What My Tattoo Will Look Like
So some of us are actually going to get tattooed whilst in SF. And this is an approximation of mine, albeit in black and white:
My Minnesota grandmother, the maternal one (hardly! actually!), was a hosta apostle, bringing hosta plants to everyone in the small lake town she lived in. And I have hosta in my backyard, as do most people, and I’ve always associated it with a practical, hardy, and yet lovely plant. I aspire to be more hosta-like.
Plus it’s hardly likely I’ll get sick of it, since it’s a PLANT, for goodness’ sake, not a picture of Mike Tyson or a band that subsequently released terrible records or something like that.
What tattoo would you get?
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July 22nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Ooh, I like that. That’s going to be an awesome tat! For me: a gargoyle. Off to look for pics to bring, oh fellow tat-ee.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 am
I have two. A butterfly on my neck and an ankh with a rose twisted through it on my shoulder. The ankh I got when I sold my first book, which was set in Egypt. The butterfly is for my tenth, which came out in July. No reason for the butterfly significance-wise. I just liked the butterfly. I’d like to get another, but I’m not sure what or where.
See you next week!
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
I’m hoping to get a tattoo of two cherries on a stem on my lower tummy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
I love it. I’d get one if I could only make a decision.
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
Ah, come on, go for the Mike Tyson tatoo! Gotta love the hosta - it’s the worker bee of plants and quite pretty. How big of a tatoo and where on the body (if it’s not too personal-:))?
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
None! It would hurt, and I’m a totaly whiny baby about pain. But if it did not hurt, I’d like a flower.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
You’d be surprised, Amanda. It really doens’t hurt that much. My shoulder I hardly felt at all. My neck they put some kind of numbing spray on it, so it didn’t hurt either and it was right on top of a bone (which makes it hurt more). Afterward, it sort of just felt like a sunburn.
The pain is overrated.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
Arlene, it’s gonna be small, and right on my stomach, to the right side, above my hip. I want to be able to see it myself and to show others if they want to see it, but I don’t want it to be visible all the time.
I am nervous about the pain, and of course about the expense. I’m a cheapskate.
Now, off to do freelance work, ’cause I’m way far behind. And I have a headache. Boo.