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[starina23]

Found a collage of our first 9 Dragoncons. So I added the most recent 5 too. @ryanschile #Dragonconners #dragoncon #dontmesswithtradition #cosplaycouple #coupleswhocosplay #costumes #geekmarriage https://www.instagram.com/p/B1XDEsFF1l7nrgTj4PzBhXz_hzEO74duVfoZwc0/?igshid=u4eju8vw3y6t

[vivslyrics]

It was the first film @1svenskpojke ever saw in the theater at age 4. We have a death star disco ball in our home office. Damn straight we were seeing the final chapter opening night! #jeffnviv #ladyandlordsapphirenoir #starwars #starwarsfan #latenitemovie #riseofskywalker #openingnight #twobigasskids #geeksinlove #finalchapter #darkside #maytheforcebewithyou #starwarscouple #geekmarriage (at Woodland Hills AMC Promenade) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6SiDoIgddNs5L3FoBiSFO1oPjc5sJWPrL4e5U0/?igshid=12105p2i6du5n

[seljepw]

They guard the collection. #Batman #WonderWoman #GeekMarriage #Comics

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge # 5: April 1st - April 14th

S: Mr. And Mrs. Pierre will take a minimum of two minutes to make out every day. You’d be surprised just how effective it is, both in retaining intimacy and creating a “mood.”

P: Mr Pierre will complete his tax deduction hunting from the year’s spending, to help our wonderful accountant keep us legitimate. Mrs. Pierre will have a new head shot and resume printed for her upcoming audition with the Orlando Shakes 2015 season. 

E: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will walk 10 miles around Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. (These challenges can't all be terrible, and we haven’t been to the parks in a few weeks.)

C: Low and slow. 7 new slow cooker recipes in 14 days. Aww, yiss.

I: Mrs. Pierre will read The Terror by Dan Simmons for her book club, Mr. Pierre will read "Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Crichton.

A: Mrs. Pierre will jewel and rhinestone the recently acquired throne for her Orlando Fringe production. Mr. Pierre will complete layout and planting of the herb and vegetable garden.

L: Mr. Pierre will continue his English grammar and sentence structure education and he and Mrs. Pierre will view “Pan's Labyrinth” and “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.”

[starina23]

Our hanging out costumes today. #Holodeck #Ghostbuster #geekmarriage

[starina23]

Ryan just held his hand out to show me a rhinestone he found and said, "Look. That's all that's left of Fantasia." I laughed a bunch. #neverendingstory #fantasia #geekmarriage #moviereference

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge #4 Recap

-by Mrs. Pierre

S: Love is blind. 5 sexual encounters while either Mr. Pierre or Mrs. Pierre are blindfolded.

We actually failed this one, but because we were doing something else. Every sex act in this two week period happened while one or both of us was playing video games. And let me tell you, killing mole rats with Moira Brown’s repellent stick is not easy when you’re trying to ride that dick at the same time, lol!

P: Mr. Pierre will complete the website layout for the fetish clothing site. Mrs. Pierre will memorize Act Two of her script for her Orlando Fringe show.

Mr. Pierre actually got work designing a couple other websites, and I’m not sure if he ever got around to working on his own. I haven’t got Act 2 memorized yet, but I’m close. We’ve been working on a lot of choreography lately. It’ll come together.

E: Endurance challenge will be two weeks of no beer, wine, champagne or fruit juice/soda mixers. This is a challenge meant to remove drinkable sugars from the diet, an experiment as much for the waistline as it is for willpower. Vegetable juice is fine though, as is unsweetened tea. (Saint Patrick’s Day is exempt from this, because we don’t want to die. We are very much whiskey drinkers, but on a day like St. Pat’s, a beer will represent self preservation.)

This was difficult. It was successful, for the most part, but it was very difficult. I’d say 75% success on this one.

C: Prepare 7 full meals over an open fire outdoors with cast irons. We need to buy more charcoal. And wood.

100% success! We learned a lot about vegetables, which cook a LOT faster over an open flame. (Those poor carrots....) Will do a lot more fire cooking in the future.

I: Mr. Pierre will read “The Martian” for his book club. Mrs. Pierre will read “Mozart in the Jungle” as well as whatever her book club selects.

Mr. Pierre completed his mission and is currently reading “All the President’s Men“ for his book club. Although he says it’s more gossipy and less technical than he’d like a book about the Secret Service to be. I read his book club’s last selection, “Ready Player One,” which was AWESOME, and I’m halfway through “Mozart in the Jungle.”

