No More Pretty Princess
Tragedy. The ball to my Marilyn piercing fell off somewhere during the night and I can’t find it. Despite tightening it every day I’ve lost it, and I had to take the post out. *sigh* Which means it will close up, since I can’t get down to pick up another ball until, jeez, sometime this weekend? If I’m lucky?
It’s awful; I no longer feel like a pretty pretty princess. Still, a piece of metal on my face isn’t THAT important. Mostly I just loved how it looked and how it made me feel.
I still have my nose ring, though. World without end, amen. It’ll take more than rough sleeping to dislodge that. And to tell the truth, it’ll be nice not working around the Marilyn for things like moisturizer etc. I just loved it, though. I’m sad.
But not TOO sad. Today is for fifty more pages of revision, and if I get that done and get all other obligations (hoovering and the dinner party) out of the way, I will reward myself with some of the shiny pretty new project. It’s not something I’m getting paid for, which means I have to get it done in the cracks and gullies, but it’s awesome and has a great first line. Maybe it will turn out to be something, maybe not. Either way I’m having fun.
And I can always get my Marilyn repierced if I feel like it. It’s not forever. I’ll just have to be a pretty pretty princess only on the inside for a while.
There are worse things.
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Tags: onoes!, revision, slight pause for station identification
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
You still the Princess even without the ball (and oh that can be read soooo many ways!)
March 25th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
I know how you feel. I had an eyebrow piercing that went bad (someone hit me in the head, and it tore…), I had to give up on it and take it out. Like you said, it wasn’t so much that it was important, it was more that I liked the look it gave me and how it made me feel.
By the way, I’ve never read your books (though my curiosity has been piqued now!), but I Googled my name (well, a shortening thereof) after a tweet from Felicia Day and found this website. Funny to discover Japh(rimel) is actually a demon!