Kate Upton – Jenna Leigh Lingerie SS11 Campaign

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Engagement Rings

In a comment, anonymous asked if I'm a piker (meaning cheap or tight fisted) and commented that I should spend 20% of my yearly salary on an engagement ring and that $5,000 is not a lot of hurt.

My feelings on engagement rings:

1. Read a book on the diamond trade, say Heartless Stone or Last Empire. The fact that we give women a diamond engagement ring is bordering on unconscionable.

2. That said, Em thinks she wants a diamond engagement ring. I defer to her in this decision, though I'm close to the line of objecting on moral principals. But if she wants one, she gets one.

3. The "two months salary" thing is bull shit, total and complete marketing by De Beers. I do not make decisions on what to buy based on the marketing at this level. Telling me what I MUST do is the surest way to make me say, fuck that.

4. Emily is frugal.

5. I'm a spender. But even for me, anything beyond $5,000 is insanely crazy to spend on a ring. Again, fuck that. If she wanted a ring that cost 2 months of my income, well, that would be a deal breaker.

6. I'd rather spend money like that on an experience, e.g., touring Europe, learning to fly, etc.

7. Em and I discussed engagement rings. If she wants a diamond, she's in agreement, $5,000 is the budget. That's a $5,000 ring above. She likes it, I like it.

UPDATE: Just to clarify, we ARE NOT yet engaged. We're in the talking about it stage. It may be awhile, who knows. But that's the path we are on.

Caitlin's Diary

I recommend blogs now and then, trying to reserve recommendations for those things I really, really like, and today I have one to recommend.

Caitlin, from Caitlin's Diary, left a couple of comments on my site today, which led me to take a peak at her blog.

While she have a ton of posts, she's got quite the eye for feminine fashion and using pictures to tell her story.

So, I highly recommend you check out Caitlin's blog, Caitlin's Diary.

Love,

Sara

The Exam

I cleaned up and published my short story, The Unexpected Exam, as an Amazon Kindle book, now titled simply, The Exam.

The book is available here and is just $0.99

This is NOT an exclusive Kindle only (I've yet to do one of those), because the story is available on Fictionmania. I don't sell enough copies to quit my day job and write erotic transgendered fiction full time, perhaps because none are exclusive yet, but I sell a fair number of copies of my stories.

You may find this odd, endearing, ironic, poetic, or romantic, but I'm saving the proceeds and intend to use them to buy a very special woman a very, very special gift (something measured in carats given upon the asking of a certain question that I plan on spending about $5,000 on. I'm about 35% of my way towards my goal (you do the math.)

This is NOT a request that you buy the stories that are available for free elsewhere, just a report on what I'm doing. Obviously some people like the Kindle books, based on my sales, so I'm telling you this just to let you know.

And yes, it's weird for me to let people know of things I have available for sale. I'm not much of a salesgirl, so it isn't very natural for me. Then again, what the hell, it's a free market and if people are willing to pay, I'm okay with that (and okay if they are not willing to pay, too.)

I was originally hoping to monetize the blog with google ads, but google decided my blog was "mature" thus not worthy of ads. Yea, fuck off, google.

Anyway, love you all.

Alana

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Cameron Russell – H&M Swimwear & Lingerie Photoshoot

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