Although 2009 didn’t get off to a very good start for me, that has all changed during the last month or so. If you are wondering why I am so much more happy now, the first reason has to do with the great weather that has arrived. For as long as I can remember, I have always liked Spring, and this year has gone the same way.

Now, the improvement in the weather is not the only reason I’m feeling good. To find out why else I’m doing so well, let’s go back to two things that happened last week. When last week finally arrived, I could barely contain my excitement about what I was going to do. For as long as I can remember, I have always thought that The Academy Is is amazing, and seeing them live just made me like them even more. Best of all, The Academy Is played Slow Down, which is an amazing song that I have loved since the first time that I heard it played.

Nothing could top watching The Academy Is rock out on the stage, but the other thing that happened came in as a close second. While most of my attention is usually focused on other people, I made an exception this time around. After a day of shopping at a variety of places in my city, I ended up buying a piece of body jewelry just for myself. While my piece of body jewelry wasn’t cheap, I know that it’s something that’s going to continue to make me happy for a long time to come. I know that I will always face struggles in life, but I also know that there are a lot of good things that I have to look forward to.

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It’s been nearly a month since I got my belly button pierced. Although all of my friends told me it was going to hurt a lot, it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected. It didn’t feel good, but it definitely wasn’t anything that I couldn’t tolerate. Even though I have to keep in the original piece of body piercing jewelry that they put in, I have already bought several new pieces of body piercing jewelry that I’m going to start wearing in a couple of weeks.

Although it has been close to a month since I went and got my piercing done, it was only last week when I worked up the courage to show my parents. Even though I am eighteen, I am still in high school, so I live at home. Because of this, I thought my parents were going to freak out about my piercing. However, I knew I couldn’t hide it forever, so I decided it would be best to be honest.

Amazingly, neither of them freaked out. They said they would have been upset if I would have gotten a tattoo without talking to them, but since this wasn’t a permanent decision, they said they were okay with it. However, they did emphasize that piercings in other areas would upset them quite a bit!

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If you ask any of my friends about me, most of them would probably say that I’m a fairly conservative person. While I could try to argue with them, the truth is that I am a pretty conservative type of girl. Although I don’t think there is anything wrong with being conservative (in all honesty, I think that a lot of people could benefit from a stout dose of conservatism), I don’t want that to be what I am always known for being. I know that people don’t think I’m boring right now, but I’m afraid that if I don’t add a little excitement to my life, things could eventually get to that point.

To prove to myself that I can take risks, I did something a little crazy recently. I decided to go out and get a belly button piercing. Not only did I get it pierced, but I also bought some really flashy pieces of body piercing jewelry. When I first showed it to me friends, they thought it was fake. However, now that they know it’s real, they all think it was really cool of me to go out and get this piercing done!

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Although I’m not one of those people who goes out of my way to act rebellious, I guess that I have to admit that I do have some rebellious tendencies. As I said, I don’t actually try to act rebellious for attention or anything else, but I do think that you could label a lot of my actions as rebellious.

A good example of this would be when I recently decided to get my lip pierced. My family is very conservative, so they do not approve of any type of body piercing jewelry. Although they let me get a single piercing in each of my ear lobes when I was a little girl, they don’t even like it when I wear crazy earrings (they prefer simple pieces, such as diamond studs). So, as you can imagine, they weren’t too pleased when I got my lip pierced. However, this is a piercing that I have liked for quite some time, and since I’m old enough to make my own decisions, I decided to get it done. I know that I won’t wear this piercing forever, but I’m going to enjoy wearing it while I’m still young.

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About six months ago, I decided that I was going to get my lip pierced. Several of my friends have their lips pierced, and I had always thought that it looked really cool. Unfortunately, even though I had wanted a lip piercing for awhile, I was under eighteen, so I couldn’t get it done. However, when I turned eighteen about six months ago, I decided it was time to get it done.

When I came home with a piece of body piercing jewelry in my lip, my Mom was anything but happy. I had asked her about her thoughts on body piercing jewelry several times before, and she had always said that she did not like it or approve of it. So, you can imagine that when her son came home with his very own piece of body piercing jewelry, she was not exactly thrilled.

However, I am happy to say that over the last six months, my Mom has become much more comfortable with my body piercing jewelry. Although she would still prefer if I didn’t wear it, she has at least come to terms with me having it on.

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