triumphgal

Just another day in the life

03-16-25 Double Feature

March 16, 2025


Woke up to big fluffy snow that just kept coming down.

I worked on emptying a few purses. I definitely have a lot of duplicate stuff.

I tried to find a grandson to go see Paddington in Peru with me but they were all involved in a big DnD campaign so I threw on my jacket that I bought at Machu Picchu and headed to the 2;15 show. I enjoyed it very much and had a good laugh when the father asked their guide if he got his tattoo on a drunken night in Cusco. That is where I got my Peru tattoo! I was glad that I brought my loops as there was a large group of kids for a birthday a couple rows back. They were very well behaved.

Dinner was at Fenwick & Baker as I couldn’t find any of the burger spots open. I had a fun visit with some of the guys and then headed back to the theatre to see Captain Marvel Brave New World. I liked it and there was only one couple and me in the theatre!

The snow has melted but my dang ankle is achy.

Talked to Mom and she says she’s doing ok although I had to remind her to take the cough medicine as she was coughing while we talked.

03-15-25 Make Space & Makerspace

March 15, 2025


I got so much done today. It’s ridiculous.

I had an idea to move my island against the wall, where the cat door is, and the wall is unfinished, and the wind blows in and have my table more out in the middle and accessible and just have a change so I did that and I started sorting all the stuff that’s piled everywhere. I didn’t get it all done, but I got quite a bit done And that makes me happy.

For lunch, I heated up the lobster mac & cheese that I bought frozen at Heid-out yesterday and will have more for dinner. I’m sure.

I went to the office to meet Chris from Murray Technical Excellence who was going to help me do the crib board that I want to offer for the Rotary auction. He was held up for about an hour, which actually worked out well because I got the filing done that has needed to happen for a year. When he did arrive, I took apart the Lazy Susan that I had bought and we made a template. It was probably a four hour adventure by the time I was said and done because I had to stay there while it was being processed by the laser It sure beats the heck out of using an old woodburning kit though lol

It really did turn out beautiful. We both realized once it was fully done after so much attention to detail on the whole size etc. that the Rotary logo is not perfectly circular, but it’s still so gorgeous that I am very happy to donate it in both our names to the auction.

As soon as the laser was finally done, I raced off to buy cough syrup and bring it to mom. She said she is feeling better today. Just the cough is annoying. I made it there just before the doors were locked for the evening. I then came home and had some more mac & cheese and have my foot up as it is really aching today. I don’t know why.

03-14-25 mom, sigh

March 14, 2025


Today was pretty casual. I got work things done. I got volunteer things done. I got another burger in my belly at The Heidout, filling my card for the first time since I’ve been doing this over the years. It was tasty, but I’m sure it was tastier for people who could have the smoked Poblamo, which, of course I had to ask to be not included. It was nice to have a quick visit with the restaurant owner who I consider a friend, Heidi.

Afterwards, I picked up Gene from work and we went to get his dad’s truck and traded out my table that Ashlée had with hers that I had as well as sent home my IKEA chair for Gene to use in his first apartment. At first, I thought I was going to miss having the drop leaf table of Ashlée‘s which I had in the first place because it was the only thing that would fit in my small apartment before I bought this place. Now when I see it in my space and think about where I want to move things around, I know that my beautiful round table that I finished with the help from Mau, one of the very special homestay students from Mexico, is exactly what I needed to get back.

It’s a weird time in the world. We have a new Prime Minister, Mark Carney of whom I know very little. We are becoming super patriotic because of the threats from the president of the US to take over Canada as a 51st state. The saying that means so much to us has become an anthem of the times: Elbows Up! For those of you don’t know it’s a hockey term and it was kicked off in full force by Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live. So much of me wants to ignore it. I’ll do my thing by Canadian where I can. I am just avoid going to the states, but I also had dreams of road tripping to go see my friends and now I feel like this will have to pass. I stopped at the liquor store tonight to see how bad it looked because I heard that the government liquor stores took all American alcohol off the shelves. It actually was quite amazing to see how little was American. That was there in the first place, although what I learned was the number one section that was hit the most was the American wine. This is good for BC growers.

