-simple pleasures-

Well, maybe its a silly pleasure.

But if you were 17 and had waited ALL you life for this one very trivial delight, then you would be excited too.

Its a tradition in my family for all the girls to have their ears pierced on their seventeenth birthday. It all started with my oldest sister Rachel--actually I should say it was Sarah's idea.

It was fourteen years ago and Rachel was turning seventeen. Before this time nobody in my family had really thought about ear piercing or anything else piercing. But my second sister Sarah, in a fit of sisterly affection, decided it was time to work her wily ways on my mother and succeeded in convincing her to allow Rachel to have the deed done. Of course that meant the Sarah could do it the very next year...

And so it has remained from that time forward--once the precident had been set, ALL the Reimers girls simply HAD to do it. And ever since then and all my life I have looked forward to that glorious day when I at last would cross the border into pierced existance.

But as you all know, my birthday was three months ago now. So of course you must be quite curious to know why in the world I haven't gone for it yet. Well, one of my boon companions is my cousin, Jenna and her family has set the piercing date for sixteen. And since waiting only a few months would allow me to share this momentous occasion with her, I couldn't resist (besides, we had planned to do it that way since we were BABES).

So now I have but a few more days to wait until my moment comes, and the needle plunges through my time-prepared earlobe. No, I'm not nervous. Who said anything about being nervous?