Day 84

Oct. 23rd, 2010 09:08 pm
truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (tr: mole)
[personal profile] truepenny
Today I ventured out on an expedition with only the soft lace-up ankle brace. I did not fall down or hurt myself or anything else bad.

WIKTORY!

After stopping by the wake for a friend's father, we went over to Willy Street, where we met an Unexpected! Bonus! Friend!, which was excellent. And then I walked--yes, walked, without lurching like a drunk or falling down or going so slowly that passing tortoises were laughing--to Steve's Tattoo to get my captive bead earrings put back in.

I had to take them out for the surgery on my ankle, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get captive beads back in myself, so what with the mobility issues and the not-being-able-to-drive-myself issues--N.b., if you're going to break your ankle, for the love of little red fruitbats, don't break your driving ankle--this was the first chance I'd had. And since for some reason, regular earrings in those holes had been painful to lie on (v. bad when you're spending all day in bed), I'd left the earrings out.

And two of four, both on the left, had closed themselves back up.

Of course, I'd been leaving the earrings out of the other six holes, too, and none of them misbehaved in such a fashion, but go figure.

So I ended up sitting in Steve's for longer than I had anticipated (many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] mirrorthaw for, once again, being patient), watching the tattooists go about their business and admiring the art and the bumper stickers on the walls. (My favorite is still MORE FUN THAN A HOT POKER UP THE ASS, because it's an Edward II reference for me, even if it isn't for them, and I have good memories of me and [livejournal.com profile] matociquala cracking the piercer up with our geektastic delight.) While sitting there, I figured out my next tattoo: once the swelling finally goes down, I want a dragon on my right ankle. Very possibly Smaug. Or Smaug, because say what you like about the Rankin-Bass Hobbit and I'll agree with you, I had that iron-on decal as a kid, and I wore the shirt until I literally could not cram my rack into it any longer. (I wore out Gollum and Gandalf, too, I think, but iirc did not care for the Rankin-Bass Bilbo.) And it is still a kick-ass dragon.

But that's a matter for when my ankle is functional again, and I have some money in the exchequer for frivolities. Which the way things are going, looks like sometime after they open an ice-rink in Hell.

Also, I don't know the band or the song they were playing, but the refrain, "Dr. Laura, who made you God?" cracked my shit up.

It turned out that I had remembered correctly: that top piercing in my cartilege hurts like a mad bastard. (The piercer was delighted with this phrase and vowed to use it.) And now my left ear is feeling very put upon and sorry for itself, to which I say, too damn bad.

But I do have my earrings back in, which is good because I was going to feel horribly naked at WFC without them.



ETA: Further WIKTORY: I have finished a draft of "Hollywood and Vine" and have printed it out and handed it to my husband. So there, neurotic pink circus poodle!

Date: 2010-10-24 02:29 am (UTC)
ext_29896: Lilacs in grandmother's vase on my piano (Default)
From: [identity profile] glinda-w.livejournal.com
mmmmmm Toliken dragons. My Google Images-fu has failed me, but my favorite, black-line-on-paper, is the Pauline Baynes one for Farmer Giles of Ham - 's on page 42 of Ballantine paperback Tolkien Reader. (My finding-book-on-shelf-and-finding-drawing-on-page fu still works quiet well, at least for anything JRRT related. Though that paperback is in rather sad, falling-apart condition. *sigh*)

If any tattoos were in my budget, I think I'd have a dandelion chain around one of my ankles...

Date: 2010-10-24 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
I know the dragon (and have the paperback) of which you speak.

(Why do I have no dragon icons? This seems foolish.)

Date: 2010-10-24 02:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voidmonster.livejournal.com
This serves as an excellent reminder that I really damn well need more holes in my head and ink under my skin.

The holes are a bit easier to arrange than the ink, so first things first.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
I have as many holes as I need, but boy, do I not feel right without them.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] voidmonster.livejournal.com
At the moment I've only got the regular old single-hole-per-ear piercing, but I'd really like to have as many as I can get without messing with cartilage. I like the heavier gauge jewelry, so my guess is three per, probably going 4,2,0 (maybe 2,0,00 if I'm feeling plucky).

And yeah, it really doesn't feel right when I haven't got anything in my ears.

Ironically, the higher gauge stuff is easier to take out and put back. At least with the rings I've got. At 0, they kind of don't make conventional CBRs, so I use the ones with the spring-loaded detents. Those, of course, run into their own problems, but my current pair works very nicely. I keep thinking about tracking down some rubber beads for'em but it's never high enough priority to actually do.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:14 am (UTC)
heresluck: (pummelo)
From: [personal profile] heresluck
Hurrah for perambulation and self-decoration!

Also: have a pummelo! just because.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:15 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-10-24 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panjianlien.livejournal.com
Huzzah! And yay for the reinstatement of the earrings!

I think the Smaug tattoo idea is brilliant.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Oh, we wants it, precious, yesss.

*g*

Date: 2010-10-24 04:33 am (UTC)
ext_864: me with book (Default)
From: [identity profile] newroticgirl.livejournal.com
Ugh, it took me 3 days of trying to get all my captive bead earrings (6) back in after surgery this spring. Thankfully, they didn't make me take out the smallest one -- I couldn't get it un-captived and even called my brother the body piercer for help! -- just taped over it. I'm in total agreement with the person above who said the bigger ones are easier to re-captivate! :)

Date: 2010-10-24 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Thank goodness for being able to leave them in 99% of the time. Yes.

Date: 2010-10-24 04:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com
. . . neurotic pink circus poodle?

Anyway, huzzah for walking in a soft brace, and huzzah for getting back the metal that you don't feel right without (omg I twitch without my rings), and huzzah for "Hollywood and Vine"!

Date: 2010-10-24 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Sorry, that's my shorthand for the particularly neurotic mindtraps writers catch themselves in.

Also, that is the cutest owl in the world.

Date: 2010-10-25 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swan-tower.livejournal.com
Got the image from [livejournal.com profile] matociquala a while back, if memory serves.

Date: 2010-10-24 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liminalia.livejournal.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECQNh2K0cQ

Mojo Nixon.

Date: 2010-10-24 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Thank you! Somehow, I am not even surprise that it's Mojo Nixon.

Date: 2010-10-24 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com
Ooo. Smaug.

Date: 2010-10-24 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
There was a sort of glorious inevitability to it, once I thought it. *g*

Date: 2010-10-24 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matociquala.livejournal.com
I like the flying one.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
In some ways, he's more "my" Smaug than the Tolkien drawing. Because, you know, kids don't so much care about whether it's the original or a fairly crappy animated musical.

Date: 2010-10-24 03:25 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-10-25 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pixel39.livejournal.com
I love the dragons on the original paperbacks of the Earthsea books. These: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000RSLYVO/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Also the R&B Smaug is awesome in awesome ways.

Once upon a time I wanted a full body dragon tattoo such that the head would come over my shoulder onto my upper chest, and the wings would cover my arms, and...yeah. *sigh*

At the moment all I have is the horsie. He is extremely not dragonlike.

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