Another Tuesday and…
It’s International Woman Day!
My day has been spent running around various appointments, but I do have lovely clean teeth and shiny new hair now, its red. I was listening to a podcast, Unf*ck Your Brain, on my walk home and Kara was talking about how as women even our idea of ‘self-care’ is related to patriarchal society. It blew my mind! So, getting a haircut and colour to make myself feel good is related to what I think society wants from me, which is for me to ‘look nice’. This shit is so ingrained!! I’m a feminist work in progress, I’ve came so far in the last few years and have so much more to learn, so much more to do! My main goal for this year is to work on my thoughts, because, as I also learned from Kara, my thoughts are the only thing I can have any control over…
WORK. IN. PROGRESS.
My work week is starting early, back at the studio tomorrow, I normally try to take a Wednesday off but a cancellation later this week means I’m still only working 4 days, which is nice. My partner and I are due to go on holiday next week (fingers crossed) and I could do with the extra day to start packing and planning our trip. It will be our first holiday since March 2020, the year of doom, and I don’t think I’ll believe it's happening until I am on that plane out of the country.
I know I said I’d write about conventions this week but maybe that can wait, my brain is too busy thinking of this weeks tattoos and leaving the country, tattoo events are the furthest from my mind right now.
Thank you to all the lovely people who gave me feedback on the website. And thanks for not being too harsh, any creative venture, from tattooing to painting to making a website has a little piece of me and sharing it with the world makes me feel so vulnerable, so exposed and bare. But we have to try and what I’m also beginning to learn is that it’s much more important to put something out there that is imperfect than to never do the thing because you can’t do it perfectly. Now if I could just get over this new found fear of Instagram posting…
Oh and before I forget, last year I completed an access course with the Open University to get me back on track and up to speed with eduction again. It was hard, my time management on top of full time work was poor, but I finally got my result yesterday and I passed with a distinction, I am so proud of myself!! All the stress and extra work was worth it, now I just have to remember everything come October when hopefully I’ll get to start the degree…
What a load of rambling today!
Work in progress, sensing a theme this week... Progress on Hannah’s mermaid sleeve from the last week. Her poor swollen elbow ditch! But how cute are those fish and poor unfortunate souls?