Well, this would have been sooner but the computer mouse decided to bite the dust this morning. I blame the munchkin for this as he would constantly sneak over to the desk and knock down the old one and disappear with it. I would suddenly see the computer screen going crazy and find him in the kitchen banging the upside down mouse on the floor and giggling his little head off. Our I would find it halfway down the hall wet and sticky from him apparently chewing on it. It was only a matter of time before it bit the dust. That’s what I get for thinking the wireless mouse would be a better way to go because there would be no cord for him to strangle himself in.

As for important things, LOL. My tattoo.
Several of you guessed what the last word on my tattoo was, Mary got it right. The last word on my tattoo is: DUTY. It’s constantly getting misread as dirty however. o.O I’m not sure why people think that something which says TRUTH and HONOR would then say dirty, but people are strange. Of course it takes one to know one.

I got the tattoo in April 2001. My grandfather died that previous January and while we were visiting relatives in the UK for his funeral I came to my senses about the abusive relationship I was in.
When I decided to leave I decided to mark the occasion and commemorate him with the tattoo, cementing my resolve to honor certain things such as truth, and that my first duty was to myself and my own ideals, as well as to my family. Never again would I let someone manipulate me away from being true to myself; I would honor my beliefs. The cross is for my grandfather who died, the words I would think explain themselves from what I just said. The scythe because it was death which caused the realization, also because death in tarot (which I read) is the closing of one door which opens new prospects; also the fact that I have a mini-obsession with Death imagery.

The tattoo is a many layered symbol. I hope with my second tattoo I can find something as deeply meaningful. I’ve been trying to sketch certain ideas out for some time but I can’t come up with anything that looks right.
I want to incorporate a pentacle or a pentagram as a symbol of my pagan faith, of being in balance now, and for protection; an ankh, again because of the Death symbolism but also the life symbol because I have given life to my son. I’d like some Celtic knotwork in there if I can because those are my roots my family is primarily from Scotland…I used to have a pentacle where the star was surrounded by a ring of knots. I also used to have a pentacle necklace that a dear friend got me for my birthday last year which was a pentacle with an ankh laid across the star. It was a ‘hold-over’ because she knew I wanted the tattoo. Unfortunately the necklace broke and the pendant disappeared somewhere in the mall