oh man i fucking love my iphone. sure it is a huge battery suck but not without good reason. i'm typing this entry FROM MY PHONE!! it's fucking brilliant! more on the weekend with mel and such later. that'd be too much to type on this keypad. but i will say that this phone has helped me save the world a little bit. typically i make lists on post-its and take them with me as i do my errands. but with this phone i make lists on this list program and just check it off as i go. so great. sometimes i print out items i want to buy so i know what to look for. now i just email it to myself and i can see the image that way. no more paper! ahhh i love it!
ok, i don't want to get too political here because i'm not one to talk politics and debate and force my opinions on people. but holy fuck. mccain's pick for VP. wtf? totally calculated. i swear at this point the election isn't even about politics. it's about prejudice. racism vs. sexism. which is the lesser of two evils? isn't that fucking sad? i'm really fearful of what will happen if mccain takes this in november. he's 72 today. i think he'll live to be 100 but let's say he dies within the next 4 years. who is this palin woman? can she lead our country? she's been governor 1 month longer than obama has been running for president. wtf?! she was a beauty pageant runner up. she lives in the remote state of alaska. i mean honestly people. there's a thing to be said for not being a washington insider who's tainted by it all. but she's like the furthest you can be from it. ughhhh. and it's a total PR thing too. obama's DNC closing night speech was phenomenal. so inspiring. so brilliant. all of the DNC speeches were great. hillary's. bill's! and now just hours later, mccain drops this bombshell. pun intended. i mean do we want this MILF as our VP? i'm heading for canada or the UK if this shit goes down. motherfuck. i can't wait to see her up against biden in the debates. that'll be interesting. i really hope this shit backfires for mccain. i mean it's totally tactical and totally risky. but bumblefuck middle america might not care if she's inexperienced. at least she's not BLACK. ugh. UGH!! i'm all shaken up about this right now. i was super tired this morning but this has woken me up for sure. man. MAN O MAN. i love how exhilarating this election has become but if the GOP takes it, i think my heart might stop.
the sickness is all gone and i feel much much better. thanks for asking. haha i took monday off work to ensure i had no incidents and during the course of the day i felt much better. thank heavens for that! sunday was a dreadful day. the likes of which i don't want to repeat for many years to come. but as a result of my sickness i wasn't able to get my iphone til yesterday night. and now i am a proud owner of the new toy. i had prepared to stand in line for awhile but was pleasantly surprised to see that when i got to the store, there was no line. at all. i was kind of confused actually. i walked in and didn't know what to do. i never really buy things at the apple store. i buy my computers online and custom built. so it's never an issue. so i walked in and looked confused and a man asked "how can i help you?" my reply blankly, "i want an iphone." i felt like a machine almost. everyone and their mother wants an iphone. and i'm just another one of those people. i'm sure you can just guess that's why i'm there. that's why anyone is there... haha well not true but you know. anyway, it took about 15min to get the phone. that's faster than walking into verizon and getting a new phone. usually you have to wait like 30 min in a queue before even getting to speak with anyone. i walked out of the store so quickly that it kind of freaked me out when i hit the middle of the mall. did i just drop $300 and switch cell phone providers? shit! i did! but i had planned it all out already and knew the costs and what plan and all that so it wasn't like i was swindled. but for a moment, it felt that way. like i had just made this impulse purchase.
within 30 min my old number was ported to my new phone and i was up and running. when i got home i began tinkering. setting up my email was a total bitch. and i'm pretty savvy with these things. but it just wasn't working. i don't think it was on my end because then suddenly it was working and all my emails came pouring in. so who knows. i got some new apps and i put in some photos to go with my synced up contacts and basically the phone was ready for use. i still have to put more photos on for people, add music, ringtones, etc. but the bare bones is done and i have to say, i quite like this phone. it's really something else. i mean i loved my old phone. LOVED it. still do. but this phone is really snazzy. i think the moment where i got a bit giddy was when my emails came in and my daily comic email came in. i opened it on the phone and there was the comic. i zoomed in and could see it plainly as i can on my computer. that's when i knew this phone was something else. sure i knew you could do that from the ads and whatnot. but not til you see it in your hand does it become real. at least for me. and you know what's got me really excited? the list-making app i found. oh man. it's free and it can sync to the web and to other iphones and ahhh, it's brilliant! no more post-it stuck to the inside of my purse as i go to the grocery store. no no! this is going to take care of all of that. i'm so excited.
