Until a few days ago I had a pet spider for about 8 months, it was living happily in a crevice in the window and getting fat as fuck, I would feed it any fly’s that came into the house. It wasn’t scared of me anymore and seemed to actually become more active when I came near, bit of a Pavlovian reaction. We were away for the weekend and let some friends from out of town borrow the house for the weekend. Bitches murdered Spooder. They have a dog.
That simply makes me think of this. To each their own, but I simply can't see it, I grew up on a cattle farm so I got pretty set in what branding was for. However I do hope it turned out nice as opposed to just a big blobby scar.
A bunch of people asked. It was a Liquid Nitrogen brand rather than a heat brand - so very little spread and much less pain than a hot brand. It's fairly recent, I'll post an after photo in a week or so when it's healed a bit more. LN2 brands are less permanent than heat brands - depending on the person, the skin area struck and the specifics of the strike (what the striker was made of, how long it was held on skin, etc) - they can be as temporary as a few days or on some people permanent. They can also in some cases cause the hair follicles in the strike area to lose pigment so the hair that grows back afterward is white. For most people with a cookie cutter striker - there isn't any real pain - maybe like a kid giving you an indian burn afterward and then a bit itchy while it heals. With heavier custom steel strikes like the one in the picture? It does hurt a bit more - but it's really not that bad. The healing afterward is a bit more uncomfortable though. I've had about 17 LN2 brands all up. Some of them were gone inside of a week. Most of them were gone inside of 6 months. I suspect the one in the picture will be permanent.
After a bloody awful week and a half a few things did help. Going for a walk with a good buddy who was willing to listen; along with his awesome Alaskan Malamute. Visiting a mate who put on a hilarious foreign film (no, it wasn't porn) and having a great shared laugh. Slowly drinking a couple of shots of Scotch, neat before going to bed.
I load up Fallout: NV and destroy everything that crosses my path or I hide under my bed and set up My Little Pony on my laptop and watch it until I fall asleep.
I was told recently that the comfort I find from the movies "Stigmata" and "The Rage: Carrie 2" is weird. I like them because they were two movies I watched on a specifically amazing rainy day. Nothing exciting happened that day, I just remember the rain blowing into the window just the right way and it was a welcome change in the middle of summer. So apparently that's really weird. Other things that I do to brighten my day include reading a good book on my back porch while smoking a cigarette, watching freecreditscore.com commercials with the band who dressed up like pirates, putting photos into photo albums, and putting motivational quotes into library books. I have no idea if I'm weird.
Lately I've had the Game Grumps playing whenever I get in a bad mood, and they make me laugh so hard I forget all about it. If for whatever reason I get in a funk I'll either play Final Fantasy VI or I'll fire up Spirited Away or Castle In The Sky. If I'm feeling a bit melancholy for some reason I like watching either The Girl Who Leapt Through Time or 5 Centimeters per Second, even though they don't have the happiest of endings.