get another tattoo

I have many ideas for something I want, one most:
Delete the adjectives.
In type writer font.
I means what it sounds like. Cut the crap. Say what you mean.
I want to be bold enough to put this on my wrist, like a braclet.
We’ll see.

i have four but i really want another one….down my side from sholder blade to front of pelvis…haha..thats gonna hurt but i really want one..i just have to design something…

I would like another tattoo, but I can’t decide what I want. It has to have meaning to me, otherwise, its just silly.

I was waiting at the tattooist’s last week and overheard him saying to another customer ‘I don’t do portraits.’

WTF?!

I was sitting there with my existing tattoos on full display. The woman he was talking to can’t not have seen them as she left.

It got me thinking.

And then it got me looking out online and asking some hard questions.

I realize, now, I’ve had no cheers on either of the original tattoo entries on this goal. Not one.

I’ve also had a rather ominous silence from most of the inked people I know online.

I have a horrible, horrible feeling I’ve been walking round with crap tattoos for the last…oh God, almost five years…and nobody much telling me, and me not realizing, which makes me feel…well, pretty crappy.

The weird thing is, I’ve had a few compliments on them too. A few. And a few people who recognized who they were meant to be.

I’ve also had some people get it horribly, drastically wrong.

My husband is still telling me they look fine. I’ve bitten the bullet and asked around online. A few people who aren’t inked themselves have told me that from what they’ve seen…they don’t look all that.

The inked people are still ominously silent.

I’ve made tentative enquiries with a couple of other tattooists, but I feel sick at the idea of even baring my arms to them if things are really as bad as I think they might be.

I just feel stupid.

My first tattoo was in 2007 and I wasn’t afraid. I planned this for four years and did research lol. I have a nautical star on my right wrist. Whenever I look at it, I fall in love all over again. I’m hoping to get one on my shoulder or upper back next year. I’ve adored tattoos since I was 11 years old and will keeping on loving them till I grow very old.

One more session – we figure about an hour’s worth of work—then all done!

wootwoot!

Maybe some day this week? Maybe? Probably on Friday if i’m not too hurty. I’ll have money on Friday. Woot woot!

I have a new idea for the next one. I think it’s gonna push its way to the front of the line, too. While cycling to and from work, I get buzzed really close at least once per day. I think the next one is going to be a “Shared Lane Marking” also known as a “Sharrow” right below my left calf. That way, I’ll always have one with me.

‘no more walls’ anais nin, from this quote:

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Found the guy that’s going to do my next tat, now on to deciding what it should be.