Coffee and Ink: I beat the Terminator. I’m back.

Well I have returned.

2 days ago.

Sorry, I haven’t posted a blog entry yet. I’ve been busy thinking and cleaning and, to be honest, procrastinating.

Why?

I just can’t write anything.

While I was in the hills, I had such inspiration to write. I mean I could be working on one of four different stories! But I can’t even blog about my day.

I think…I need to let myself come back.

It doesn’t really feel like I’m back at my house. Feels like I’m in limbo because in less than 3 days I’m heading for Texas.

Oh god I just realized I’m leaving the day after tomorrow.

I told myself I wasn’t going to bother unpacking but I just remembered…99% of my clothes are already worn and need to be washed. Oh! My friends’ washer is really weird and shakes violently when finished (insert perverted joke?) so the first time they did laundry while I was there, I thought there was a mini-earthquake because the whole apartment shook. I was afraid the TV was going to fall off the stand! and we’re not talking an unstable flatscreen, we’re talking those early 2000’s televisions that were the ‘big screen’ but had a back that stuck out 2 feet. Heavy object!

Yeah, I’m just going to rant today. Might as well get something down rather than nothing.

I got some new piercings!!

They were originally 40$ each (I got one on each ear), but I know the piercer so he took $20 off so my final purchase was only 60$ (which included the jewelry PLUS a free new silver hoop for my lip! SCORE!). Yay! My mom’s not the –biggest- fan of them though. She told me I couldn’t get another facial tattoo (lip, nose, tongue, or eyebrow) and I can’t recall if she mentioned the navel…irrelevant, though. She just wanted something discreet that wouldn’t further jeopardize my opportunity to get a job because of my lip piercing. With ear piercings, a girl with long hair can hide them. So, I found my loophole. I told my dad (who I KNEW would tell my mom…snitch) subliminally that I got my ears pierced. Him and my mom both assumed it was a second bottom lobe piercing. Harmless. What my mom found out when I got off the bus is that I got one of the two more noticeable ear piercings: the industrial (I think gauging is more for guys).

Gotta love loopholes J

My only concern is airport security. The metal detectors –might- pick up the piercings, but they might now. If they do, I’ll have to be wanded in order to be allowed to pass through. I can’t take my industrials out because healing time is 3 months (3-4 washings a day….twice the time and washing required for my lip piercing) so I’m hoping security is in a good mood. My flight IS early in the morning (7:15…one of the first flights of the day) so the airport might not be too busy (if I get there early enough) so hopefully I wont cause too much of a commotion.

Oh! Why I got a free hoop for my lip:

I made the piercer laugh in spite of himself.

“I shouldn’t laugh cause that’s gotta be painful, but…it’s just funny!”

about what?

My lip ring I wear normally have the spiked ends like so:

One of them fell off and I didn’t know till after I finished my meal that night. I looked everywhere but I gave in and accepted I probably ate it. My friend gives me a little earring to fill in the little hole until tomorrow when we go to my piercer’s place. It looked like:

Not too long later, the earring was gone. We guessed I ate the metal back and the plastic back.

So my friend, trying to think outside of the box, gives me a curvy earring similar to this:

It was curvy so it would be difficult to lose….right?

Nope. Ate that one too.

Eventually I ended up putting a safetly pin in (which I had in while I slept) and my friend threatened to put me on TLC’s ‘weird food addiction’s show as ‘earring eater’.

We explained the story to my piercer (and the secretary, owner (also tatooer #1), his wife (tatooer #2), and 2 customers . We didn’t go around telling EVERYONE…it’s a small shop and they all kind of couldn’t help but listen in. So everyone there got to hear what happened, and most of them made a comment on how the next time I poop, it’ll hurt like…yeah. My stomach is just perforated and sore J So, for the funny story, I was given a free hoop (either out of sympathy or fear I’d eat another earring).

Now, I could explain my trip to the hills, but I’ll do that over time in random bursts of memory. And I took….like 50 pictures (okay closer to 112) with my phone so I’ll randomly post those up here too rather than all at once.

Anyways, since I’ve been back, I’ve…cleaned. Yesterday I vacuumed the entire house (cept my room, which probably needed it the most…there’s still shreds of paper in it :D) and today I cleaned the bathrooms, both days tidying up the kitchen and feeding the animals (daily chore). Tomorrow I’ll probably wash the windows or sweep the kitchen floor.

I’ve also just eaten food and stared at my computer screen. That’s bout it. Woo.

I have like 4 stories I could be working on but I don’t even have a notebook or a Word Document open. Pathetic. <sigh>

Well this is all I’ve got today. More tomorrow. I’m taking my mom to the doctor, doing laundry, packing. Dye hair. Clean piercings. Ink in another Sharpie Tattoo. Fill out college apps. How fun. Saturday will consist of mostly the same things. Hooray.

Till then, enjoy the new song I’m dancing around to!