Year of the Tat
This week is my 36th birthday, and to celebrate I thought I'd do something special. I went on down to Godspeed in San Mateo, my tattoo parlor of choice, and got the kanji for rat (nezumi) put on the back of my left arm.
It being my 36th birthday, this is the third time I've gone 'round the zodiac. Since I was born in the year of the rat, and it's during a rat year that I'm going to Japan, I figured it was auspicious enough to warrant a tattoo.
Plus I just love rats, and I miss the two that died last year, Niko and Loki. Now I always have them with me. Awww.
Eew, your skin looks kind of weird from closeup. O_o
Funny thing is that the kanji for 'nezumi' is so rare (it's normally written in katakana) that I initially read that as 'nezu' which means slate gray, the color
Posted by: rupan777 | January 31, 2008 at 07:48 PM