tattoo

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.)