Don't fuck with the Queen

Being on "vacation" just a shy of a week and coming back to work is quite disorienting. I'm come in, everything is different and posted on the office door is a packet of information all staff members have to sign and it turns out it's all common sense. Especially the part of about social media. If you're dumb enough to openly and negativly and specifically talk about your job (and I mean using names and specificities) you're a dumbass.

My first order of business was refilling the bird feeders. Those little sparrows sure can pack it away. They ate all 6 of the suet holders with suet inside and all the bird feeders which hold a massive amount of seeds. They're all out there happily fighting each other for the seeds. 

What I find most hysterical abou these sparrows is they fight over one feeder when there are 3 out there. Sometimes the females pick one because the males are so aggressive. 

On my way to work the fabulous high quality body jewelry shop I stumbled upon by mistake in Troy was finally open again and I desperately needed a new set of plugs as I sized up to 00. The "steel" tunnels that came with my stretching kit really aren't solid steel. I found this out when i kept them in for a long time and my healing ear ate through the steel plating. 

I got this beautiful pair of opal plugs and because they are made of stone my ears gave adelicious sigh of comfort. 

I have to say the stretch from 0 to 00 has been the easiest stretch yet. Barely any pain, slight pinch, no swelling. I was shocked. Because from 4 to 2 was the worst. And from 2 to 0 took two tries. 

I've successfully avoided any scar tissue and the dreaded cat ass ears that can happen if you don't listen to your body.

The best part of this shop I found in Troy is you get points for each purchase you make that go towards a discount and of you buy a pair of plugs you get a 10% discount.

They were closed for a week and I didn't have the time to read the sign on the door so I was afraid they'd closed and I would have to go back to pompous tattoo shops where they make you feel like your an imposition for just walking in (not my true tattoo though. Best tattoo shop in the area but sadly my beloved piercer moved). 

So it's official this is the last week in the only home I've ever known and we move into the new house. I'm beyond excited. I unfortunately won't have a large amount of time to set up my new room with working but when it's done I'll be drowning the world in photos! 

Elietest stretchers

I can't stand most people but I mainly can't stand people who do things so they can judge other people. 

The hipster/emo/Kurt Cobain wanna be pictured above with my apt discription decided to attack me via twitter like a high schooler because my ears aren't as stretched as his are. A normal occurrence among younger men who stretch their ears.  They don't do it because they enjoy the experience or how it looks but so they can have one more means of measuring their activities so they can feel better about lacking in other ways. But note the ass above. If you look at his ears you can tell that they weren't even stretched properly. Notice the redness. And notice the fistula of the ear showing around the plug. 

All he's done is ruinin his ears by stretching the wrong way so he could reach a bigger size sooner... And this approach could be applied to many other ways men handle things. 

His ear lobes are permanately damaged and the lower part of the lobe, bright red, isn't receiving proper circulation and will eventually die. 

I expect this sort of things from guys like him. What I didn't expect was that he'd bring my homosexuality into the bashing.

What that has to do with stretching my ears I have no idea. And then brining the size of my genetalia. ...again, what does that have to do with stretching my ears I have no clue. But if you're going to pick an insult I wouldn't lead with that one. 

I just don't understand the purpose of doing something or believing in something so you can judge others. 

Had he wanted to discuss stretching he'd know I'm no novice. I've been stretching my ears since I was 16 on and off. This time around after my previous experiences I've reached the largest gauge I've ever gotten to. My last stretching attempt ended at an 8 when I caused a small tear that wouldn't heal. Now I'm at a zero, 3 sizes larger. He would also probably gain some knowledge about what he had done and should be doing. 

I do and believe in things because I enjoy them. Not so I can sit on a throne of empty monster energy drinks while spinning the latest my chemical romance album. 

Who knew a stretched hole could feel soooo good

Finally! I've reached zero! No, not my pants size. Even when I lost all the weight when I was sick the smallest I got was a size 4 because that's what size my bones are! I could not eat for a year and probably never be smaller than a 4. I'm talking about my ears.

I've tried on and off for years to stretch my ears but always ended up getting a tear. The biggest gauge I reached was 8. Well a couple months ago I tried going from a size 2 to a 0 and it was a HAWT mess. I can't say they got infected. People always think their piercings are infected if they hurt or there is any discharge. 

They just hurt but not a constant hurt. I could just tell my body wasn't having it. So I downsized back to a 2 gauge, did a lot of sea salt soaking and left them alone for a month.

Well I got ballsy this morning and tried again but with longer tapers. I was told stretching with steel tapers was better but I think that's what made my first attempt to get to zero a failure. The taper was so short.

So I used my longer tapers from my acrylic stretching set (a cardinal sin if you ask "stretching experts") and they went right in. I felt the normal pinch but no blood and decided I'd leave the tapers in all day or longer which I've never done before but hear for some people it made putting the plug in easier (another cardinal sin of the pious piercing community...if you're going to modify your body do it because you like it, not so you can sit on a faux thrown and act like you're experience is gospel. Every body is completely different). 

Well on my way to work with the tapers still in that made me look like I had been staked by Buffy, I remembered when sitting at a red light in Troy there was a store that said it sold every kind of body jewelry. I was a bit ambivalent and wondered if it was even opened or shut down. Well I found it and went in and it was the Mecca of body jewelry. 

I'm so use to havin to buy thing online and wondering what it's actually made of, if it's the right size, (the "steel" tunnels that came with both stretching kits I realized I was allergic too and probably only plated with steel which caused irritation not allowing the first zero stretch to heal)etc.  and the man who worked there was just wonderful. 

I only go to one tattoo shop, true tattoo because they aren't pious and every other tattoo/body piercing parlor I've went to are pious and judgmental. And my piercer got married and moved. I miss him dearly. He's done all my piercings but two I swear he has some kind of maid because with every piercin he's done on me they all healed at a much faster rate then the radicals online claim they should have. 

Well anywho...not only was the store beautiful but the prices were amazing. I ended up buying these beautiful stone single flair plugs and these acrylic plugs that have skulls in them.

I'm definitely going back. Shopping online isn't worth the hassle and this guy was just so knowledgable and showed me anything I wanted to see, didn't make me feel like I should bow down for walking in, didn't belong or was a ease of time because I'm not masculine...like my dearly missed Keith. 

Well I got to to work and the man I support decided he wanted what he calls a "stay at home day" so I went in the bathroom after having the tapers in for 4 or 5 hours prepared for the usual. Undoing the o rings around the taper, trying to push the plug through, causing a tear and having to start all over again. Well that didn't happen! I pushed the taper out by pushing the new stone plugs in and it was like my ears let out a happy sigh. Because they're made of stone they were cool and went in with no problem. It's as if I didn't go up a size! I'm one happy boy. 

I know I'm going up to double zero at least but if there aren't  tapers past double zero which I've heard are hard to find I may stop there. I'd like to get to Maria Brink's size but I don't know how big hers are. I won't go ridiculously huge though. I don't need earlobes down to my shoulders. And I want them to be able to shrink to a reasonable size and not have to go to a plastic surgeon to have my earlobes look "normal" if I decide to stop or don't want them anymore. 

Headed for the second part of my double. An overnight! Whoopie!  Another week where my head will be in a haze because I get out of the overnight at 8am and have to be back at work at 2 so I'll get 3 hours of sleep max. But this is the last week of the double trouble. I'm also going to stop signing up for Friday mornings. It's a lot easier to stay late than get up early.