A: Mrs. Pierre will assemble her very first circle skirt with help from her awesome lady friends. Mr. Pierre will suicide karaoke 3 songs with the help of his awesome gentleman friends.

I made a beautiful circle skirt, with a gathering stitch and everything! I put about 7 hours total into it, and it looks like I spent good money on it in a fancy pinup store. I love it, and I’m already buying materials for future skirts. Mr. Pierre did not complete this challenge, mostly due to working a lot and being exhausted come karaoke time.

L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will complete 2 hours each of Spanish instruction tutorials.

Nah. We failed. I have graduated to speaking Spanish only with the kitchen staff at work, and we have gone to a few Spanish restaurants and ordered only in Spanish. But we failed. Aint nobody got time for no tutorial.

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge # 4: March 15th - March 28th

Happy Pie Day!

Time for the next S.P.E.C.I.A.L. challenge. For those who haven't been following along, S.P.E.C.I.A.L. is a series of two-week long self improvement challenges in the areas of Sexuality, Professional skill, Endurance, Culinary ability, Intelligence, Artistry and Language development, inspired by the design of character attributes in Fallout 3.

Challenge # 4: March 15th - March 28th

S: Love is blind. 5 sexual encounters while either Mr. Pierre or Mrs. Pierre are blindfolded.This should be fun!

P: Mr. Pierre will complete the website layout for the fetish clothing site. Mrs. Pierre will memorize Act Two of her script for her Orlando Fringe show.

E: Endurance challenge will be two weeks of no beer, wine, champagne or fruit juice/soda mixers. This is a challenge meant to remove drinkable sugars from the diet, an experiment as much for the waistline as it is for willpower. Vegetable juice is fine though, as is unsweetened tea. (Saint Patrick’s Day is exempt from this, because we don’t want to die. We are very much whiskey drinkers, but on a day like St. Pat’s, a beer will represent self preservation.)

C: Prepare 7 full meals over an open fire outdoors with cast irons.We need to buy more charcoal. And wood.

I: Mr. Pierre will read “The Martian” for his book club. Mrs. Pierre will read “Mozart in the Jungle” as well as whatever her book club selects.

A: Mrs. Pierre will assemble her very first circle skirt with help from her awesome lady friends. Mr. Pierre will suicide karaoke 3 songs with the help of his awesome gentleman friends.

L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will complete 2 hours each of Spanish instruction tutorials.

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Challenge # 3 Recap

S: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will each write two erotic stories and act them out with each other in a role play scenario.

Fail! Mrs. Pierre, having worked 13 shifts, attended four rehearsals, memorized Act One of her Fringe show and written two songs for her Megacon show, forgot about this one entirely. Mr. Pierre... well... unless he could somehow arrange for Mrs. Pierre to perform fellatio on Death himself or watch as she sodomized a close family member with a wine bottle, his writing style would not result in a very romantic scenario. Not that sex wasn't had, it was just regular ol' bend em over the bathroom sink, multiple vibrators, forced orgasms, rolled up newspapers, bucket of bleach, smell-the-glove sex. For all their adventures, they need to write more stories. Live Lewd Girls is coming.

P: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will develop a savings plan for a down payment on an investment property in the next 6 years. They will also establish deductions from their normal accounts to a special fund at regular intervals.

Completed! We have actually come up with a savings plan that will accomplish this goal. If we pay off 70% of our existing debt within the year, we can begin reallocating the monthly difference toward the six year plan and accomplish it by 2022.

E: 30 minutes of yoga every other day for a period of 14 days. No repeats on yoga routines.

FAIL! The window for this portion of the challenge in our day is small. Pretty much between 9am and 11am and that time this period just didn't seem to appear free. Mrs. Pierre's job became suddenly very understaffed, leaving her with a mountain of shifts and very little early afternoon time. (However, she's lost 15 pounds since all this began...)  Mr. Pierre had to give over several days to his mother seeing some last minute doctors and being hospitalized for tests rather suddenly.  

C: Cooking 10 Creole or Cajun recipes in 14 days.

Resounding success! All credit to Mr. Pierre, who had dinner prepared every night Mrs. Pierre got home. It's been a marvelously gourmet couple of weeks, and we're pleased to have so many delicious, spicy new things in the repertoire.

I:  We will visit the Orange County History Center to take advantage of their recent promotion. All throughout March and April they are open to the public for free on Sundays. FREE! Mr. Pierre will complete a WordPress tutorial series. (New site client runs wordpress. Need a crash course.)

