lazy weekend ahead...
Jul. 30th, 2005 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swingchickie...and i'm totally psyched. it's good to be back home after all of the travelling over the last week. L2 and D and i went out for "celebrate the tattoo" outdoor drinkies and thai food last night... D made jokes the whole time about me being too much of a badass now, and wanting me to give him a ride home on my harley. yeah. *chuckle* it should be a good weekend... D is leaving for 2 reunions in rhode island this afternoon (school one tonight, family one tomorrow), so i'll have the place to myself to clean and chill out. i was going to go to a dance workshop tonight, but i don't think the tattoo would like that too much... it doesn't hurt at all, except for if i touch it... then it feels like a sunburn back there. don't think i should put myself in a situation where people'd have to put their hands on my back. i'll have to wait a week for that.
so, the tat. *grin* it's something i've wanted to do for over a decade, but couldn't figure out exactly what i wanted. i'm not the type to get like 50 of them all over the place, so my decision had to be right. over the years i've had a few ideas, but none of them strong enough to follow through on... there was a simple, stylized line drawing of a couple dancing that i loved years ago, the problem was it was actually microsoft clip art... and i just couldn't justify having that on my body. then for years i wanted the kanji character for "dance"... however, the symbol was too involved and busy and not really feminine... then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
davissquarecats got it on his ankle about 5 years ago, so that was that. (i don't like the idea of having a tattoo everyone else has, especially a friend.) plus there was the whole fact that i'm not japanese, and don't speak it, so i think it'd goofy to get that put on my body... i actually thought about getting "dance" in gaelic or sioux instead, both part of my ancestry... but again, it just didn't look totally right. then there was the cool bar code tattoo i saw on someone in diesel cafe... i think it's one of the employees there, has a barcode on the back of their neck. it looked awesome, and i actually thought about stealing the idea for my lower back. like, having a tattoo of the barcode for a chia pet or a box of twinkies or something would be a hoot. but again, wouldn't want to copy someone else's idea.
and so, the kitty. there's a bunch of different levels of meaning there, which is why i'm so happy i thought of it.
* on one level, purely superficial, i love Shag's art... the simple colors, clean lines, the stories in his paintings, all just really speak to me. so having something of his on my body made a lot of sense.
* on another level, it's a sort of symbol for monkey and what she's going through. of all the pets i've had in my life... fish, cats, dogs... i have never had a bond with an animal like i do with her. she's my little fuzzy best friend. and in a year or so she'll be gone, and this will be another way to remember how wonderful she is.
* and on yet another level, the cat is a symbol of me. there are a lot of feline qualities that i value having in my life -- playfulness. independence. enjoyment of the simple things. an awareness of one's situation. the "9 lives" concept of coming back from disaster, stronger for it.
and oh... i just wanted retro sparklies in it. no symbolism, just think they're cool. :)
so, the tat. *grin* it's something i've wanted to do for over a decade, but couldn't figure out exactly what i wanted. i'm not the type to get like 50 of them all over the place, so my decision had to be right. over the years i've had a few ideas, but none of them strong enough to follow through on... there was a simple, stylized line drawing of a couple dancing that i loved years ago, the problem was it was actually microsoft clip art... and i just couldn't justify having that on my body. then for years i wanted the kanji character for "dance"... however, the symbol was too involved and busy and not really feminine... then
davissquarecats got it on his ankle about 5 years ago, so that was that. (i don't like the idea of having a tattoo everyone else has, especially a friend.) plus there was the whole fact that i'm not japanese, and don't speak it, so i think it'd goofy to get that put on my body... i actually thought about getting "dance" in gaelic or sioux instead, both part of my ancestry... but again, it just didn't look totally right. then there was the cool bar code tattoo i saw on someone in diesel cafe... i think it's one of the employees there, has a barcode on the back of their neck. it looked awesome, and i actually thought about stealing the idea for my lower back. like, having a tattoo of the barcode for a chia pet or a box of twinkies or something would be a hoot. but again, wouldn't want to copy someone else's idea.and so, the kitty. there's a bunch of different levels of meaning there, which is why i'm so happy i thought of it.
* on one level, purely superficial, i love Shag's art... the simple colors, clean lines, the stories in his paintings, all just really speak to me. so having something of his on my body made a lot of sense.
* on another level, it's a sort of symbol for monkey and what she's going through. of all the pets i've had in my life... fish, cats, dogs... i have never had a bond with an animal like i do with her. she's my little fuzzy best friend. and in a year or so she'll be gone, and this will be another way to remember how wonderful she is.
* and on yet another level, the cat is a symbol of me. there are a lot of feline qualities that i value having in my life -- playfulness. independence. enjoyment of the simple things. an awareness of one's situation. the "9 lives" concept of coming back from disaster, stronger for it.
and oh... i just wanted retro sparklies in it. no symbolism, just think they're cool. :)
