energy

I love it so much! I’m over the moon.

No photos. Not sure if I’m going to post any photos anywhere, because I don’t like the idea of it ending up on Pintrest. But let me tell you, it’s the kind of beautiful tattoo that people pin on Pintrest!

Hurt like hell though, way way way more than I remember the original. But the original was like 15 minutes and this was 4 1/2 hours. The pain doesn’t ease with time and I never got used to it. It gets worse as the artist has to manhandle the freshly tattooed areas. After 3 hours there were enough wide-spread broken skin that she could use the numbing spray. I honestly don’t think I could have made it all in one session without it.

I rode my bike, for transportation, at night for the first time.

My tattoo is in a little less than 2 weeks. Nervous as hell because it’s going to be fairly big and hard to reach to clean by myself and the boyfriend is out of town.

Stupidly, I just now realized that the problem might be my ears, not my speakers.

Must organize my music once and for all so itunes stops losing it and I don’t have to spend hours each month finding it again.

Perhaps move to cloud based system?

I can’t tell if this is never going to happen, or is done.

How do you feel at home surrounded by someone else’s junk.

Read this one with some friends and had some incredibly meaningful thought and amazing conversations. I’ve thought about it every single day since.

I read about how Benjamin Franklin had a very similar scheme to this. I’m doing this again, using his format.

This is a vegetarian/mostly vegan week. Easy peasy because boyfriend is out of town.

What I want is not possible. She said “if someone tells you they can hide the old tattoo in the branches of the tree, you will end up with a shitty tattoo”. Reconsidering leaves. But now the artist has a 4 month waiting list again. Reconsidering artist choice. An artist with a reputation in cover-ups and a 4 month waiting list? Or other? there are plenty of highly talented artists in town.

I made my very first extra mortgage payment. Now only $48,500 underwater! Whoo de doo.

I have Eustachian tube disorder and my doctor says that a hearing is most definitely influenced by it. I have to wait until this situation is resolved before I can get a meaningful hearing test.

I RODE MY BIKE TO WORK TODAY!

Walking = good
Standing = bad

And here I was avoiding walking.

So, I have this problem with my ears. Eustachian tube dysfunction. Inversions, including touching my toes, and sometimes just sleeping on my right side, make my ears fill with fluid. Currently trying out new allergy meds, but going on 2 weeks with no progress. Yoga is out indefinitely.

that yoga makes me feet worse, not better.

to my consultation with my first choice artist.

Amazing how things can be so outdated and yet so relevent.

Lucky by Alice Sebold
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Tapping the Inconceivable by Venerable Cheng Kuan
We’re in the Mountains Not Over the Hill by Susan Alcorn
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Oh The Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Bottomless Well by Peter Huber

That my new tattoo is going to be a tree. The same tree that is currently my 43 things avatar.

Did not finish. Won’t bother.

Lucky by Alice Sebold
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Tapping the Inconceivable by Venerable Cheng Kuan
We’re in the Mountains Not Over the Hill by Susan Alcorn
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Oh The Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
The Bottomless Well by Peter Huber

Why don’t I do this all day every day.

Wait, you don’t need to tell me. My sore sitting bones, skinned elbow and dozens of bruises are reminding me.