Oh, the Mom part. She called me this morning to say she had a cold, but she was in a good mood and then she called me just as I was about to leave work to ask if I would come help her get into bed tonight because she couldn’t lift her leg of course it’s not what I wanna hear at the end of a Friday when I can’t get her to see a doctor nor get her evening care for the weekend And I know it didn’t just come on todaywhich leaves me feeling frustrated. I did show up there just before eight and had a visit with her and had to be mean and let her do things for herself with my supervision so that I could see what is going on for some reason she has pain in her right growing so that she can’t lift your right leg up enough to get into bed which left me realizing that it wasn’t gonna be of any help to get her settled into bed if as soon as she got up to go to the bathroom, she wouldn’t be able to get back into bed, so I settled her in her chair which lays back and also stands up enough to help her get out. I am going to have to arrange for her to see her doctor or if it gets worse take her to the hospital again. she did admit that she hasn’t been walking and keeping active as she is supposed to. I am feeling very frustrated by this because once again she is barely able to walk and each time it’s because she has stopped moving sat around too much and let herself go. At what point is this not my problem I’m sorry I’m being super cranky, but I am frustrated. I have a lack of taking responsibility for her own health. I can’t go there every night and help her into bed. She’s also a bit of a night owl so the doors to the building lock at eight and I’m pretty sure she doesn’t wanna go to bed at 8 o’clock every night But again I don’t know how late the assistants come anyway. AITA?

03-13-25 Trivia Thursday

March 13, 2025


I’m trying not to overthink things, but I really have had several good days in a row. Today was another of them. I started out chasing down donations for Rotary and was very blessed to bring in an emerald level sponsorship. It was a rainy kind of morning, but even that made me happy because I got to wear my minion raincoat that I got in California last year Rotary lunch was very interesting. The speaker was Jason Wheeldon, local longtime realtor, who gave a lot of housing statistics and trends, and it was quite fascinating.

The afternoon was once again pretty productive at the office. I do like March. It’s one of those months where I can just catch up on things and make people happy which means I am not grumpy. Also, a good thing.

I had a 4 o’clock appointment at the travel vaccine clinic to get my final booster for my hepatitis B and that one’s good for 20 years. Most of my others are good for another 10 so that should pretty much cover off my travel years.

Next was Encore for friends with benefits gathering at five. I texted Rae that I was there early for friends with benefits. A while later, she came out of her office and said oh you’re here early and I looked at her strange but didn’t realize for some time that I had accidentally texted the client that I was there early for friends with benefits. They responded with a.’What????’ I was nearly crying. I was giggling so hard when I realized my mistake and I’m grateful that this client is a friend and will laugh about it.

I signed up for trivia night with the usual suspects and then ran off 20 minutes into it to get a haircut with Karissa and came back to play the last couple of rounds and once again we came in second. As I was leaving this lovely gentleman of my era with a delicious accent asked if I would be back next week and I told him that I thought I would be and got a big smile in return. I’m curious what that was all about….

03-11-25 migraine be gone

March 12, 2025


I had meant to be caught off guard by the snow on the ground when I woke up this morning I had hopes that we were done with that although it’s not a surprise it is often snow even in April and it didn’t really stick around so that’s a good thing. What did happen was the barometer had changed enough to cause two things, a low-grade, trying to become something, migraine and an aching ankle. I have a feeling I’m going to become that person now. Remember the old guy with a I can feel the weather is changing. I can feel it in my knees. I can feel it in my toes. Sigh, I can feel it in my ankle.

I enjoyed today at work. I worked on things that give me satisfaction for people who appreciate me and that is a good combination. I took time to virtually attend the chamber AGM as well.

I ran out in the afternoon for my optometrist appointment to find that my eyes are very healthy inside. My prescription is not changed for the second annual appointment in a row, which may be a record and she is going to refer me to the specialist in town for surgery on my eyelids. They are quite hooded and bothersome, making me feel rather stoned and tired all the time now and because they are affecting my health it will be covered by our medical service plan. I did find it rather amusing that at 61 I now have implants.(in my ankle.) and I’m about to have my first plastic surgery as much as the idea of surgery on my eyes freaks me out. I look forward to the difference it will make.

After work, I was to meet Paul and Laura for wing night at Fenwick & baker so I went a little bit early and hung out with Dave for a bit. We had good conversations about ideas for his store and ideas for the donation of Rotary in general. I feel respected conversations which have been hard to come by lately.

