I think I have a right to be having a girly moment.

Here's my follow up post to yesterday's highlights of the day blog post.

Yesterday was Ed's 18th birthday. I managed to get out of my work shift early since Destiny owed me some time, and Ed and Kevin met me at my house at three. We drove my car, since it's newer and had a full tank of gas, to Randallstown where the piercing/tattoo place is. Ed and I tell the piercer what we want, since Kevin's not getting anything, and he gives us the consent forms. Unfortunately, neither of us had eaten much or at all that day and the piercer said to go get something to eat so we're not passing out on his table. Way to make us feel comfortable, Mr. Piercer Man Sir.

We went to Burger King since it was a short walk away, and got something small to eat. Then we headed back. Ed went back first, and got his three done. Then he came out, and the piercings suit him amazingly well. Then it was my turn. We go back and he's telling me what's going to happen, and he does my Tragus first. I'm told to take a deep breath in, and as I'm exhaling he puts the needle through. It barely hurt at all. The worst of it was the stinging when he was letting it bleed for a moment. Then he moves to my left ear to do the daith piercing. We go through the same breathing procedure, except the needle decides it doesn't want to go through as smoothly. So that one hurt a bit, but once again not too bad. He lets it bleed, puts in the jewelry, then cleans it up, and I'm done. They look great!

We drive home, and make arrangements to meet up at Red Robin for dinner. The three of us are joined by Sarah, Trent, Josh, Marcos, and Vlad. We're our usual crazy selves, which I blame on the fact that we're all theatre people. We get them to sing happy birthday to Ed, which was fun. Then we split the check, tipped the waitress, and left. At this point, Sarah and Kevin leave, and the rest of us go see Watchmen at the theatre down the road.

The movie was pretty awesome, and very long. Though I liked it quite a bit. All in all, the entire day was awesome.

Once again, blogging while watching The Biggest Loser.

I'm getting closer and closer to being ready for school. Yesterday, I got the first round of several vaccines that I need, and I'm scheduled for a physical in May. I've already submitted my final transcript, applied for financial aid, submitted my housing form, and paid my deposit. I'm well on my way and I'm very excited. Aside from being nervous about not liking it there, or not knowing what I want to major in, or being afraid of not making any friends, or not being able to get back into the groove of school, I'm looking forward to it.

Unfortunately I have an aunt and uncle, one on either side of my family, who have seen my Facebook status updates about the piercings and seem to be not quite into it. I'm not surprised though, a lot of my family is very conservative. So it's going to be very interesting to see what the reaction is once I get them done. I mean, I'm doing this because I don't think there's anything wrong with piercings. I believe it is self expression. That's the same reason why I'm getting some sort of unnatural color in my hair before I go to school. Maybe a few streaks of purple or hot pink or something. I've never had funky color in my hair, and I'd like to do it before I go to school, since I wont be in work. Generally, I'm just a bit more "out there" I guess than a lot of my family.

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So I've finally figured out what I'm getting done piercing wise. I'm getting three done. I'm getting a daith, a snug, and a tragus (the ring with the purple sphere on it, on that weird piece of your ear attached to your head.) It took me FOREVER to decide. Ed was making fun of me for it, because he decided his before I did.

I finally finished Watchmen. It was pretty interesting. It's not my favorite book, but it was good. I'm also getting back into the habit of journaling since I will go massive amounts of time between entries which SUCKS.

Well I'm tired and watching Camp, so I'll update later.

I'm Ted-ing out over here.

I SUCK at social situations. Ed asked if he could bring another friend along for the piercing thing since he hasn't seen her in ages, and I said sure. The only reason I'm feeling slightly "ugh" about saying sure is because I don't know her. And apparently she and Ed are really similar and share the same sense of humor, while I am chronically shy around people I don't know. It'll be like I'm ending up as the third wheel. It's going to be a total awkward situation. He tried introducing us on AIM but she had to leave the computer quickly, and then my computer froze up so I felt like a total jerk for not being able to talk much. Not like I could explain myself since it wasn't letting me type, but still. Hopefully it'll all be good when we actually go to the piercing place. Who knows, maybe we'll hit it off and get along. I mean, she apparently has Ed's sense of humor, and Ed said that I remind him of her and vice versa at times, so maybe I'm just over thinking. This will work out. I'm just over thinking and over exaggerating as always.

Holy crap, when did it become 6:37?

Ed and I have officially made plans to go get our piercings done on the sixth. It's his 18th birthday, so it'll be his first act of adulthood. He's pretty set on getting an industrial done. I was the same way until mom mentioned getting a tragus piercing. I can see the benefits of both, but I've been set on getting an industrial first. A tragus piercing would have been my next choice after the industrial. In any case, I'm going to be getting one or the other done that day, and I've pretty much got two weeks to figure out which one, and where to get it done. There are a couple of girls at both of my jobs who might know, so I'll be asking around to figure out where is the best place to go.