Thank you, dear reader

Since I'm too sick to really get spanked much anymore and can't blog all the stuff I think about laying in bed (though I hope there will be a few posts forthcoming in the months ahead), there aren't as many lurkers here as there were in the giddy days of 2005. But there are still a couple of hundred of you who stop by each day. Some of you are new readers who have managed to stumble upon an old post. Some of you are dear, old friends who I've never had the pleasure of learning your name. But to all of you who come by, whether old or new, thank you. 

There's not much to write for Love our Lurkers this year except that I miss you, dear reader. Enjoy your anonymous reading and if you feel like it, give a wave in the comments section here and/or at any of the fine spanking blogs you peruse today.

Lurk out loud 4.0

Last year I promised a picture of my beaten ass had the number of lurkers commenting reached a certain number (which sadly, it did not). However this year I decided to go ahead and just post the picture first. So here is my freshly spanked bottom (a mere 30 minutes ago) along with the implements A. used.



If you look closely, you will notice that the wooden spoon is broken. I believe that is the forth wooden spoon A. has broken on my backside (and I really liked cooking with that one!). You will also note the lack of welts from the cane. Since I'm on Coumadin, A. uses the cane with light but rapid fire strokes that accumulate pain quickly (sheer agony, I tell ya!) but don't leave the deep bruises for which canes are notorious. Similar to the way Nurse Bea uses a nursery willow switch in this story that my dear friend Casey wrote just for Natty.

So dear friend, thank you for reading. Whether you leave a comment (good or bad) for this feedback whore or just lurk, I always appreciate your time and interest.

Lurker luvin'

Sorry to be so quiet lately. The last week and a half or so I've felt really icky and haven't been online much (it tends to happen at the end/beginning of the month because I've run out of one of my medications). Alas, that has not meant a lack of spankings. A. arrived in an uber-toppy mood and I've been spanked no less than 5 times in not quite two weeks! And if I'd been feeling better, I suspect I'd probably have gotten it just about every day. Two of those spankings were politically motivated -- and literal, not the metaphorical kind the Republicans got last week -- and (fingers-crossed) I'll have a post about them in the next few days.

But enough about me. I want to know how you're doing. This is your day. Yep, you, dear lurker. It's the third annual Love our Lurkers day. The day we honor you, the silent majority. Who lurk hard every day. Or when a new post is up. Or maybe you just lurk occassionally. You read, but never comment. Yet your presence in our StatCounter numbers keeps us bloggers blogging. And for that we salute you.

So stand up. Hit the "leave a comment" button and tell me your story. Staying silent is hard work. Take a break and spill out everything you've ever wanted to say.

Or just "hello" is cool too.

Maybe you feel too intimidated to comment (please be assured that you're very welcome).

Maybe you don't have time (it happens to all of us).

Maybe you think you don't have anything to add (oh but you do!).

Maybe you think there's nothing worth commenting on here (fair enough).

Maybe you don't read/write English well (I'd love to learn the word for spanking in your language).

A. thinks commenting on a blog is like having to write something on a group birthday card: you're in a hurry and you want to write something witty or inspiring but in the end you just end up scribbling something like "Happy Birthday." Yet in the case of a blog, you're not pressured by the group to write something so people just don't bother.

This makes bloggers sad. We love comments. All sorts of comments. Even the brief "nice post" or "this post sucks" comments. Though we hate spam. And we banish those spam comments to very depths of blogger hell.

But the best comment of all is simply an introduction. A brief (or not so brief, as the case may be) note putting a name or remark to those numbers on my StatCounter graph (Blogger allows you to remain anonymous if you choose).

I've received exactly 17 comments both years on LOL day. This year, I'd love to see that double. And if it does (they have to be 34 unique visitors), I'll post a picture of my ass after my next spanking. Which will probably be sometime later today as I've got another one coming...

That's right. The sixth in less than two weeks. You'd think A. was some kind of sick, perverted sadist. :::grin:::

It's LOL!

That's right. It was so popular last year that Bonnie -- clever woman that she is -- decided we should make Love our Lurkers an annual thing. So dear friends, it's your day. The one time when you can bravely (albeit anonymously if you wish) take a stand and say "Visitor 542? Yep, that's me!"

If you're feeling even braver, you can talk a little bit about your own spanking kink, maybe how spanking blogs have fed your fetish, what your favorite implement is, or whatever you like. Or of course, a simple "hiya!" would be just fine too.

So step right up, dear reader. Feel proud of being a spanking blog lurker. Give my comments section some luvin' and bask in the glow of knowing you're more than just a number on my StatCounter graph.

Spanko Blog Delurk Day

Admit it. You love to read spanking blogs. You wander long into the night around the various links on various pages. You read all about our spankings and thoughts on spanking and even read our stories. You come from Germany, Spain, Hungary, even Baghdad and Washington D.C. By the thousands (at least, that's what Stat Counter tells me). But you never comment.

You, my friend, are a lurker.

Which is totally cool. Especially today, as it's your very special day.

Bonnie over at My Bottom Smarts had the brilliant idea (as she often does) to make a day just for you. It's your day to stand up -- or just timidly raise your hand -- and share as little or as much as you like about yourself and your kink. We promise we'll be very nice. In fact, you even might make some new friends.

So go ahead. Click the comments section and tell us a little bit about who you are in Rochester, Bayern, Barcelona, London, or Reston -- or where ever you are. :-)