I had such a nice dinner with Paul and Laura and good conversation as usual, but it was also nice to just get home and curl up and watch Survivor

03-11-25 more burgers

March 11, 2025


I know it’s odd, but I don’t eat burgers most of the rest of the year and here I am eating them nearly every single day right now. after a long day at work I headed to the Heid-out, but there was no parking for way too long of an amount for me to walk so I went to Fenwick & baker. I ended up having a delicious burger, a lovely visit with Codey at the bar and Robbie, the bartender and a few other others that I knew and it made it all worthwhile . I had a great catch up with Keon about his trip to Vegas and we established clearly that he needed to use Marnée’s magical tours for that trip and he didn’t do any of the truly fun things in the whole week that he was there. It made me once again, want to take people on tours or hook them up for their vacations.

I did a bunch of errands this morning before heading to the office, including picking up mom’s pills and taking them to her and having a nice little visit and going to winners to find a barrel to make a cardboard out of for my donation to Rotary. There were no small ones left, but I hit the big time with a beautiful lazy season, but I can’t wait to turn into something beautiful with the help of Chris Marie who runs the laser cutter.

03-10-25 Happy MAR10 Day

March 10, 2025


Long day of data entry and reconciling. By 7:30 I was starving so I headed to Boston Pizza for Burger month. I was literally shaking by the time I got my Perogy Chicken Burger and Caesar salad. Skimmerhorn was on special so I got my whole delicious meal for 31.57 including tip. The food was good, the service was good and I got another chapter of my book read. They have cool new charger stations.

I am now enjoying Running Point, a good series on Netflix, with Kate Hudson.

03-08-25 what a nice day

March 8, 2025


I had a good sleep and woke up with no intention of going anywhere. I made coffee and sat in my chair and started watching my shows did a few little chores and relaxed again and then I was scrolling Facebook when I saw a post by Kristen reminding me that I had wanted to go to the Opening at the gallery today it was already an hour well into it and so I got myself ready and headed there. I am so glad I did. I know what it feels like when people you know come out and support the things that you do and I also know what it feels like when they don’t so to be able to go to a show where I saw the artwork of two of my friends and to see them in person and to have wonderful conversations with artists and creators and watch demonstrations of felt art and wet felt forming and other things that I can’t even completely explain, but I took some cool pictures and it was soul filling.

I did buy a two dollar clearance incense holder with cute little package of incense and a gorgeous piece that Kristen made which I can’t get until the show is over at the end of April but it’s even called ‘Oooh so shiny’. it seriously called my name and one of my favourite things is to have art around me that I know the people who made it. We need to support the people that make beautiful things that bring us joy.

One of the demonstrators was Mary who does wet felting and I was so traced by her tea light holders that she made that I wanted to buy them, but she wasn’t selling them and I said, but if you were to make a couple that I could buy from you I would I would buy them and she just gave me two of them. Although I may be spoiling the surprise, my plan is to send one of them off to my friend Linda in England and then we can both have a beautiful piece of art and think of each other when they’re lit up. it is so lightweight and I can flatten it and mail easily. Mary even did a little video for me telling how to Restore it once it gets there.

After the show, I stopped at Encore to pick up a couple of my friends with benefits crawlers. It was crazy busy in there so there was not a chance I was sticking around instead. I decide to go to ABC country restaurant and try their burger for burger month. There was no one there and it was so peaceful. I read my book, enjoyed a Caesar, and the burger was excellent. My favourite one so far I think. Eventually, some people came in, but I sat there for an hour and a half or two just reading my book and enjoying being out.

Once home, I did all those chores that I normally do on Sunday, taking out the garbage changing the litter box, change my bed, doing the laundry, changing over the dishwasher, all those things. It was really quite a productive hour or so and then I’ve been watching my weird little guilty pleasure Highway Thru Hell ever since. it feels like tomorrow is a bonus day now, but I suspect I will get even more things done.

03-07-25 unusual

March 7, 2025


I had decided to take today off, but I was awake at 6:30 so after relaxing for a bit, I decided I might as well go into the office and deal with all the email that were coming in. I ended up being there for a good part of the day and actually got a lot of things done, which clears the list and relieves the tension I did take my recycling and even found out that I can recycle electronics at Staples so I dropped off an old printer and a couple of keyboards. They just had me sign the paper, knowing that I will not be able to get them back and that’s awesome After that, I went to Canadian Tire to buy batteries and a new corn broom, and with the gift card that I was given for Christmas and the points that I had (Canadian Tire money), I ended up only paying $6.71 for two big packages of batteries, a very good broom and a bottle of flavouring for my soda stream. Pretty good deal, all in all

Next stop was Encore for a burger month burger on the way home. I ended up having a nice visit with Rae-Annebefore she headed off with Roger for a walk and said she would be back for the music at nine.

