I love the cello scrolls. I also love the idea of flames or crackles of energy coming out of the tat. The wings idea rocks, as well.

I used to think I wanted a tattoo right over the scar

I wish I had a scanner or a link to the picture, but I have a postcard of a nude woman holding her arms wide and grinning at the sky, with a beautiful dragon tattoo over her mastectomy scar. The most empowering fucking picture I have ever seen.

Oh, and unless the Goddess of Chaos has decided to massively piss off one of her faithful, I'm not It (preggers) either. No, wait. Because of last week I *know* I'm not. I didn't go through those cramps for nuthin.

Just popping in to say Not!Pregnant either. That I know of, anyway.

I love the cello scrolls. I also love the idea of flames or crackles of energy coming out of the tat. The wings idea rocks, as well.

(I said this in my LJ) -- since I'm a writer, I would get a really cool tat of a fountain pen with a swell nib (no inkwell, though, and no feather on the pen), *except* the scar is so freaking low that it would look like I have a pen sticking out of my ass. And that's not the look I'm going for.

Also not it.

I said hi in Natter, Bells, but welcome, again.

Yeesh to all the snow upcountry. Safe driving, to those that must. Warm clothes, steaming baths and showers, and soft comfy clothes to those who arrive after having driven.

Feelbetter-ma to Deena's back.

Tep, I like the idea of flames or wings, too. The cello scrolls are pretty, but...inert. And you've been energized since the surgery. The tat should show that, I think.

Ok. I just got a HUGE indication that I need to majorly chill about Emily's birthday party. Whoo. I can be a big dodo head sometimes.

Tep, I like the idea of flames or wings, too. The cello scrolls are pretty, but...inert. And you've been energized since the surgery. The tat should show that, I think.

That's an interesting take on it -- the inert/energized idea. Because my thinking was that I want scrolls (or something similar) because I don't like the scar and I just want something pretty there, and because my back deserves to be adorned.

Lesson of the day.

If you're sitting around in a bathrobe when you know that UPS is going to attempt a delivery between 2pm and 5pm, they are CERTAIN to come while you're sitting around in your bathrobe.

You may want to rethink that next time you're expecting a delivery.

Fascinating story on how the tsunami is forcing cartographers and mariners to rethink things.

WASHINGTON - Water depths in parts of the Straits of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month's tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet — too dangerous for shipping, if proved true.

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Our birthday is in five weeks...what are the chances we might be able to get together sometime around it if I headed down to DC? I can't come down that actual weekend, but maybe in early March?

I know. And I'll still be a year older than you. Early March should be fine. I know March 16-18 DF and I have to do our Engaged Encounter stuff. Just let me know.

I'm sorry about asshatty IRS. I smite them! Smite! (If I smite them hard enough, maybe I can put off the 36-state tax return nightmare that is our every spring, too).

Thank you, and thanks to everyone for the support. It's nerve-wracking, and the last thing I needed right now. Consider yourselves hugged and kissed, as innocently or naughtily as your hearts desire.

Edited to make subjects and verbs agree properly. I am so anal.