"And She Feeds You Tea and Oranges..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

It’s a little hard to sum up everything that’s going on right now, but I can give it a good try, or at least make a bulletpoint list of the important items, which may work just as well.

--My granddad will probably be dead within the next month. We thought it would be more than that, but he’s sicker than everyone thought. He’s in hospice care, and I know they are going to make him as comfortable as a person can be until he dies. It really is the dying that’s harder than the death--if I thought he would live the same amount of time and die on the same day but without any of the pain I think it would be almost easy to acknowledge. It’s just that he hurts so much, and all the time.

--The good news is that that’s the only really bad news. Otherwise, Christmas was kind of quiet. Will has decided he wants to be a dentist, which is really weird to me, but he’s got two more years before he’s even in college, so. I just find the dentist part surreal, since Will is a very, very handsome boy who keeps a coffin in his room and plays guitar in a rock band.

--I got my ears pierced as a present to me, which is sort of exciting. I have little stars in my ears! It only hurt a lot! I am totally going to forget to turn them every night, and I am going to rely on the_chloroplast to help me know how to do this right.

--Sherlock Holmes was utterly crazy and totally wonderful, and I loved it. Also, Maria has a celebrity crush on Robert Downey Jr., which is really really funny. I think we’re going to watch it again on New Year’s unless there is something better coming out, which I doubt.

--We watched the Star Trek episode where Kirk gets body switched with Dr. Lester last night, and somehow I’ve promised to write Maria Spock/Kirkette. That episode is just crazy, though, because it’s the most incredibly brilliant plot idea and they totally didn’t realise what they had in their hands, I think. The mutiny aspects are played up and the absolutely gorgeous unspoken Kirk-Spock interaction is just treated as mundane, which is really isn’t. Also the loyalty of the crew to Kirk, and also how badass Kirk is as a woman--a lot more badass than he is as a man, actually, but it’s really cool. I can also see how the episode could be perceived as incredibly misogynistic, and I was wondering where anybody else has seen it--particularly greyswandir. Because I want to know what other people got out of it. But I really loved it, and now I owe Maria fic, which is terrible, and it is going to be terrible.

--I’m going to post my Yuletide fic here as soon as I can, but I’m really reassured because my recipient liked it a lot, and that makes me feel really good. I was hoping she would. >_> I might actually creep on her and friend her after the reveal. I wonder if that’s bad manners.

--I also wrote Galahad/Sagramore, for some reason, but I’m not actually planning to post that unless there is some demand for baffling religious imagery and Galahad’s extremely weird relationships with people.

--I’m actually writing all this at two-thirty in the morning, even though I’m posting it now. There are kittens scratching on my door. I am going to kill them. Mabon walked through my paint to-day while I was working in my crafting area, and the Tribble is the cutest, cuddliest looking poof of fur, but when you try to pet her she glares at you and walks away.

--It's no longer two-thirty in the morning, and I have discovered, on the way to the library, that my car's speedometre and odometre no longer work. Also, he does not want to shift into first gear, and is making a very weird dripping noise when I drive. O_o This is really not the time, Car. Much as ilu.

--I swear to God I’m working on people’s Twelfth Night stuff!

--I am still on dialup and do not dare to try to inspect what has been going on in my flist during my absence, so you tell me! How was your holidays? My hopes are for the best--although it’s freezing, there is an almost full moon outside, and it is very beautiful

Comments

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

The lady who pierced them said I have to turn them twice a day and use the solution she gave me to wash them every day! Idk! And she did do them with a gun; it was at a shop in the mall.

[starpolish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those kind of shops aren't really the best for piercings. I'm not saying your ears will fall off or anything (that's where I got my first holes done), but they aren't really trained well and often give bad advice. Piercings are one of my huge interests, I even toyed with the idea of becoming a professional piercer before (the kind that works in a tattoo studio and goes to conventions, not at a store in the mall) so I get twitchy when I hear about people rotating their new piercings. <.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

So I should just let them alone as they are?

[starpolish.livejournal.com]

Cleaning them twice a day isn't excessive. Id' just avoid turning them because less touching = faster healing. The cleaning is okay, I just personally prefer sea salt, but that really does depend on individual bodies and preferences. And like I said, my ears were pierced with a gun, I turned them, etc. My ears are still there. They took a long time to heal and itched like crazy, but it turned out fine. It's just all my othe rpiercings (the ones I didn't turn) healed faster. ::shrug::

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

She also said to leave them in for six weeks, and then make sure there's something in regularly for six months to keep the holes open. Is that true?

[starpolish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it can take about 6-8 weeks for healthy ears to heal to the point of wearing something else in them, and newer holes are still forming fistulas for up to a year. If you switch earrings after the 6 week period you'll still want to be careful and i'd recommend wearing real gold posts or better yet switching to something like titanium hoops.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I'm highly sensitive to weird metals in my skin, so we wanted to make sure anything I used was hypoallergenic.

[starpolish.livejournal.com]

To the best of my knowledge titanium is hypoallergenic, but I am lucky enough to not hae too many issues with my ears so I haven't gone too in depth regarding that.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*salutes* Well, I will bear all this information in mind.