A few weeks ago I got my ears pierced for the fifth time. It was kind of on a whim, but it’s always been a strange goal of mine to fill my lobes with as many piercings as I could. I thought there was possibly room for one more. I refuse to blatantly pierce the cartilage because I don’t like how it looks. I also refuse tattoos. Lobe piercing is the only bodily mutilation I prefer.
Anyway, I was in Houston with my sister and her friend. She recommended a place where she’d gotten her nose pierced. Initially I got some sass from my piercer. He thought I was too uncertain about getting a piercing and thought I needed to do more research. Funny, I already had four holes in each ear. I know how it works. My problem was that I didn’t like the jewelry they had to put in. It all looked really industrial and hardcore piercing parlor…but I suppose that’s where I was. After I decided to go ahead with the large gnarly ring the piercer became friendlier. He ended up being a cool guy; I trusted him. It was the first time I’d gotten my ears pierced with a needle instead of a gun. I’d never had any problems with the gun (my other four holes had been done that way), but I wanted to be especially careful with this piercing because it was bordering the cartilage. The piercing itself didn’t hurt too bad. I definitely got an adrenaline rush.
The aftermath has been much worse. It’s been three weeks since I did it and my ears are still sore. One is healed pretty well but still randomly bleeds. (This morning I woke up with a blood crust. Lovely, I know.) The left ear gives me trouble. I think it’s been infected almost the whole time since I got it pierced. I’ve been taking care of the area–cleaning it with soap, saline solution, not putting my grubby fingers near it. It doesn’t seem to help too much. I read a bunch of internet horror stories of people who had to remove the ring, got keloids or weird messed up bumps and scar tissue. Or ear amputation. OMG. I don’t think mine will be that bad, but I’ve talked to people who said their ear never really healed. It’s just curious to me because I got all the other holes done with the UNSAFE GUN (heaven forbid) but I had absolutely no problems with the other piercings.
This is what it looked like about a week and a half ago. Also a close up…
Also, this is my sister eating part of a cheese log and crackers at an art studio at UH before we went to go pierce my ears. : )
Okay, finally, I’ve been cross stitching for about four years. Maybe more. I don’t even know how stitches many I’ve made. I gave almost all of them away as gifts. I want to start taking pictures of the ones I make because I wish I had some kind of gallery. So this is my first contribution. I made it for my friend…kind of an inside joke we had from high school. I love the violin!
My fascination with Lady Gaga and Christina Hendricks is coming to an end.
Today I watched Lady Gaga’s new music video “Telephone” featuring Beyonce. Do not want. It just wasn’t impressive. It was almost too Lady Gaga. She was blatantly naked dancing around in the video. I didn’t like the costumes enough. I watched an interview she did about a week ago with Jonathan Ross. Fake. She says she gets annoyed when people claim she’s being a character, but during the interview I could see her true character coming out a few times. She has too many talking points. It’s like there’s an agenda when she does interviews. I still like what she represents, her costumes, her sassiness…but she’ll quickly lose touch if she hasn’t completely already.
Christina Hendricks is fabulous, but it seems like America is obsessed with her because she’s voluptuous. I don’t necessarily care about her ridiculous curves or huge boobs. I think she’s a pretty lady. I love her character on Mad Men. Those are the main reasons for me. I read an article about her a long time ago and it said she’s been dying her hair red for years. It’s not truly red. I was disappointed.
I don’t normally like her movies or her style, but she looked beautiful! Everything was so polished. Her earrings were simple. I loved that she didn’t overaccessorize. The gown is sleek. Her makeup is classic. Hair is so SHINY! Mad she won the Oscar, but it’s good she showed up looking like she knew she would win.
Cameron Diaz in Oscar de la Renta
I just like the dress. It’s pretty. Not trying to take over the world. Don’t really care for Cameron…I guess her hair looks nice. I thought her earrings looked like plugs from afar. Overall, great job!
No
Mariah Carey in Valentino
I know it’s not cheap because it’s haute couture, but it still looks cheap-ish to me. I’ve never liked dresses with big garish jeweled pieces on them. Plus she had on so much jewelry on top of that…big earrings, bracelets, rings. It’s too much. The color looks like it should be on an old woman. The cut, especially at the bottom, bothers me. Cute shoes though.
Carey Mulligan in Prada
It’s not that I abhor her gown. I actually do not. And great shoes. I give Carey the “no” mostly because I think she has so much potential to be fabulous. I don’t like that she’s ripping off Mia Farrow’s hair cut. I think she looked better in “An Education” with longer, dark hair. The beading and cut of the dress, plus the bold hair just makes it too much. Cant’ get behind the overall look.
Too bad
Jennifer Lopez and Amanda Seyfried in Armani
Their dresses are both okay. Very much similar. JLo seems to have chosen a fussier version of Amanda’s dress. They both look like they’re made from those expandable garbage bags.
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” Ernest Hemingway
“I don’t think happiness is an area that anyone really lives. I think we all kind of touch on it once or twice a year for, like, a moment that’s fleeting.” Vincent Kartheiser (Pete from Mad Men)
“Happiness is a very strange thing.” Jihae Min, my friend
“And all I wanted was to be a happy man” Lyrics from Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man by Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse
I’m done adding massive amounts of animal pictures for awhile. In the future they will trickle in instead of taking over my whole blog. If you want to read my older posts without gagging on all the animal pics look at the “Uncategorized” category.
Capybara obsession started when I found out they’re the largest rodents in the world. GIANT GERBILS! There’s a lady near Austin that has one for a pet. Once I touched a capybara in New Braunfels. See below…
Not quite an animal. Nickie and I created a Nannerpuss for our cubicles at work once. Favorite part is when it knocks the fake plastic eye off. I feel kinda silly for laughing at this so much. (I don’t support Denny’s.)
