Pain. Paid For By the Hour.
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badstarGot some tattoo work done today. Roughly half the tree is complete, with 1-2 hours worth of work to go.
(I can't say it enough. If you want a tattoo, go to the Baltimore Tattoo Museum. Dave Sobel is Teh Awesome. (The other artists have some awesome portfolios too. There was one there today that I'd never seen before with some gorgeous stuff.) I still can't get over the fact that he said my work would cost between $800-900 when all was said and done, and I've only got 1-2 hours yet to go and have only spent $300 so far. And the work is good, as you've probably seen from the pictures I posted last week. Looks even better in real life.)
But anyway, I was an hour under the needles today. It hurt a lot worse in a lot of spots than any of the previous work. But that's what you get I guess when you've got needles going over and over and over and over right across your spine. (Then again in some spots, I felt no pain, only the vibration of the gun going through my entire nervous system) But some places...especially the trunk of the tree, which he did rather quickly and aggressively...yeeeeeeouch. During my past appointments, I've not made a single sound while being worked on, except for the time that my back cramped and I had to tell him to stop for a minute. This time, there were quite a few squeaks and other minor expressions of pain.
Perhaps as a trade-off, I dunno...but previously, the inked areas would hurt for a few solid days afterwards. This time it stopped hurting almost immediately. If I press on the area, it feels a little...off, maybe very slightly more sensitive than normal, but doesn't hurt.
Also, when I first got the outline done, while he was working and afterwards, I was feeling very....out of it. Like, half delirious or something. I was feeling a lot more conscious this time, probably because it hurt a lot more, but was surprised when I sat up to find that I felt very much like I did the first time (this didn't happen when I got the text done, I was straddling a chair and my arms kept falling asleep because it wasn't the best chair back for arm resting.)
Interestingly, just after he started working, some song came on the stereo. I couldn't tell you what it was or who it was, just that there was a line in the chorus that said something about dust on a cypress tree.
Speaking of cypress, Yankee candles make a Mediterranean Cypress candle now. Smells sooooo good. I got one on Saturday night after I was finished with Grove stuff. And stuck it on my altar. I've been burning it at night before I go to bed. Funny, you know how jar candles build up soot around the rim? Not a trace on this one yet- if it weren't for the black wick and the change in shade where the wax stopped melting, you'd never know it had been burned at all.
So after the appointment, I came home and took the covering off my back and laid down in attempt to take a nap. I never did fall asleep, but I had a wonderful hour and a half in that semi-conscious, not quite sleeping state.
Now I'm at work. I had Chinese food for dinner. That is all. Oh wait...my fortune cookie says "You look very pretty." awwwww. (Still not as good as "Maybe some day you can live on the moon." Best fortune ever)
(I can't say it enough. If you want a tattoo, go to the Baltimore Tattoo Museum. Dave Sobel is Teh Awesome. (The other artists have some awesome portfolios too. There was one there today that I'd never seen before with some gorgeous stuff.) I still can't get over the fact that he said my work would cost between $800-900 when all was said and done, and I've only got 1-2 hours yet to go and have only spent $300 so far. And the work is good, as you've probably seen from the pictures I posted last week. Looks even better in real life.)
But anyway, I was an hour under the needles today. It hurt a lot worse in a lot of spots than any of the previous work. But that's what you get I guess when you've got needles going over and over and over and over right across your spine. (Then again in some spots, I felt no pain, only the vibration of the gun going through my entire nervous system) But some places...especially the trunk of the tree, which he did rather quickly and aggressively...yeeeeeeouch. During my past appointments, I've not made a single sound while being worked on, except for the time that my back cramped and I had to tell him to stop for a minute. This time, there were quite a few squeaks and other minor expressions of pain.
Perhaps as a trade-off, I dunno...but previously, the inked areas would hurt for a few solid days afterwards. This time it stopped hurting almost immediately. If I press on the area, it feels a little...off, maybe very slightly more sensitive than normal, but doesn't hurt.
Also, when I first got the outline done, while he was working and afterwards, I was feeling very....out of it. Like, half delirious or something. I was feeling a lot more conscious this time, probably because it hurt a lot more, but was surprised when I sat up to find that I felt very much like I did the first time (this didn't happen when I got the text done, I was straddling a chair and my arms kept falling asleep because it wasn't the best chair back for arm resting.)
Interestingly, just after he started working, some song came on the stereo. I couldn't tell you what it was or who it was, just that there was a line in the chorus that said something about dust on a cypress tree.
Speaking of cypress, Yankee candles make a Mediterranean Cypress candle now. Smells sooooo good. I got one on Saturday night after I was finished with Grove stuff. And stuck it on my altar. I've been burning it at night before I go to bed. Funny, you know how jar candles build up soot around the rim? Not a trace on this one yet- if it weren't for the black wick and the change in shade where the wax stopped melting, you'd never know it had been burned at all.
So after the appointment, I came home and took the covering off my back and laid down in attempt to take a nap. I never did fall asleep, but I had a wonderful hour and a half in that semi-conscious, not quite sleeping state.
Now I'm at work. I had Chinese food for dinner. That is all. Oh wait...my fortune cookie says "You look very pretty." awwwww. (Still not as good as "Maybe some day you can live on the moon." Best fortune ever)
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Date: 2007-07-17 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-17 03:43 am (UTC)is Dave from hollywood originally?
i think the dave i know moved to baltimore, and the last name *sounds* right...
ask him if he knows duckie and yordi and shannon... or, you know, show him a picture of the icon...
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Date: 2007-07-17 03:47 am (UTC)heee.
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Date: 2007-07-17 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-17 03:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-17 03:57 am (UTC)...lol
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Date: 2007-07-17 12:15 pm (UTC)