tattoo

[redbird]

I got my cardinal tattoo redone today, at the place that took care of my ear piercing/missing bead a couple of weeks ago. I may post a photo in a bit, because it's at the especially shiny/colorful stage right now (possibly one of the ones that Val, the tattoo artist, took when he was done tattooing me). When he showed me what he thought was final, I decided there was too much white in there, and not enough red, and got him to add some more red and make the white area smaller. (It's a cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis; see page 268 of the Peterson guide to birds of Eastern North America.) Then I bought chocolate, and coffee beans for cattitude and came home.

Before getting re-tattooed, I spent some time looking for pants. adrian_turtle assures me that time spent eliminating possibilities or stores is not wasted; this makes some sense, but I am still having trouble finding suitably warm clothes. Macy's had nothing worth trying on. JC Penney had one pair of pants like the ones I walked in there wearing (out of a large stack, including two others allegedly the same size and style but in different colors. Being in Midtown did get me a salad for lunch—I've been a little short on vegetables of late—and I picked up a library book, so I can't call it wasted.

(The userpic is the previous version of the tattoo.)

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Shopping is hard, tattoos are awesome. I have wanted to get my ankle redone, but I'm not sure what anyone could do to make it look good again. The black has blurred considerably. But heck, what I really want is a new tattoo on my back. Hope you will post a photo of the redone cardinal!

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I agree with Adrian re: shopping. When you find things that fit, I hear you can use this newfangled internet thingy to buy em up!

[redbird]

It's a good theory, yes. When I find three apparently identical garments in a store, in allegedly the same size, of which one fits, it does not encourage me to shop online. Would you assume that the ones you found online wouldn't fit, because 2/3 sampled in the store didn't, or that they would, because of the one that did? Bear in mind that I'd have to pay to return what didn't fit, and schlep it to the UPS store, post office, or the like: it's not as annoying as returning things bought in a brick-and-mortar store, but it's nontrivial, and a good way to wind up with old, never-worn things that not only don't fit now, but never did.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Hm, I'd say that three identical garments with such crappy quality control wouldn't be a good investment, no -- that's more a sign to run away fast from that particular brand/store.

Then again, if there were three pair of the size I wanted in the store, and they all fit properly, I wouldn't actually need the internet.