oh the rainbow of lights. so beautiful. radiohead's lighting is always awesome and this show was no different. the screens were really cool showing various snippets of the live show in cut up form. the hanging lights looked like anything from candles to icicles to whatever else fit the mood. oh it was just impeccable. i loved every minute of it. they didn't play too much older stuff which i have come to accept in recent years but i was holding my breath for "fake plastic trees" which apparently they played on friday at outlands fest so i figured they wouldn't play to night. but a girl can hope can't she? i bet they will play it tomorrow at the 2nd night of the bowl since i won't be going to that show. that seems to always be the case. bah!! but the new album sounded really great live and they played 2 encores. i think they were out there for about 2 hrs which is quite nice. get your money's worth. our seats were pretty good considering it's the bowl and the bowl is so huge. it goes ultimate front area. garden boxes behind that. then the row benches. we had the 5th row in the section that starts off the row benches and off to the right a bit. so quite respectable all things considering. plus we were right on the aisle so no one could obstruct our view since the stairs were in front of us. i could totally see the stage and all and didn't really need the monitors, but i do wish we had been closer of course. what can ya do? damn LA shows always end up like this due to all the blocked out seats for management, promotions, record labels, etc. it's just the way it is in LA. sad but true. either take a shittier seat or pay through the nose. one or the other. i'll go with the former.
my stomach held up OK. not the best but acceptable. could have been worse. at times i was really hurting but i held out to go to the bathroom just once during a song i didn't love as much. i rushed back in time so that i only missed that one song. not too shabby. i'm proud of myself for hanging in there as long as i did. of course now i'm back to being a wreck now that i'm at home and have eaten some more. but hell, at least i made it through radiohead and that was the goal of today. i didn't get my pedicure nor did i get my iphone but i did get my radiohead, and that's far more important.
oh the thought of having a shitty (no pun intended) radiohead experience tonight is not pleasant. but i'm trying to pull it together. there just isn't much i have control over. the body does what it wants. sigh...
meanwhile, i was thinking about possibly seeing batman in IMAX tomorrow yet everyone wants to see it at the bridge. and i'd prefer to see it at universal city. after all, the bridge is butt ass far from my house AND universal city is merely 2 metro stops away! i fuckin love taking the metro. plus my work pays for my metro pass so i save so much money. i was looking through old credit card statements and i used to fill up like 3x a month it seemed. now i fill up less than once a month. my last trip to the pump was july 23rd. and i still have gas in my tank! so i can probably go another week or two. i mean shit, that's so much money saved when you consider each time i fill up it's like $40 minimum. man o man. this is yet another reason i can justify an iphone. sure the monthly rates are going to be a good $25-30 more than what i pay now, but that's less than a tank of gas and i already save at leave 2 tanks a month! oh i love public transit.
BAHHHHHHH!!!! my stomach is tossing and turning. i MUST have some form of food poisoning. i can't sleep even though i'm tired because my stomach is constantly gurgling. BAHHH!!! i need to this stop before radiohead tonight. i can't miss this fucking show. and i don't want it to be like when i went to stevie wonder and felt like ass. that's just not cool. i keep chuggin the pepto like there's no tomorrow and at least my stomach doesn't hurt the way it did friday night where it was more of a sharp pain. but fucking hell. ugh! this is bullshit. i might not be able to go get my toes done today or get my iphone if i'm stuck inside nursing this stomach mess. bleh. and i totally missed out on arian and sai's party last night because i didn't want to get stuck all the way out in venice and then feel crappy and have to haul it back home.
ok what the fuck? did i just like randomly get some weird form of food poisoning or what? i don't understand what is wrong here. all i know is last night i started having a bad stomach ache and i thought it was because i hadn't eaten in hours but then it got worse and worse and i just felt like crap. and still i feel a bit shitty but i think it's getting better. lots of pepto and crackers and such. but still. motherfuck. ruining my saturday night plans. i think i'll still be going to sai and arian's housewarming party but sami's dance thing is out for sure. that's just too much for my weak body. BAH!!!
on a more positive note. i picked up some quick freelance work which will afford me a new iphone! so i've decided to take the plunge and get one. i think i'll be going down to get one tomorrow. i can't wait! i've already figured out what case i want and some apps i want and all that. i was reluctant for awhile but then i played with alex's and it really is a marvelous piece of technology. so i'm willing to shell out for it.
on a totally random note. i just saw photos from bar-a-thon in seattle last weekend. and holy hell i wish i was there. it looked like a RIDICULOUS good fun. sigh. i love seattle.
feeling kind of eh today. uninspired. unenthused for life. i think it's the low lighting in the office. i'm not sure.
