There's also temporary tattoo paper you can use in printers!

Oh, really? That sounds like fun.

Pondering a tattoo memorial of Sammie.

I did one for Taz (just about a year ago, thank you for the reminder Facebook) on my back/shoulder. I love it. The pain of getting the tattoo was actually cathartic to helping my pain of losing Taz. I don't mean it made it go away, it was more that the pain felt right. I loved my tattoo artist - Tom has done all the research for his tattoo, so when we were there for that, I realized how awesome she was so I hired her for my Cat-too.

I've got the big memorial tattoo for Mom on my left upper arm. The matching space on my right arm is "reserved", but I told Dad that I better not have to use that space for a LONG FUCKING TIME.

The list of tattoos I want to get is long. It's not even been a year since the last one, and I want the next one now now now. Mr. Loomy is (someday) going to do his own version of the Ace of Pumpkins for me, and that will go on my inner right forearm.

Eventually I want to get all the "blank" space on my arms filled with twining blackberry vines, but that probably won't happen for a long time.

My other problem was that I couldn't come up with a spot I wanted another tattoo. As much as I like tattoos on other people in virtually every spot on the body you can think of, there aren't a lot of places I personally wanted a new tattoo. My back is off the list because I want to be able to see the tattoo. I thought the inside of my arm(s) would be good, but turns out I don't like that. And so on. But I finally settled on the top of my thigh, where I can see it, but it'll be covered in public unless I'm wearing a swimsuit.

I like my back tattoo, but yea, difficult to see. Plus there was no way I could have managed the aftercare without Mr. Loomy.

I've been tempted to get a tattoo ... but (1) I'm chicken - worried about the pain; (2) I have a level of skin sensitivity to chemicals; (3) I'm on a blood thinner; and (4) I think I'm kind of old to be getting one. I turn (shudder) 67 on my next birthday.

For my 60th birthday tattoo, I got "Don't Dream it's Over" from my favorite song.

Top of my thigh is going to be the placement of my next one, too, I think. Never even occurred to me as a good option until I went to an exhibit at the California Museum focusing on Polynesian culture that included quite a bit on traditional tattoos and women in one or more of those cultures had a tradition of tattooing themselves above the knee.

Yeah, Toddson, blood thinners and tattoos do not go well together!

I sometimes refer to it as my daily dose of rat poison ... I'm cheerful like that.

I get bored with the pictures on my walls too often, I don't want to have something on my skin that I can't swap out.