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I'd like to hold her... head under water.
Apr. 6th, 2003 07:38 pmI'd like to hold her... head under water.
There has been so much stuff going on lately, and I seem unable to take a few minutes to write in my LJ. And yet, it all runs together, and I can't even seem to remember what's been going on. Alas, I will attempt to give a few highlights as to what's been going on in my life for the last few weeks that I've neglected this journal.
Soon after I got that 4th hole in my right lobe, I was thinking about changing my industrial barbell to a shorter length because it's been healed for a while already. I was browsing the ebay and the internet, looking for 14ga flesh tunnels for Angelica, but I happened to find some really awesome talons that I adore. (The little ball would be at the front of the lobe, and the rest would curve under the lobe.) Of course, they're way too expensive for me at the moment. The image on the left is of the 12ga niobium talon (niobium is usually black, whereas stainless steel is silver). The image on the right is the 14ga niobium crescent talon, which is the one that I really want. It's $35. ::sobs:: The stainless steel version is less expensive at $27, but for that much, I'd rather get the niobium which I like a lot better.
So after lamenting the fact that I can't afford these, I continued to browse around and came across a site that had a cute twisted CBR, specifically for tragus piercings (which is what Angelica has), from a site called Unimax. Everything seemed so inexpensive, so I went to look at their shipping prices and discovered that the prices are basically all wholesale. For orders under the minimum of $50, they add a fee of $9.95 to your total. Which isn't so bad if you're going to get a bunch of stuff. But for just one thing it isn't worth it. However, I wondered where they were located because I thought the name sounded familiar... and guess what? They're right here in Chinatown! So we went over there to see if we could buy retail from them directly, without having to add on shipping fees, etc. And they do sell retail from their store! So Angelica bought the cute twisted CBR for $15 (which was almost double their wholesale price, which isn't unreasonable), and I bought a shorter barbell for my industrial for only $6 (which is a little bit over double their wholesale price, but which is AMAZINGLY cheap for retail -- usually, you can't find them under $15)!
Of course, I realized later that the barbell I got was still too long (1 3/8"), so I'll have to go back and get another one -- probably 1 1/8" or maybe 1", but I think 1" is too short. But I think the 1 3/8" is really nice looking anyway. ^^
But getting off of the earring topic... one Sunday when I was working at the store Adrian (Yvette's husband) came in and showed off his new cellphone -- one of those phone, PDA, mp3 sort of combo-things by Sony. So I got to thinking that Yvette was probably going to have a new phone too. On Monday I came in and found out that Yvette had gotten a new phone, so I asked if I could have her old one (a Nokia 8260). She had mentioned before that if/when she got a new one she wouldn't mind giving me her old one. So the next day she brought it to work with her and voila! I had a knew phone. Of course, it wasn't exactly new-looking. She had the red faceplate, but since she just sort of drops the phone in her bag, it had long since become battered and worn. Not that this was a big deal. But there was also a screw rattling around inside. It didn't seem like it was anything important because the phone still worked fine, but... So later in the day I dragged Angelica over to an AT&T Wireless store in order to transfer my phone number from my old phone to the new one, and ask about the loose screw. They said that they couldn't fix it (they have no technicians at their stores), but to try this other store a few blocks away. So we went, but they said that they couldn't do anything and that for this particular phone, the insides are really delicate and they'd just fall apart if they opened the phone. I thought that sounded very odd. The did know, however, that the rattling was indeed a screw loose in the antenna compartment. ::sigh:: I guessed that I'd just have to live with the rattling.
So I started looking for new faceplates on ebay, and found someone who had a dutch bid auction on 30 faceplates in 3 different colors (the standard: gray, blue, red). So I bid on 2 (a gray, and a blue). Then I went on a hunt for a Torx-6 screwdriver in order to be able to change the faceplate when it finally came in the mail. ::sigh:: This phone was turning out to be a bit more trouble that it was worth, and to top it off, it doesn't get much service in my room in the basement because it doesn't have an external antenna like my old phone did.
Liz and I went on a massive search for a T6 screwdriver around the Grand Central area. I think we walked around the station and beyond, at least 2 or 3 times from hardware store to hardware store in search of one that had a T6 screwdriver. One had it in a set with other screwdrivers, for $12. But I wasn't about to spend $12 for a little itty bitty screwdriver. We went home emptyhanded, but for some cute pics of us by the fountain behind the big public library (the one with the lions in front):
Liz covering her face
Liz looking to the side 'cause I told her to
me looking to the side at a building in the distance
me pointing at said building
A few days later I called up around 10 hardware stores asking if they had any T6 screwdrivers, or even just a T6 bit... only one of them had it! So I asked Angelica to go pick it up for me (I was working that day). She did, so that night I took apart the phone (feeling secure that if any parts fell out I'd be able to put them back together 'cause I'd found this) and put in a cell phone charm that Liz had won at AXNY last year: Touya-meijin from Hikaru no Go. ^^; It's cute, I have to admit, even if it isn't exactly the character I'd have wanted if I'd picked it myself. Then again, it was free. (Cell charms are expensive!)
Just this past Friday, I received the faceplates from ebay in the mail (of course, they got one of them wrong: they sent the gray and the red instead of the blue), so I took the phone apart again and changed it to the gray faceplate. Also, Angelica had gotten a new faceplate for her phone, and she gave me the antenna booster sticker thing, so it gets a bit more service in the basement than it used to, although not as much as my old phone did.
Well. That was a lot of unimportant babble. I will endeavor to write more frequently so that the inane babble will at least be limited to short posts every so-often instead of long ones.
