we'll look for the missing tenner tonight.

Hmm.

Sounds like a plan, I know, but I've searched the kitchen, Jemma's searched the kitchen, and there is no second ten pound note. We fear the dog might have climbed up onto the unit and eaten the Shopping Money note because she's weird and loves the taste of money in her mouth. Which means I've spent the Ray's Getting His Hair Cut money already. Which means there will be no hair cut. Which means his hair will keep on growing thicker and thicker until he ends up with a mullet. Because, yes, we're that skint that we don't have a spare ten pounds - the only reason he could get his hair cut this weekend was cos that money was a tip.

So now I'm thinking I might have to perform surgery on the dog. And while I'm in there I may as well look for my missing period. It's over two hours late. Yes, I know, only hours. But every second counts when you desperately don't want there to be a bun in the oven. Not that there could be anyway, aside from an act of God. Can sperms really get through Pill Defensives and Condom Defensives?

Oh well, there's some good things about today: it's a Friday, which means it's the weekend in about four hours; I'm wearing Ray's belt again which might mean it'll end up tied round other parts of me than my waist again later tonight; my hair has dried in perfect pretty ringlets; it's raining so I don't have to walk the dogs (plus they went for a huge walk last night); it's lunchtime at last so I can eat.

If any one finds ten pounds - it's mine!

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It's Ray's birthday on Sunday. Although I'm skint (I spent a lot of money on one present for him, which I think is gorgeous and am sure he will love; plus I'm really smug about it cos he's completely forgotten that he kept saying he wanted one), I bought him two more presents yesterday. Well, I've got him his main present, another small present, a silly one, then suddenly realised I didn't have any kinky presents for him, and we always buy kinky presents. I found a new creation from Durex I just had to get: click here. Yummy. I also got him something else but that's a secret just for us two. Much fun :D We're getting the weekend to ourselves, as well, which is such a treat, cos I can't tell you often that doesn't happen. (Ray, if you happen to read this do not click on the links, unless it's after your birthday then click away.)

And been as we're in a sexual conversation: TMI Tuesday:

1. Define "infidelity" as it relates to a relationship. Have you ever been guilty of infidelity? Have you ever been the victim of infidelity? Have you ever been a participant in someone else's infidelity?

Infidelity for me is when a person in a relationship seriously pursues someone else, and/or kisses them, touches them, has sex with them. Fantasies are not infidelity, nor are crushes. Action makes infidelity.

I have never been unfaithful, no. I have been kind of cheated on by a guy. In that he didn't tell me he had a girlfriend until a month into it and then just announced I'd better shag him that night or else "miss out" because his girlfriend was coming back from Ibiza. Hmm. I got rid of him pretty quick. I have participated in someone else's infidelity. I didn't know the girl he was dating but I knew the guy very well, from school, we'd been flirting outrageously for a few months and then on a night out we hooked up. I don't consider the unnatached person to be in the wrong in those situations. It'd be the same if my boyfriend cheated on me - I'd blame him because he's the one who's meant to love me. I don't agree with girls sleeping with their friend's boyfriends, though; in that instance I think both would have to be tortured.

2. What is the last thing you stole?

Hmm... I've honestly never been a stealer of things. I think I pocketed some chewing gum once when I was about eight years old.

3. Name one place in your country that you have never been but would like to visit and why.

I'd like to visit Snowdonia. Because it's the biggest mountain we have here in Wales. And I bet the view is spectacular.

4. What movies can you watch over and over again?

I have watched "Lord of the Rings" over and over again. I know the script! I'm a little bit obsessed with them. But I have also watched "The Matrix" from start to finish, rewound the tape (yes, this was in the days of VHS) and watched it all over again - three times!

5. Who is the last person you saw naked?

That would be Ray. Sunday night. Oh I wish it could have been last night...

Bonus (as in optional): In honor of the 237 reasons we have sex study. Tell us at least five but not more than ten reason you have had sex.

1. To lose my virginity (of course); 2. To try out a new condom; 3. To prove he fancied me; 4. Because Tajar had turned me on; 5. Because I was horny goddamn it!

And to end on some more sex news: Madge (my mother's Pug) is in season. And this time she's going to meet up with her boyfriend and have a weekend of Pug sex. Then a couple of months later we should hopefully have a litter of tiny little Pugs puppies for me to take care of :)

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My new trainers arrived - and I adore them!





They are both white and pink, which is what I've been looking for for about a year now; plus they're a designer name, which just adds to the yumminess.

I have fallen in love with the shopping buzz. This week I have shopped two nights already, not including the online shopping, which was frequent but unfruitful (nothing fit when it arrived and now I've run out of time). I've got myself some icky but fabulous mustard heels and bought a matching mustard bag and belt (the belt doesn't match the dress, though) the following day. And now my trainers have arrived. And tonight I get to go bra shopping. Don't think I suddenly have lots of money - I don't. The trainers were a birthday present, the shoes, belt and bag were all on the sale (I love my sales) and my bra... well, okay, yeah, that's a treat to myself.

And in the middle of all that I even managed to have a fight with Ray and make up again - for the record Goassmer condoms are evil; they burn like hell! Won't be using them ones again; I've passed them along to my sister to see if her body likes them; if not, they're going onto one of her friends. I like to think of it as a condom chain.

Hmm, I love my new trainers. It is raining, though, and when I test-drive them tonight they're going to get dirty, aren't they? Aww well, who cares?

Edit @ 2pm: New layout: I fancied a change.

Labels: condoms, photos, ray, shopping, sweepie

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