My VPOTUS Candidate is cooler than yours! September 5, 2008

So ever since John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate it threw my political views into hyper-drive. I don’t think he could have picked anyone better. I’m in not at all one of those people that just talks politics all the time. I actually try to avoid those situations, but I’m finally excited.

I read a lot about Sarah Palin and I think that she would make an awesome President someday too! And I love that a bunch of Obama supporters that I know, keep saying “I don’t like McCain, but Palin is quite the running mate”

I just never thought I would be this into politics and I actually watched a lot of the RNC and even some of the DNC.

I kinda wish my Poli Sci teacher hadn’t been such a jerk and just Liberal to no end. I would have maybe been able to get into the class a little more and actually enjoy some of the stuff I was learning at the time.  However, my final was all essay and I gave him my 2 cents and told him that he needs to teach both sides even if he doesn’t agree with it and that he sounds like jackass and shouldn’t be teaching at a college in the United States when he talked about the war and not supporting the men and women fighting for our freedom. Also, that even if he didn’t like the President, he was still the President of the United States, and that his antics of bashing the POTUS in a room full of college students trying to learn the basics of politics was absurd. I doubt if I changed his mind about anything, but I got an A on that Final. (I had been getting a D in the class, because his test questions were his opinion and not what was necessarily in the book.)  So I like to think I knocked a little sense into him.

Wow, sorry that turned into a little bit of a rant… anyway GO MCCAIN/PALIN!!!

The Tattoo Experience September 5, 2008

I can sum it up in two words: Worth It.

I have been wanting a tattoo for a long, long time. Finally in June I made the decision on what to get and was all geared up to get it.  I couldn’t get in at the place at the time I needed to and he wanted a lot more than I was willing to pay. I was going to get the Ichthys aka The “Jesus Fish” on my ankle. But after my mom passed away in July I knew I wanted to get an angel. Something simple, cute, and small.

I found the perfect one and let the artist draw it up himself and he did great.

I got it done in Nashville, TN on the last day of our trip. I had to go to the place 3 times before I could finally get it done. And when I sat down, I looked up on the wall and right there I see a Phoenix on an arm that I recognize… IT’S KEITH URBAN’S TATTOO. He is my favorite country singer ever. He got it done at that very same place! The whole time we were there I was planning to go to a different shop to get it done too. Just seeing that relaxed me.  And sitting in the chair I couldn’t even look at the drawing, except when he asked me if that was the way I wanted it. I’m not gonna sugar coat it… It hurts… but has no lasting pain. I can’t even remember what it felt like anymore.

So here he is doing the tattoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkFxcNIrMV4 for some reason the embed won’t work… so you’ll just have to click on the link

I asked him before he started “I know you probably hear this all the time, but what does it feel like?” and he said “It feels like gettin a tattoo” ( I would totally have to agree with him now… there’s nothing like it) he also said that if it hurt that bad I haven’t had a very hard life.

He also asked me if this was my first tattoo and I said yes and probably my only, and he said “Yeah, right!”

I can see how they are addicting, but I can only see myself getting one more, the original one I wanted.

All in all it was a very cool experience and I would do it again and will be more than willing to go with anyone to get one done.