I decided to stay. I ended up having a couple of nice visits and getting a good chunk of my book red before the music began, the opening band, Fyfe Williams included Encore’s brewmaster Brando, the banjo player.

Tailgator closed the night. They were good but maybe too low energy as people were there to dance

I did find it amusing that one of the guys reminded me of Gene Ween.

It was nice to hang out with Dee-Anne and Rae-Anne

03-06-25 it is done

March 6, 2025


I am not sleeping well the last two nights. I still choose to get up and get functioning and get on with my day and get the things done that I can and I feel satisfied with my job. What is still challenge me Is the volunteer work part of which I’m being paid for but the numbers are overwhelming and apparently there is some disrespect as to whether I should be considered a sponsor of the event that I am doing so much work for. I guess what they don’t understand is that I am about to make a 30 day contract and then 30 days maybe at the end

I stopped at fire hall to take in the Burger month Burger, which was fine but again marinara not my favourite so that is my fault not theirs. I did have a wonderful visit with a man named andree from Slovakia who comes here to work Thursday and Friday of every week for the radio station and I learned great deal about him and his family and their 10-year-old son and their immigration processed to Canada and it was really lovely. I do like being the person that can ask the question and stimulate conversation because I think it’s good for them and for me. the Nanaimo Bar is freaking delicious and potent

Fisher Peak performing artist society had its a AGM tonight. It was not without its complications and I felt at one point to go over the meeting, but I grew weary of the side talk and the things that we’re not necessary and I just wanted us to get on with it so that I could be done with it. I am no longer the treasurer however I was grateful to be part of appointing Randy Tapp as it token treasurer. He will let me know what the board has agreed and I will do the books and all the regular treasurer things and give him the reports. I fear for the society. I think many things were brought up tonight that highlighted egos involved and it will be hard for me, but I will need to add a certain level, walk away

When I left the meeting, I settled up to the bar to find Hugh Moore there and we had fun, just sampling whiskey combos and enjoying each other‘s company. That was the perfect and to what was a stressful evening. I also admit that my favourite part was visiting with the president‘s wife, Jean. I noticed during the meeting where she was picking up on things and iterating what was necessary and I appreciated her very much for being there. She has her husband’s back as the president, but she also acknowledges what I have gone through and I appreciated her very much.

03-05-25 heavenly birthday

March 5, 2025


I woke up fairly stuffed up again, but took my medications and got through the day a lot better than yesterday. One of the highlights of the day was Monica leaving a gift bag at my office door. I wish I did get a picture. I’ll try to remember tomorrow. She made a hilarious homemade card and on the front of big letters it said ‘snot to be gone’. In the bag were figurines of Ren and Stimpy, which made me laugh, especially because she knew I would know who they are and the amount of bodily fluids that are involved in that show would put a big smile on my face for sure.

I prepped angel food cake, sliced up strawberries, and brought whipped cream to share with everybody at the office. I printed a picture of Jackie with a little story and ask them to hug somebody special today in honour of her. Honestly, it left me a pretty dang good mood all things considered.

I had good texts with the two other people closest to her, her son Reid, and her friend Mike who is in Mexico. Mike a.k.a. Michelle, is the one who introduced us in the first place because I was doing Mike’s books and Jackie was their accountant. That is how I got to know her and how she recruited me to the accounting firm she worked for and how we became fast friends travelling off Island every day., two decades ago.

Amount of work done and then just decided it was time to stop and build my lucky bamboo. I put on CBC and listen to an interesting program while I built it. It was a good meditative thing to do before coming home.

The best message of the day was just as I was finished at work and Reid let me know how happy he was that he was able to pick up his mom in her urn from the funeral home today.

Yep, she’s still controlling and looking after us all from beyond. Happy Birthday JB. I miss you.

03-04-25 snotty

March 4, 2025


I fully admit that my kryptonite is snot and phlegm. I can’t stomach seeing it coming out of other people and I even more can’t handle it when it is my body creating it. I even wore a mask today so that I didn’t share the joy. It’s definitely different when you’re stuffed up and have to wear a mask to protect others as opposed to when we wore them to protect ourselves. It is hard to breathe.

I did get a good amount of work done and took care of some errands and picked up my first burger for burger month from Fire & Oak. It was a pizza burger. It was OK, but unfortunately, not good for take away as it was soggy around the edges and that did not help with my current condition, to have soggy food as well as a soggy head. I also am not a big pizza fan so probably others would enjoy it more than I, but it was for a good cause.

