one more miracle

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

Gerard commenting on MCR's little action figures: "I'm gonna always keep a Mikey in my pocket."

!!!!! ♥__♥ OH THE DARLING. WAYS. GAH.

I will use an appropriate mood icon from my GORGEOUS new mood theme, made by rory_tutorgirl. Eeeee how so adorable!! <333

I just caught Pride and Prejudice (the Keira version) on TV, and wow, I really like that movie. I'd seen it before, but it was well worth seeing again. I got all teary you guys! *fluttery sigh* I want a Darcy.

I've started being able to pick up on Britishisms (which are often the same as Irishisms) a lot more in fic, now that I, uh, live here. I think before I would just skate over them and write them off as weird turns of phrase, but now I recognize exactly where they are, and it kind of throws me out of a story about American characters because I'm like, uh, Frank Iero would never, ever say "half eight". He just wouldn't. Meh.

I am very seriously thinking about getting my tattoo within the next couple weeks. It depends on when I get the nerves up to make the call. I've picked a place here in Dublin - I've seen it before and thought it looked really neat, but I found out from the intarwebs that Green Day all got inked there at the same time at one point, and hey, if it's good enough for Green Day, it's good enough for me :D I've decided I want Andy to accompany me, for various reasons - of all my friends here, I feel the most comfortable and safe with him, and I think that he's got the perfect balance of compassion and humor. If I have a freakout, he'll know just how to calm me down, and he'll also be able to keep me laughing and distracted. I just have to ask him! It might be a weird request, but I hope he says yes.

Since I never actually said my final decision on my journal (I've told several people about it though) this is what I decided on: I'm getting "think happy thoughts" in this font up the outside of my right calf just above the ankle. :)

Now I'm watching Arsenal vs. Tottenham on TV. I love soccer football :)