Hi there! Long time no write. Mr. Swingly and I have had a few more experiences since my last post. We've met some nice people and done some fun stuff. But last night was probably the most fun we've had so far.

Back on December 30, we went to day number 2 of New Horizons' New Year's party and met and played with a couple there. It was a great experience overall - at least I've come to see it that way in retrospect.

Anyway, we've been chatting with this couple via a shared email account and were all four planning to converge on the club again this past Wednesday. But during the email conversation, other Mrs. wrote (mostly to Mr. Swingly) that she would enjoy a "homey" atmosphere better than the club for our second meeting. Now Mr. Swingly and I had talked about the house being fit for entertaining and had decided it would be a while before we could do that as we'd have to figure out something for a second bed. Well, after we met this couple, I got so excited the next day that I invited them to the house and was going to say it was all good to use the sofa, the oversized chair or whatever! (If you read the entry for New Year's you'll see that we had a pretty great time that night). Anyway...where was I? Oh yes...Other Mrs. had written and stated her preference for hominess - well, Mr. Swingly and I talked about it and decided that it was foolish to wait when we could use an air mattress for the second bed. So we invited our new play friends (Mr. Swingly and I secretly refer to them as our "boyfriend" and "girlfriend") to come to our house rather than going to the club. So by Sunday, it was a date and we were on! We were going to entertain in our home. I needed to clean and do some other stuff! So I went about cleaning up the house Sunday for company on Wednesday. And let me tell you, it didn't take long for it to occur to me that swing-cleaning differs quite a bit from cleaning for vanilla guests. First of all, when I clean for vanilla guests, nobody goes in the bedrooms so there's not a lot of focus put there. The bed is made, certainly - but there might be a basket of clothes in there and vanilla company is no reason to take all the change and sundry accumulation off of the dresser...they're not going to be there. But swing company - that's a different story. So after five hours of cleaning and putting away and sweeping, vaccuuming and polishing (and I have to tell you here that Mr. Swingly - never very interested in helping with the housework - had a redoubled, newfound interest in same and pitched-in admirably. He has since extolled this as a benefit of swinging. He is more interested in how the house looks, ergo, he is more apt to assist with the house work. Ah.... altruism at its best. ) But I digress... So basically we had tasks to do over the course of the next three days, and we executed them with applomb. Mr. Swingly found a great self-inflating mattress on Amazon and had it shipped here overnight. It was waiting for us on Wednesday evening when we got home from work. There had been some anticipatory emails exchanged between play partners and we were ready to go. Apparently they were pretty excited as well. Other Mr. is in night school four nights a week, so it was a big deal to put a date on top of that. (I'm in night school two nights a week, so I don't know what the heck I'm sayin' that for). Anyway, they finally arrived and Mr. Swingly and I were excited and nervous when we let them in the house. We sat down and talked for about five minutes, and Mr. Swingly made some drinks for everyone. Mr. Swingly and I had agreed that we would help our friends to not make the mistake we did when we had our first weeknight-work-the-next-day date, so we asked them what time they were planning to leave. They hadn't even really discussed it, but they came to the decision that they were leaving about 11. So that was only three short hours away.... hmmm... We exchanged about five more minutes worth of nervous banter and Mr. Swingly gave them a tour of the manse (all 1200 square feet of it - points of interest being five steps down a hall and to the right and left respectively. They had brought water and we had the wine. Other Mrs. has dressed nicely for the occassion and looked quite fetching. She had Mr. Swingly's attention immediately and after about sixty more seconds, other Mr. asked me to take him on another tour. I had decided in advance, working a kind of social chismbop that advanced other Mrs. to the highest priority guest in the house, that she and Mr. Swingly would have the master bedroom, and that other Mr. and I would hang out in my study room on the air mattress. (We're definitely trading on those arrangements the next time!) Anyway, Mr. Swingly and other Mrs. got to the romance and hot-tubbing, and other Mr. and I checked out the air mattress.

I had decided I wanted to wear an outfit, but I didn't want to be all obvious in front of other Mrs. - It didn't seem polite somehow - it wasn't a party atmosphere, so I wore a long silk blouse with a Chinese pattern on it and a split skirt. Underneath I had an emerald green satin corset and black satin thong with fishnets and garters. In the spare room, I had my opera length satin gloves - I was putting it ON. It was fun and we all had a great time. We could hear other Mrs. and Mr. Swingly getting their freak on and we were as well and talking and laughing and having a nice time generally. Neither couple budged out of the rooms for the three hours. We had a great time.

And this weekend is going to be really busy too! We are meeting another couple at a local casino tomorrow evening - see how it goes. Oh! Mr. Swingly and I have now adopted the rule that we're going to meet the people first - not play on the first date - and see how it goes for a second meeting. Maybe some soft play on the first date. Then Saturday we're going to a lifestyle meet-n-greet with a couple we met last week on Monday who were GREAT! It's gonna be a kick-ass weekend. Then we're supposed to go rock climbing on Sunday. I dunno how we're gonna make it, but we're gonna have to figure it out 'cause this is too much fun.