New Holes, New Thoughts, New Chapter

So this semester got a little more hectic that I would've expected. What with the whole mono thing that was only to be expected. However, the semester is over and after two exams I'll be a free woman for the summer. HOLLA!

Yesterday, in celebration of the end of the year (a day later than everyone else since I had to work a double on reading day) my darling friend Meg and I went and got new piercings. We both got our Tragus pierced (not my ear btw). I went first due to my horrible fear of needles and boy am I glad I did. This frightening fish hook of a needle is what they used to pierce my ear. Not what I wanted to see when they did Meg's but I sure am glad I saw it after mine was done.

The acctual piercing itself wasn't too bad. For me it was just warm once the needle went through from it being in the sanitizer till right before the piercing (I'm very defiant that I don't need to see what you're sticking me with, I just wanna see the jewelry). Meg's reaction was slightly different involving a few dozen swear words and some very minor bleeding. But at the end of the day we're both pretty happy with what we got.

After I parted from Meg and her roommate Ashley who joined us for this adventure at Cupcake I headed home and starting thinking about my love of piercings. This piercing makes my ninth one. Two holes in both lobes, two in my upper cartiledge on the right, forward helix on the right, nose, and now my tragus on the left. There has generally been at least year between each piercing to give me time to really think about what I may or may not get next. I love all of my piercings. I don't wear all of them all the time because the effect is a little overwhelming sometimes but for now I wear everything often enough that they don't close up. But the question is why do I love piercings over tattoos or other body modifications?

Life is too full of change for me to want anything as permanant as a tattoo. Don't get me wrong, if I ever jumped the gun and got one I know exactly what I would get, but that's just not something I'm interested in. Plus the whole needles being jabbed into your skin 100s of times a minute isn't apppealing to me. The only thing in my life that I'll ever want to be as permanant as a tattoo will be the future hubby years down the road. Piercings don't hold the forever stigma with them. Yeah some people will look at you differently for having them but that's their perogitive. With piercings, when I reach "the real world" I can take them out and move on with my life. I won't have to worry about cover up or removal by lasers or any crazy shit like that. For now it's a fun way to express myself without going over board.

This is also the first piercing I've gotten while single in over 4 years. That might sound random and not connected at all, but it's like a new chapter. I'm not tied to anyone so the only person I care to ask an opinion on about getting a new piercing is myself. Not that any significant other in the past has has problems with piercings but it's one less person to ask. Now that we're moving into summer I'm looking at my first single summer in a few years as well. I think I'd like this care free summer before I think about moving into anytning else. Ignore anything I may have said before. I don't need to rush into anything yet. I think a full year of being single will be good for me. I've learned a lot about myself this year, and I still have more to learn before I commit to anything else. After two long back to back relationships I need to rediscover myself before I discover anyone else.

So I'm starting to ramble a little bit. Guess that means I'm gonna wrap this one up. But I will certainly work on keeping up with this better over the summer. I think...O:-)

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.- Anthony Robbins