you were only waiting for this moment to arise

i finished the stand and found it to be quite anti-climatic. by the end , i didn't like fran at all. she turned out to be a selfish brat. i gained a little more respect for trashy's character, although he will remain one of the most annoying people--to me, at least--in the SK universe. it sucks that the saving grace of the free zone was the trashcan man.

i was disappointed. don't get me wrong, i enjoyed the book, but when you invest that much time into something, you want a little more than an a-bomb miraculously saving the good guys. "let's move back to maine, where i am from. i don't care what you want, it's all about me. with a brand new baby and a toddler. and no doctor. who cares that you have a gimp leg and it might be hard for you to travel. i am homesick. me. me. me. me. me." sounds like a wise idea to me, frannie. dip-shit. why do dumb girls like that always get the stu's of the world?

anyway...

jenna was in town this weekend. we went to ancient art to get tattoos on saturday! ben and david went with us, but they were too wuss to get anything...haha. i was sort of worried about this outing, because i haven't spoken to david in a little over a year now. too many things happened at once back then...and while i regret that so much time has passed, i do not regret what i felt at the time. things seemed okay between us. nothing was said, but it was there. perhaps, like the beatles song says, we can work it out. i hope. i mean, i really had a good time. i miss that.

okay. enough of the sappy shite. now for my tattoo. i covered up the tacky off-the-wall-kanji-doesn't-mean-anything-to-me-shit i got when i was 20. i'm so happy with the result:



i love the beatles, and blackbird is one of my favorite songs. i've always been attracted to the traditional sailor tattoos as well. so i just combined the two. it was either "take these broken wings and learn to fly" or "living is easy with eyes closed". since i already have a melancholy depressing quote tattoo ("love fades"), and i didn't want it to seem as if i were copying dominic monaghan, i chose the more inspirational blackbird lyrics. jenna got dandelion seeds blowing across her back. we are both very very pleased.

i can't wait for jenna's wedding! i get to play dress-up and hang out with people i miss. i can't imagine planning all of the stuff she's planning, it would be a little overwhelming for me. when i get married, it will be in las vegas on april fool's day by an elvis impersonator. see, the planning is already taken care of :)