Here's my piercing! I know, you can hardly see it, it's so subtle! Actually, it probably looks like a wart in the picture since it's not sparkly like it should be...ack! But I still love it! My mom didn't even notice it this morning and I was going to see how long it would take her to notice, but she discovered it tonight when I got home from the gym.

The Piercing Experience:
I was pretty nervous when Dan and I got to the parlor, and to make matters worse, D couldn't come into the room to hold my hand, (wah!). I think it was the buzzing of the tattoo pen that really made me even more nervous, even though it wasn't there to get a tattoo. It just made the place sound like a torture chamber!

Ara, the piercer, sat me on the chair and I was hoping to get a little white diamond stud, but because of the power outage in Ontario, the parlor didn't receive their shipping that week and so they were stuck with a limited selection (by that, I mean TWO choices). One choice was the smallest stud you could get, but it was so plain, it looked like a nail. The other choice was a bigger stud with a purple gem - so I went with the latter choice. I know I wouldn't have been happy with the nail.

Ara told me that if I needed to hang on to something, just to squeeze her leg (and I did take that advice) but I don't think I really needed to since it didn't hurt more than a pinch. It was over quick! I was happy! And my nose wasn't and still isn't red, so Dan can't call me Fudolph! HA! I can't even feel the pain right now - actually I forget that I have it and when I look in the mirror, it's a nice surprise! Yay!

Friday night: Jackie and Mary's Mexican Housewarming party

Roz and Jackie


Clayton, Lindsey & Danny


MJ and Mary laughing it up


The funky lights I bought as a housewarming present

Dan and an acquaintance looking at the beautiful downtown view from the belcony

I'm doing it...I'm getting my nose pierced!! (This is Roz writing by the way, just incase anyone's wondering...but Dan never posts on here anyways). I made an appointment for this coming Tuesday at Bear's Skin Art & Tattoo place. I'm going to get a little diamond stud (I want it to be very classy and subtle). Since Dan already calls me "Fu" (as in shortening my last name - Fung) -he's already decided to nick name me "Fudolph" (as in Rudolph) because my nose will probably be red for a couple days. Hmm...not looking forward to that part. :/ I'll be getting it on the left side, since 99% of the people I've asked told me they see it on the left.

I'm excited, yet nervous at the same time. The girl that's piercing my nose told me to make sure I eat before I go in, so I don't faint. Yikes! My parents are freaking out about it because they think I'm mutilating my face. It's definetly the riskiest thing I've done in terms of self-image, but I don't think it's over the top! I don't think I've ever heard of anyone's parents being okay with their child getting any kind of piercing aside from the normal earholes.

. It was my 22nd birthday Thursday (Aug. 7) and I celebrated by going out to one of my favorite restaurants, Tropika, a yummy Malaysian place, with my family and Dan. After, I met up with some friends at Savoy's, a funky martini bar for drinks. Click on the above picture for more viewing.

Friday night, Michelle and I drove to Red Deer to party with my friend Kam, and his girlfriend Nikhol. We first went to Manhatten Club, where they played crappy music and it was really dead. So when Nikhol and I decided to request a song to liven up the place, we saw a girl in the DJ booth flashing the DJ her boobs, and the perv was taking pictures of them!!! If that's what it took to get a song playing, no thanks!!! So we headed to the bar next door, which was called Catwalk, but it mind as well have been called 'Thunderdome' (now Tonic, in Edmonton) since it was exactly like Thunderdome. It was fun and we got so drunk - ugh, next morning was not so pretty. But at least we didn't vomit!

The next day, Michelle and I went with Kam to visit his parent's cabin out at Glennifer Lake, which is about half an hour outside of Red Deer. It is a rich, gated community -essentially, a high class trailor park! We went sea-dooing for most of the time we were there on Kam's 2 sweet silver and yellow sea-dos. Michelle and I were quite the experts at falling off, and by the end of the day, we were experts at getting back on right away. At one point, it took us 10 min. to get back on!

Kam's dad had this wicked suped up golf cart - check out the chrome wheels! Kam's parents have these 2 CUTE sibling puppies, Cedes & Bentz (as in the cars), and they had matching girl/boy (fake?) diamond collars. So adorable!!!! Check out the pictures (click on pic)...