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Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:41PM | Mr Lady One evening, many years ago, baby 1of3's' godmother watched him for a few hours for me while The Donor was at work, and when he came home, I had a tattoo on my back. He was less than thrilled.
I know it's a crap picture. You try taking a picture of your own back.
One Sunday afternoon, the boys and I piled into the car and went out "to run errands." We came home that afternoon with two cases of post-traumatic-stress-disorder and one nose ring. He didn't look at me for a week.
One night many years ago, we decided after long negotiation that we weren't having any more children and The Donor gave me the okay to get my tubes tied. The following Saturday night, while the two boys were at Gramma's for an overnight, I snuck out and got my family tree tattooed on my right arm.
It's not the whole family, just the ones I'm willing to admit I'm related to.
Two weeks later I was pregnant with 3of3. Karma's a bitch.
Odds are pretty good that while I'm in Chicago for BlogHer, I'll be getting a new tattoo. Odds are I'm not the only one. It's my one weekend away from my kids this year, and a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. Luckily for me, for all of us, I found someone willing to accommodate a sea of women of questionable levels of sobriety for the weekend and humour us while we relive our youth, just with much better shoes.
The Tattoo Factory in Uptown Chicago has agreed to hook us all up that weekend. They've offered everyone attending BlogHer a 20% discount over the entire weekend on tattoos or piercings and have arranged to provide us a free drink after our work, and then some drink or dinner special after. (We're not quite there yet with the details). They are Chicago's oldest continually running tattoo studio, they have something like 24 different artists, and best of all, they aren't scared of a bunch of cougars conventioneers descending on them for a weekend.
More details to come (we're still hammering out the details) but if you're heading to BlogHer this summer and thinking of getting some blog ink, go see what they have to offer. I'll let everyone know when this thing goes live so we can start in with the reservations.
And honey? Consider yourself forewarned this time.
Reader Comments (103)
Excellent! The Tattoo Factory is close to my house!
Thanks Shannon! I plan on *maybe* getting a new tattoo, but more than likely getting getting my current one touched up since it is old and worn.
Wow, thanks for coordinating this! I've been thinking about getting a second tattoo for awhile and this might just be the push I need.
I already told mine and he wasn't the least bit surprised. My wheels are already turning coming up with exactly what I want. As getting my third tattoo has been on my to-do list for a while, this will be just perfect!
I'm in!
Sounds like fun :)
Oh and as luck would have it, I just got a tetanus shot.
I've been wanting another tattoo for ages. Maybe this is a sign? But I want the tat artist to be willing to use sepia colored ink. I want it to blend with my freckles. Keep me posted!
That is awesome! I want a new one. Just haven't done it. Maybe I should go...
I'm with the Doner on this one. Tis cooler to be unblotted. And to keep the same number of holes that you were born with.
OMG... do you know what would happen if I came home with a tattoo?
Im planning on coming home with a couple pairs of new heels. If I go to "watch" you guys will you come shoe shopping?
Oh my gosh, what a cool idea! I definitely want a new tattoo! I want to get an "In Memory Of" one, for my best friend. But I haven't found THE one yet. (I wonder if I ever will.)
I have been holding onto my latest design, and this is the perfect chance to get it done! Can't wait!
AWESOME!!!!! Please share! I'm getting #11 this weekend. A cupcake, for my baby - she's our cupcake!!!!
Family party or BlogHer? I Love my family, but BlogHer AND a tattoo is starting to tip the scales.
You rock for setting this up. I know I'm for sure getting a tattoo and maybe a piercing too. Oh the possibilities!
Maybe I should go just for the tattoo. I have been wanting another one...
You know I'm in if I can find the coin right? MAH GAWD you are a rock star right down to the trashing hotel room antics.
I want a tattoo, but I am scared.
I've got 4 kids 2 houses, one husband and one dog and a evil cat, but no tattoo...
I NEED some whiskey in my sippy cup, but the baby keeps drinking out of it...lol!
ok now i realllly want to go to blog her. i just can't decide if i should go for a fourth tat or get my first tat re-done AGAIN. i don't really like it that much right now so i guess i should work on fixing it. sigh. really do want a new one though. maybe i'll just get two!
Oh honey! I used to live in that neighborhood. If I wasn't going to BlogHer before, I have to go now if only to chaperone you out of towners around my ghetto. I will not be getting a tat (unless you get me really, really drunk... ahem), but I will make sure you don't end up in any shady situations. Also, one of the best jazz clubs in the city is very close by, so maybe I'll show you all a little Chicago-style culture.
If I go to BlogHer I am so NOT getting a tattoo! I am SCARED! My dude has two and they are hot. But then again he still looks hot.
I've always thought a tattoo would look best on a hot bod and that my bod is not. It used to be, I think, in my youth, but really I'm not sure returning home from a chick weekend with a tat on my flabby bod would do it for me or my husband.
But I'm always open to being coerced...we'll see.
