Reunions, Tattoos, and a Clean Apartment! Oh My!

So last week I got an e-vite for my 10 year high school reunion. Yes, it's been 10 years. Ten years since I left that hell hole, that place of four years of torture, and they think that I want to go back and see all of them? Like I'm going to pay to $60/person to go to the Italian Epicure see a bunch of people I don't like. Like any of them actually remember who I am, let alone care. I, personally, could care less. If I care, than I still talk to you. If I don't, then for 99.9% of you, go fuck off.

Since, we're going back in time, I got my first tattoo around nine years ago. It's a lovely little purple and yellow bearded iris on my left ankle. I got it at Splash of Color in East Lansing. On Friday, I got my second tattoo, and Rob got his first. We went to Spiral Tattoo on Packard in Ann Arbor. The owner, Leo Zulueta, is a world-reknowned tribal art tattoo artist. We were reccommended to him by one of Rob's co-workers. About a month ago we went in and talked to his partner, Diane, about what we wanted. She has us bring in pictures of our fur-kids, and went to designing. After a few sketches, we had what we wanted. Rob's tattoo only took about 45 minutes, an hour, to do. He got a caligriphy/tribal version of Penelope on his right calf. Mine took nearly two hours. By the end I was so ready for it to be over! Mine is on my back and is a stylized sable ferret weasel war dancing after a butterfly, footprints and all. It's all in black, the only color is on the butterfly. I'll post pictures after they've healed a bit.


And now the most shocking of all things: Rob and I have a relatively clean apartment! Well, clean for our apartment, anyway. Jennifer and Mike came over Saturday evening. Oh my, guests! And they had computer questions! That meant I had to find my desk under the piles of papers and cds and photographs. Wow, believe it or not, there really is a desk under all that! So, Rob and I cleaned, vaccumed, and tidied. When Jennifer and Mike came over we had Pizza Hut for dinner, then we computerized and camerized, and bounced with ferrets. Mike was loving the fur kids! He had all four of them in the tunnel at one point. Of course, what's not to love about those, bitey, pouncey, bouncey, adorable little fur kids? Ok, so Rob and I are biased. Jennifer thought the rats were adorable. Which, by the way, they are! All in all it was a good night. Then we get a call around 11:30; I had left my cell phone in their car when we went to dinner. Oy. So, the next day, on our way to Rob's mom's for dinner, we detoured to Northville to pick up my phone. Maybe I really do need yarn to tie everything to me! :) Or so, Rob says.

Well, I'm going to watch Supernatural now.