anyway, aside from that, in my constant efforts to not be the grandma who can't program the VCR (trust me, i'm already like that with the tivo to a certain extent) i decided to finally figure out RSS feeds and what the deal is with them. i've been reluctant for so long because i was pretty sure i wouldn't like them. having multiple updates from multiple sites in one place with lots of text and not much design? ehhhh....but i wasn't sure. lots of people use RSS feeds so i thought maybe there is something i'm not getting. so me and this guy at work decided to take it for a test spin. google reader was our RSS feed reader of choice since google always does a good job with things. why the hell not with a feed reader? i added a couple of sites and determined that i was incorrect in thinking RSS was ONLY text. you get the pictures too. and the posts look very similar to how they do on the actual site they come from. BUT it's just not the same. you get no real design out of it. it's just an inbox of text and links. it's not that fun. and it sucks the life out of web design. what's the point of designing websites anymore if people will just feed in the minimal aspects of it?
so i'm definitely NOT down with RSS for the sites i read daily. it takes me like maybe 5 secs more to click the bookmark and open a new tab. that's worth it to me for a nicer, cleaner look. but then i thought, ok maybe this is good for things like photo sites. like flickr which i hate the interface of. so i tried that out thinking the rationale is i barely check people's flickrs but i do enjoy seeing new photos. i just hate having to go back to the site over and over. well the RSS feed of it all is ugly. and each photo is it's own entry so to speak. so if someone uploads like 100 photos. dear god. so fuck it. NO RSS FEED for jen.
my office went out for drinks after work at this british pub the fox and hound not far from work. i have to say, i was pleased with the turnout. a lot of people showed up. both married and non-married. and people got a bit drunk as well. it was quite a good showing considering our office is notorious for NOT being social. never will it be like AA times but that was in a league of it's own.
oh mondays. i don't loathe mondays the way some people do but i don't love them either. after all, at least you can think about the (potentially) awesome weekend you had. and this past weekend was quite eventful. starting off with some dancing friday night.
the highly-anticipated (well...by me at least) PYT fridays went off without much ado. turmed out the "club" was more like a bar with a small dance floor and a big back patio. the music was good but not GREAT. the drinks were pricey. the clientele was so so. all in all, i might return. most of us got there early enough to where we didn't have to pay to get in and we got a free drink ticket. it seems if you get there after about 11pm you have to pay $5 if you RSVP'd and $10 if you didn't. that would not be worth it for sure. and then you wouldn't get a drink ticket either. anyway, i had a really great time regardless of all the hoo ha. i was sufficiently intoxicated and cut a rug with rick for a good amount of time. so i consider the night somewhat successful though this cannot replace bang! that's for sure. i just can't go to bang! cuz i'm too old. BAH!!!!
oh, and i should note that alex's friend pete and his gf, maura are in town visiting from philly and were staying with us from thursday til last night so they were at the bar with us and accompanied us on our weekend adventures.
saturday, alex woke up butt ass early to do this 8 hour training session to be a mentor to an underprivileged kid. he found the company because it's in his building and i guess they have people hook up with a kid and just do things with the kid. fun things. alex would be good at this i think. anyway, he did the training and pete, maura and i met him for lunch. then i took them to melrose where they were on a mission for sneakers. pete is a huge hi-top fan and maura also likes cool kicks. so we did that for a couple hours. then once alex was done we went to scoops for some awesome weirdo ice cream. i love that place. the flavors are bizarre. and it's cheap. and totally mom and pop. a true gem in LA. around 7pm we headed out for oxnard where we would be spending the night at a hotel so we could depart early sunday for the channel islands. it took about an hour to get to the hotel and we put our stuff down and figured out a place to eat. we found an indian place in ventura that sounded good. it was quite delicious. the service sucked a bit but the food was mighty tasty. then we caught a 10pm showing of tropic thunder. ok, i have to say that i did NOT want to see this movie because from the poster it looked dumb. but they all wanted to go so i couldn't just sit alone at the hotel. well it turned out to be a really funny movie. downright RIIIIIIIDICULOUS. i think that's the only way to describe it. robert downey jr. is fucking awesome in the movie and tom cruise is a really surprising and perfect guest star. oh man. his dance scene is priceless. anyway, good movie for what it is. fucking stupid laughs and insane storyline.
