Monday, February 2, 2009

Ink

Finally. It's three days late, but whatever, not like I'm on a time table. First off, I'd like to thank everybody who participated, I wish I could have used all of them, but the stupid (insert a long profanity laden rant here. Really, cover your ears, it's bad) site I tried to use to assemble all of my pictures had a minimum which it didn't actually tell me about until after I'd loaded 49 pictures into my Flickr account. Whatever, let's get past it.

As usual, the pictures are posted in the order I received them with mine first because I'm special. And pretty. Oh, so pretty. Pretty, and witty and straaaaaaaaight! Sorry, it's been stressful. Anyway. First pic is of the boy's Thai names, Mongkhun and Montri. What really made these special was that my supervisor at the time and I discovered that the 'gigantic financial institution' we worked for had nothing in the HR policy to say we couldn't have visible tattoos. Muah ha haaa! The back piece? If you want the skinny on that you can go here.






Jess from This Life Is Mine. "My boss is from Iran so I had him write it out for me...I feel confident it doesn't say "My secretary sucks" or anything as hilarious as that. It says Āmīn which in Americaneese (Amen) means "Verily", "Truly", "So be it", and "Let it be". Word to your mutha.


Second is a photo of my ankle area. I was born in 1981. Clever. There is an up close and far away for your "Where is that on her body?" perspective pleasure. I had help taking the one of my whole foot. My office mate took the picture for me and then said my foot looks like a penis. I am not sure how to feel about that.


Last of all, I give you, in all it's glory, all of my tattoos in one shot...well, save the ankle, I'm good, but I'm not THAT good.
The sun was the first tattoo I ever got and I drew it up and the tattoo artist made it hotttt. Literally. I really couldn't get the flames to do right in my drawing. The second tattoo I got was the blue flames covering my flanks. Then I got the triquetra, which means Father, Son and Holy Ghost. What can I say? I am a spiritual lil shit.

I would like to give a shout out to my Irish and Scottish heritage. I challenge anyone to a freckle face-off. Yep, I win.



Wendy from Among Mad People. Wendy gave me a story on her tats, but I cannot find the email as I probably deleted it when I downloaded the picture. To make up for this I suggest going to Wendy's site and checking her title picture, it's great.



Michelle from Michelle's Blog. "Well, they're not real but they were fun! One is mine and one is Peanut's... I'll let you figure out which is which."



The Mister. "The short people's little foot prints, from the hospital, in order of appearance."


Nonna from Nonna's Nonsense.



Larry in MN


Amy's hubby.


Goodfather's much better half.


Jodi from Jodiferous. "Right after I got it. It's on my back shoulder. It's a flaming chalice, the symbol of the unitarians. The flames are green because it's my favorite color. Designed by my friend kam.


Melanie from A Day In The Life Of... Oh ya, and she's my sister. Thankfully she only sent in two pictures. She has... thirteen altogether? She had my niece and nephew write their names out for the first pic below.



IB from Idiot's Stew.


Lo from Slap Happy Musings.



Momma Trish. "This is an anklet, and it's actually the second line of Clair de Lune (by Claude Debussy). It took more work than the artist had anticipated, and he really never wanted to replicate it, so it's a one-of-a-kind."


Tattooed Mini Van Mom. TMVM sent me a couple links to two posts she'd done on her and her husband. I'd have loved to put them all up, but my eyes are actually bleeding now so I've only picked a few. If you'd like to see more, go here.




Mr. Tattooed Minivan Mom. I couldn't put all of his in, but here's a few. Which, now that I look at them are really really small. WTF? This post is cursed. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of blogs. Hell, I'm not even trying to fix this. If you'd like to see the rest, check him out. Sorry, TMVM.






Anonymous. And if you're one of the two readers who may recognize these, shhhh! She wants to be anonymous.




Louize from Geez Louize. "Ahhh...story....So, it had only been a week into finding out that my soon to be x had just cheated on me. A trip to Vegas with my sister had already been planned. It was a much needed trip at the time.
I had already decided to leave the bastard. But when I was young I had a tattoo on my ankle of a yellow rose. The bastard always bought me yellow roses. I all of a sudden hated the thing. One night while talking with my sister we decided that the next morning we would go over to Hart & Huntington at the Palms and see what they could do to either change it or make it into something else. After much deliberation...I just decided to change the color of the rose to purple. (I can stand to look at it now)
But, while we were waiting my sister and I decided to get inked together. Something to commemorate "US" and this time in our lives. (also at the time my son had been cancer free for a year). We have always called each other "chick". We wanted something simple, pretty, and US. We looked at the books they had...nothing was "us". And we really didn't want to pick something out of a book. We spoke to the tattoo artist and told him what we were looking for and he drew up a few pictures. What he drew was perfect!!! "US"


*Late arrival. The lovely ankle of Vodkamom.


This will be the last Friday pics (yes, it's Monday) post I do for probably ever. They've been fun, but more work than I usually like to do for anything. Really, I was hoping for some naked pictures so this was really disappointing.

Thanks again to everybody who sent in photos, for this one and all the previous ones.

43 comments:

  1. well fine then! don't ever make that warm fuzzy, stupid grin ever come back to me cuz i got to see my name in ligh..er skin in it's glory..um..leave it at ink. you did and whooo i'm buzzed.

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  2. ooo ooo ooo (horshack or however ya spell that mess) FIRST!!!! YEEEHAOOO oops YEEEHAAAw

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  3. WOW! Some of your readers have some really fancy ink.

    So I was feeling bad that I didn't get mine sent in time but after hearing about all the trouble you had I say I did you a favor. Ha!

