Yay for stretching my ears.. Sometime around last summer, or even before, I stretched my ears up to 14ga (yea yea, I know.. that's not really a stretch at all, but still. It made me happy. And my third holes DID start out at 18ga or smaller). Anywho, I was good with that for a while and wasn't really sure if I felt inclined to make them bigger or not, but I had a coupon for 15% off at the body jewlery place at my school and wanted to use it and they had some very nice spirally earrings which are somewhere around a 10ga or 12ga. So I bought them and now they are halfway in my ears (since they gradually get thicker, I can just push them in a little farther each day and eventually my ears will be stretched a wee bit more).

Anyway, back to the original point of my story. I've decided I'm definitely going to stretch my ears at least a little bit. Nothing too big though. Maybe I'll go until I can get a pen through them... :>

The only problem with stretching piercings is that if you buy a really nice pair of earrings/plugs/tunnels, once your ears are bigger than that, you can't wear them anymore. Good thing stuff at the Silver Mecca (store where I got my current earring dealies) isn't terribly expensive. Mine were 14$ for the pair.

And now I think I will be off to play some violin. I just got all the Apocalyptica cd's from the library (there's 4 of them) and in case you don't know, they are a heavy metal band of 4 cellos (who also plays a good deal of Metallica songs on their cellos. In fact, one cd is nothing but Metallica songs). So this has fuelled my desire to actually practice violin. (These guys are SO RIDICULOUSLY GOOD!!!)

Or maybe I won't practice just yet... Depends on whether I want to miss the beginning of Gilmore Girls. Hmmmm.... Tough call..