Completed for Mr. Pierre and supplemented for Mrs. Pierre, who, instead of visiting the museum, went to work! Except for that one magical Monday they made it out to the nude beach and she read “Ravish: The Awakening of Sleeping Beauty” and memorized her songs from her Fringe show while turning her skin tone from corpse to peaches and cream. Four hours of relaxation in a two-week long sea of bullshit? That's pretty fucking intelligent to Mrs. Pierre. No regrets.

A:  Mr. Pierre will build his design for a vinyl covered bench/horizontal cage for the dungeon. Mrs. Pierre will perform the measurements and cuts.

Supplemented! Instead of using the Home Depot funds they had earmarked for this project on wood and other materials, they opted instead to plant an herb and vegetable garden. Mr. Pierre also gutted the front yard, pulled out that unsightly metal cage the people who owned this house before used to hang buckets of plants from (I mean seriously who does that shit? In the FRONT yard? Ugh.), and set the one thing they want to keep from that garish jungle, an oh-so-Florida manatee-shaped birdbath, aside before succumbing to the radioactive amounts of oak pollen on the property. Having spoken to an expert about that enormous tree raining plant sperm and inducing sneezing fits from just about everyone, Mr. and Mrs. Pierre have learned that it is, in fact, a 150 year old Live Oak and they would be in a lot of trouble with the city should they ever decide to cut it back. So here they suffer. Ah. Springtime. (I'd be crushing up Claritin and doing it in lines if I could fucking breathe through my nose. Thanks Obama. - Mrs. Pierre)

(Just kidding Obama, I love you. That tone was purely sarcastic, I know you work very hard for this country and we are lucky to have you and your gem of a VP, Joe Biden, with whom I would very much like to do whiskey shots. - Mrs. Pierre)

L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will view four Spanish language films in the 14 day period.

Fail! But a complete and total failure. As a matter of fact, no movies were watched these two weeks at all, unless you could count Mr. Pierre going to see The Kingsman, which he said was great until that “copout of an ending.” A lot of this failure is due to the Pierres' inability to prioritize their time together to included more than sleeping, but it is also due to The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

[thespecialsystem-blog]

Challenge # 3: Mar 2nd - Mar 15th

The S.P.E.C.I.A.L challenge - Phase 3! Once again, we take part in two weeks of a set of self improvement challenges in the areas of sexuality, professional skill, endurance, culinary skill, intelligence, artistic skill and language development. Here's what on deck: S: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will each write two erotic stories and act them out with each other in a role play scenario. P: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will develop a savings plan for a down payment on an investment property in the next 6 years. They will also establish deductions from their normal accounts to a special fund at regular intervals. E: 30 minutes of yoga every other day for a period of 14 days. No repeats on yoga routines. C: Cooking 10 Creole or Cajun recipes in 14 days. I:  We will visit the Orange County History Center to take advantage of their recent promotion. All throughout March and April they are open to the public for free on Sundays. FREE! Mr. Pierre will complete a WordPress tutorial series. (New site client runs wordpress. Need a crash course.) A:  Mr. Pierre will build his design for a vinyl covered bench/horizontal cage for the dungeon. Mrs. Pierre will perform the measurements and cuts. L: Mr. and Mrs. Pierre will view four Spanish language films in the 14 day period. SPECIAL REWARDS FOR NEXT PHASES: Level 4 completion: Replenishment. Bottomless brunch at Santiago's Bodega. 4/4/15 Level 5 completion: Armor Drop. Mrs. Pierre will buy 3 new spring dresses to accommodate the weight she has lost on the challenges. She's down 12 pounds! Mr. Pierre will add a new blazer to his growing collection. Sexy Dad status will be unlocked.  Starting tonight with dirty rice and wordpress tutorials. Game on!!

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Challenge # 2 Recap

I am extremely happy to announce that phase 2 of the S.P.E.C.I.A.L challenge is over and WE FAILED. Miserably.

S: Complete two outdoor sexual engagements with each other and two public sexual engagements with each other discreetly. (*No car sex. It doesn't count and it sucks anyway for tall people, which we are.)

