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Fishy

October 13, 2006 on 7:54 pm | In Life In General | No Comments

This week was my pseudo-anniversary.  It was one year since my husband and I pretended to get married in front of all my friends and family.  I have now been living in Scotland for a year.  I am starting to appreciate tea everywhere, and I am even starting to talk like the people here (except that I still refuse, as a card-carring adult, to refer to a cookie or biscuit as a "bikkie"; I have my limits).  I still miss Seattle and I miss friendly people.  On the radio they said that Edinburgh was recently voted the unfriendliest city in the UK.  I can’t disagree.

To celebrate our pretend anniversary, my husband and I went out and got more tattoos.  He got a pacific northwest native American serpenty sort of thing on his upper arm.  I got a little orange fishy on my left forearm.  All the women in my office are fascinated/concerned by my new tattoo.  Fascinated because none of them have tattoos, and some don’t even have basic pierced ears.  (Oh, and I got an extra piercing in my ear because I got bored while waiting for my husband’s tattoo to get done.)  And they’re concerned because it has been very red and sore.  It is red and sore because the body of the fish is on my forearm and the tail extends upwards onto my upper arm.  It looks all cool, but getting tattooed near the inside of the elbow joint hurts like you wouldn’t believe.  And it is very thin skin there, so it bled all over, and is still bruised a little.

I’ll show you pictures someday.  I need to wait until it stops flaking and isn’t all gross.

Alana