Once I was done at the office, I headed to Safeway to get some daytime nighttime cold capsules and some fruit. Ended up wandering and getting a few groceries, had tremendous savings from a combination of sales points and coupons that I saved over 38%. I forgot how satisfying that is. It’s been so long since I did groceries I was out putting my groceries in the car when I realized that I needed to buy myself flowers so I bought a nice bouquet in honour of my loss and I also bought a wee orchid as that was Jackie‘s favorite Flower and I hope to keep it alive although she knew I never could so we’ll see.

I also picked up strawberries and whipped cream and little angel food cakes and away Mickey of Jagermeister to celebrate tomorrow what would’ve been her 70th birthday. Jager is the only thing she ever drank on occasion besides her daily Canadian beer

It felt good to make a plan for tomorrow and I hope I am feeling better by then as well

Being that I only got clearance to start weight-bearing at all on February 19 I found my Fitbit step count for this week compared to that week quite amusing. I was over 10,000 steps higher than the week before lol

03-03-25 sinking sinking sinking

March 3, 2025


OK, so as long as I am talking about it, I’m still on the right side of this darkness just so you know. My Jackie isn’t here anymore to read all the signs and put me in the right directions and the closer I come to her birthday in two days when I was hoping to have seen her the more I am falling into the abyss. But the thing is it’svnot really about her. It’s about pain and the trauma of my fall and pushing through it and doing all the work and praying I didn’t make mistakes and still making little mistakes because I’m so tired and burned out because I’m good at what I do and people need me to help them and I have trouble saying not right now And when I do it, it’s in the wrong tone and I have to turn around and apologize and I feel like I’m in a strange cosmic monologue of yes, oh I’m sorry. No, oh I’m sorry. Oh, can I help you…… Next? and I have a fucking cold on top of it. Merde!

Oh, and did I mention I came out of work late and then that snowed Yep first time I’ve had to shovel for myself since December at least it wasn’t a lot

03-02-25 Oscar night

March 2, 2025


I am still fighting something, but feel a bit better today. I spent time moving my Lego and Star Wars things to the den, watched The Substance and Dune Two, made some me food and am now settled in to watch the Oscars. I also took time to break down the BB8 that I bought made. I want to build it myself and add lights.

03-01-25

March 1, 2025


I am struggling today. I woke up earlier than I wanted to because my ankle was, I guess, burning, is the easiest way to describe it. Is that kind of shin splint feeling again or I can’t really get it into a perfectly comfortable position. I decided it was a good day to just put her a tiny little chores and hang out in my lazy boy but it’s hard because half an hour ago. It was 21° out and now it’s 23 and it’s sunny and beautiful and I wanna be outside walking, but I think I should not.

Now that the pressure, well, the extreme pressure, of January and February is over. I am sinking. I know the things I need to do. I need to go to a chiropractor. I need to go to a massage therapist. I probably should go for counselling and process through a lot of this stuff but instead, I am just stuck here in my chair frozen in time watching the Oscar nominated movies. I want to go to the hockey game tonight, but I realized that would probably not be a good idea but I need to continue to rest my leg so I think I will just stay home and take a CBD bath bomb bath or something and go to bed at a decent time that’s the goal anyway. I am also on what feels like the verge of a cold… sigh.

I watched Emilia Pérez. Then I watched Conclave. Then I watched Nickel Boys. They are all three pretty heavy.

I figure I will make time for one more.

I realized that I can’t take a bath as my tattoo is too fresh. Sigh.

I ordered from Ella’s. My Jamaican chicken salad was delicious and there is no for tomorrow. I hope I sleep off this cold feeling.

02-28-25 Done for another year

February 28, 2025


I peeled off two nails in my stress mode yesterday so I was grateful to get a 10 am appointment with Minh. I went to the office first and got some work done. I had a good visit with Minh and he even donated gift cards to Rotary. What a great guy

Back at the office, I got all the things I needed to do done before heading to Bluesky restaurant at Western financial place for Rotary on the rocks before the hockey game. I had some great conversations. I was happy to see Leslie again there who I had met at the Christmas party and we are making plans to get together . I did find out sad news that while on a cruise, the Debrecini’s have had a terrible experience it seems that Joe has had a major stroke has a brain bleed, etc. and Jean is there by herself dealing with it. I seem to remember they are in Honolulu I could be wrong. I was just so overwhelmed thinking of how sad this is. I know them through the community theatre and they just have the most giving wonderful souls. Jean is a little bit salty and I always got along great with her.