There has been so much stuff going on lately, and I seem unable to take a few minutes to write in my LJ. And yet, it all runs together, and I can't even seem to remember what's been going on. Alas, I will attempt to give a few highlights as to what's been going on in my life for the last few weeks that I've neglected this journal.
Soon after I got that 4th hole in my right lobe, I was thinking about changing my industrial barbell to a shorter length because it's been healed for a while already. I was browsing the ebay and the internet, looking for 14ga flesh tunnels for Angelica, but I happened to find some really awesome talons that I adore. (The little ball would be at the front of the lobe, and the rest would curve under the lobe.) Of course, they're way too expensive for me at the moment. The image on the left is of the 12ga niobium talon (niobium is usually black, whereas stainless steel is silver). The image on the right is the 14ga niobium crescent talon, which is the one that I really want. It's $35. ::sobs:: The stainless steel version is less expensive at $27, but for that much, I'd rather get the niobium which I like a lot better.
So after lamenting the fact that I can't afford these, I continued to browse around and came across a site that had a cute twisted CBR, specifically for tragus piercings (which is what Angelica has), from a site called Unimax. Everything seemed so inexpensive, so I went to look at their shipping prices and discovered that the prices are basically all wholesale. For orders under the minimum of $50, they add a fee of $9.95 to your total. Which isn't so bad if you're going to get a bunch of stuff. But for just one thing it isn't worth it. However, I wondered where they were located because I thought the name sounded familiar... and guess what? They're right here in Chinatown! So we went over there to see if we could buy retail from them directly, without having to add on shipping fees, etc. And they do sell retail from their store! So Angelica bought the cute twisted CBR for $15 (which was almost double their wholesale price, which isn't unreasonable), and I bought a shorter barbell for my industrial for only $6 (which is a little bit over double their wholesale price, but which is AMAZINGLY cheap for retail -- usually, you can't find them under $15)!
Of course, I realized later that the barbell I got was still too long (1 3/8"), so I'll have to go back and get another one -- probably 1 1/8" or maybe 1", but I think 1" is too short. But I think the 1 3/8" is really nice looking anyway. ^^
But getting off of the earring topic... one Sunday when I was working at the store Adrian (Yvette's husband) came in and showed off his new cellphone -- one of those phone, PDA, mp3 sort of combo-things by Sony. So I got to thinking that Yvette was probably going to have a new phone too. On Monday I came in and found out that Yvette had gotten a new phone, so I asked if I could have her old one (a Nokia 8260). She had mentioned before that if/when she got a new one she wouldn't mind giving me her old one. So the next day she brought it to work with her and voila! I had a knew phone. Of course, it wasn't exactly new-looking. She had the red faceplate, but since she just sort of drops the phone in her bag, it had long since become battered and worn. Not that this was a big deal. But there was also a screw rattling around inside. It didn't seem like it was anything important because the phone still worked fine, but... So later in the day I dragged Angelica over to an AT&T Wireless store in order to transfer my phone number from my old phone to the new one, and ask about the loose screw. They said that they couldn't fix it (they have no technicians at their stores), but to try this other store a few blocks away. So we went, but they said that they couldn't do anything and that for this particular phone, the insides are really delicate and they'd just fall apart if they opened the phone. I thought that sounded very odd. The did know, however, that the rattling was indeed a screw loose in the antenna compartment. ::sigh:: I guessed that I'd just have to live with the rattling.
So I started looking for new faceplates on ebay, and found someone who had a dutch bid auction on 30 faceplates in 3 different colors (the standard: gray, blue, red). So I bid on 2 (a gray, and a blue). Then I went on a hunt for a Torx-6 screwdriver in order to be able to change the faceplate when it finally came in the mail. ::sigh:: This phone was turning out to be a bit more trouble that it was worth, and to top it off, it doesn't get much service in my room in the basement because it doesn't have an external antenna like my old phone did.
Liz and I went on a massive search for a T6 screwdriver around the Grand Central area. I think we walked around the station and beyond, at least 2 or 3 times from hardware store to hardware store in search of one that had a T6 screwdriver. One had it in a set with other screwdrivers, for $12. But I wasn't about to spend $12 for a little itty bitty screwdriver. We went home emptyhanded, but for some cute pics of us by the fountain behind the big public library (the one with the lions in front):
Liz covering her face
Liz looking to the side 'cause I told her to
me looking to the side at a building in the distance
me pointing at said building
A few days later I called up around 10 hardware stores asking if they had any T6 screwdrivers, or even just a T6 bit... only one of them had it! So I asked Angelica to go pick it up for me (I was working that day). She did, so that night I took apart the phone (feeling secure that if any parts fell out I'd be able to put them back together 'cause I'd found this) and put in a cell phone charm that Liz had won at AXNY last year: Touya-meijin from Hikaru no Go. ^^; It's cute, I have to admit, even if it isn't exactly the character I'd have wanted if I'd picked it myself. Then again, it was free. (Cell charms are expensive!)
Just this past Friday, I received the faceplates from ebay in the mail (of course, they got one of them wrong: they sent the gray and the red instead of the blue), so I took the phone apart again and changed it to the gray faceplate. Also, Angelica had gotten a new faceplate for her phone, and she gave me the antenna booster sticker thing, so it gets a bit more service in the basement than it used to, although not as much as my old phone did.
Well. That was a lot of unimportant babble. I will endeavor to write more frequently so that the inane babble will at least be limited to short posts every so-often instead of long ones.
