Cassie's Challenge

I have a lovely friend I would like to share with you.   Well, she’s lovely as long as she is not coming up with crazy ideas that seem to find me in trouble at every turn.  I have a reader that I have been conversing with for about three months (shortly after I began blogging.) We have heaps of things in common and well, she's quite the terrible influence on this angel of a girl (wink wink).  Let’s say Bea has quite the humorous side.  Let me share a little tale of mischief with you all and before you say I told you so, I know, but this one was too hard to resist.

Hoss and I are back on our low carb diet (I have a very love hate relationship with this diet, but I’m slowly coming around).  Well, a few weeks back we were both having a sweet tooth and craving some ice cream. 
We decided to head over to Wal-mart and pick up some low carb ice cream. Leaving our oldest children in charge we headed out.  Well, let’s just say that whenever Hoss and I find ourselves in a store together one of us gets distracted.  After scouring the yogurts and other dairy items my phone buzzed to say I had an email.  I checked and it was my trouble maker friend, Bea.  I told her Hoss and I were having a mini date. She quickly responded back and before you know it we were chatting back and forth until she found out we were at Wal-mart.  I could feel her excitement radiate through the phone when she announced, “You should so do the Cassie implement challenge with him there!”  

Wait a minute.  No, not going there.  For those of you who have no idea who Cassie is and for those who may have forgotten this little part of her story I will share this little tidbit with you.  In Ms. PK Corey’s first book, Cassie’s Space, Cassie and her friends: Sue, Beth and Annie are trying to convince Cassie to go to a sex toy shop with them.  Now, Cassie has to honor Tom’s request to stay away from such places and when the girls become insistent Cassie informs the girls that she can find ten items at Wal-mart in less than 20 minutes.  Well, at my suggestion, Bea had read all of Ms. Corey’s books, and with Cassie’s influence that day my sweet friend became downright devilish on me.  

Back to my story.  Bea suggested I tell Hoss about the challenge and go find some of those implements Cassie suggested.  I sweetly declined Bea’s request.  She was persistent and continued emailing me suggesting that Hoss would become suspicious and want to know what we were rapidly emailing back and forth about if she kept pestering me.   She also added that should I take her up on that challenge he should use an implement a day for the next ten days.  Sigh, it was fate when he told me to put my phone away.  We hardly ever shop together and he wanted me to spend the time with him and not on my phone.  I smiled and nodded and said I was going the next aisle over to the find the ice cream, temporarily tucking my phone away in my coat pocket.   My sweet friend, Bea, was like a dog with a bone with me.  I am gullible and pulled my phone right out at the next ding.  Sure enough I was on my phone when he rounded the corner.  Hoss then suggested we look at purchasing a cutting board about “yay big” showing me with his hands, in other words, he would find one the size of my bum.  I politely declined and returned to my email, giggling as I responded.  I can be a slow learner some days.

By now, the man is feeling a little disgruntled (and I am certain he was dying of curiosity) that our little mini date was being interrupted and requested my phone.  I hesitated and he suggested the cutting board again adding he would love to try it out in the store to see if it fit my bum. Really? Um, no thank you, sir. Well, I handed that phone over lickety split.  He read through and started asking questions.  I explained the story about Cassie to him and I assured him, repeatedly, that there were no need to do the Cassie challenge then and there.  We had enough toys at home. He loved the idea of trying out an implement for the next ten days. Nah, that would not work he said, the next ten hours.  Or maybe better yet ten minutes per implement.  Yes, well, that went downhill quick, now did it not?   At least, I think he was joking, hmmm....

Not to be mean, but thank the good Lord above Hoss' back was sore and he was ready to grab the ice cream and go.  By the way, his mood was not helped because they only carry the vanilla ice cream and he had his heart set on chocolate.  My mood was helped considerably that I survived without him deciding Cassie’s purchases would be fun to add to our collection or the way he might have chosen to use said implements.  So, thankfully, I was able to escape adding new “fun” implements to our repertoire.  Between Bea and Cassie I was fortunate to come out of that little challenge unscathed.  I was not so lucky the next time I participated in a challenge with Bea.  Another post perhaps?

So thank you to Ms. PK Corey for allowing me to borrow Cassie for this post.  I do hope Cassie had fun coming out to play.  For those of you who have not been blessed enough to read, Cassie’s Space, I would highly recommend the book and the series that follows.  Here’s the Amazon link if you are interested: Cassie's Space 

And to Bea, thanks for letting me share our story.  I had fun and for once, no bottom was spanked for one of our zany challenges.

Finally, thanks to Cat who walked me through a “blogger for dummies” by helping me with step by step pages so now I have my email up on my blog.  Your help was much appreciated!

--Baker