UPDATE: Quote got. Appointment made. Deposit paid. I have until Thursday to back out. :-p
It’s official. I’ve been thinking about if for about 10 years now. Tomorrow, I’m getting a tattoo. Today, actually, since it is past midnight.
Here’s the thing. I didn’t get one initially because I didn’t know what I wanted or where. I’m not an impulsive person, and I didn’t want to just pick out something pretty that I’d later regret or that had no meaning. So I thought about it.
I drew out a butterfly design that I do want someday…but it was never the right time to get it, and it certainly isn’t now. I knew that when I initially drew it, and although I wouldn’t regret that being on my body, it’s just not right to get that yet. I can’t really explain it any better than that, haha.
So I thought about it some more, and I finally decided what I wanted to get. For about three years now, I’ve wanted this tattoo, which symbolizes the two sides of me that are always fighting, the strong-willed, business-minded planner and the emotional, submissive lover. Only together can they exist. I’ve thought about this for years, and I’ve wanted it for so long.
And today, when I get my tattoo… I’m getting something completely different.
It makes me nervous that I haven’t given this second tattoo years of thought, but I know it’s right. I knew it was right the moment I was inspired to get it. It’s perfect not just for this moment in my life, but to remind me always that I need to do my best and keep moving forward.
How did this new tattoo idea come about? There’s a book that I love more than most, and I rarely even talk about my love for it because it’s like…sacred to me. Throughout my life, pieces of this book have snaked into my life in strange ways. And something I never told The Cowboy? He referenced it the very first time we spoke. I don’t really believe in “signs,” but that just really made my eyes widen, and it’s part of the reason I ever let him into my life in the first place. That one thing is what made me give him my phone number.
That’s just an example one of the many important times in my life that references to this book have come into play.
And so, I’m getting a reference to it tattooed on me. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner. It is absolutely perfect. The design I’m choosing to get will remind me of The Cowboy. And of The Student. And of the first boy I ever loved. And of multiple other people in my life. Perfect.
I can’t wait.
If ya’ll are nice to me, I might post a picture when it’s done!
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Although I only have one tat, I have designed most of the many tats that my Cap’n has and future ones he will be getting. I have always believed that they should be personal and meaningful to the person getting them….they should have profound meanings not just “flash” off a tat shop wall. I look forward to seeing your tat if you do indeed post a pic of it. Hope it turns out exactly as you wish.
aww sounds like a good one!
I only ever got my tattoo bc my bff at the time was getting one and pressured me to, as well. i was 17.
its small, it hurt like a bitch, and i picked the design from the book but changed the colors (which i now regret).
i chose a lily….how fitting eh? i did so bc it’s the flower of my birth month. but, it doesn’t look like the lily flower most people think of. it’s simple, and some think it looks like a tulip. the flower part i had colored in 3 shades of blue….why, i don’t even remember, but now its muted to only one shade.
I designed my tattoo too, actually, because I cannot draw for peanuts, I cut out the icons I wanted and collaged them together. My artist kept giggling because of it, but it kept the design true to what I wanted. I hope it went well!