The FoilKids are on vacation with their father for the next week, which means I actually will have some free time. I have lots of to-do lists, but honestly, I'll be doing some good knitting and lots and lots of reading. Also, sitting by the pool, scoping out all the muscle-bound guys who appear to reside all around me.
I'll probably do a tattoo inventory. One guy has at least two tattoos on each exposed limb and a few on his back and chest as well. Now, I get wanting to express oneself to the world. For fuck's sake, I'm a blogger: one can't get much more into the "I have something to say that I want other people to know" ethos than blogging. But imprinting it on one's flesh*, especially, well, all of one's flesh? I don't get that.
Yes, I know that means I'm old.
On a completely unrelated subject: On my way home from the pool today, I discovered a discarded sewing machine by the recycling bin. I've brought it home, and it works. And yes, I know how to sew as well as knit. Poor TG will never get a store bought Halloween costume again.
*CookieDear: Your tribal tat is just lovely, as I'm sure, though I haven't seen it, the Darth Vader tattoo is also lovely.
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Solitude can be such a blessing! Glad you're enjoying some. Congrats on the sewing machine, too -- that's a rare find. I've sewn for years and find it infinitely satisfying to have something useful I can hold in my hands and use at the end of a project. Enjoy!
Yeah, the sewing machine was a find. Where I'm going to fit it in a 2 bedroom flat with four people residing therein (TG & DG -- who between them have enough personality and attitude for 4 or 6 people -- & SaintlyBabysitter & me) but I will find a place. I have a week to clean out unnecessary and outgrown toys and clothes and rearrange furniture. So I should be able to start sewing soon. G Street Fabrics. Mmmm. If only they were still on G Street Downtown and not way the hell out in Rockville nowadays.
What an excellent find!! Enjoy the fruits.
Jeanie: Sometimes, one is just lucky. I definitely was with the sewing machine find.
Yes, I know it brands us as ancients, but I'm totally with you on the whole tattoo thing. I just can't get past the mutilation aspect of it (piercing is considerably worse for me--any piercing, anywhere; it just seems barbaric and tribal).
And so often it's someone who, in youth, is dying to make The Indelible Statement, a testament of conviction about something without regard to what their older, wiser self might think (or what their older, wiser parents think). Nobody at age 20 envisions themselves at age 50. But *surprise!* it happens.
Oh, and I never found a sewing machine, but I have found several vacuum cleaners over the years, all of which, with a little fiddling, have worked fine. I've never had to buy a REAL one, when the found ones have worked so well!
BTW - there's a G Streets Fabrics at Seven Corners and, unless it's closed, there's a Joanne's Fabrics, too.
Wunelle: Agree with you on the tattoos and piercings, although I do have pierced ears -- and a second piercing in one ear, which I now regret, natch. In the recycling section of the trash I've found: a footstool, a patio chair, a regular chair, a bookcase, a wardrobe, a nightstand, a bureau, a fan, an ironing board, an underbed storage container, and a sewing machine. In the last two years.
DCPeg: Yes, but I want it to be on the Metro! But yes, I will take advantage. The button collection alone makes it worth a visit. I have a Michaels and an A.J. Moore's near my home, but G Street is the platonic ideal of a fabric store.
There is a grown woman at the gym I go to with a tattoo of Mickey Mouse on her arse. I hate to wonder why?
J.J.: Gyms are a wonderful example of my antipathy toward physical alteration (again, I have to admit to ear piercing). I remember seeing a woman whose breasts did not sag at all upon removing her bra and wondering: won't those look a little weird when she's sixty?
At the same time, it's wonderful to see the wide range of bodies, and realize, no matter what my body shape might be, it's normal and there's someone fatter, skinnier, taller, shorter, more muscley, more jiggly, more whatever than me. But yeah, Micky Mouse? Mr. Studmuffin's younger brother got a Mickey Mouse tattoo when he was in the Marines, and said "You have to be a real man to get a Mickey Mouse tattoo." Maybe your gym-mate is a Mr. Studmuffin's-Younger-Brother fan?
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