tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post3404108893293898864..comments2023-10-23T12:18:13.201-07:00Comments on Sicilian Sisters Grow Some Food: Why I Do Not Have a TattooStefaneenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08422241601075022500noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-67352213682199628212008-01-23T13:33:00.000-08:002008-01-23T13:33:00.000-08:00Great post! I have a tattoo that is almost fifteen...Great post! I have a tattoo that is almost fifteen years old. I don't regret getting it, even though it doesn't 'mean' anything, except that I was a free and independent young woman who chose to get a tattoo!<br><br>My weakness is cushions.amanda jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756583770137000946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-5528036710181335402008-01-23T10:32:00.000-08:002008-01-23T10:32:00.000-08:00I'm loving the sweater. I swear that since I&#...I'm loving the sweater. I swear that since I've done a small piece of colorwork on my Tomato project, I'm hooked now! <br><br>I think I'm the only one that's posted that has tattoos that I don't regret. In my mid thirties, I'm happy with my two choices - especially their private location. It was a personal choice that I can share or not. Of course when my Mom found out and saw them, I had to hug her and make her a cup of tea. lol.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13658613964862931960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-27797347101055457462008-01-23T08:26:00.000-08:002008-01-23T08:26:00.000-08:00I can't think of anything that I would want to...I can't think of anything that I would want to be that permanent, and your lovely essay makes me feel like that's okay :)<br><br>I love the stripey sweater! Looks classic, yet fun.allisonmariecathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00211696859124273031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-87269837388113116422008-01-22T16:44:00.000-08:002008-01-22T16:44:00.000-08:00Well, you could always get a Thing 1-4 tattoo in a...Well, you could always get a Thing 1-4 tattoo in a nice decorative script and perhaps with Roman numerals, though it would take lots of explanation every time someone saw it. :-)<br><br>Personally, I've never been able to find a tat design I just couldn't live without. My tastes change too often and nothing I've seen yet has had sufficient magic for me to have it inked upon my bod.<br><br>For what it's worth, I think second sleeve-itis is much much worse than second sock-itis.Morennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14130520338519367173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-68089100666025549922008-01-22T11:10:00.000-08:002008-01-22T11:10:00.000-08:00You are lucky to be so reflective. If my 22 year ...You are lucky to be so reflective. If my 22 year old self had consulted my 38 year old self, I would not have my child's name tattooed on me!<br><br>KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-27025174709974990582008-01-22T08:07:00.000-08:002008-01-22T08:07:00.000-08:00Except for the having a basement to fix and paint ...Except for the having a basement to fix and paint part, you sound like ME!<br>I too have a weakness for tableware -- I own a lovely china tea set that I bought in London many years ago. I think I've used it once. If only I actually hosted tea parties!<br>But I come all over weak when allowed in the doors of a Crate & Barrel. I crave lovely yet effective cloth napkins, and better plates than we have. And glassware. Oh my. I am so weak when it comes to glass!!<br>But<br>there are the children....<br>whose names I won't tattoo on my body, even though they are so very important to me.<br>And I sort of want a tattoo, but can't (even after about 25 years trying) figure out WHAT to put on my body forever or WHERE to put it. That permanence thing. Never getting to change your mind! Or move it... or ...<br>shudder.<br>nope.NeedleDancerhttp://profile.typekey.com/NeedleDancer/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-47842987211619922522008-01-22T06:42:00.000-08:002008-01-22T06:42:00.000-08:00First of all, I LOVE Kate's comment. I may se...First of all, I LOVE Kate's comment. I may send it to my mom, actually...<br><br>But I haven't gotten a tattoo for the same reason as you, sort of. I, too, change my mind often and my tastes. And I just don't have anything that I have felt truly "meaningful" enough to have tattooed on me. Sure, my dh or kids' names, but I don't LIKE name tattoos--I like PRETTY tattoos! :)<br><br>I can't wait to see pics of the finished rec room! fun!bfmommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03644598269801019948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-90668880623604151292008-01-22T03:42:00.000-08:002008-01-22T03:42:00.000-08:00Interesting post, as always! I don't have a ta...Interesting post, as always! I don't have a tattoo for many of the same reasons. I'm all about flexibility, and somehow a tattoo would limit that for me (with respect to clothing choices as well as changes of mind.)Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11133547765222326544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-55016567236871761542008-01-21T19:10:00.000-08:002008-01-21T19:10:00.000-08:00Well said and understood. My husband and I were j...Well said and understood. My husband and I were just talking the other day about how much we've changed over the last 10 years - our inner core has stayed the same, but so many little things, preferences, loves, interests have grown and changed and morphed. Plus, there's the added aspect of how much we have grown into a compromised unit - I'm more like him, and he's more like me, in little ways. Imagine in another 10!Charityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04636024853968816682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-46409329480670784272008-01-21T16:58:00.000-08:002008-01-21T16:58:00.000-08:00What a lovely bit of writing.Makes me feel just te...What a lovely bit of writing.<br><br>Makes me feel just terrible about coveting a bigger TV the way I do...suzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956210633986974375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018402196949735412.post-85095579674432112532008-01-21T16:24:00.000-08:002008-01-21T16:24:00.000-08:00Logic understood and accepted... but if I may, I&#...Logic understood and accepted... but if I may, I'd like to share the story that inspired my mom and I to get our first tattoos together. (Yes, you read that right. My grandmother has one, too, but she got hers later... we did sit with her, though!)<br><br>My mom did an internship in the ER during her MSW coursework, and one of the women who came in was in her high 80s. She was alone - family was geographically far away, husband had died - so my mom just sat and chatted with her for a while. <br><br>She was complaining of abdominal pain, so at one point a nurse came in to poke and prod a bit. When she did, my mom saw the woman's abdomen, which had a large, colorful tattoo spread across it - a sort of nature/Asian/flowers/birds sort of thing. My mom asked about it, and the woman smiled and said, "It's actually sort of new. I got it in my 60s, not too long after my husband died. I realized that someday, I was going to be alone, in a hospital or a nursing home, and I might be unconscious or unable to speak for myself. And I decided to get this tattoo, to remind anyone who saw it that I did have a life, that I wasn't just an old woman in a hospital bed all alone somewhere."<br><br>I just thought that was so cool, and not long after my 19th birthday, my mom and I got matching sunshines wearing sunglasses. It's not my style now, but it's on my abdomen over my left pelvic bone area, so no one sees it if I don't want them too (that smile gets verrrrry wide during pregnancy!). And regardless of style, it's a mark of an epiphany and a particular time in my life. I got another, of a lizard, on my right inner ankle, to remind me of a time when I lived alone and worked my way through a very dark depression and nasty PTSD and came out OK on the other side. <br><br>I'll get another, someday. Something Celtic, incorporating my children's names or initials, likely on my lower back. I prefer them to be hide-able if I want to hide them, but display-able if I so choose.<br><br>So, anyway... I get your point and support it. But I've got ink. :)Katehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02778318185310548615noreply@blogger.com