There were small moments in the magician one that made me laugh- parker poking0elliotks sore arm and hardison acting the fool boyfriend in the audience at the show.

The hunter one was awesome - poor gullible parker and crazy costume hardison.

LA F2F was orange or green belt, I think. Before instructor training insanity. Student insanity. Man, I was out of it that night. Good times.

I think green belt. I was in LA and watched you test for orange, I think. I remember checking the board and seeing

belt

I quite liked the magician one, but it wasn't one of the strongest of the season. The Hunter wins on the strength of Hardison's wig alone. But the next one is my favourite, not to hype it too much.

My phone is making creaky noises as I type. Not good.

Man, I remember you being here now, Vortex!

I have seven holes in my ears (one in each lobe, 3 cartilage in one ear, two in the other). I used two have three lobe piercings in each. I highly recommend needle (and circle captive bead earring) over gun and regular post backed earring. Much gentler and easier to keep clean.

Eta: that said, the cartilage piercings Took much longer overall to heap and stop hurting, but they stopped Most of the pain sooner than the lobe ones. It was odd. I think because the lobes have more nerves they hurt more, but the upper ear has so little blood flow it takes a long time to finish healing.

I have 4 holes in each ear, and I keep tiny silver studs in all of them, because otherwise I rarely remember to put in earrings.

I wear 8 rings every day, most of them of the Enormous Gothy Bling variety. (I have a 10-carat garnet cut in the shape of a coffin, a large silver bird skull, a huge silver Jack Skellington head, and one that spans almost two knuckles in length and could probably double as a punch dagger.) But I take all of them off when I get home, except for the wedding & engagement rings, and I take the engagement ring off before bedtime.

Other jewelry depends on the outfit. Pocket watches, brooches, lockets, ankhs ... and yes, sometimes all of those things on the same outfit. But it works, I swear.

An Ellen clip for Jesse: [link]

We're in the thick of our Winter storm. Lots of snow has fallen and it's supposed to be followed by lots of wind. School's been cancelled. I shouldn't hold out hope that DH is going to be home tonight. But I hope he's not stuck in an airport on his birthday today.

Suzi, my twin sister had her wedding and engagement rings turned into "divorce" rings. She took her diamond solitaire from her engagement ring and had it made into a pendant and her ring was set with a ruby. They're very pretty and she gets a lot of wear out of them.

My own engagment/wedding ring wrap broke when we moved here so I had my engagement diamond placed in a necklace and I now just wear a simple anniversary band for my wedding ring.

I'm not really a jewelry person.

I now just wear a simple anniversary band for my wedding ring.

I used to say that I really just wanted a plain gold band, no engagement ring, nothing else. I think it looks really elegant in an understated way.

Now I think I still want just a band, no engagement ring, but a channel-set ring with sparklies of some kind.

'Cause they're shiny.

I wear earrings every day. I have 3 piercings: 2 in left lobe, 1 in right. I wear a small hoop in the second left hole that I rarely take out. In the 2 other holes, I change up my jewelry every day (today, small, wide gold hoops). Other than that, I don't wear much. Well, clothes, obviously, but not other jewelry very often.