Life Outside of Spanking

Recently I received a concerned email saying I have a spanking addiction that if not controlled, could be dangerous. I’m troubled by that phrase as addiction has such a negative connotation. I readily admit I have an avid interest in spanking, a passion if you will, but I don’t know that I’d call it an addiction. Yes, sometimes I’ll crave a good spanking if it’s been a long time without one, but sometimes I’ll crave blueberries if I haven’t had any for a while too. I don’t think either makes for an addiction per se.

But if someone reads my blog, I can certainly understand why they might come away with the impression that my entire life revolves around spanking. It is what I tend to post about most but that’s because it is a spanking blog after all. However, I really do like to keep a good balance of other outside interests because honestly, while spanking is a wonderful and fun passion to have, it can’t be everything. In fact now that I spend much of my time working on the PB website for a living, my other hobbies, interests, and passions are all the more important and appealing.

I thought I might share with you some of the activities and interests that I like to engage in outside of the realm of spanking. Some things you may have picked up on from various vanilla posts and others I don’t believe I’ve touched on.

I love animals and will be participating in a charity walk to raise funds for the local animal shelter this fall. So it’s no Buns on the Run, but it is my small way of giving back to a worthy cause.

On any nice day that I can get some time away from the computer, I can be found hiking, kayaking, biking, or at the very least, walking to the local stores to do my errands.

I’m a gym rat too so on days when the weather won’t cooperate, I’m content to sweat it up with my iPod indoors.

I love amusement parks! The bigger and scarier the rollercoaster, the better. I haven’t gotten to go yet this year, but the season is hardly over yet.

I’m very much looking forward to getting my piano tuned after I move. No sense in doing it now as it will get all out of whack when transporting it to the new house. I can’t wait to be able to play again without disturbing the neighbors. My favorite classical composer is Bach and modern is Brubeck.

I also know how to play the violin, but I never much liked it. After playing for 10 years in school, my poor violin now sits abandoned in my closet.

I used to think I would grow up to be a music teacher, but I’m terrified of speaking in front of crowds. A classroom of kids qualifies as a crowd in my book and so I nixed that idea pretty quickly.

Since I love math and science as much as music, I decided to go that route instead. While in college I worked in a flavor development lab compounding liquid flavors of all sorts. On a good day I would leave smelling like cotton candy. On a not so good day, bleu cheese concentrate.

I enjoy photography. Nature photography in particular.

For all my love of nature, I seem to have been born devoid of a green thumb. :(

Ghosts fascinate me. I enjoy reading books on supposed true accounts of hauntings. I think I would like to spend a night at a nearby haunted inn, but I’d probably be scared out of my wits.

I like to draw and prefer pencil and pastels over pen and ink. My favorite things to draw are apples. I draw them all the time and random papers of mine are often covered in apple doodles.

So that’s just a bit of Pixie sans spanking. Don’t worry though, my next post will return to its normally scheduled topics of bratting and bottom warming. Just wanted to share a little bit about some of my outside interests here as well.