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SO. R and I went to Ikea yesterday. Watching him yell about paying tolls on the way to Schaumberg was particularly entertaining.

We had a really good time, but most of the pleasure of hanging out with R is that he lives a life I wouldn't believe if I didn't know how incapable he generally is of lying (and certainly at this point, incapable of lying to me).

Apparently a few months ago he was dating a woman who was big into submission, but I can tell from our discussion of it (which was hilarious and horrifying by turns) that she did not prepare him to be dominant with her as well as a kinky person should prepare a vanilla person for that kind of activity. He was not ready for ropes.

He's feeling kind of beat up by relationships lately, I think. After his brief journey into kink, he was dating a girl from out of town who broke up with him after they were starting to get pretty serious and she realized she wanted a boyfriend-on-demand and he wanted an actual full-time relationship. He's not bouncing back as fast as he usually does.

We had a great time at Ikea though. I picked out my new bed, which I'm going to buy probably this week sometime and have delivered. R walked into Ikea and the very first thing we saw were $2 broom-and-dustpan combo sets, and he bought one of those. Then, as we were leaving, he saw a rug, so he bought that. He literally bought the first and last things we saw. Inbetween, we ate our body weight in vague Swedish fusion food at the cafeteria, and I got a birthday carrot-cake cupcake that was easily 30% frosting, so it's all good.