Piercings galore!
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usullusaAs soon as I am gainfully employed, (cross your fingers everyone) I'm getting a second pair of holes in my earlobes. I definitely want at least two piercings in each ear, but I'm not sure if I want 2 or 3 in my left ear. (And I'm thinking 5 in my right)
Wait, is there some meaning behind which ear is more pierced? I feel like I'm always missing out on all this Western pop culture stuff and then I look stupid. It comes from growing up in the Private School Bubble at school and in the Immigrant Family Bubble at home. I don't even watch television...
I would get my naval pierced, but a childhood surgery (I was six I believe) to fix my hernia gave me some fairly minor scarring and a prominent outie. The story, however, does not end there. My parents decided to get it "fixed" a couple years later. (I was asked if I wanted to, but I don't think an eight year old should be allowed to make choices about permanently modifying their body.) So after THAT my belly button just turned really horrid looking. Imagine somebody taking a scalpel to an outie belly button and trying to carve it into the appearance of an innie. Yea.
I think it might have turned out okay-looking if actual cosmetic surgeons had done it, but my hazy memories tell me my parents/the hospital actually had surgeons who normally do hernia operations do it so that they could lie and get the insurance company to cover it. In fact, I remember my mother telling me to lie about it. The degree to which it is appalling that my parents had surgeons perform a surgery on me that they were not qualified to perform is overwhelming. Whatever.
Point is, I don't want to draw attention to my mangled naval with a piercing.
Wait, is there some meaning behind which ear is more pierced? I feel like I'm always missing out on all this Western pop culture stuff and then I look stupid. It comes from growing up in the Private School Bubble at school and in the Immigrant Family Bubble at home. I don't even watch television...
I would get my naval pierced, but a childhood surgery (I was six I believe) to fix my hernia gave me some fairly minor scarring and a prominent outie. The story, however, does not end there. My parents decided to get it "fixed" a couple years later. (I was asked if I wanted to, but I don't think an eight year old should be allowed to make choices about permanently modifying their body.) So after THAT my belly button just turned really horrid looking. Imagine somebody taking a scalpel to an outie belly button and trying to carve it into the appearance of an innie. Yea.
I think it might have turned out okay-looking if actual cosmetic surgeons had done it, but my hazy memories tell me my parents/the hospital actually had surgeons who normally do hernia operations do it so that they could lie and get the insurance company to cover it. In fact, I remember my mother telling me to lie about it. The degree to which it is appalling that my parents had surgeons perform a surgery on me that they were not qualified to perform is overwhelming. Whatever.
Point is, I don't want to draw attention to my mangled naval with a piercing.
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Date: 2009-09-11 09:14 am (UTC)"Your uncle told me that having more piercings in one ear than the other..." (or something, some people say it matters which ear...) "...means you're a homosexual!"
Me: "Pffbt." (Two holes left four right. Don't ask me why, I just knew when I was about fourteen or fifteen that I wanted it exactly like that.)
I wonder if she remembers that conversation now that I'm "out".... :P