"To the well organised mind...

... death is but the next great adventure." -Albus Dumbledore

I wonder if the person using what sounds like an air pressure drill above my head at 8 in the morning when I have the day off, has an organised mind, because he might soon find death to be his next adventure..

Good morning!

Had to get that off my mind, can't believe they have to do that.. I wouldn't complain if it was 10am or 12pm or something, but at 8am in the morning? I'm sleeping at 8am in the morning and you better have a damned good reason to wake me up at that hour. Especially since the garbage truck made a racket outside my window as well, at 6am. I know I could close the window, but my room gets too warm... There's generally too much noise in my life. Maybe I should make a formal complaint? I might.

Nah, I'm just kidding! At least I get an early start and a lot of daylight today. Staying positive, no matter how little sleep I've had and no matter how loud the children in the nursary outside is yelling... I honestly can't wait to move out of this flat into a more quiet area. I know I sound like I'm 75 years old for saying that, but it's completely true.

Anyway! At the moment, I'm chatting to Camilla, who's at the hospital, getting her third round of chemo therapy. When she's done today, she's halfway through her treatment and we're hoping she's done and her tests look fine this summer. If they do, then Camilla, Kristine I are going on holiday to celebrate! Not that I can afford it at the moment, but damnit, if one of my best friends is finally cancer free, I'll borrow the money from mum and dad if need be.

I am, right now, the closest to broke that I've been since the end of November. I have about 150 pounds left and 175 pounds that mum ows me. I'm alright, really, I have a lot of food and no decire to eat it at the moment, so I'm good for a while. I did, however, decide that it was a good idea to empty my bank account because it's easier to manage money when you have it physically in your hand. Not a good idea. Now the funds to pay for spotify premium can't be withdrawn, so that's going to be shut down soon, and I can't buy new plugs from ebay, so when I get to 5mm, I'll have to stop until I get money.. I'm actually amazed at how quickly I've been able to stretch, I'm at 3mm at the moment, and by the end of the week I'll be moving for 3,5mm and later 4mm. I've been looking at some new plugs on ebay, and can't wait to get money again so I can buy them! Actually, what I can't wait for, is to get to 00G (8mm), there's so many cute plugs available for that size and upwards! I've got to say though, I'm anxious to know what my parents are going to say when they see that I've stretched my ear lobes. I might have a tiny faint memory of promising I wouldn't do that. Still, they haven't had any issues with any of my other piercings and has probably figured out that it's just how it's going to be for a few years and that when I feel done with my (very) late act of teen rebellionship, I'll come to my senses and take most of them out. By the way, I hope that's a relief to some of my friends as well, who have voices their concern that I'm sooner or later going to end up with implants to look like a unicorn or something like that. Don't worry, I care far too much about what people think of me to do that. Just give me a year or two to pay people to poke me with needles, and I'll give it all a rest, alright?

YAY! It sounds like the guy with the air pressure drill has taken the hint and left my life for the time being. Time to go back to sleep! Think I fell asleep at 4am this morning, and 4 hours is not nearly enough on a day off, so dream land, here I come!

Have a good day, all of you who are actually doing something productive!

Stretched ear lobes

I've been thinking about getting another jewelry box just for my tapers, plugs, eyelets and so on. I've got about a million piercing jeweleries already (I'm exaggerating, don't worry mum, I spend my money on food as well, promise), and since I'm going to have to buy bigger jewelry the bigger my earlobe gets (only stretching the left one for now), it will take up more space and I should probably get another box.

This is the box I have now. 

Top row right to left: straight barbells (tongue piercings), blue straight barbells, nose piercings, taper set, plugs+eyelets

Mid row right to left: curved barbells (belly button piercings), curved barbells with decorations, circular barbells, CBR's, labrets, spare labret balls, industrial/scaffolds

Bottom row right to left: locks for 'regular' ear studs, big ear studs, mid sized ear studs, small coloured ear studs, pearl ear studs

In the "stretched ears" department, these are the stretching tools and jewelry I have at the moment:

Taper set, 14G (1,6mm)-00G (8mm). The 10G (2,5mm) taper is 

missing from the picture because I'm using it.

One thing about tapers. They are not jewelry. You're not supposed to walk around with them, you're supposed to use them as a tool to stretch the piercing to become big enough to put a plug or an eyelet through it.

14G (1,6mm) plug.

12G (2,0mm) plug

10G (2,5mm) single flared eyelet. 

Eyelet's are what some people call tunnels. You don't put a tunnel in your ear, you drive through it. The hollow thing you put in your ear is called an eyelet, capiche? 

Two 8G (3,2mm) plugs and a single flared 8G eyelet.

Eyelets can be either single or double flared. You couldn't tell too well on the other picture, but if you look closely on the eyelet in this picture, you can see that it's wider in one end than the other and that the other end has got an O-ring on it. If it was double flared, it would get wider in each end, but you need to have a looser piercing to wear double flared eyelets. 

Single flared 4G (5,1mm) eyelet.

At the moment, the short term plan is to get to 10G (2,5mm), and that's what I'm doing now. I'll have to let it rest for about a week or two before going further to prevent any tearing in the earlobe. (I'll get back to that). My long term plan is to get to 00G (8mm). I'm not sure if I'm going to go bigger once I get to 00G, because it's hard to shrink back to regular size when you go bigger than 00G, and seeing as I'm aspiring to work with crime scene investigation, I'll probably want to have a more professional appearance. At least I know my mum would want me to, haha!

Anyway, back to the original issue. Since I have 21 piercings and therefore need all the other jewelry as well, I'll probably need to buy another box when I've been stretching for a while. I'll be buyng bigger plugs and stuff, and they'll take up a lot of room, so I might as well, right? Luckily, they're not all that expensive, I think I payed £5 for the one I have on Ebay. I get most my piercing jewelry from Ebay, by the way. It's cheap, it's delivered quickly and as long as you stick to metal stuff and don't go wandering into the world of plastics, you will probably not get cancer from the stuff you buy there. 

Right, I'm going to stop procrastinating. I have an assignment due monday and so far all I've done is research and spider charts and whatnot. Have a feeling that sunday night is going to be a long one if I don't get started today..