It's done!

After a lot of money and even more pain, my tattoo is finally complete!
Ta-daaaa!

I just have to go in one more time for touch-ups to the outline and maybe the colours, though I think they healed up nicely and don't need any work. The picture is a little blurry, but the colours are much brighter in real life. I am so excited about finally having this finished! I am already planning my next one, though I won't be getting it for at least a year.

Christmas this year was good. Not great, but not bad either. I didn't get as much time off work as I would have liked, but I did get to spend a couple of days with my family. The whole past month has been weird, though. Christmas seemed even more commercial this year than it normally does, and I resolved (like I did last year) to try and make it different next time. This year I attempted to knit all my friends' presents, but despite having started over two months ago, I am still working on them. Next year I will start in August. Also, my nan had a stroke about a week and a half before Christmas. She's doing very well (it was pretty mild, and they caught it early), and was even able to come home in time for Christmas, but it was still a bit of a shock, and it sucks that she has to learn to speak again (also coming along well).

I just took Winston in to the vet to be neutered. Poor little guy, I got all choked up when they took him away. Those vet people should really be more sympathetic, although I do think I'm worrying for nothing. I get to pick him up at 4:00 today.

I am very tired, having gotten up at 6:00 on my day off, so my plans for today are to clean my room, watch a movie, and maybe do laundry if I have time. I am also hanging out with the girls tonight, which we haven't done since Annette left in July, I think.

Growing up kind of sucks.