Ink

"Joey doesn't share food!!!!" How would you like to see that quote tattooed on my arm? My youngest daughter thought it was funny as hell. Same with "we were on a break". She and I spent a lot of time watching Friends together, we like to laugh and we have the same kind of sense of humour. Case in point, she got back from Europe on Sunday with what she called a dagger and most people would call a small sword. What did she do at customs? Declared it as a letter opener. My oldest daughter remarked that she was so much daddy's daughter.  Yep

Back to the tattoo though. I met a friend recently and we were talking about tattoos, specifically what she had and was planning on adding to her body ink. And as she talked about her plan it suddenly all came into focus for me. I have toyed with the idea of a tattoo of my own but couldn't think of anything that meant that much to me in that way. Suddenly I knew...no real surprise here, a quote! Of course, it makes sense now. So I'm stealing her idea "To thine own self be true" I might add the "This above all:" beginning part depending on how it looks.

Well that's step one I guess. I have a direction to go in, now I need to go further and plan it out and actually go through with the process. As in many things the first step is the big one. I can't believe it never came to me before this. I came somewhat close once years ago while visiting PEI one summer. But between the $75 for a small maple leaf tat and the fact I wasn't really feeling it in the first place, I backed away. I suppose it wasn't right for me at that point. Only now does it feel like the right thing to do. Right for me.

I've met a lot of people over the years with tattoos and while I'm not judging the practice one can't help and wonder what some of them were thinking when they decided to ink up. Had a guy working for me with all his arms tattooed up in Gothic style calligraphy, and his last name was the focal point. Are you in danger of forgetting your name? Or another guy with a bar code tattooed on his neck. I wanted to ask him if I could scan him but he was a tad scary so I thought better of it. My personal favourite was a declaration of everlasting love to a woman that this fellow ended up divorcing. Might be hard to find a new life long love named Gert or something similar. Choose wisely young sir.. You too young lady. Oh, and please check your spelling and accuracy on what that Chinese symbol really stands for. Hate to go through the rest of your days with the Chinese symbol for hemorrhoids on your lower back. Oh, and avoid profanity, it shouldn't be needed if you are doing your job right.

I'll keep you posted for when I do decide to go ahead with it. Someone tell me how much it hurts please. I've had kidney stones so I can relate to pain. Oh..."kidney stones" also from friends...hahaha

Well, I should run.

Ciao
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