Sigh.
But...the permanence of both possibilities is what is scaring me off at the moment. And the fact that my stupefyingly 'original' idea for a tatt is - after much googling - apparently not so revolutionary after all. I even saw a smidgeon of it on Jack's inner arm while sacrificing my night-time sleep in favour of devouring the entire third season of Lost.
Double sigh.
On an unrelated note, I've apparently been featured on the comedy homepage of TalentDatabase.
Good sigh.
6 comments:
Hey Jen,
Congrats on being "featured".
And no offence, but don't you have enough babies? Is it that thing of supposedly getting clucky when they start getting older and leaving home more, so you crave another bub around the place?
God, you can't half tell I'm about as maternal as drunken parrot, can't you?
Get a new tattoo of a baby. PROBLEM SOLVED.
If need be, have the baby do a really distasteful baby thing, like puke all over the place or whatever it is that babies (evil little things) do. That way, it will act as a deterrent for any future state of cluckiness. (Also a deterrent for getting tattoos!)
If you hold back on the baby thing for long enough, you may be lucky enought to get ones you can give back. Grandchildren.
Go for the tat...at least it's permanent in a very quiet way.
GC - Yes, yes, I know. You should see me though, I fear I'm emotionally scarring Cay-man for life by channeling all my baby-loving energy his way. I mean, I don't exactly wack him back on the boob or anything, but I definitely baby him WAAAAAY too much. Still, not a great excuse to add another body to the fam...
Mr Anon - Actually, that really is quite brilliant.
Miss - Right you are! Oh well, I think I'm holding off on both for the moment. Though the tatt may be hubby's Christmas present, we'll see!
When I saw Ani Difranco the other month (hey, London's great for some things - I'm going to see New Model Army next week) and she commented that tattoos (and babies for that matter, I guess) are as impermanent as anything on this blue ball. So, unless yr an arch solipsist, try adopting that attitude and see if it helps you with a decision. My own attitude towards tattoos (taken as an unblemished sheet of white, admittedly) is that yr body should be thought of as a diary, not a great novel; an ongoing project rather than a work of art trapped in amber. The fact that a lotta folks get tattoos out of raw vanity kinda works aginst that (ain't no karma in the world gonna save you from the deserved shame that one of those 'native american' feather armband wotsits gets you), but I've thought some really ugly tattoos were cool once I heard the story behind their genesis. Anyways, a full back grizzly might be just the thing, no?
Hey, I got work comments privs back...
Leon - Yay you're back!! How comes they were suspended in the first place? That's good to be reminded of, ta! That's my problem I think though, the tattoo I'm favouring really is just raw vanity rather than anything meaningful, which is why I'm holding off. I have a couple of other ideas which actually do have significance for my life - the one side of me has always sworn ONLY to get ones that actually have meaning, but the other part of me (probably my inner Valley Girl) is just twirling her hair and going 'but they're...like....totally not as purty!'
Maybe I'll wait til you guys get here...you can talk me into something stupid. xx
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