So I've been chronicling my weight loss periodically (current status: 34 pounds down, 25 to go). It's been a really big deal for me, seeing as I've tried so many times to drop a few pounds before, only to fail. I've been overweight for going on a decade now, and I don't want to have to repeat this weight loss in the future.
So there is a part of me that wants to memorialize the actual amount of weight I lose with a tattoo. It would of course be discrete, like a small number on my shoulder blade. Or maybe giant three-inch-high Japanese numerals (older style characters) surrounded by a dragon eating a naked woman on my face. Either way.
There is also a part of me that thinks I am a complete idiot for thinking this.
Full disclosure: when my daughter died, I also considered that event important enough to warrant defacing my body permanently, and the two parts of me strove. Unfortunately, the Tattoo Nikuman couldn't think of a damn thing to actually do, so the Puritan Nikuman won that round.
Rather than ask yea/nay of all of you, I'm interested to know: who's inked up, what do you have, where, why, when, and how do you feel about it now?
So there is a part of me that wants to memorialize the actual amount of weight I lose with a tattoo. It would of course be discrete, like a small number on my shoulder blade. Or maybe giant three-inch-high Japanese numerals (older style characters) surrounded by a dragon eating a naked woman on my face. Either way.
There is also a part of me that thinks I am a complete idiot for thinking this.
Full disclosure: when my daughter died, I also considered that event important enough to warrant defacing my body permanently, and the two parts of me strove. Unfortunately, the Tattoo Nikuman couldn't think of a damn thing to actually do, so the Puritan Nikuman won that round.
Rather than ask yea/nay of all of you, I'm interested to know: who's inked up, what do you have, where, why, when, and how do you feel about it now?
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