Piercing!

On Tuesday night I decided I should get a piercing. So on Wednesday I got a conch piercing at the Fall!

My tragus piercing there still isn't 100% happy, but I'm hot soaking that ear now for the conch piercing, so maybe it will be happier.
Body mods are definitely addictive. Just over a year ago I only had my two lobe piercings, and a rose tattoo. Now, I've added a helix, nostril, tragus, and conch piercing, and a tattoo on my right side/rib cage. I think in a month or two I want to get a daith piercing on my right ear, maybe third lobe piercings, and really really soon I'm to get that world map tattoo that I've been wanting for awhile now.
I feel like my street cred gets a few points :P
I also have to thank my friend Alexis for exposing me to body mods and things, not that I wasn't before, but when I was able to be friends with someone who's really into it, I definitely got more into it. Yay friends! :) She's super rad.

Anyway. I love body mods now.  I also like looking at tribal tattoos too, and old vintage ones from Europe and the US (particularly the US Navy).
If I can come up with a good theme, I would do one sleeve of tattoos. I never was really a fan of them, but if they're done right, I think they're fantastic. So far I'm thinking it'd be a water-y theme, or some sort of vintage style, like roses and other old tattoo symbols.
I definitely have a list of tattoos I still want to get, and a lot of them are visible so I'd have to wait until I don't live with my parents anymore.  Part of me is kind of curious as to what would happen if I just started getting the visible ones. Would they make me laser it off? Would they never talk to me? Would they disown me? I have no idea anymore. Maybe 5 years ago they would have never allowed me to have the piercings I have. Especially my mom. Now I have a very obvious nose ring.  The ear piercings I feel are more "acceptable", since they can be easily hidden with hair, and they're not on the front of the face.

If I don't move out in a year or so, I think I will just go ahead and start with my visible tattoos. What can they do, really?
Ahh my crazy thoughts and plans.

Hope things are well with you :)

Friday

Today maybe wasn't the best day I've ever had.
It did make me realize that I have the best friends I could ever have and know in the world. I'm really lucky. I have friends that date back to the beginning of my school life, those who've grown to know me in high school, university, and a whole treasure of new friends that prove to be just as invaluable and amazing. People really do make a difference in our lives and I just want to take a moment to appreciate the people who make a difference in my life and who've helped shape me into the person I am right now.

To friends.

...but what makes me happy?

Coming home to homemade Japanese curry on brown rice, really big blackberries, ginger ale, and Goldfish crackers.

And jasmine green tea after a nice shower.




There is noone like your mother and no place like your home.

I'm a sad person

This morning on the bus I realized that I am a pretty sad person, or I at least go for really sad things. Sad in the emotional sense and now I guess also in the lame sense for thinking of myself this way.
Some of my favourite songs are sad, slow, and/or morose. A lot of the movies I like are usually dramatic, have sad endings, maybe dark, but more than often dramatic with heavy emotions and plots.  If I were to choose all the TV shows I watch (and I don't watch a lot of it), a lot of it will probably be dramatic, and the most powerful episodes will be the sad ones.  Something about watching the characters when they break down, and seeing their vulnerability makes me appreciate it a lot more.  I do also love comedy on television though, that I really do enjoy! The plays that I choose for my costume assignments are more often than not dramas or tragedies. I did paper projects for Death of a Salesman (how much more sad can you get?), The Cunning Little Vixen, The Merchant of Venice (really a "tragicomedy", but things don't end well for Shylock), Antigone, and my next one I'm choosing to do the famous opera La Boheme. All but one of those plays involve dying protagonists. And I had the freedom to choose a play for each of these projects.

Also this week for me has been daunting and I cannot wait for it to end. Today I feel like there is a full moon, as everything appears a bit shifted and unsettling for me, and today I felt really unstable and unsure of myself.  

The full moon is up and the wolves are out after the world and me.

Here is a sad song for you.

New glasses!

