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I'm getting my tattoo tomorrow. You don't need appointments, and I don't feel like waiting a whole week, so Kate and I are going... tomorrow. I'm simultaneously terrified and so unspeakably excited. I think I'm going to love it.

I spent the last hour watching bits of LOTMS and taking caps. Watching Gerard talk about being in Peter Pan makes me grin like an idiot - his facepalming! He's not sure if it's cool he got the part cause it's usually played by a girl! (For the record, the Peter Pan to my Wendy was a boy :) He was just camp enough to pull it off, as I'm sure Gee was.) I love that I have that weird shared experience with Gerard, and I love that he put it into one of his songs, and I love that I'm going to put it on my body for the rest of my life.

( Take a gander at the prettiest basement dweller in all the land. )

And don't forget, guys and gals.

Now the red ones make me fly

The deed is DONE!

( Now I will never forget to think happy thoughts )

I'm so fucking fond of it, you guys. And that's pretty important, since it's on my body... forever! It's a little weird right now, looking down and seeing this ink there that's... never going to go away, but I have a feeling I'm going to love having it there, I really am.

The process was... quick? We went in and I showed them what I wanted. They shrunk it with a photocopier a little and I approved the new size - not too small, not too big. They told me it would be 30 minutes and to go get a candy bar, so I did (like I'm going to disobey that kind of doctor's orders, right? :)). I came back, went right into the room, took off my shoe and hopped up on the chair. The guy was, of course, covered in tattoos and also quite hot :D He was very quiet though - barely said anything except to respond to my questions. His name was Sean, a name I've always loved, incidentally. :) I told him I wanted the letters a bit more connected than they were in the image, and he said no problem. Then he plopped the design on my leg and looked at me for my approval of the placement, and hey, it was good! So then he just... started! I had Kate come in and hold my hand, and I certainly felt it, squeezing her hand pretty tight, but it really wasn't bad. Like the sensation of getting a shot but just constant, and I've never minded shots. And it was over in like FIVE MINUTES, probably less! Cause basically all he had to do was write the words! When it was over I was like, is that it?? o.O And lo and behold, I had been altered forever! It was kind of surreal, having built it up for so long and then, bam, it was done.

I'm not all flailing to get another (mostly because, wow, really expensive - thanks Dublin :P) but it was a good experience and I'm really really pleased with it. Yaaay!

Thanks so much for the awesome encouragement, you guys <3