After a week long visit I am driving my sister back home today. Making a round trip so I told my eldest son and his roommate I was fetching them to keep me company. Hope I can have calm conversation with him. He's not doing good.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?
Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Mar 30, 2019 6:31:51 am PDT #5667 of 8216
Our wings are not tired.
Calli - Mar 30, 2019 7:25:55 am PDT #5668 of 8216
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The linked tattoo artist's work is gorgeous! She has an amazing skill with color shading.
I have two tats. I mentally sat with the subject and placement for years with both before I got them. (A Viking long ship at the top of my right thigh and a swallow from the Akrotiri frescos on my left upper arm.) I've been happy with both since I got them—2009 and 2018 respectively. I'm not ruling out another, but I don't have anything currently in mind.
flea - Mar 30, 2019 7:28:22 am PDT #5669 of 8216
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Okay, Jessica, a friend of mine is literally at that studio getting a tattoo right now. Like, her appointment started at 12!
If I ever get another tattoo (unlikely) I'll go to Korea and get a whale from this dude: [link] [link]
lisah - Mar 30, 2019 9:04:08 am PDT #5670 of 8216
Punishingly Intricate
I'm seriously obsessed now, Jessica! I'm trying to figure out roughly when I could take the trip. I've been thinking about this tattoo for years and hadn't found the right artist for it.
-t - Mar 30, 2019 9:10:40 am PDT #5671 of 8216
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Those whales are incredible, flea!
Calli - Mar 30, 2019 2:30:49 pm PDT #5672 of 8216
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Wow! The first looks like brushwork—so cool.
flea - Mar 31, 2019 2:41:47 am PDT #5673 of 8216
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My friend is only about 1/3 done after 7 hours - it's a full-arm thing - but she's very, very happy with it already and said the process was really great and there was a nice older dog at the studio to hang out with.
Laura - Mar 31, 2019 3:20:33 am PDT #5674 of 8216
Our wings are not tired.
The body art is beautiful, but I will stick to admiring it on others.
Deena - Mar 31, 2019 5:54:13 pm PDT #5675 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thanks for all the good vibes, guys. Dad is still in the hospital. Mom asked me not to go visit as too many people have shown up and he's not sleeping. She told the nurses no visitors, and left herself, because he kept getting up to take care of her. He tried to get her to take a nap in his bed -- he said he'd just sit in the chair! The nurses are getting frustrated with him because he can't ignore them. He's telling jokes and chatting -- while coughing up a lung and with a voice so hoarse he's hard to hear. People came to him for prayer for themselves yesterday. I was kind of shocked.
Love the tattoo pics linked here. Laura Bochet's are gorgeous. I'm really drawn to the way she uses lines and colors; and the whales are amazing.
Deena - Mar 31, 2019 8:05:46 pm PDT #5676 of 8216
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Aidan is all head/chest congested and so I gave him a Mucinex. I explained to him how it works, and he said something like, "Oh, I get it. It's like a laxative for your nose!"