Tattoo You

M’s husband, CHF, has always been heavily into music, he plays drums, to this day, to his neighbors delight I’m sure. Anyhow, there’s always music playing at their place and he usually has great taste…except that William Shatner CD he insists on playing at least once every time I visit….

Anyhow, he played some Arcade Fire while I was up, lent me the “Funeral” CD (ya, I know, bad coincidence) to listen to and when I got home from the cottage I bought it off iTunes. The cover art has given me an idea for my “widow’s tattoo”. (Oh come on, like there was ever any doubt I was going to get one?!?!?...pffft….please…)

Before it happened I was juggling the idea of getting another one, so it’s not so much a “widow’s tat”, I just like the term and am running with it. Anyways, a few years ago I found a quote I loved, which seems very, very appropriate now. But I was just mulling it over, didn’t know where to have it placed and what should surround the quote, if anything. Both the feathers and the scrolls in the album cover art tie in well with HIS life, I just need to spiff up the art work, it’s too primitive as is.

Now I’ve got an idea to base it from. And based on the rule “no tats for 10 months”, I’ve got 8 months to figure out the artwork, placement on my body and find a tat artist who can pull it off. And most importantly decide if I really want it done. But I think I do, I was thinking of doing it before he died anyhow.  

Also following the rule “no neck tats EVER”, it won’t be on my neck. I’d like to have it on my upper back, nice piece of virgin canvas there, but you pay a lot of money for tats and on the back and I’ll never see it. (And I don’t care if anybody else sees it, but I want to). My upper arm’s an option, but I don’t know if I’m the kind of girl who can pull that off without looking “butch”….plus my Mom might kill me.

My leg’s another option, but there’s the Mom issue again, and let’s face it, she’s 71 and has had enough to get upset about lately.

I’m seriously considering my rib cage, I can see it, only those I want to show will be able to, and it’s also a nice firm piece of virgin canvas….problem is it’s next door neighbours to my breasts, which look good in the right bra but at 42 yrs old and 38D they are a little worse for wear…stupid gravity. I don’t want to get a great tat that’s half covered by bra strapping when I look at it, or that looks great if it weren’t for the saggy breasts right beside. I mean, I earned my wrinkles, I don’t have any issue with them, but saggy breasts are just depressing.

Again, it’s a location problem…and what really sucks is that BHD I would have told HIM all of the above and HE would have come up with a great suggestion, and helped me with the artwork. I guess I’ll just do an opinion poll with a few close friends.

Friends don’t let friends get bad tattoos.

In other news: My new bedroom furniture arrived, I like it as much in my room as I liked it in the store. My cloths are all in one room now, I just have to get used to which drawers I put them in. And I hung some pictures up, badly, but their up.

The room feels like mine, well, mine and the cats. For whatever reason they’re spending more time there then they did in our room, even BHD? Anyways, I like my room.

It’s a start.