s-Inking Feeling

I feel sick.

I just put down a $200 deposit to get an Ironman tattoo.

I had a consultation with an artist at Zulu Tattoo. "Lantz" (as in lance) was pleasant enough, but I think he was too open to ideas. I don't know what I want. I think I was half hoping he would just tell me "well you can't do this this or this, so you should do that." I don't have a final design but I have an appointment July 1st. That stresses me out.

You might think this means I still have a month to work on a design. Well it doesn't really work like that. For starters, I already have enough to worry about this month. Also, as much as I would like to I can't keep sending the artist design tweaks for him to work with. His time is my money.

You might also suggest that I push the appointment back a few weeks. But July 3rd is my 40th birthday, and I think it would be cool to have the tattoo before then. Besides, if I'm going to go through with this I want to do it while I'm (hopefully) caught up in the excitement of Ironman. Not months later.

I gave Lantz the M-Dot Whale logo and told him "something like this, yet not this". I had trouble being more specific than that. But he's going to work on some ideas and hopefully come up with something. I apologized to him in advance for being a "big baby with OCD" and promised I would try not to be too much trouble.