Love In The Asylum

Four Things (The Quick 4th of July Edition):

1. I'm getting my tattoo on the 16th of July! My tattoo place is just a few blocks from my mom's, so while I was there this weekend we stopped in for a consultation/estimate and I made my appointment. It will be either a very belated graduation gift or a somewhat early birthday present to myself.

2. I was in a parade today! I got to drive a miniature horse cart. Which is both a smaller than usual horse cart and a cart pulled by smaller than usual horses. Oh my goodness, the minis are so precious. Really nice of my mom's client L to let me drive one of the carts. I always get a kick out of the parade down there, even more so actually being in it. :)

3. Baseball! Is a monumentally boring game in itself, but I do actually enjoy the whole experience of baseball games. And this one was exciting as baseball goes. Also there were fireworks at the end. My patriotism is a small and bitter thing that mostly takes the form of exasperation and social justice advocacy, but I can get behind some good explosions.

4. Weather! Still direly hot, and the entire state is still on fire. This is now the biggest fire in the history of New Mexico. But we seem to have progressed from the mid-June: You Will Never See Cloud Cover condition to the early-July: It is Raining and Not Hitting The Ground, and I have high hopes that we will soon reach mid-July: Daily Torrential Downpours. Goddess knows we need it.

Two things before I keel over in exhaustion, because this was the second night in a row I got less than four hours of sleep. And only one of them is about Torchwood!

Non-Torchwood: I think I want to get another tattoo. Actually, I've been thinking for about a year that I wanted another one, but I haven't been able to make up my mind about what design/where to get it, since I'm the kind of person who can agonize about that for ages. But yesterday my mom and I started talking while I was over there hanging out, and we sort of independently reached the same conclusion about what design I should do, which makes me think it might be meant to be.

I think for my next tattoo I'm going to get a tree of life, either on my shoulder or between my shoulder blades. Which sucks because I won't be able to see it as easily, but it means I can do a bigger tattoo than the one on my ankle, and the tree of life would be a little complex to do that small, so. I like it, as a metaphysical concept, as a symbol, and aesthetically of course. So now I'm looking for some suitable art I can use to work out a design with the guy at the tattoo place I went to last time. Fun times!

Torchwood: ( CoE spoilers under the cut )