Tattoos

As you probably know, I currently have two tattoos ("Freedom is not Free" on my wrist and a tree on my ankle). I have long promised myself that when I published my first book, I would get a tattoo to represent my love of writing, which has been one of the only real constants in my life. So although I have not been published, I have been mulling over what design I wanted to get.

I'm leaning towards an old fashioned typewriter with a sheet of paper coming out of it. I want to get something written on the paper and I can't decide between "Once upon a time..." and "Nothing that happens to a writer, however happy, however tragic, is ever lost." The last one is probably too long though.

I also like tattoos that don't just stand alone but have some flowers around them or something like this picture. But I want to get some meaningful flowers, and I can't decide...I also like the placement of this one.

Any thoughts? Anyone have a writing tattoo already?

Birthday, tattoo and sailing

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. Saturday my family came to visit for my birthday. Robin and I got matching tattoos and then we went down to the waterfront for lunch and a walk around. Of course there was a sailboat down there, which just renewed my wishes to learn to sail. I got some sailboat earrings, which was the closest I could come to affording a real boat at that time.

My parents gave me a Barnes and Noble giftcard so I went downtown today to use it and ended up buying "Sailing for Dummies." A bit premature perhaps since I have never even been on a sailboat, but so it goes.

I've read five chapters so far, and am figuring out some of the sailing terms, and trying to remember what all the different ropes do. I'd love to take a sailing lesson and get to put my knowledge to the test, but that may have to wait a bit.

Big day tomorrow!

So my family (parents, younger sisters and younger brother) are coming to visit tomorrow for my birthday. This will be the first time that they get to see Aaron and my new place. The plan is for them to come up and check out the apartment, then I'm going to unwrap presents and we can eat cake etc. and then we're going to go to Slave to the Needle for Robin and me to get our tattoos. After tattoos, we're going to go down to the water front, check out Pike Place Market, etc. and eat dinner at Ivars. Should be awesome!

Of course Aaron was super excited when I told him my family was coming to visit (NOT!) Not that he doesn't like them but you know, hanging with the in-laws is never too much fun. Since they just came to visit about a month ago, and he hung out all day with us with out TOO much complaining, I let him off the hook this time so he bailed and is going out with his brothers all day. Which I'm letting him do without too much guilt tripping! LOL

I'm very excited for tomorrow. I just finished cleaning up the house, folding the last bits of laundry from yesterday, doing some dishes, and some vacuuming. Of course, being the lazy butt that I am, I got most, but not all of it done. Although that will probably be ok because tomorrow I'll be so excited for them to get here that I'll need something to do to keep from literally bouncing around the house all morning!

Tattoo

So I have one tattoo right now, on my left wrist that says Freedom is not Free. On Saturday my sister, Robin, and I are getting matching tattoos on our ankles. We grew up on a farm, called Willow Tree Farm because there is a big old willow tree in the back. So my sister drew a picture of a willow tree and we're going to get a slightly modified version of it on our ankles to commemorate being sisters and where we grew up. I'm pretty excited as it will be Robin's first tattoo. Also, Robin is going to Germany for the next year for school so I won't get to see her for a while. We're best friends and we talk on the phone several times a week so it will be weird not to have her be a quick phone call away.