Today is the big ILWU Bloody Thursday picnic over at Oaks Park (rides, roller rink, cotton candy, big picnic area, etc.). Bloody Thursday is our union's equivalent of day of the dead: we honor those who died while walking the picket lines on July 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Thursday if you want/need more info

It is supposed to be 90 degrees today, so I'll be slathering on the SPF 30 and looking for shady spots. Hot weather is only okay if there's a nearby pool.

I'm waiting for 6g plugs to arrive in the mail so I can get these taped up 8g plugs out of my second holes. I've managed to lose almost all of my small orings and I might break down and go buy some from my local piercing shop. I think I might take some of the tape off, I think I got a little tape happy yesterday.

My place is still a wreck and is about to get even messier. I am getting a washer and dryer Saturday morning and need to move all the stuff that's in the washer/dryer closet out into the hall. The cats will love that; new stuff to frolic and swarm over. They are lying by the patio door squirrel watching.

Well I finally made it to 0g after two months of being at 2g. I could pull dfs right through my ears so I figured I was ready. I decided to try taping, which worked quite well. I used a lot of jojoba/emu oil and it never hurt at all, which is excellent. I taped up late Sat. afternoon and Sunday morning I plopped in my gws colorfronts and all was well. I've also been stretching my second holes from 8g to 6g, but that's a much slower process. I'm only adding tape every three days or so, and I may wait even longer.
I got the most beautiful pair of horn hanging hoops in the mail yesterday from a woman on gaugetrade. I slathered them with oil a couple times and I can't wait to wear them. One more slather with oil and I will bag them up for a little while. I will only wear glass in my 0g holes for at least a couple weeks.
Monday my friends brought over the big computer desk they were getting rid of. It was a beast to re-assemble and I will probably leave it here it I ever move. But I like it a lot, even though it has meant enormous changes in the ole living room. I had to pack up my stereo because there wasn't room for it anymore. I haven't used it for ages, but I am short on storage space and I absolutely will not get rid of it.
Now I need to pick up everything that got strewn all over the house while moving in the desk and get ready for the washer & dryer that might come Saturday. I'm definitely getting them, I just don't know if it will be Saturday or not.
Today's project is trying to install Word on my laptop. I have the disc, I am just having trouble getting the installation to go right. No matter how much I learn about technology, it always kicks my stupid ass. I really need to get it to work. I may have to try asking for help. Again. sigh.

So I'm getting a big desk with shelves above it and an extension that pulls out, a rolly file thing, and the most comfortable desk chair in the universe. My friend's husband is redoing their home office and I'm getting the leftovers. Yay for leftovers! So much of my furniture had a past before it came to me.
Now I need to measure and figure out what needs to be moved where so it will all fit. The cats are gonna love all this activity and furniture moving. I'll have space for my computer, printer, external hard-drives and space to set up my laptop. Which has decided not to work. Why the hell didn't I just buy a nice Mac? Because they cost a fortune, that's why.
Tomorrow I'm doing a trade with a friend who has a truck--I will use her & the truck to move the furniture--in return I will help clean her aquarium or a chinchilla cage (she has three of them & three cages).
Thursday I went off to the local piercing shop and got my second lobes stretched to 8g. It went very well, didn't hurt much, wasn't tender afterwards. I had glass colorfronts put in this time. I am loving that glass...
Because I am obssessed, I also purchased a plastic craft organizer on Thursday and put all my plugs neatly away. Okay, I needed more than one organizer, but 2g plugs are so tiny--they rattle around like little vitamins.
Note to self: no more buying of plugs. I am definitely a plug whore. I bought, um gulp seventeen pairs of plugs while on vacation. I'm most excited about the lapis and the white jade. And I'm insane. And there might be five more pairs coming.
But no more 2g cause that's where the second lobes are headed, eventually. I need some glass colorfronts in 6g, but that can wait. Yes, I think I can wait (cough, choke, sputter). I am hoping there isn't a blemished kaos sale soon. I love glittery stuff.
Perhaps I could stop buying things?

Okay, so last Thursday night I called a friend & that's the last I've seen of the handset to my phone. I have turned this apartment upside down and cannot for the life of me find it. I've questioned the cats, retraced my steps, and done all kinds of crazy cleaning, but all I have is the crappy old phone in my bedroom and the speakerphone. I'm not feeling the speakerphone, y'know.
I have to take my aunt to the hairdresser on Thursday and while she's there, I think I will go buy another handset. I'm tempted to buy another phone. I'm tempted to do a lot of things.
The other thing I want to do is go to Catalyst and have my second lobe holes tapered to 8g. I'm hoping they have some spirals. If not, just something I can get out by myself, without ring openers/closers. I also want new captives for my third lobe holes--smaller diameter, same gauge. Or maybe a circular barbell. That way I can get it out of there myself. Less important for the third holes.
I'm obssessed with how all the jewelry coordinates together. Not so much a matchy matchy thing, more of a size thing. I like it to just kind of flow together.
When my second lobes got stretched to 12g and the first lobes were at 4g with steel tunnels, I took one look in the mirror and wanted to put a bag over my head. It just looked off balance to have captives in the second hole and nothing in the first. The balance of the whole thing was off. It helped to hang hoops from the tunnels & it helped even more when I got the third holes pierced. It stopped looking so wrong to me.
When one thing changes, everything around it needs to be adjusted. Balance. Equilibrium.

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