Just my stream of consciousness

Sorry to be a downer. I have come out of 2017 feeling as lost as when I went into 2016. Another degree and for what? The perpetual cycle of trying to get a job for experience and needing experience for a job is frustrating.

However, I have gained many experiences from 2017 that I will always be grateful for. Getting rid of fake friends and dead weights. Gaining some amazing new friends which has shown me true friendship and support.

I guess its even more of a sad beginning to the year seeing as everyone is moving on with their lives and going forward with amazing jobs and and opportunities which I am so proud of them for gaining. Whereas I do feel a tad like I'm lagging behind.

It is only the start of the year. Lets see how this goes.

So, a few weeks ago (23rd September), I walked into my local piercing place just to ask their opinion on my daith. Personally I think it was pierced a little shallow but, all the piercers I go to and ask they said its ok, so lets hope its ok and I will try to stop being so paranoid. Anyway, I impulsively decided to get my rook pierced with a bar. This was mainly because I got my cartilage pierced with a BCR and it kept getting caught.

I have been wanting more piercings for a long time, seeing as my last piercing had been in February. So, I went in and struggled to sit on the chair because it was way too high and I am shorter than I'd liked to admit.

He marked where he was going to pierce, I checked and agreed on the placement and he stuck a needle through me and tried to put the bar jewellery through. Now as you know, the rook is in a hard to reach place on your ear, so he struggled getting the jewellery in (and because my ear was small apparently) which meant he kept bashing my tragus and it wasn't fully healed yet. It was painful and with every struggle I was slowly edging away haha. In the end he put a bigger needle through me so he could get the jewellery in more easily and he also got some clamps so he could tighten the jewellery in more easily.

Overall, I don't think it was the most painful piercing I have had, I don't know whether its because the pain of my tragus was taking away from the pain of the rook piercing but yeah..it wasn't terribly painful.

I am also a bleeder haha.

Anyway, I love it, its so pretty and hidden away and subtle and is healing like a dream!