Kitten Trees

It's been an eventful week already.  I have a fresh tattoo and I'm on my period!  Sometimes I use exclamation points to talk about awful things because it tricks my brain into thinking bleeding is a fun activity.  If you've never gotten a tattoo while on your period, just know, it's not very fun.  I mean... it was slightly worse than getting a regular tattoo but the aftercare is annoying because I have 2 things to deal with.  I guess it'll be better in the long run cause both of them will be over in a matter of days.  Then I can enjoy the beautiful art for the rest of my life!  And I get bleed all over again next month!  Being a woman is super fun. 

Side note, Marshall is bugging me to watch cat videos on my computer now.  I blame Brandi for tagging me in a video about a tree full of cats.  There weren't even any directions on how to get to the tree.  Just a bunch of adorable felines going "look at how cute we are, don't you wish you could pet us? TOO BAD".  I guess I'll just have to grow my own cat tree.  Then I can post a video of it online and not let anybody come over and pet my cats.  BAM KITTEN THERAPY!  My blog has come full circle from last week.  I could use my kittens to help with my period pains and soreness from future tattoos that I'm gonna get.  I heard that tattoos are addicting but really I think it just seems that way cause it's not like you can get all the tattoos you want overnight.  It takes time so that might seem like an addiction.  I guess you could get them all at once but that would be very expensive.  And painful.  And take A LOT of planning.  I'm not great at planning things and that's the only thing stopping me from doing it.  Part of the planning would involve renting like 50 kittens for my pain management.  I only have one cat so I have to scale back on the pain level accordingly. 

Here's a part of my tattoo.  It took me 4 pictures to get the whole thing and I don't want to post them all.  You'll just have to talk to me to see the whole thing.  I mean unless I'm wearing a sweater and fall is here so that is very likely. 

They're cosmic roses!

Conflict and Kittens

You know what's super fun?  Trying to think of stuff to talk about on my blog while my mind is occupied with subjects I can't talk about in a public space.  I mean I guess I could but it might piss off a few people.  As anyone who has been paying attention knows, I'm super into creating conflict and getting into arguments.  It's basically a hobby. 

I read somewhere that kids can't understand sarcasm until they're like 10 years old.  I was thinking about this last night when John said something super sarcastic to Bishop and I watched it go way over his little head.  I was kinda funny. 

Also I legit do enjoy picking fights and arguing about nothing but it has to be with someone I'm VERY comfortable with and they always understand that I'm joking.  Having a nothing fight is like a hobby in our marriage.  And I think it has sharpened my debate skills.  Although I don't think a lot of my logic would be permissible in a formal debate.  There's a lot of problems I would solve with kitten therapy.  That would only work for a small number of issues.  Like healthcare.  Did you know cat purring has healing properties?  And who purrs the loudest?  Kittens.  We should be getting kittens into every ER like right now.  We would save so much money on surgeons. 

Not Sorry

Here's something I'm trying to stop doing: being apologetic.  My first instinct when I started this post was to say "sorry I missed last week" but you know what?  I'm not sorry.  I was legit busy doing super important life stuff that I don't regret.  It's not something I want to talk about now but I might eventually. 

Also a few days ago, I took a really cute picture of myself that I wanted to share.  My first impulse was to be snarky or cute about why I was posting a picture of myself which I think a lot of people do.  Instead I examined my intentions and just decided to be honest.  I was feeling cute and I wanted to share it.  I'm just scared that I'll come off as vain if I post a picture of myself for no reason that I have to remind myself that it's okay to show off once in a while.  I show my kids off enough cause they're adorable, I might as well show myself off when I feel adorable! 

I'm trying to work on my negative Enneagram 9 tendencies.  My default is to think I don't have much of value to contribute so I kind of blend into the background.  So I'm trying to be present and be myself and not assume other people know life better than me.  I always assume others have more authority.  That might be true sometimes but it doesn't mean I have zero.  I think becoming a parent has really helped me to understand that.  When I have to advocate for others, it helped me see how much power I have out in the world. 

And with my new authority, I will BRING THIS POST TO A CLOSE.  Go home now.  It's over.