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I feel better today!
Just in time for my birthday visit from my mom...
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I'm getting my first tattoo, though. It's a nerd thing. I'm getting "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" tattooed around my wrist with an Elder Seal:
Underneath it. It's probably something I will regret later in life, but I am okay with that because I think that it represents my current life, and I feel like that's all tattoos can really be.
By the way, the phrase means, "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." So in addition to being a fun geek thing, I feel like it says that in spite of being somewhat stagnant now, I still have time to wake and follow my dreams. Not that I'm dead. But, you know.
So, yay for that!
ETA: Ignore the weird link up there. Not sure what it was all about...
Re: I feel better today!
Glad you're feeling better.
I'm kind of
the tattoo. I have a tattoo myself, so not against tattoos, but I can see your tattoo being something you may regret some day. Especially since it will be on your wrist. But...your life your tattoo!
Are you planning to work in a professional setting? I ask because a lot of places don't like visible tattoos and one on your wrist would be tough to cover up.
MH has a tattoo on his wrist but it is very thin and was designed to be covered by his watch band.
I'm pretty
about having a Lovecraft incantation inscribed on your wrist. It doesn't strike me as a "fun geek thing."
I'm beginning to think that maybe she should abide by her own ticker.
This doesn't seem healthy to me.
H has four tattoos. I want tattoos. I'm not odded out by Lovecraft and this still sounds all weird to me.
YWIA!
Click me, click me!
If you insist on a tattoo, you should get it where no one can see it. Your arm is not a good place. You don't want to be stuck wearing long sleeves or cami's everyday at the office.
I waited a very long time before I got a tattoo. I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't regret it and was ready to accept that it is permanent.
When I got the urge for a tattoo but wasn't quite sure, I got my bellybutton pierced instead. That kept me happy for a while and then I realized when I still wanted the same tattoo a year later that it meant I really wanted it and would not regret it. I've had it almost 10 years and have not regretted it once.
It's also in a place that I would have to intentionally show someone in order for them to see it. That was one of the things I wanted to make sure of before I got it. Neck, wrist/arm and ankle tattoos just aren't my thing at all (especially on women).
Oh BVal.
I'm shaking my head at so many things in this thread I don't even know where to start.
PIP? Maybe it's not as bad as we're picturing it?
well, let's see it.
I can't take off the wrapping quite yet, so you'll have to wait on pictures. But it's not this huge thing. It's small script and then a small symbol underneath. It could probably be covered with a watch or a thick bracelet.
As far as a career, or whatever, you can side-eye me more. I LIKE working retail. A lot. Enough that I would be more than willing to work retail part-time and be a housewife part-time for the rest of my life. Is that what I will do? Maybe not. I might go back to school and get that comp. sci. degree. But most places (here, anyway) at which I would use that degree would not have a problem with the tattoo. If I ever do work somewhere that is not tattoo-friendly, I will cover it up. Not a big deal.
I know you're all side-eyeing me. That's fine. I don't know what to tell you.
ETA: This isn't mine, of course, but the tattoo is MAYBE this wide:
A little thinner, actually. The symbol is about as large as the part on the lower part of that wrist, and it is on the inside of my wrist. My entire tattoo is a little farther down the arm. So, as I said, not huge at all.
It's not just the content or placement of the tattoo.
Honestly what's bugging me way more than the tatt is the fact that you sound so complacent and dependent. Like you want nothing more for yourself than minimum wage and for YH to support you for the rest of your life. It just sounds so sad.
I get this a lot. I really do. And I know, it sounds bad. But I don't know why being content with minimum wage is a bad thing. Like I said, I enjoy working retail. I don't see why how much I make should matter if I enjoy it.
And I don't necessarily WANT DH to support me. It's just turned out that way due to the illnesses. I got a full-time job right after we got married. Then I got sick. I worked at GameStop for a few months. Then I got sick. I had a full-time managerial position at GameStop for several months. Then I got sick. Then I went to school. Then I got sick. Then I worked with the vet research. Then I got sick. It's not that I don't want to work. It's not that I want nothing more than to cook and clean and take his shoes at the door or whatever, but I end up in that position a lot. Doctors still can't find what's wrong. They find a certain thing (this time it was an Omega-3 deficiency), but then things happen again and they scratch their heads and we do our little dance again. And if it's not physical sickness, it's mental, because keeping up with bipolar disorder isn't hard most of the time, but sometimes it catches up.
I may never be able to have a real, full-time career. Not because I don't want one, not because I want DH to support me, but because I CAN'T. And even if I did...it would likely be in retail. Because I like that. A managerial position, probably, but retail nonetheless. But going back to school isn't off the table. I just want to get the current student loans paid off before I start bringing in more. And I'd get my associate's at the very least, but probably my BS in computer science so I could program. And then, assuming my health wasn't shittastic like it so often is, I could get a "real" job.
But right now, given my circumstances, yeah. I am totally okay with minimum wage retail and letting DH take care of things.