It was pink the rink night at hockey and I wore my ice jersey that has become tradition for this event. I did buy a ticket and even went and sat in that seat for a little while, but it was at a strange angle and I didn’t like that I couldn’t see everything well so I wandered over to the Hyundai booth where Dalton and Kelsey were there by themselves and ended up having a great visit with them and a lovely time. It’s also kind of nice to watch the game from one of the lower boxes. Kelsey is due to have a baby girl on April 26.

I came home and am enjoying restarting my journey on the whiskey of the world tour. Today’s is not my favorite, but it was fine.

I am tired and glad it is the weekend as this is the single most I have ever billed in a month in my career, and I damn well earned it, pushing through the pain

02-27-25 one more day

February 27, 2025


I don’t even know how to explain that roller coaster of a day I’ve had. I’ve gone from being so low that I started looking up sending myself flowers because I feel like when someone loses someone they love so deeply they should get flowers but as the song goes, I can buy myself flowers. I did stop myself because I can stop at Safeway and pick up some beautiful ones and bring them home and put them in my own vase and enjoy them without paying the cost of having them delivered. That is the practical thing to do. my higher brain nose that is a little bit egocentrically, but my lower one says doesn’t anybody really realize how much I lost?

Of course it is also that time of year when even if I hadn’t suffered a traumatic injury and a traumatic loss, I would be overwhelmed with my workload so yeah there’s that and that’s why I have to keep talking about it here so I don’t let it drag me down.

That is part of the reason that I wore my blingy Anaheim duck shirt and my bling earrings and my bling belt and my wonderful oversized white boots as Vancouver was playing Anaheim tonight in the Honda centre in California and I need to distract myself and root for my boys who have paid little to no attention to this season. So far they are the only thing American that I cannot give up.

After work, I was supposed to show up for the Strata AGM at 7 o’clock, but at 6:10 I decided I should go to the Fenwick and Baker and text my friend Dave to see if he was in town. It turns out he was and I joined Mike and Heather and him at a table and had a great visit and confirmed three donations from their businesses to the Rotary gala and ended up watching the game and hanging out with Dave And visiting until 1015 or so. it’s awesome to have a buddy and I’ve met his wife and she’s amazing and is totally OK with us hanging out.

The only other thing I did besides work today will stop at Encore and get a picture with Jessie as they were the first people to donate for the gala and it made me happy to bring that donation in.

Oh, and I nearly forgot. I got out of the shower this morning and realized exactly what my next tattoo will be. I have always wanted one that memorized my trip to England because that would complete my bucket list items on my travel alarm, but I never clicked until this morning. I want to do Winnie the Pooh and Piglet from the back walking towards the Eiffel Tower, and that will sum up my trip to England with the day trip to Paris. in 2019

02-26-25 Marine Iguana

February 26, 2025


Today was pretty good. I managed to get many things off my list and I only have one file that I have to finish tomorrow which I know I can do. That knowledge allowed me to go to my rescheduled appointment from the beginning of January for my Galapagos tattoo. I showed up just before noon and saw Ferdy walking into the store next-door. I had been hoping to run into him and had sadly not made a point of doing so and I know that hurt his feelings as he didn’t know how I felt about all the things that went down while I was in Ecuador, I was able to look him in the eye and tell him that I was sorry that I wasn’t there that I would’ve had his back at things may have gone differently. I hope he truly believed me.

Jeff Fletcher of Inzane Artworks had a drawing ready for me, but it wasn’t quite exactly what I wanted so he said give me 40 minutes and I’ll redraw it and so I left with the knowledge he would text me when he was ready and within 15 minutes I got the text and headed back to find exactly what I was looking for. He had taken one of the photos that I took in the Galapagos and turned it into that creature on my arm. The only thing about it is that the mohawk type plumage that marine iguanas have on their heads, doesn’t show up in the angle of the photo that I took, but it’s the way that I wanted it on my arm. I wanted it to look like it was sunbathing on the rocks with its legs splayed out and the huge, long fingers, etc. well defined. he did such an amazing job and we had a very good visit and on top of it he also added 2013 to my Peru tattoo that I had done when I was there. He is a great human and I go as much for the visit as the ink. This one was #14, although not all by him

Once back at the office, I worked until quite late getting things done that I needed to before coming home and making a nice dinner and settling in to watch the screen actors Guild awards

The potato had frozen but I made due