Sickness and Health

I got a tattoo. I said I would and I did it.It's a rosebud, in orange, on my lower calf/upper ankle. It was really pretty when it was first done and it'll be really pretty when it's healed.

However, it isn't pretty now.

It appears to be leaking orange ink. I have asked a few people who also said that their ink started to leak for the first few days and my dad said something about them putting in too much colour to cover against things like this happening.

I've never had a tattoo be

fore, I don't know if this is something to worry about. My mum has one but her's is on her shoulder so she wouldn't have noticed so much and my dad has two but had them so long ago he doesn't remember. I'm not entirely sure what to do.

I had a similar issue when I had a nasty cold at uni. I've had colds before, but I've never been sick on my own before. I've always had my mum to stroke my hair and give me medicine and fetch me water, but most of all to tell me when I need to worry about something.

I had an issue with my throat (I won't give you details because it's kind of gross), and I rang her up before my lecture to check that it was a normal thing that you have during a cold. Perfectly normal, perfectly reasonable reason, and perfectly helpful advice to go to the doctors if it didn't go away.

I got better. It was fine. I have since got sick again, but that's not the point.

Anyway, the tattoo doesn't hurt anymore and seems to have stopped leaking ink. However, it has started itching, which is both good and bad.

Good because apparently this means it's healing, but bad because it's really freaking itchy.

Ho Ho Happy Holidays.

(I sound like I'm trying not be offensive by not using the word Christmas. This is not the case, I just liked the alliteration. I'm not Christian and I'm not offended, so please get over yourself).

Christmas happened. It tends to do that, roughly the same time every year in fact. And we all seem to have roughly the same thing to do every year.

Most families have some sort of tradition. My best friend has Christmas dinner on boxing day and I've known people who celebrate on Christmas Eve before now (which I know is what a lot of Scandinavians do).

We do it on Christmas Day, as I know most people do. We get up a little too early after not quite enough sleep and open presents in our 4 piece family. There are thank yous and hugs, the occasional happy tear (usually my mum) and there is always a mess of wrapping paper; no matter how hard you try to clear it up. Then at a more reasonable time we head over to my grandparents' house for more presents and a delicious Christmas roast cooked by my nan and then home for Doctor Who.

We always say God help my mother when she has to cook a Christmas dinner, because she went straight from dinner with her family to dinner with my Dad's family. She can make a cracking roast, so it probably won't be much of a problem, but she hasn't ever done it on Christmas Day before.

Now it's New Year 2011 and I suppose I'll let you in on my new years' resolutions. Truth be told I've never been one to keep new years' resolutions so most of the time I don't bother making them - except the one year I made the paradoxical resolution to break my new years' resolution. I just don't see the point in putting all these restraints on yourself in January that will be long gone by February. The whole idea of new years' resolutions is that people pledge to do things that they probably won't be able to do and then they don't feel bad when they break them because everyone else breaks theirs as well. The system is set up to fail.

Which is why I did 365 days in 30 ways. I pledged in October to do 30 things that involve changing aspects of my life within a year. So far I'm doing okay with it.

My mum posted a blog post on http://faerieimportantstuff.blogspot.com/ where she talks about disliking new years' resolutions and you should all go and read that. I had the same idea as her at the same time as her and she just got there first. If I wasn't setting this to post exactly as the new year rolls in I could fiddle with the timestamps to make it look like I did it first, but that would be a little bit mean wouldn't it?

However, I do have a new years' resolution. I am stopping drinking little and often and starting drinking a lot in one go every now and then.

All the best for 2011 for you all, and we shall continue the search for Mini into the new year and beyond.