My friend Crystal recommended the $38 Clearly Contacts promotion. I was seeing the signs everywhere, but you know how sometimes it takes a person who's actually ventured for the deals to motivate you to do it too.  Alexis kept telling me about how great Clearly Contacts were too, and they actually had a free glasses promotion awhile back but I somehow didn't jump at it :|
So I got these! They're men's glasses of course, because my head is so big I can't fit women's glasses very well. My last pair were men's glasses too. I also realized that I got those in grade 11, so it's been awhile for sure. $38 for frames is definitely not shabby! All together it came to about $92, including lightweight lenses, and UV protection and anti-glare. Anyway, I like them a lot!

Shoes shoes

The other day I got these awesome lime green Reeboks at Urban Outfitters on sale for a really good price!

Then today before heading to work at the Queen Elizabeth, I went to do some shopping for working at the Chan Centre (I just got hired), and found these awesome black beauties at Aldo - also on sale of course. I could definitely wear these to work.

 Ok so I have a shoe problem - but I have to do a major purge and then maybe host some sort of "Steffi is having a giant clothing and shoes giveaway" event at my house where people can come and take stuff I don't wear! Maybe they can bring their own and we could all do a stuff swap, but hopefully me giving more than taking stuff.

Then it was time to go work at the QE Theatre, just for three nights, selling merchandise for Alberta Ballet's "Love Lies Bleeding", essentially a whole show devoted to Elton John and his music. Here is an example of things we sold:

 

Haha. We all wore feather boas while we were selling too. 

Yay!

Thanksgiving Weekend

To start off, at my Saturday job, one of our managers baked us a pumpkin pie!! With whip cream that she made in the kitchen at work! Amazing! Pumpkin pie is sooo good. Our receptionist made the awesome turkey sitting on the pie, and the little "Happy Thanksgiving!" sign.

 

That night was the closing night of a show I was doing concessions for "The Trial of Judith K." and I started doing some little caricature doodles of the awesome people in the theatre department, starting with Megan Kennedy, who is my friend and was the front of house manager for the show.  Then I moved onto Tony who works our box office... and it grew from there. Kennedy has the final product, I don't remember who I drew in the end, but there are quite a few people. Kennedy drew me on the bottom right.

 

The next day, I meet my wonderful friends, because our best friend ALEXIS is in town for a week from Montreal!! We went to Bon's, an amazing restaurant with amazing prices - an all day breakfast special is $2.95. HAPPINESS ALL AROUND.

That night I went to check out a documentary at the Vancouver International Film Festival, called "The British Guide to Showing Off", which is about Andrew Logan, an amazing artist, performer, sculptor, designer, and everything in between.  He hosts these "Alternative Miss World" competitions and they are essentially an alternative beauty pageant that is more about expressiveness and art than it is really a competition.  It was absolutely fabulous! AND Andrew Logan himself was the special guest and came here all the way from London for the screenings! Amazing! After the film there was Q&A and he graciously answered all curiosities. 

I kind of like lip balm a lot. Though I don't remember ever fully finishing one. Anyway. I bought this from Shoppers and I really like it! It's from eos, a natural and organic brand that boasts how moisturizing, and smooth this lip balm is! What I really like about it is its fun shape and the taste! Flavour? It's "summer fruit" I think. It smells and tastes sooooo nice! 

 

Monday night was when I had Thanksgiving dinner with my family at my aunt's house. She made enough to feed maybe about 15+ people.. though we were only 7. It was delicious! We didn't have pumpkin pie, but instead carrot cake. Her potatoes and gravy were amazing. Then again I love all potatoes and gravy.  

  

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not! 

This year, I guess I am thankful for how lucky I am to still live with my parents (thus live for free) and to be alive.  These days I realize how mad and upside-down the world is, and I'm just happy to be here and have the ability to pursue my interests and live a happy life. My mom also recently got my dad and herself an iPad, and me a MacBook Pro, and also helped me out a lot financially during my trip to Europe this past summer. I am definitely very privileged this year!