bells of 59

so I did it.  out of the blue.  went today and got a tattoo.  back of my neck, three coloured dots.  red, orange & light blue.  I know, sounds strange.  trust me, it's all good!  ...  my wee ellipses.  it's all sorts of symbolic for me.  the ellipses in my world of language arts and punctuation is a sorta "to be continued" thing.  I feel like in this stage of my life, it's good to be reminded that I'm not at a finished point yet.  things are still happening.  I'm still happening.  then the colours - red for canada, orange representing my dutch heritage and blue is for the boys.  although VERY swollen when I saw it, I LOVE IT!  I'll post a picture once it heals.

and yes, it really, really hurt!  found out after the fact [from my hairdresser] that the top of my back/base of my neck is one of the more painful places to get a tattoo.  shocking.  I think it's funny that although tyler, my tattoo guy, knew it was my first tattoo, knew I was super nervous, and never once let on that the entire seven minutes were going to hurt so badly!!

anyways, john doesn't know yet...could be fun to show him!!!