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  4. I am just glad you actually got it posted ;)

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  5. Captain: I salute you, and all who had the ink done! (That dragon work? Bro, I am in awe! How'd you sit still for that?)

    Amazing, amazing stuff. I, alas, am "tat-less". (shame, shame) Perhaps someday, I have some ideas...

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  6. I love that you have the boys names on your arms.

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  7. Very cool! Thanks for including mine.

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  8. Cap't, don't freak out. And don't turn around! But there's a big ass dragon on your back.

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  9. yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! props to you for sticking thru the whole 'the internet hates me and my photos' issue!! much love to all my tattooed partners in crime :)

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  10. Very cool tats, all of them! I am way too chicken to get a tattoo. My son has 2. Got the first as soon as he turned 18 when I was legally unable to prevent it. LOL

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  11. O Captain, My Captain. Very well done, sir.

    The tat on my arm means I wear my broken/on flame heart UNDER my sleeve...I basically suck at relationships.

    The yin/yang fire/water one was the most fun, spontaneous thing. Sitting at happy hour with friends and we all go get a tat, RIGHT THEN. Love when that happens.

    I still bow to your greatness. You are the best.

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  12. Ohhhhhhh your back piece is AWESOME!! I LOVES!

    And I saw you got a bra pic in there...close enough...

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  13. Wow! Gorgeous to look at, but like hell I would want needles poking me a thousand times a minute!

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  14. So... you've seen Red Dragon before right? Any connection? just checking. backs away from blog slowly...

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  15. Wow! Some of these are great.
    Second pic is amazing.

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  16. I'm going to show those to my hubby to convince him to get HIS back piece finished (it's only been, oh, four years. The original artist retired lately too. Sigh).

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  17. Great pictures! I see mine didn't make it in there.. I guess I'll forgive you.

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  18. Putting pictures in a post is a lot of fricken work! Good job Captain. Good job.

    Can someone tell me why the hell every time you post a picture it goes to the top? How come you can't insert it where you want it so you don't have to spend 14 million hours cutting and pasting??

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  19. That dragon is amazing! Did the artist make the typical jokes while tattooing your back? ("Red DRAGON"?! I thought you said "Red WAGON"!!) I've got another music tattoo on my shoulder blade, and I got the jokes from other artists in shop while the guy was doing the work. (Um ... is it supposed to look like a big happy face?)

    Seriously bummed that there will be no more Friday pics ... but I totally understand. We spend enough time on the Internet without any make-work projects!

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  20. All the tats were cool and all but for some reason, all I could think about was your sister's bra. It was so cool.

    I didn't say I was thinking about the contents of her bra, get your head out of the gutter ya sicko.

    Although I did have inappropriate thoughts about one of the pics but I'm not gonna tell you which one.

    No sirree.

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  21. You are special and oh so pretty. Holy jeez Batman, that back tat must have killed. It hurts to look at (it's cool and all but thinking about all that time spent getting it done, youch).

    No more Friday pics? I'm sad. Not sad enough to ever mention it again but still, my heart hurts.

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  22. Hey I have 16!!! anyways, awesome pics, I love looking at other peoples tatts and hearing their stories!!!
    Btw, MD my bra is from Victoria Secret!!

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  23. Holy tattoo's! Great post! I enjoyed looking at all the beautiful artwork.

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  24. Woooaaah! Those are all awesome...

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  25. wow!
    I am way to chicken to get a tattoo. Piercings I can do.

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  26. My humblest apologize to ChurchPunkMom! During the chaos and confusion I missed her pics. I will make it up to you. Promise.

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  27. HOLY!
    That is one amazing back tattoo! Wow.
    This is such a great post idea... sorry you won't be doing it anymore.

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  28. i LOVE looking at other tattoos. i'm DYING to get one...but i'm sure i'll hate it years from now.

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  29. Love your dragon!!! Sitting through that was totally worth it!!!

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  30. Very interesting, and some really beautiful art. Sorry it was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it!

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  31. Unrelated, in the most unrelated of ways (except it features a tattoo! Look a bird!): My friends' dad has a full back tattoo that's a prayer to prevent death by knives. He's a catholic priest. Yeah, he's also my friend's dad. Don't think about it too hard.

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  32. Those baby footprints are really cool. I am surprised, as always, by that huge dragon on your back. It's amazing.

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  33. You're a good man, Captain.. and I'm sorry I called you a fart face... kind of. ;)

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  34. okay, yeah, that dragon - ouch!!! hopefully I will have mine soon because i hate not having it. when i do, you will be the first to get the pic!

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  35. I'm here to perform a vasectomy????

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  36. DAMN!!! I have a tat. I'll send it to you tomorrow. If I can get a decent shot of it

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  37. Wow, Captain, that is friggin HUGE! You ever gonna get that new camera then?

    Love the rest, and especially the stories. I waited until I was 32 to get my 1st ink, and it of course had to have a whole story.. that is the best part of any ink, I do believe.

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  38. Crap! those were flippin' cool - Nice back. I had no idea so many in the community had that much art.

    I don't know what the hell I was thinking not sending mine in. Maybe it's because the unicorn and butterfly need recoloring.

    When you do this again, let me know and I'll send some pics.

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  39. amazing. A tattoo is my next "level" reward from running/loosing weight. I have it all picked out and will share.

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  40. Thanks for posting Larry's tat. You did a wonderful job!! That is just awesome!!!

    - Jennifer

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  41. I'm fascinated by the dragon!!! All of these tattoos are awesome! I have been trying to find somebody to design one for me, but no luck so far. People seem to think a butterfly is a butterfly is a butterfly, but I have a concept in my head that I am unable to put the paper. I can't draw to save my life!

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