after the movie we were heading back to the hotel and i was driving because alex didn't want to. i forgot that his one headlight is out so here i am just minding my own business when in the rearview mirror, what should i see but a goddamn cop flashing his lights. i was just about to enter the freeway so i was a bit confused where to go. i've never been pulled over before!!! but i knew it had to be for the headlight. so i just got out my license and alex's registration and when the cop came over i handed it to him immediately and here is the convo we had:
me: it's the headlight isn't it? i know we have to fix it.
cop: yea but i don't care about the headlight. where you folks going?
me: back to our hotel.
cop: where are you from?
me: LA. but we are out here for the weekend to go to the channel islands.
cop: ha! the channel islands. gonna take the island hopper out there?
me: yep.
cop: you guys been drinking?
me: haha no...
cop: why night? it's like 12:30 at night. what else do kids do at this hour?
me: well we are going to the channel islands.... (as if to say we are lame dorks)
cop: true... (as if to agree)
me: yea and we have to wake up early.
cop: ok well let me just run this real quick and you'll be on your way.
the cop went back to his car with my license and the registration and we sat and waited. when he came back he said "wow. you have an embarrassingly clean record. no tickets. no violations. nothing." and i said "well i've never been pulled over in my life. and now for this headlight and it's not even my car!" and the cop said "well i won't give you a ticket for that headlight. i don't do that sort of thing. we just pull people over as a pre-check type thing. in case you have been drinking or maybe we run your record and you have other violations. but nothing here. have a fun time at the islands!" and i said "thanks. and we'll fix that headlight as soon as we get back." and then we were on our way. i have to say that it was a very pleasant situation all things considering. i mean i had no reason to be worried and it's not my car. if he did give us a ticket for the headlight alex would have to pay for it cuz i've been telling him for weeks to get it fixed. he's just lazy. so yea. my first time getting pulled over. hopefully my last. or at least for a long while....
yesterday we woke up really early to head out to the boat that takes your to the islands. the channel islands are 12 miles off the coast of oxnard. they are considered a national park. i think there are 5 islands. we went to the small one called anacapa. it's like a couple miles around i think. the boat ride was an hour and we mostly slept through it all. we were all really tired. we got to the island around 11am and had 3.5 hrs to spend there before the boat came back to get us. a lot of people snorkeled or kayaked which we should have done. the island is so small we walked around the entire thing in like 2 hrs and then we were a bit bored. not to mention it was hot as balls and there was NO SHADE anywhere. no trees. nothing. and i stupidly didn't wear any sunblock so as you will see in the photos below, i got BURNT! gah so bad. my neck still hurts. gahhhh!!! the sun was fierce. the scenery was really pretty and we took some photos. i wish we had gone to the larger island. would have been more stuff to do. next time...
after we got on the boat and back to the mainland we stopped off at the actual national park building to get alex's national park passport stamped. then we headed back to LA. we showered and then went to roscoe's for dinner. a few others joined us including neil. we went to the hollywood one of course since it was down the street. i still prefer the pico one. i don't care if the hollywood one is the original...neil agreed. after that maura and pete got picked up by their friend who they stayed with last night and tonight. we might all meet up for one last dinner tonight. we shall see.
but that was my glorious weekend. not too crazy but fun and different.
nothin like breakin a sweat to clear the mind. all better.
blargh. i'm in a really shitty mood right now for various reasons and i just want to NOT be in a shitty mood. maybe if i go to the gym it will help.
about to head out to the gym but feeling a bit lazy and lethargic so i'll write this first. this past weekend was really chill. friday i met up with byron and saw his new apt which is totally kick ass. then we headed over to the cha cha lounge where we stayed the rest of the night. rick and neil joined us followed by alex and zie german and lastly joe fuckin lia. it was a good chill night. i really love that bar. saturday i went to a work related function which was full of children and let's just say, if you know me, you know how i deal with children. so you can imagine how this party went for me. we weren't there that long though. and at night a few people came over to watch the tivo'd opening ceremonies of the olympics. really amazing shit china put together i have to say. sunday was also chill. byron and i went to the craft store together. he was getting things for an art piece he's doing and i was going to get things to make my book of photobooth photos. but after all my thought on it, i came back with only photo corners and then ordered some stuff online. ah well. once it comes i can complete that project and put it away. and then whenever i get a new strip or two i'll just add to it one by one.
last night i went to dinner with rick and we had one of our long chats and reflection sessions. really good stuff. i love talking with rick about these sorts of things. very cleansing and soothing. it reminded me of the good ole days... sometimes i really do miss living with those guys. :/
today word was let out at work about some unfortunate, in my opinion, circumstances leading many people to get a bit concerned. not heavily but slightly. blehhhh.
