Tattooed and Geeky

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Adventures of a tattooed geek.

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May. 8th, 2008 @ 04:01 pm A very pleasant surprise :D

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We got an awesome visit from Ross and Kari last night, and had a LOT of fun playing card games and a little bit of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. They bought a chicken lasagna for dinner, and it was DIVINE!!!

They have a bunch of games I have never tried, but now am looking forward to playing. :D

And wanted to say thank you to both Ross and Kari for making our evening enjoyable and we look forward to having them over more often. :D

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Feb. 28th, 2008 @ 08:18 pm Bowser Finished!

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Today my Bowser tattoo finally got color! It was just finished earlier this evening. I love it!

( Bowser now in color! )

As always, it was done by Dave at Atom Bomb Tattoo.

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Feb. 19th, 2008 @ 08:41 am It's that time of year again....

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Happy Birthday beanalby!!!!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day and I love you!!!

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Feb. 17th, 2008 @ 08:50 pm Just a little note....

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I just wanted to say.....

THANK YOU!!!!

To everyone who was able to make it to our place for Game Night/Bean's Birthday. You all made our party so much fun!!! Thank you so much for coming!

For those of you who couldn't make it, you were missed, but I am sure we will all get together sometime soon in the near future.

Thank you all again for making our day!! You are all awesome people and I am lucky to know each and every one of you.

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Feb. 11th, 2008 @ 09:57 pm Saturday Treats!

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I am making quite a few tasty delights for this Saturday's Game Night/Birthday party. The items to be offered are as follows:

-Home made buckeyes
-Home made crab rangoon
-Home made deviled eggs
-Tortilla chips and potato chips
-Dips: Guacamole, spinach and ranch
-Vegetable Platter
-Ordering Pizza Hut pizzas
-And Dairy Queen Ice Cream cake

We also have several drink options, including water, some fruity iced tea, Diet Coke, Regular Coke, Mountain Dew, and some Gatarade and some alcohol if you wish.

If there is anything you wish to bring, please feel free. :) Also, if you have any requests, let me know.

See you Saturday!

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Feb. 4th, 2008 @ 07:47 pm Upcoming Game Night/Birthday Party

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Tags: game_night

We (

beanalby and I) would like to invite you over for Game Night/Bean's Birthday Party!

Where: Our Apartment (leave a post if you need the address or directions).

When: Saturday, February 16th, 4:00 PM - ???

What: Gaming of course! We will be ordering several pizza's from Pizza Hut. We will also have a Dairy Queen Ice Cream Cake and various munchies (chips, dip, buckeyes, and maybe even some crab rangoon).

We have multiple board games and video games that support 4 players (most recent is Rock Band, which we found out, with the help of Froggy and Tyger, is incredibly fun with 4 people). Please feel free to bring other games if you would like.

If you would like to bring anything else, drinks are welcome!

Playing games isn't required of course. You can just come for pizza, cake and company.

Please post if you will be coming, just so we get an idea of how many will be there. But feel free to show up even if you don't RSVP.

We look forward to seeing you there!!!!

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Jan. 30th, 2008 @ 09:32 pm Inked again

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Current Music: Ghost Hunters Theme Music

I got another tattoo today. It was my birthday present/Christmas present from my mom and my brother. It's geeky! It turned out great so far, but unfortunately, the outline took longer than anticipated and I have to wait until February 28th to get it colored. So for now, I just got the outline. But I am loving how it's turned out so far. So without further delay, on to the pictures! The middle picture looks a little strange because we took that picture without a flash. It's located on my right inner forearm, opposite of my dragon.

Paper Mario Bowser!

I will probably expand to a sleeve and some point, but not any time in the near future. It was of course done by Dave at Atom Bomb Tattoo

Oh and we have decided on a date for February Game Night/

beanalby's Birthday. It will be on Saturday February 16th. We will probably both make posts once it gets closer to the actual date.

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Jan. 25th, 2008 @ 09:43 am This is a pleasant surprise....

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It's now 4 days after my hip surgery and I am up and walking completely normal. I don't have any pain, just a slight discomfort. I am pleasantly surprised at how little this hurts. I feel great.

I took the bandage off my hip this morning, and there is no bruising at all. The surgery site looks great.

I knew it wasn't going to be bad since

beanably had the same procedure, but I didn't think it would be this quick to heal up either. I am quite happy with how this turned out. Bean has been taking great care of me. And we look forward to seeing people soon for game night. :)

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Jan. 21st, 2008 @ 09:18 pm Surgery is done!

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Surgery is complete and I am now home and healing. I had 2 tears in my cartilage, not just one, but he went in and fixed both and it went off without a hitch.

And good news! They gave me a special anti-nausea patch that goes on behind your ear. They give it to people going on cruises and planes to combat motion sickness. It's really working. The medication is called Scopolamine, I take the patch off tomorrow.

I am using one crutch to hobble around since I am quite sore, but other than that, it wasn't bad at all. I will definitely be up and walking on my own tomorrow.

That's all for now. All the fish are still alive. Bean is taking very good care of me, as always. Thanks for the well wishes. :)

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Dec. 21st, 2007 @ 03:14 pm General Holiday Ramblings...