At my birthday party, there were many many sexy people. There was a certain point in the evening, say, midnight, when the liquor took us to a whole other level of nasty. By that I mean, it seemed like a great idea at the time. I set up the massage table and all my wife's burlesque friends (and who am I kidding, my gamer guy and book club friends did it too) took turns holding a shot glass between their butt cheeks, filling it with liquor, wrapping their lips around said shot glass, and consuming said liquor. An estimated 20 people ended up consuming two handles of Jameson and four bottles of champagne in this fashion. Using one shot glass. (Again, it seemed like a great idea at the time, but we were HAMMERED.) So when I came down with the flu in the coming days, it knocked me flat on my back. I was sweaty, stuffed up, leaking from both ends and overall, disgusting. Mrs. Pierre gets a free pass for refusing to touch me during this time. VERDICT: FAILURE. P: Mrs. Pierre begins the practice of weekly blogging for www.belladivabonesaw.com. Mr. Pierre will write up the fetish clothing line business/startup plan.

A little background information: My wife, Mrs. Pierre, is a professional dominatrix and BDSM educator by the name of Mistress Belladiva. She is a marvelously influential character in the local community, hosting charity events like Live Lewd Girls (a spoken-word erotica showcase that raises money for animals) and society tea parties like Girls Up, Boys Down (in which male applicants get a chance to be formal servants for vast numbers of Dominant women in a secluded, genteel atmosphere). She writes about her adventures on www.belladivabonesaw.com, when she can find the time. Unfortunately, our local news station recently did an expose on a friend of ours, bringing unwanted attention from Vice and Metro to our city's thriving BDSM scene. Any signs that one is playing for profit have been put on lockdown, on our part. She will continue to run her website as a lifestyle blog, but for the moment it is in maintenance mode and she is not accepting any clients. I am excused from this one. Again, flu. I've been too busy downing Nyquil and orange juice, and pouring peroxide over myself in the shower (for its invigorating properties, you should try it) to do much thinking. VERDICT: FAILURE. E: Mrs. Pierre will begin the practice of daily sit ups. 25 per day for 5 days, 35 for five days, 50 for four days. Mr. Pierre will complete the Planet Fitness 30 minute express workout 6 times in 14 days.

HAHAHAHAHA FAILURE. Mrs. Pierre has no discipline. I was sick. FAILURE. C: Learn, follow, create and consume 12 traditional Spanish recipes in 14 days.

We ended up cooking a few really good Spanish meals, before I succumbed to illness and ate nothing but broth for days. I can't remember what they were, but I know we had 3 out of 12. VERDICT: Slightly less failure than the others. 

I:  Mrs. Pierre will finish reading "Devil in the Kitchen" and "Blood on the Table," and begin reading "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Mr. Pierre will complete a www.linda.com tutorial.

Mrs. Pierre finished "Devil in the Kitchen." She is more than halfway through "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." "Blood on the Table" is too good to finish, she says, which is why she keeps putting it aside, to make it last longer. I did nothing. VERDICT: 50% failure. A:  Mr. Pierre will memorize and practice Bobby Darin's "Beyond The Sea" and Leonard Cohen's "Take This Waltz" for a semi-public vocal performance. Mrs. Pierre will create 10 new hair accessories, and strip and refinish an antique wooden end table.

Mrs. Pierre created two unique costumes for a burlesque show she was hosting, one was a glittery burlesque version of Robin William's character in Jumanji (WHAT YEAR IS IT?!) and the other was a spot-on Cersei Lannister for her incestuous rendition of "Hopelessly Devoted to You." She also made 7 or 8 hair pieces, which have cemented her status at work as "The one who's inspiring everyone else to do cool shit with their hair but she better tone it down with the giant glittery birds before she gets reprimanded." Style maven. She didn't do anything with the table, but I put it in the corner in the salon where it made for a perfect drink perch at my now-infamous birthday party. I did nothing for this challenge. I failed.

L: Mrs. Pierre will read and translate a short middle school level Spanish fiction book, to be announced. Mr. Pierre will have a minimum of 2 hours of one on one instruction with a fluent Spanish speaker.

We did neither of these things.

*** Special achievement: "Law Abiding Citizen." Mrs. Pierre must complete the required drivers safety course to negate the points she generated on her drivers license for going 44 in a 35 last month.

She paid her ticket and declared intent to take the class, so there's that. 50% synchronization.

*** Special achievement: "King Of The Castle." Mr. Pierre must file the homestead exemption paperwork on the house before the March deadline.

I DID THAT! I DID THAT TODAY. 100% synchronization. This wasn't as bad as I thought!

It's easy to take a hit when you're trying to improve yourself. The hard part is getting back up. And we will rise from the ashes like naked, screaming Phoenixes. Phoenix's? Phoenices? Is there a pluralization for a mythological creature?

Ultimately, we reached a consensus that this challenge deserves a 35% total synchronization. We could have done better. But any step we take in the direction of self-improvement is a good one. I will leave it to Mrs. Pierre to announce the next exciting phase! (I'm particularly looking forward to the culinary challenge, ma chèrie.)

