Yeah…so…I’m addicted to tattoos now. I think about them every single day. Honey buys tattoo magazines every chance he gets and I flip through them and get inspired. I watch Miami Ink religiously and I am always admiring friends’ (and last night, our waitress’!) tattoos. Every day I have a new idea of where I want my next tattoo or what I want it to look like. The past three days, though, I’ve been set on getting a tribal band around my left ankle with a couple of purple african violets intertwined to honor my grandma. Yesterday, after Honey returned from his road trip, I declared that Saturday we would go to get me a tattoo.

As we were getting ready to head out the door for the day, I became increasingly anxious. I felt my vibrations all askew. It felt like all my cells inside my body were on static. I usually only feel that way when I’m extremel hungry and have ignored my hunger pains for too long. But I wasn’t hungry this time. It started freaking me out!

So we got some lunch as soon as we left and though my stomach was satisfied, my psyche was not. The vibrations were still on high alert. It was driving me nuts! I took a moment to breathe and contimplate and decided I was anxious because I’ve been thinking about getting another tattoo for so long (especially this one for my grandma) and I was just so excited to get it done.

I toyed with the idea of going to a different tattoo parlor than the one where we had our matching trinity knots done in December. I even stopped by another place I had my first tattoo done years ago. But they couldn’t get it done for me until NEXT FRIDAY! Ugh.

Honey assured me that it’s not like it looks on TV: you can’t just walk into a (reputable) tattoo parlor and get a tattoo done then and there. If you want quality work done permanently to your body, you need to be patient for it to be done right.

I decided to just go to back to Th’ink Tank where we had ours done by Fish and work with him on the design I wanted. I figured if I have to wait to get it done, and I want it done right, then I already had a relationship with Fish and trust him to create exactly what I want.

Go figure, he’s on vacation this weekend. I made an appointment to “consult” with him Tuesday night and we’ll take it from there. *heavy sigh*

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