this friday we are going dancing though now it seems many people can't go. i'm slightly sad about this. but i hope enough go to make it fun. or else i'll just be pissed.
i need to book my flight home to SF. i think i'll just go up in october. no september despite me wanting to do something the weekend alex goes to NYC. maybe i can figure something else out. i just feel silly going to SF two times in like 3 wks. tho if i do see NKOTB in vegas i'll be going to vegas 2 times in 3 wks (elton john the 2nd time around). so what's the dif really?
a few bits and pieces.
i think i'm getting sick. i'm starting to feel run down. a bunch of people at work are/were sick. nothing major considering it's the middle of summer and we're going through a heatwave but nonetheless, sickness is occurring. and i think i may have caught it. so annoying. thank god i postponed PYT fridays to NEXT friday. cuz otherwise i would be unfit to really bust a move. yea i said that. haha
so i've noticed after riding the metro for some time now that for the most part i'm cool with the people around me. but sometimes i'm not. a few examples...
today i got to the train station and sat down with head hanging because i was feeling tired and run down. this guy came in and decided to stand like right in front of where i was sitting such that if i were to lift my head i'd be looking at him. and so when i lifted my head he was like looking right at me and smiled. i thought, ugh, this guy seems a bit creepy. whatever, just look away. so i got on the train and he got on after me. i purposely walked a couple cars down and i thought is he going to get on the same car as me? i didn't see him so i guess not.
but then this other guy gets on and sits near me. he looks a bit creepy in this "if you cross me i'll break your limbs" kind of way. even though he didn't really look that tough or scary by any means. he looked like he had the rage behind his eyes. so i sat there quietly as the train took off and saw him cautiously eating his subway sandwich. please take note that no food or drink are allowed on the train. but this man was totally eating. whatever, like i'm going to say anything. it's not bothering me and he'll break my limbs i'm sure. BUT then after he finished eating i started to hear a noise. mind you i had my earplugs in but i heard some noise. and then i paused my music and realized he was listening to music on his cell phone but out loud such that everyone could hear it. SO FUCKING ANNOYING. no bother. i was getting off soon. but i can't imagine having to endure his butt rock for the entire duration of my train ride. thankfully i had earplugs. but what a fucking dickwad for doing that. again, don't cross him or he'll break your limbs.
so as i was about to exit the train i turned my head to the left and who should i see but the other creepy guy from before. yes he did get on my train car and yes he was exiting at the same time as me. and yes he smiled at me again. as we exited he walked up the stairs as i took the escalator and basically i lagged back the entire time to let him go ahead. he turned around a couple of times and i just lagged back. turns out he walked the entire same way as me past my apt but i was behind a bit so that was good. don't need that shit.
similarly, i was on the train once and this man sat down next to me. and older black man. he started asking me if i liked comedy and essentially after about 10min he was asking me out to a comedy club with him. ugh! and then he got off at the same stop as me so i had to play that same game of lagging back. i didn't want him to know where i lived. god no.
another time i had entered the train station and was chatting with my cop friends when this awkward guy came down. he had his bike and he started playing his DS there near where i was talking with the cops. one of the cops, karl, asked him about his DS and this is when i could tell he was socially awkward. by his response. so once the train came i got on and the awkward kid got on and karl got on cuz the 3 of us were having a chat about something or else. when it was time for the train to leave the station karl got off of course and the kid sat down perpendicular to me so that he could hold his bike in the free space and also decided to continue chatting with me. i feared this would happen. he was so awkward. we chatted about him swimming and hurting his hand and him going to little tokyo to get toys or something. my stop couldn't get there any faster i swear. and just before i got off the kid was trying to keep his bike in check (it kept falling) and in doing so nearly hit me with it. had i not put my hand out, it would have hit me. good lord. i swear.
and then there was the time this english guy got on the train wearing an insane amount of silver rings, necklaces etc and was dressed entirely in yellow and black. he was talking out loud with a bunch of people and flirting with some girl and all this jazz. he was amusing in a way and i was a bit far away to interact with him thankfully.
oh the train. such randomness.
tomorrow is friday. thank fucking god. if all goes as planned i'll be going to a company party at the VP's house on saturday. he lives in tarzana. ugh. john from art school lived there. i have bad memories of that place. BAD. but whatever. chy and i are supposed to go together. carpool. i think some of the other younger folks in the office are going as well. that will be good. we can hang together. cuz the people with kids will be hanging together i'm sure. and i simply cannot relate to that!
