I was reviewing drafts on my blog from early March this year, and here’s my sweet, earnest Early March blog post.
(One day after this, I tattooed my last tattoo and went into quarantine.)
March 13, 2020:
As whole shop, we decided not to do Friday the 13th, because there’s this weird virus going around. So we decided that instead of tattooing a whole bunch of people for no real money, we were gonna spend the day as a shop. I think this was an excellent choice. It felt phenomenal to go out to lunch and then bowling as a shop.
Benjamin ended up being the one of us who lost the bowling, and he gets a tattoo that we all pick because of it. I feel proud since I haven’t played Bowling, and I was pretty terrible, but not quite as terrible as Ben was today.
Also, I have a date tonight. I am trying doing the thing. The thing that involves healing. There are two humans I’m excited to meet, a puppeteer artist, and a real cute human who works for some airline, and likes tacos. Like, really likes tacos. Like I drew Taco Flash for them. And they were STOKED. :) But, I know, my dating life is basic, and I want to talk about what I did this month!!!
I hit some professional milestones… I am gonna take myself goodwill shopping for weird outfits as a reward. :)
They were artist/tattoo apprentice milestones and I feel utterly proud of them. Guess what they were?
1. I paid all of my bills for this month, as a single person, and made rent off my business for all of next month! This is brilliant. This is a 10 gold star type of situation. Celebrate this bullshit type of joy.
2. I hung out with my non-blood related nephews, who are adorable and from the last family I nannied for, before becoming a tattoo apprentice- and they paid me tattoo wages to watch their kiddos for four hours this morning.
Holy fucking crap balls. Not only do I feel appreciated, but, damn. I needed that money. I needed it, and they just, gave it to me, with a check that said: “For Being Awesome.”
I could cry. Like actually cry. I feel like… I made a difference in their lives. I already knew they had made a difference in mine.
3. I found free wood to build out the back of my little Quest Van (that I am buying slowly from Bethany). I really want to be able to take Dirt and I camping in this van this summer on my days off so I can actually enjoy the sunshine and potentially be quiet this year, unplugged from society in a big way.
Part of my last divorce healing required being in nature as much as possible, and I think that’s going to continue to be real for me.