[Write14u]

My first tattoo, I was with a friend and her gf in Pensacola. My friend wanted a navel piercing, but at the last second was chickening out. I told her I would hold her hand and get a much-discussed tat afterward if she went through with it. She really wanted it. (and her useless, abusive gf was hungover and no help at all, hence ME holding her hand). My thinking? She'll be so happy with her piercing she'll forget about a tat for me. Yeah, no. When she was done, I was told to get get a tat. So I started looking through for something that could fit in my price range of oh, about $50. LOL I ended up getting Japanese script for "love" and "woman," so my tattoo basically said "To love women," and this was as I was coming out, so it seemed appropriate. It's on the outside of my right ankle. Funniest part about it was that two years later, my then-girlfriend and I were in Orlando and an Asian gentlemen spotted my tat and started saying (across a parking lot). "To love women, hah hah hah, to love women, hah hah hah." *shrug* At least I always knew it said what it was supposed to.

This tattoo is on my upper left shoulder. (OK, it doesn't like my flickr pic, so I'll try to post in the gallery)


I was in California visiting a friend, fresh off a bad breakup and talking about getting a Phoenix tattoo. This has long been my philosophy: Like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, nothing can keep me down. Well, my friend's gf is an artist and used to do tats so she volunteered to do my tat. Only issue was some of her ink was bad and old, so she tattooed over it three times to try and make it darker. It still has a faded look. I thought once about getting it darkened, but I like the effect, plus it had a lot of meaning for me, so no, I kept it.

I came thisclose to getting a tat last month while I was in Cali again (hmmm, trend...LOL) but time was an issue. So now, I have to find time to get it done. I want a tribal armband.

This is the vein of what I want:


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