Jake made the dean’s list for his first sememster! Yay!
it’s always something
Sometime last weekend, Buster unknowingly got into a bunch of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. I didn’t know that it happened until he threw up some wrappers. After that, came the diarrhea. And more wrappers. Sigh. Things kept getting worse, so Brian took him to see the vet on Wednesday night. They gave him some medicine, and he’s doing a little better, but he still has diarrhea. I hope this clears up soon.
tattoo you
Maybe 10 years ago, I got a Jake tattoo on my wrist. It was kind of a novelty thing, as it read the same upside down as right side up. I was never really happy with the implementation of it and it got a little blurry over time as tattoos are wont to do. So, I’ve been wanting to cover it up for some time now. It took me quite a while to figure out what to get (I ended up going with a Jake-created design of an American Traditional-style heart with a couple of small flowers). My next hurdle was finding a tattoo artist whose style I liked. And, I found someone this year–Devin at Lemon Bomb (here in Johnstown).
Yesterday was the day. My appointment was supposed to be after work, but she contacted me to see if I could go in earlier, so I took a break from work and went in the afternoon. It took less than an hour, which was good because that was a rather painful place to be tattooed. And, it turned out great–I’m really happy with it!
Originally, I was going to get an anchor tattoo on my wrist, but we just couldn’t figure out the placement of it in order to do the cover up. But, I really, really like the anchor Brian drew for me so I’m going to get that on my upper arm in a couple of months. In addition, I have a couple more tattoo ideas so I think 2019 is going to be the Year of the Tattoo for me.
elevation
I received this new Stephen King book for Christmas and finished reading it last night. Clocking in at just under 150 pages, that wasn’t much of a feat. And since I finished it yesterday it doesn’t count towards my 2019 quota of a book a month. I guess I better get on to the next book.
Anyway, it was a pretty good story, but being a short story there wasn’t a lot of meat to it. Still, better than anything I’ve read recently.
My rating: 3/5
the clinic
This psychological suspense novel, written by Jonathan Kellerman was ok. I had trouble getting into it. And just when I started paying attention, he kind of skimped on the ending. I mean, I can probably guess which way it went, but not being that familiar with the main character (who stars in a whole series of novels), I don’t know for sure. That was a bit annoying.
My rating: 3/5