Welcome to the Fold

I love tattoos, which is probably a good thing because the Fiancee is working on a full sleeve.  I have a confession however, I have a number of tattoos as well.

Yestarday I went to my favorite artist, Chris Barnett over at Good Faith II in Brookline and added a new member to the collection.  I got it on my belly.  I forgot how damn much tattoos hurt on your stomach.  I was so light headed after he was done I could barely talk.  We were talking about price and I had no idea what was going on.  Which, in retrospect, is better than when I almost passed out from my first tattoo in a dirty bathroom in New Hampshire.

Wanna see my tattoo? I have only ever shown the world, via facebook 1 of my tattoos. So to see it you have to scroll through all my old tattoos to get there.

This is my blue and green butterfly I got in 2006.  I got this the year I got engaged.  I call it my engagement tattoo.  Chris and I have a connection over Jimmy Eat World. Specifically the song For Me This Is Heavan from the 1998  Clarity Album.

These are my forget-me-knots I got when we put my grandmother in a nursing home for Alzheimer's.  Forget-me-knots are the flower of Alzheimer's.

This is Tinkerbell.  I got her in 2007.  She takes up a rather large section of my back. Is it just me or does the pink pixie dust look a little like a rash?  When I was kid I couldn't sleep unless my mother set up a  mirror that reflected a light and looked like Tinkerbell in the Mary Martin version of Peter Pan, and of course, left the window open.  I got Tink as a reminder of who I was, as  reminder of m childhood.

Welcome to the fold.  I picked a rose because Rose is the flower of June.  My other grandmother's birthday was in June.

I got these pink flowers the same time I got the butterfly.  They don't exist in nature.  They are a combination of daisy and hybiscus.  They are mine.  I got them the year I moved out, got engaged and graduated from college.  They are me. They are my adulthood.

Put it all together and what do you get?