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Challenge # 2: Feb 15th - Mar 1st

Phase Two: Feb 15 through March 1st The Challenges: S: Complete two outdoor sexual engagements with each other and two public sexual engagements with each other discreetly. (*No car sex. It doesn't count and it sucks anyway for tall people, which we are.) P: Mrs. Pierre begins the practice of weekly blogging for www.belladivabonesaw.com. Mr. Pierre will write up the fetish clothing line business/startup plan. E: Mrs. Pierre will begin the practice of daily sit ups. 25 per day for 5 days, 35 for five days, 50 for four days. Mr. Pierre will complete the Planet Fitness 30 minute express workout 6 times in 14 days. C: Learn, follow, create and consume 12 traditional Spanish recipes in 14 days. I:  Mrs. Pierre will finish reading "Devil in the Kitchen" and "Blood on the Table," and begin reading "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." Mr. Pierre will complete a www.linda.com tutorial. A:  Mr. Pierre will memorize and practice Bobby Darin's "Beyond The Sea" and Leonard Cohen's "Take This Waltz" for a semi-public vocal performance. Mrs. Pierre will create 10 new hair accessories, and strip and refinish an antique wooden end table. L: Mrs. Pierre will read and translate a short middle school level Spanish fiction book, to be announced. Mr. Pierre will have a minimum of 2 hours of one on one instruction with a fluent Spanish speaker. *** Special achievement: "Law Abiding Citizen." Mrs. Pierre must complete the required drivers safety course to negate the points she generated on her drivers license for going 44 in a 35 last month. *** Special achievement: "King Of The Castle." Mr. Pierre must file the homestead exemption paperwork on the house before the March deadline.

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Challenge # 1 Recap

Tomorrow is February 14th. Valentines day. This day will conclude S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Phase 1. It was interesting, to say the least. To make an Assassins Creed reference, I would say we achieved 80% synchronization with the challenges during this two week period. The biggest lesson of all was that self improvements should be positive and enjoyable practices. Mrs. Pierre and I don't do well doing without. But this was a win! Here's our phase 1 recap:

S: 14 days of no masturbation but maintaining daily orgasms.

This one was exhausting. Add not having any real meat in our diet on top of no masturbation and you had two rather irritable people with raw genitals for two weeks. My blood pressure was not happy.

P: Mrs. Pierre will earn $700 in 14 days. Mr. Pierre will develop the SKU, price and names of the new initial fetish line.

Both of these well exceeded their goal lines. Mrs. Pierre brought in close to double that amount and I also developed the cross SKU spreadsheet that indicates the original production SKU of the design for the manufacturer. Well done this round.   

E: Mrs. Pierre will take 250000 steps. Mr. Pierre will bicycle 200 miles.  

Mrs. Pierre met and exceeded her goal. Serving will do that. I did not. I had a bike chain malfunction and tried to make up the lost mileage on the stationary bike at the gym. I got a little over half this challenge completed.

C: Pescatarian diet only. (Just fish and no chicken, venison, lamb, pork or beef)

FUCK THIS SHIT. We did it, but all culinary challenges in the future will be style based and not deprivation based. Just styles of recipes for future challenges. Sam Malloy is bringing over steaks for us all on Sunday night and I'm just going to wipe it's ass and put it on a plate. I need blood. This challenge showed me that I don't really prefer shrimp. I don't like the texture of baked, grilled or poached fish. Just raw sushi style fish or fried pub style. It was illuminating.  

I: Mrs. Pierre will read #‎girl‬boss, Mr. Pierre will read Alan Cumming's “Not My Father's Son.”

This went well. I like Cumming's style.

A: Mrs.Pierre will make five items for Dirty Crafts. Mr. Pierre will begin daily vocal exercises.

Mrs. Pierre ended up making about 7 craft projects and I sang quite a bit in the ranges above and below my suspicion and found I'm more in the Leonard Cohen range of comfort and speed.

L: 30 minutes of online Spanish study per day.

Changing your FB language to Spanish is helpful. Le gusta, Biographica, Goya, Chipotle, etc. Stepping this one up in the next phase.

All in all, this was an exciting 2 weeks. I learned a lot about myself and I learned a lot about my wife that I wouldn't have otherwise discovered!

Self improvement on every level and finding it within yourself to motivate and be better is a game we can all log on to.

Time to level up to Phase 2!

Allons-y, Mr. Pierre

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