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Tomorrow we leave at 8:00 AM to drive to Wisconsin to spend Christmas with my family, which includes my mom, my brother, my brother's boyfriend, my husband, my uncle and probably my ex cousin-in-law. It's going to be an 8 hour drive which I am not looking forward to, but the result of said drive will be worth it.

On Sunday, we're going to go to the Milwaukee Public Museum. The last time I was there was over 10 years ago.

beanalby has never been there. We plan on taking a lot of pictures. I love the museum and I really hope the Wizard's Hall is open this time (it was under some renovations the last time I was there). We will finish up Sunday evening with all of us going out to a new sushi place in Milwaukee. My mom has never had sushi, and while the thought doesn't appeal to her too much, she is willing to try it. My brother and I both love sushi and we have similiar tastes to that of our mother, so I am pretty sure she will like it once she gets past the whole "gross raw fish" thing.

I also get to listen to my mom tell me how much she dislikes my tattoos and then tell me she is still contemplating getting one of her own. But this year, I bought an airbrush tattoo kit for her. So she will get a temporary tattoo that will last 1-2 weeks without any pain or permanence. I am hoping she likes it enough to actually consider getting her own tattoo, but I am not holding my breath hehe.

My brother has a pug. And not just any pug, but a fat, roly-poly 26 pound pug named Logan. He is just the cutest thing and Bean and I can't help but snuggle him. I told my brother I wanted to steal him, and Glenn said go for it... IF I can lift him...

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. We will be back before New Year's. Have a wonderful holiday!!!!!!

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Dec. 11th, 2007 @ 11:32 pm This tickled me....

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My Meta Knight and Kirby tattoo turned out so much better than I could have thought. So I decided to email a picture to a tattoo gaming website. They posted it. It's located at:
http://www.thebbps.com/blog/category/culture/gamer-ink/

Once

beanalby's tattoo heals up a little bit more (it still looks like it has a bad case of pink eye), he is going to submit both of them to gonintendo.com.

I was just tickled.. We have gotten so many compliments on our tattoos. Dave is definitely our tattoo artist for life.

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Dec. 9th, 2007 @ 12:57 am Mine and Beanalby's Christmas Presents

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Bean and I decided ages ago that our Christmas presents to each other would be tattoos. I got my 6th and 7th tattoos on my outer left calf and

beanalby got his very first tattoo on his upper right arm. They were both done by Dave at Atom Bomb Tattoo. They turned out wonderful. I am very happy with them. Now we just need to let them heal...

( Meta Knight and Kirby )
( Megaman )

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Dec. 1st, 2007 @ 12:13 am Just a brief update.

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A few things are going on... First of all, our continued weight loss. I am down just about 40 pounds now and

beanalby is down 36 pounds. We are continuing our diets and exercising as much as we can. We still have a ways to go to reach our target, but we're getting closer slowly but surely.

Second, I got stitches in my foot. Remember when the doctor thought I wouldn't need a mini skin graft to cut out the calloused part? We were wrong. The callous is a result of my body rejecting the donor tissue they grafted onto my tendon. It was slowly closing up with medication, but it was taking too long for my doctor's comfort. So Thursday, I went in and he cut out the dead tissue (down to the tendon) and pulled it shut and stitched it. I am up and walking, it hurts a bit, but nothing major. Still in normal shoes. I get the stitches out on December 13. But I can't exercise until then to make sure the wound closes. Bummer...

Third,

beanalby and I are getting our Christmas presents to each other a little early. We're both getting tattoos next Saturday! I am excited and can't wait. Bean is still an ink virgin. For now... We will post pictures once completed. We also have several requests from people asking us to post our completed tattoos on multiple websites.

Our camera died (it's a long story, I will let

beanalby do a post about that whole thing) so I haven't been able to take pictures of the new kitchen yet. It looks great though!

Also, we had to get

beanalby's wedding ring resized from a size 12 to a size 9 1/2 due to his weight loss. :) He has also recently been addicted to Super Mario Galaxy and has already got all the stars and completed the game and unlocked the extra content and he is very happy with what was unlocked.

Other than that, not much has changed. We will be going to

bleakenigma and

tygerdsebat's place for game night next Tuesday and look forward to it.

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Nov. 1st, 2007 @ 02:08 pm Sickies

beanalby and I are sicker than dogs. We have the flu. We're hoping to feel better by Saturday so we can make Tom and Liz's wedding. We really want to be there so hopefully the bug will pass quickly. But if you don't see us there, you know why.

Tom & Liz: We hope to get better so we can celebrate with you! But if we are still sick, we will pass so we don't get either you 2 or your wedding guests sick. *Hugz!*

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Oct. 26th, 2007 @ 11:44 am New Kitchen!

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We got a notice last week that maintenance would be in our apartment updating our kitchen and bathroom cabinets, counters and sinks today. We moved everything out of both rooms into closets and the dining room. The new cabinets and counter tops are gorgeous! The cabinets are a light natural wood color (much better than the dark brown cheap veneer ones we had originally) and the counter tops look like granite. They are really nice, I am impressed!! I will probably post pictures once we get the kitchen put back together.