ok so i just HAD to blog about this. so i live in hollywood. hollywood is a weird place to live. i don't know if i'm sold on it. so far it's been fine but it's really weird. it's not like living in miracle mile. and i really loved living in miracle mile. hollywood is like living right smack in the middle of a city. which hey, i love living in a city. BUT, the people in hollywood are from all over. mostly tourists and real weirdos. i mean real weirdos. shit. so it's a strange place to be. and a couple weeks ago the theatre (like for plays, not for movies) was all dolled up for some event. turns out it was a kick off even for the nike plus+ human race 10k thing that is taking place at the end of this month.
so back earlier this week (monday i think was the day) i started to notice some lawn chairs outside the theater and a few people milling about. now, this theatre generally has no one outside of it in the mornings. when they set up for the nike event there were a lot of people out but typically it's dead in the mornings. so seeing people there was weird. and when i came home on monday those same people were there. and then yesterday there were more people...so i finally asked someone in line what they were waiting for. and now i know...
the nike air ?uesto 1 by ?uestlove
what an ugly shoe huh? apparently it's selling today at the theatre for like $300. people are waiting in line for days for this. i think because they are going to resell it. unless they are shoe collectors. but shit. insane huh? also they is a special gold version like in this photo which is really rare. like maybe 10 per location. i guess this is what drives the need for these people to stand in line for 3 days. but crazy huh? i just had to blog about this cuz i find it absurd.
this summer has been truly amazing with all the fun i've been having. but at the same time it has been sad. first joe from filter passed away not that long ago and now i have learned that a girl from my high school, who i had homeroom with, passed away last friday. both passings were effectively due to complications from prior medical conditions they had and both were entirely unexpected. sigh.... it's been some sad times amongst all the greatness i have to say. in addition, i know 3 people who's family members have passed on all within this summer as well. it's really quite sad all around. here's to more fun, good fortune, and happiness!
super chill weekend. alex and i watched a movie on friday night at home. hannah and her sisters. a woody allen flick. pretty good. better than i was expecting. saturday during the day i basically hung out with dave and got cupcakes for like 3 hrs. we always have very extended cupcake runs. we talk a LOT. but then we don't see each other for like a month or two so i mean... later that night a few of us convened at little bar for some trivia. we won but the win is a bit tainted because the guy running it made a wee mistake. we would have gotten 2nd place otherwise. ah well. after that we went to this random ass bar called sheddys over by the grove. it's a very small bar that has a lot of random ass beers and wines. we totally got the back booth where it looked like we were going to plot a murder or something. awesomeness. this morning alex and i met with doug and jenny for some brunch at LA mill. a very overdue excursion. good times. good coffee. good food. we are going to try and do this brunch thing semi-regularly. explore the cities brunch offerings. after that i was going to go to the do-over with cynthia but i got lazy and she said that there was a line so i didn't go. i feel a bit bad. i think she really wanted to go. sigh...and now i'm headed out to a dinner with alex's family friend. i'm sure politics will be a topic of discussion. it always is with this couple. but what i want to know is if the british kid will be there. he's always very interesting. such opposite points of view from me. i like can't even relate to him AT ALL.
so i've been thinking about it for awhile and finally i brought myself to do it. i removed my nipple piercings. yes, i did it. i kept thinking i should get rid of them because they weren't exciting anymore. just sort of there. and they made me nip out all the time which was annoying. so i kept saying i'd remove them but then i couldn't bring myself to do it. well i finally did tonight. and already the holes are starting to close up. the body works fast! i took photos to document this process which was way more tedious than i expected. the damn balls would not come off the barbell. i had such a hard time. but finally i got them off. and now it's sort of weird without them. but it's for the best this way. i had them in for nearly 5 and a half years. i checked and i got them on feb 17, 2003. i recall it was president's day because we were having a little bbq at my house and then justin came over and we went to the piercing place together. he held my hand because i was totally freaked out and i let him be there in the first place because he used to joke about hooking up with me all the time and i said this would be the closest he'd ever get to that. me letting him see my boobs. also i needed some moral support and i knew kyla or rick would not be down with the idea. in fact i didn't tell anyone about it til weeks later once it was all heeled. and boy was the heeling process a bitch. blood and all. kind of gross. but no problems after that. i never blogged about this because i think my parents were reading my blog at the time and maybe they still are. (if you are reading this mom and dad, well i guess the jig is up!) not to mention no one knew til weeks or months later and by then blogging about it would have been old hat. anyway, no plans to remove my various ear piercings anytime soon. i really like those still. so they shall stay.
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