It was a long day at work today, keeping on top of Tim and Rachel’s workload as well as this new client thing. I’m realising how much I still have to learn and am having task all kinds of people where to look for information. I didn’t get home until late.

Apparently the naked bike ride is only one month away! I sent a message to Ha asking if she wanted to do it again, and she said “why not?” Maybe I can turn her into an exhibitionist after all.

I sent the same thing to Ellie and she said “of course” and it would be great fun to do it together. I said she should make Stephen do it too, and she said that might be difficult, but she’d try. But he would certainly meet us at the end. I got the feeling she’s looking forward to an opportunity to be naked in public with him.

It’s also only one week until my birthday! I’m getting closer and closer to thirty and still single…

Sarah has been added with Ellie to the list of people for tea at Alison’s now. She said it was a dream come true, because that’s the kind of girl Sarah is, and asked what kind of kinky stuff happened! I said nothing did, because they were a couple, and she said she’d see about that. Maybe I shouldn’t have invited her after all.

I’m busy at work again, prepping for the new client, and then had to head to Mel’s at the last minute.

I still wonder if Mel’s upset about the Ana thing and me not telling her, because this week there were no chains, no rope, no yoke, and I just sat at her desk, albeit nude, working through three weeks of accounts. There wasn’t a lot to do to be honest and after forty minutes I said I was all caught up, and that maybe all she really needed for most of the year was an hour a month and I wasn’t sure I could pay her actual money for life coaching. (I wasn’t sure I wanted to.)

She asked if I still wanted to carry on with it, and I said yes, but I wonder now if I could have gotten out of it, because I’m not sure I need it so much now. That could have been my chance to move on, although I’m really not sure if I’m ready to.

Mel said in that case she would just bank the extra time for now and let me know when she needed me, but that it could be anything I was asked to do, not necessarily accounting. Now I wonder if I’ve made a bargain I might regret.

I messaged Ellie and told her about Alison’s plan for afternoon tea, because she’s the only person I’ve talked to about it, and she said it sounded hilarious, as long as I didn’t tell Stephen. I said I never would, and nothing happens anyway, except for being served by a nude man. That doesn’t count as infidelity in my book.

I can’t think of anyone else that might be interested. I definitely can’t ask any of the women I work with because the conversation might always turn to my own little kink.

I also saw Mel at the park run this morning, and she seemed okay. It’s hard to tell with Mel because she seems kind of stand-offish a lot of the time. She said I should come over on Monday anyway, and then after the run she actually hung around for a few minutes and asked me how things were generally, and whether I’d seen Mark or Ana, which I haven’t.

And I’m finally on top of the house cleaning! That’s the good news. The bad news is the bill for the work, which is putting a bit dent in my savings. I wonder if work will give me a bonus or something for the new client.

I took the rubbish out earlier and Alison saw me out of the window and waved, and a minute later she knocked on the door. She said it had been a while and it would be nice to have me after for an afternoon tea again, and also that if I had any other “open minded” female friends who would like to come along I should let her know, because it would be nice to have more women there, but she didn’t think her own friends would appreciate it! I don’t know why she thinks my friends would but I said I’d have a think.

It was nice to have a quiet evening home by myself.

We got good news at work that the Belarusian company wants to move forward with us! So I’m currently the talk of the office and held up as example of how everyone can bring in business no matter what position they’re in! Telling them that it’s very much down to who I know not what I know is really going to spoil the image. Anyway, we went out for a drink to celebrate, and I ended up talking to Jo and a couple of the other directors, and somehow my dream of getting into offshore tax accounting feels a step closer.

When I got home I messaged Ana to say thanks for whatever she did, and she said she didn’t really do much except mention my name and that I was highly recommended, and that I could thank her properly next time I saw her. I was feeling both tipsy from drinks and flirty from not having had any kind of sex for weeks so I asked how I should thank her and she said she’d think of something that we’d both enjoy. So now I’m not sure I’ll be able to sleep.

Maybe it’s too late to worry about who’s seeing photos of me, but I am a bit nervous about them finding their way back to work somehow. There’s no point asking Elise to take them off of her pub’s Facebook page now because they’ve been copied to other sites. But I am wondering if I should pull out of my repeat performance at the end of this month.

I managed to embarrass myself at work today by accidentally calling Ha “Mistress Ha” in front of Jo. It’s not like I even have to now, since I’m not living with them, but it became habit in just those few days. I pretended it was a joke because she was so bossy, which is kind of true.

And I’m still tidying up after builders when I get home. There’s dust everywhere!