So it looks like forever since I last gave you an update although it feels like just yesterday. So whats been happening with me...?
First the house, no renters so I will be using this crappy time of year (for renting) to add two bedrooms another bath and a laundry room to the already 2+ making it a whopping 4+ bedroom! Thank god for refinancing and home equity loans!
My job has been getting more and busier. Tis the season to get pierced. Crazy story from work. So it was the day after Thanksgiving, busiest day of the year, and this 14 year old girl who came in with her boyfriend and boyfriends mother to get his (boyfriend) ear pierced. So he's in the back piercing room with me getting pierced and she and the mother come in at the last minute. She looked very pale and not good so I asked if she wanted to lie down and drink a soda (sugar helps if someone looks like their gonna pass out). She was a little extreme with her refusal to do either and the boyfriends mother helped her to walk out against my strong advise. So a couple minutes later one of my co-workers runs in to the back for some cold towels to put on the back of the neck of a passer outer. I immediately knew it was her. I went about my business of piercing more people when my co-worker came back for a second time to ask what to do because she wasn't coming out of it the way people usually do. So I told her to bring the girl back so we could lay her in the piercing chair that reclines to the point that the girls feet could be above her head and so the store jam packed with customers wouldn't have to share in the anxiety of the moment. So we get the girl in the chair and she was really fucked up. She would barely respond and her eyes kept rolling back in her head. So I'm trying to find out if she has any conditions such as diabetes or epilepsy and keep asking her to drink some sugar which is the only time she comes to claiming she's fine. So the boyfriends mom calls her parents to see if there are any pre-existing conditions only to find out that this girl is anorexic and has been in out patient treatment. They tell us to force her to drink juice and they will be right there. So we start pouring soda in the mouth of this basically lifeless girl and she is so fucked up that even in her unconscious state she rejects it and spits it out. This is when I took over and called 911. The operator had me take her pulse which did not exist in her wrist and was barely detectable in her neck. This girl was literally dying in my chair because she wanted to be skinny! So the parents get there before the paramedics do and the father starts yelling at the half conscious girl that this is what they warned her about and how could she be so stupid. No wonder she has a low self esteem. So the paramedics arrive and kick me out of my own piercing room for about a half an hour while they try and find an eating disorder treatment center that has a bed open for this girl. Meanwhile my customers are piling up. I started with about 15 waiting when we brought the girl into the back and now there were 35. Fucking nightmare! People started getting their money back cuz they were waiting way too long. Still I did about 115 piercings that day but I probably would have done 20 more with out the incident.
Conclusion: I lose $200 because pop culture (Mary Kate) tells girls that they have to starve themselves to be beautiful. FUCK THAT! Poor girl....
Ok next, I have been choreographing for both my belly dance troupe and burlesque troupe that have big shows coming up!
And finally lots of crafting and shopping for Xmas.
More later I promice!
What do you want for xmas?
First the house, no renters so I will be using this crappy time of year (for renting) to add two bedrooms another bath and a laundry room to the already 2+ making it a whopping 4+ bedroom! Thank god for refinancing and home equity loans!
My job has been getting more and busier. Tis the season to get pierced. Crazy story from work. So it was the day after Thanksgiving, busiest day of the year, and this 14 year old girl who came in with her boyfriend and boyfriends mother to get his (boyfriend) ear pierced. So he's in the back piercing room with me getting pierced and she and the mother come in at the last minute. She looked very pale and not good so I asked if she wanted to lie down and drink a soda (sugar helps if someone looks like their gonna pass out). She was a little extreme with her refusal to do either and the boyfriends mother helped her to walk out against my strong advise. So a couple minutes later one of my co-workers runs in to the back for some cold towels to put on the back of the neck of a passer outer. I immediately knew it was her. I went about my business of piercing more people when my co-worker came back for a second time to ask what to do because she wasn't coming out of it the way people usually do. So I told her to bring the girl back so we could lay her in the piercing chair that reclines to the point that the girls feet could be above her head and so the store jam packed with customers wouldn't have to share in the anxiety of the moment. So we get the girl in the chair and she was really fucked up. She would barely respond and her eyes kept rolling back in her head. So I'm trying to find out if she has any conditions such as diabetes or epilepsy and keep asking her to drink some sugar which is the only time she comes to claiming she's fine. So the boyfriends mom calls her parents to see if there are any pre-existing conditions only to find out that this girl is anorexic and has been in out patient treatment. They tell us to force her to drink juice and they will be right there. So we start pouring soda in the mouth of this basically lifeless girl and she is so fucked up that even in her unconscious state she rejects it and spits it out. This is when I took over and called 911. The operator had me take her pulse which did not exist in her wrist and was barely detectable in her neck. This girl was literally dying in my chair because she wanted to be skinny! So the parents get there before the paramedics do and the father starts yelling at the half conscious girl that this is what they warned her about and how could she be so stupid. No wonder she has a low self esteem. So the paramedics arrive and kick me out of my own piercing room for about a half an hour while they try and find an eating disorder treatment center that has a bed open for this girl. Meanwhile my customers are piling up. I started with about 15 waiting when we brought the girl into the back and now there were 35. Fucking nightmare! People started getting their money back cuz they were waiting way too long. Still I did about 115 piercings that day but I probably would have done 20 more with out the incident.
Conclusion: I lose $200 because pop culture (Mary Kate) tells girls that they have to starve themselves to be beautiful. FUCK THAT! Poor girl....
Ok next, I have been choreographing for both my belly dance troupe and burlesque troupe that have big shows coming up!
And finally lots of crafting and shopping for Xmas.
More later I promice!
What do you want for xmas?
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Merry Christmas!