whoah, hi internet!

i've had a busy week or whatever. hot damn. maybe i'll tell you some stories later! i have lots of them. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

in the meantime, look what i did yesterday! i got a tattoo!
( semi-nsfw pics -- hooray pink polka-dotted underpants! )

let me just tell you, that was an awkward post to assemble while sitting on a packed greyhound bus with a bunch of strangers. MY ASS LET ME SHOW YOU IT.

*also, inking over old scar tissue hurts like a bitch. good thing fairestcat is okay with getting her fingers pulverized. oops! THANKS CAT. ♥

a little more than two years ago I did this.

I figure, officially past the two-year mark, it must've healed thoroughly by now so tonight, for the first time in those two-plus years, I finally dug out my corset and laced it up again.

(bonus information: in addition today was One Of Those Days: the slightly manic, delicately off-kilter days that make me feel out-of-focus, too big and too small and like I am falling out of myself. plus it's the supposed First Day of Spring, which just kicks all of that up a notch.)

in conclusion, oh my god, YES. it feels like I've been put back in my skin.

♥

a word on getting one's tragus pierced in the middle of a bitter-cold Wisconsin winter:

there have been less irritatingly painful* ideas. there have also been much more irritatingly painful winter-specific ideas (see also: running in the snow (or, better yet, on freezing asphalt) while barefoot, fixing a car wiper blade in the wet-snow-rain without gloves on (♥, fairestcat!), faux-snogging a metal basketball hoop pole), but there have certainly been less irritatingly painful ideas.

also, god almighty do ears BLEED.

but all in all, I am extremely happy. pictures later, when I have stopped looking like a sonic-boom-gun victim.


*by which I mean that I wouldn't say it hurts like a bitch, per se, but you know that ear-bitey feeling you get when the wind whips around your head and it's in the single-digits or below? imagine that with a fresh bit of shiny metal through your ear. OUTSTANDING!