Having had a short break from being chauffeur, I took tonight off as fiancé and spent a little time with my sisters.
It has been a while since I looked upon them, especially so with the younger. In my time away from home she has grown almost as tall as Mom, and though the rugged tomboyishness still shows, glints of feminity have begun to reveal themselves.
In so many ways she is the brother I never had. Where the older of the two (I have two younger sisters) was the ballet-dancing, facial-going kind, the younger plays basketball, much to my delight.
Have I told you that she just had her ears pierced? It was hilarious a few moments ago when she sat at the mirror for close to two hours trying to put her earring back in. As the lighting wasn’t bright enough, she resorted to holding a torchlight in one hand whilst attempting to spear her ear. She refused to have anyone help her for fear we inflict multiple lacerations upon her already slightly infected earlobe.
The torchlight in her hand was one of those newfangled ones. You know, the type that is shaped like a card and lights up when you squeeze it. In her two hour attempt (she didn’t succeed) she must have sent pages upon pages of morse code.
I’ll be returning to Tucson in a month, for a final year there. I’ll miss watching her grow up.
that kinda makes me sad actually.
that you have to leave your family again.
its good you're having times like these with them now.
bless you.
Tell ur sis she just needs to hold a steady hand and poke the earring in. Do NOT try to slowly cockscrew the earring in cos it's like trying to create a new earhole! The hole is already there, so if she just pokes the earring in, the earring will follow the path of least resistance and go in. Really. I just pierced my ears this year so this is beginner's talk :)
Sister went to see a doctor and the doc told her to let the earhole heal up and pierce it again some other time because infection is setting in.
I'll pass her the instructions, vaya. She has one other earhole left.
this reminds me of my little brother who does play basketball but doesn't have earholes. it's still the same, i missed watching him grow up. he's already going into the army...sigh.
All I can say is.... OUCH!
Sister had to let earhole heal. So now she's all bada$$ with one pierced ear.