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Good Morning!

Life has been fairly uninteresting this past week. I did some more work on my car and got a working coolant thermostat installed thanks to my boyfriend. Of course it snowed the day we were initially going to do it so had to postpone to the next day and it was so cold! I’m just thankful he agreed to help with it because being overdue for my inspection and knowing I’ll still have to wait a bit to see if the check engine light comes on has been super stressful. Hopefully after a few days of driving I’ll be able to take it in for the inspection and that’ll be out of the way.

The next big challenge is we’re getting an exterminator to come deal with a pest problem that’s been ongoing since we moved in. We finally got enough spare money to pay for it but we’ll have to have the cats out of the house for a few hours multiple weeks in a row and that is a big challenge when we don’t have anyone with a space to take them to. In addition we’ll be having to move a bunch of stuff around and it’s the holiday season so just a lot to deal with. I just can’t wait until all of this largely inconvenient and expensive stuff is all taken care of. Unfortunately I know it’s just the way life goes and there will always be another big thing.

On a better note, I’m pretty excited, today I’ll likely be starting a really cool large floral tattoo for one of my coworkers. It’s always fun tattooing a friend who will let you have pretty full artistic freedom. I drew up the design a few months ago so it’s been on the back burner awhile. The design is a large psychedelic color inspired chrysanthemum with neon light leaves. It’s the kind of tattoo I’d love to focus on more but we don’t have the market in the area for that style. I am thankful that I do have a lot of clients come through for pieces where I can have some artistic freedom but I don’t mind at all that a lot of what I do is just whatever trend is current. It’s fun to see what people are inspired by and learn about how they relate to the tattoos they are getting.

I suppose that’s about all I’ve got for today. Stay curious!