When things begin to fall into place.

[osaraba]

Ahahah, after the first half of this year where I was pretty much posting every single day without fail (except weekends), now would be the time for me to sort of... disappear. Right after adding new friends on a friending meme and everything! /fail I've sort of been hanging around twitter much more than eljay in the past few weeks, so don't hesitate to say hi over there (@osaraba), if you're around!

RL mini-update: I am still currently between jobs though luckily I am getting unemployment (so I'm not freaking out about how I'll pay rent), and I've done a thing here and there for some extra cash. STILL LOOKING though.

So many happy things have happened lately! Joe & Morgan's baby was born and I AM SO HAPPY FOR THEM! The roller derby triple-header at the Aviator center in Brooklyn was funnnnn (all my teams won) and I got to see cathybites whom I haven't seen in forever~! I had a WONDERFUL lunch with some friends (who are all former coworkers)!

I'm pretty much set to get those tats done on the weekend of 8/27-28, so I'm getting more and more excited about that as it comes up. Nicole (the tattoo artist) isn't coming to NYC, but I'll be going to Philly instead and probably staying over at her place on Saturday night and then leaving Sunday. It'll be just like when I got my birds tats.

Have I mentioned how I've been sort of obsessed with knuckle tats lately? I definitely can't get them because of the fields in which I've generally worked (admin), but I've sorrrrrrt of considered getting some in white ink. It's still a very tentative idea, but I've been trying to think of what word(s) I might want to get. What would YOU get, if you were to get knuckle tats? Or what word(s) have you admired on others' knuckle tats?

Anyway, to top it all off-- MY EARS ARE NOW AT 2-GAUGE (6.5mm)!!!

Hee! I wasn't even trying or paying attention to stretching right now anyway, but I noticed in the bathroom mirror tonight that my lobes looked like they were actually being weighed down by my jewelry, and realized that there was actually a bit of space between the jewelry and the lobe... so I tried my 2-gauge taper et voila! It fit through so smoothly in my right lobe and with just a bit of stretch in my left. But I'm totally unprepared for this and actually have no 2ga jewelry at all! I'm going to try and stop in at Unimax tomorrow to pick up some cheap 2ga CBRs or plugs or something, but I'm going to be looking for something pretty in 2ga which means I may be posting pics of earrings again, ahahaha.

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I want to go skydiving again.

Comments

[sneaky-sena.livejournal.com]

It won't help you right now, but Bodyartforms totally has the best jewelry ever. I just search by gauge, and then go, "Ugh, I want those earrings, and those earrings, and those..."

[osaraba]

YESSSSSSS. Bodyartforms has sooooooooo much pretty pretty stuff! But it's also pretty expensive! =( I usually stick to eBay or the body jewelry supply store in Chinatown (NYC) for my jewelry. (Though Bodyartforms seems to have several helix spirals that are hard to find elsewhere, so I might consider them when I've got a little more spending money. =D) But a few months ago when I stretched to 4g I found some gorgeous pieces on Etsy, so that's an option as well.

Do you have any experience with polymer clay earrings? I've wondered about the texture and weight of them, as well as their durability, but have never seen them in person...

[(Anonymous)]

I had not heard of this white-ink thing? Is that like, not visible but YOU know it's there?

[osaraba]

White ink is actually visible and... it's sort of paradoxical because it simultaneously stays whiter and crisper for longer on white skin, but is also harder to see on white skin. I'm sort of light-brown skinned (mix of SE Asian and White), so I mean to talk to my tattoo artist about how visible (in both the short-term and long-term) she thinks it'll be on my skin.

This is a good picture of a healed white ink tat:



And here's a white ink knuckle tat, but it's not healed yet, so it's still stands out:

tats and stuff

[rebecca004.livejournal.com]

I love the photo of that white tat on your back/neck area. I had never seen a one like that before, and it's well, pretty.
PLEASE don't leave LJ. I am trying to be more faithful writing on it myself and replying to others. I think there is a lot more freedom and space with LJ than twitter. I find that out of all the social networking places I have visited, the people on LJ are the most creative and thoughtful with what they write. Between all my e-mail accounts, facebook people (I never post there but apparently everyone else on planet earth does) and LJ I can't keep up.

Re: tats and stuff

[osaraba]

Oh that pic of the white tat isn't mine! It's just a photo from tumblr. And oh, I didn't mean I was leaving LJ (I don't think I'd ever do that), I just meant that I wasn't posting as much as usual.

No worries! =D

[chaneen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, if you're coming to Philly and you have some time, we should meet up for lunch or dinner or something!

[osaraba]

YESSSSS, I was thinking of you when I wrote this! I'm not sure I'll actually have time to hang because I'm not sure how long the tats will take or when I'd be arriving, but I hope we can do lunch or dinner one day! I still have your # so I'll definitely give you a call. =DDDD

[chaneen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Just let me know when you know what your plans are are we'll see if we can work something out. I'm getting my hair done on that Saturday at noon (IDK how long it will take), but other than that my weekend is pretty much free.

[osaraba]

Will do! =D