alternatives to getting dolled up

I've been thinking a bit lately, while I wait for my old rubber to magically heal itself and my income to magically increase enough to afford new garments.

I've been thinking about what it is to be a TV, even a specialized one like me. I've been thinking about all the things which make wearing latex (or sometimes just spandex), clothes, shoes, etc.

I like smooth skin, and my dollmaker is a hairy guy. So I've resumed pursuing an old dream of mine, to get and remain hairless from the neck down.

Oh sure, I shave my legs routinely, and I have shaved all over my body many times, but it can be a hassle too. I've learned at least somewhat how to deal with ingrown hairs, which I seem to get easily, but I've also learned to my delight that my skin actually tolerates depilatories better than it tolerates a razor blade.

So now I'm using depilatories. However, you can't use them too often on the same bit of skin without eventually developing problems, so I'm adopting a round-robin schedule of depilating some major portion of my body each week, but not all of it.

Currently, my arms are overdo.

I've also had to deal with a minor problem with the bathroom facilities in our home which made it difficult for a while to do my depilating routine.

But anyway, this is something I can do that makes my body feel nice, that doesn't require fetish clothes. Really, the only reason I'm doing it is because bare skin seems so much more sensitive than hairy skin, and spandex or latex sliding around on that bare skin feels ever so much nicer than without being hairless.

I am going to try to get some repairs done on at least one latex garment this weekend. It's one I've repaired before more than once, but too expensive for me to replace right now. So I keep patching it together.

I've also started gaining weight around my middle again, which is depressing. I know why I'm getting thicker there, I'm just not sure how to go about solving it. It's easy for some random stranger who is unfamiliar with some of my health problem to say "well, just eat less and exercise more!"

Sorry, it's not that simple for me, but at least I am not overweight. This is just a little padding in exactly the wrong place - a place where I want to be tiny: my waist! Corsets are lovely, but the smaller your waist is to begin with, the smaller you can lace down. And with my office job, I can't exactly waist-train every day! Besides, I don't have either the willpower or the money to do proper waist-training even if I were able.

Well, every post here lately seems to be me complaining about something, so I will try to have something more positive to announce next time, even if it is a little thing.