I’ve Been Keeping Something From You

by Monique Renae on July 17, 2008


Originally published at Blogging Monique Renae. Please leave any comments there.

It’s not like me to keep things from my readers. I have always maintained that I have no secrets, my life is what it is, an open book. Granted, there are some things I choose not to discuss because some people just don’t deserve the attention me writing about would give them.1

But see, what I have been keeping hidden isn’t about someone else. It’s about me.

No, it’s not that I am Jane from the previous post.2 It’s that I got a tattoo.

Several fun weeks ago, when S was in town and we were hanging out in that tattoo and piercing parlor, I went ahead and got my very first tattoo. I permanently inked my body, and now you all know even before my mother does… and boy is she going to kill me when she finds out.

I have always wanted something simple and cute on my shoulder. As time passed and I got older3 I decided that I would get a butterfly on my wrist.

I wanted a small butterfly… I had something in mind for when I would one day go and get it done, but since this was a impulse decision, I chose something from one of the 70 books they had in the shop.

I could have sworn this little thing was A LOT SMALLER in the book, but on my wrist it looks huge!

And oh, it hurt like a mother frosting cake kicker. I was told I got it in one of the most sensitive places, and I did notice that the lower he got on my wrist, the more painful it was. It took a lot for me to not head butt him while he was doing it… but common sense kicked in and I knew if I did it, I’d end up with a not-so-cute-tattoo.

About two weeks after getting it and it was healing it, I didn’t like it so much, but now that it is looking pretty decent I’m loving it.

On August 23rd, I am going to get my 2nd tattoo,4 which will be a ladybug5… also on my wrist. Clearly, I learned nothing from the pain I felt before so I need to endure it yet again.



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  1. you know who you are []
  2. I am going to deny it until someone can prove otherwise []
  3. and the threats from my mother didn’t scare me as much []
  4. what they say about it being addicting is very true. i was planning my second one within hours… and i already know what my third one will be – if my mother hasn’t killed me by then []
  5. it’s super cute, I already have it picked out and everything. its like a heart shaped ladybug []
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