They also replaced our dishwasher! The old one worked, but not well at all. It was easier for us to wash all the dishes by hand than to use the dishwasher, but hopefully this new one will actually work. I can't wait to try it out. The new kitchen theme even matches our accessories (which are mostly black and white).

They also replaced the toilet. Not sure why, but I won't complain.

They are almost finished.. then I can start putting stuff back together. Right now our refrigerator is in the dining room...

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Oct. 13th, 2007 @ 02:16 pm Just a generic update...

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Just a quick update...

First of all, I am up and walking completely normal! I am wearing normal shoes and my ankle does not feel wobbly at all like it used to. It hurts very little. I am so excited to be up and walking again! Also, I won't need a skin graft! The scar is responding well to medication, so in a month or so, it should be completely healed.

Second, I have totally given up soda. Even though I was drinking diet, I realized it couldn't be too healthy, so now I just drink water.

Third, our weight loss has been going great!

beanalby has lost a total of 27 pounds, and I am down a total of 31 pounds. And I got the all clear from my physical therapist to go walking, so adding exercise to our routine should help us reach our targets faster. I still don't feel great about myself, but I do feel better.

Other than that, not much has been going on. I found out my cousin is coming into Ohio the 2nd week of November and will be staying with us a few days. We grew up together so she is like a sister to me. I am excited about that. We will be going up to Wisconsin for the Christmas holiday to spend it with my brother, his boyfriend and my mom.

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Sep. 24th, 2007 @ 07:55 pm Ankle Update

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I got the cast off last Thursday and it was wonderful! I was able to scratch my leg for the first time in five weeks! The doctor also removed 20 staples from the incision sight. He said that sometime during healing, the skin under the staples folded over and didn't stay flush so it wasn't healed quite right. He bandaged the incision area and said don't take the bandage off or get your foot wet until we see him on Monday.

So we went back in today, and the incision looks quite a bit better. But... there was a complication in the healing. Part of the skin didn't heal together and created a callous over the incision. He gave me some special scar cream to put on the incision 2 times a day for the next 2 weeks. If the callous doesn't start shrinking, the doctor will have have to do a mini "procedure" and cut out the callous and stitch the skin from the other side of the incision over the area. Nothing major, just local anesthetic. But hopefully it will heal on it's own and we won't need it. I can finally get my foot wet, but I have to wait 2 more weeks before I can get the incision wet.

One surgery down, 2-3 more to go. I should be up and walking without crutches within the next 2 weeks. I am very happy with how well it's healing. I am so excited that I am going to be up and walking soon.

We had a wonderful weekend hanging out with friends and I got my dragon tattoo touched up on Sunday.

And for your viewing pleasure? (warning: it's a bit gross) Pictures of the ankle and the incision. There is a bunch of dry skin on my foot as tonight will be the first time i can get my foot wet. It's not a pretty picture, so you have been warned. But enjoy if you do look.

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Sep. 14th, 2007 @ 12:11 am Birthday Wishes

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I am sure I won't be the only one, but I wanted to say...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY tygerdsebat!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day.

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Sep. 1st, 2007 @ 03:59 pm Few Updates

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Got a few updates...

Today is mine and

beanalby's one year wedding anniversary. I got him Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 for the Wii and he got me a paid LiveJournal account! So I have been adding themes and customizing my pages.

About a month ago, I got a new tattoo. I have several reasons for getting this tattoo. Both Bean and I love dragons and the martial arts. Our living room is taking on a dragon/eastern motif. My mother is also a huge fan of dragons and for Christmas several years ago, I gave her a huge dragon cross stitch that I had made for her. And finally, my grandmother spent 3 years in China and brought back her love of the culture. So this tattoo symbolizes three people that have had the most influence in my life: My husband, my mother, and my grandmother. It is on my left inner forearm. (Picture of tattoo here.) I absolutely adore it.

And finally, the surgery. It's completed and I am healing well. The doctor will remove the cast on September 20th. I can't wait! It will still be a few more weeks until I can start putting pressure on it, but I am looking forward to walking normally. And for your viewing entertainment, a picture of the cast here. I am in pretty good spirits considering being stuck on a couch all day hehe.

And a silly little side note: I caught all the fish in Animal Crossing: Wild World for the DS! Woohoo!

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Jul. 31st, 2007 @ 12:04 am Pleasantly Surprised

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accomplished

Bean and I went clothes shopping this evening. I tried on some clothes that would have fit me 2 months ago, and they were falling off. I tried the next size down, still too big. Since

beanalby and I started our diet back in June, I have dropped 2 whole dress sizes (down over 16 pounds now). Bean has so far lost 10 pounds as well.

The progress is incredibly slow and with my physical limitations (I.E. not being able to do practically anything), it's frustrating. But regardless, by just counting calories, I am losing weight. Hopefully soon I will be back on my feet walking and using the Gazelle we just bought a few months ago. But for now, I am satisfied with the progress so far and look forward to losing more.

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