And yes yes you rock for getting this whole original tattoo fest going!
Too cool! I'm in. I want to get another one. And my mom is going to BlogHer with me and she wants to get her first tattoo. Maybe I can convince her to do it then.
Sounds like a good deal! Hmm, maybe I should get a tattoo? Except I can't stand needles...
I'll go, but only if you take me when you go.
I am SO getting my ass in line for this.
Ooh! That sounds like so much fun! I want a tat. Been working on a couple of designs. One of them for the better part of 10 years. Hubby wants us to get our first tats together though. Besides, Chicago is scary. Only the bad guys have guns there :)
A bunch of (mostly) mommies getting loaded and then inked? What's the over/under for kid-themed tats? 60%? 70%?
And furthermore, who's got the pain threshold to get their baby's handprint or footprint on their boob, er, uh, heart?
(In all seriousness, the possibility of getting inked with you is making me consider going to BlogHer.)
This is a brilliant idea. I am too chicken and prissy to get one, I'm sure, but i will be moral support for the rest of you. :)
Oh boy. I've been thinking about getting a second tattoo for, oh, about ten years. Hmmmmm ...
OMG! I've been wanting to get another tat for so long... that would be the perfect weekend and I can't think of anyone else better to get inked with. I'm IN!
I'm going with you all, and I'm THINKING of getting another one, but I may chicken out. UNLESS I think of the PERFECT design in the PERFECT location.
someone help a dummy out ... how is that a tatoo of the family tree? Its really pretty, I just don't understand how it shows a family tree?
Okay, I'm in. I just need to find a way to BlogHer (from Raleigh), someone to room with, and the cash to do it.
But I'm sooo in.
DUDE! i totally live in chicago. well. a suburb of that fine city. and it JUST SO HAPPENS i wanted to add on a nose piercing AND a new tattoo so hmmmmm guess i'll be right there withya when i get this done. awesome. 20% off? awesomer!!!!
Okay, and just to add: Holy Shit. Did you look at some of the 'happy client' pics?! Eeek. and Wow. and OMG, is that someone's grandmother?!
OK, at the very least, I am going to go watch because I find tattoos to be fascinating and beautiful. My hubs and I have been toying with getting tats to honor our little lady, so I don't know if he'd be pissed at me for getting it without him or relieved. So we'll see.
What I'm saying is, I need to be there when you get your tattoo.
also I'm saying buy me shots and hold my hand, and who knows WHAT could happen.
You make a compelling argument....
Love the fish on your back. I have a great big fish on my stomach. And have been giving some serious consideration to maybe, just maybe attending BlogHer. Which would signal some commitment to the blogging world. (But probably does not require as much commitment as oh, say, another tattoo.)
with 4 tat's and too many piercings to count(that have all since closed) I will absolutely be your sister in UN-sobriety egging you all on. Or offering words of encouragement? Either way, count me in.
Simply, rawr.
Oh man. I really never have had more than a mild curiosity about BlogHer, mainly because I am "just another blogger" and am definitely not "hip" enough, but having a tats and piercings event? I don't have either (other than my ears) but I so TOTALLY would do both if I were there. Because if people are doing this? Then they're not as hoity-toity as I fear.
19! 19! I can't even think of 19 body parts.
I totally want a tattoo and definetly would go with. I'll be there because I live outside Chicago. Someone has to drive though. I get lost easily.
I am completely jealous...I need my first tattoo revampt...as in covered in something that doesn't look like a two year old did it...I've been asking for this for YEARS...birthday, anniversary...christmas. MY dh isn't into that... I think he should get one...but I could care less if he did...I don't think he really cares for mine either...but I dont care about that either...
I am also jealous that even though your dh doesn't care for the things you do...he loves and accepts you anyway...you are free to be you...and he is free to disagree...but love never changes...
Awww....can I just come for the tattoo???
I'm not a tattoo-ee person, not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just not me.
But after reading this I find myself wondering if BlogHer should add some sort of seminar on tats? :)
reason number 17, 354 why blogher is my fave conference. the community sets up stuff like this, organically: http://tinyurl.com/d5t8d8
I'm also not a tattoo person, but I do admire the work, like watching miami ink and london ink, some of the things people get are well weird?
I was thinking of getting my national insurance number and a bar code on my arm, so when I have to fill in forms I can look at it, always forget what it is.
RT @mrlady: Preliminary BlogHer Tattoo deal details are up.... http://www.whiskeyinmysippycup.com/2009/02/19/blink/ I can't WAIT for this!!
That is freaking awesome. I, am a clean slate. I had a belly button ring once. and double ears. But I am a tat virgin. Wonder what would happen?
I will need copious amounts of alcohol and someone to hold my hand if I do decide to do this. Which I'm thinking about.
What the hell is up with me lately? Plunging into BlogHer AND getting a tat, all in one weekend. Is this my midlife crisis? If so, where's my younger man? Oh, that's right. I married him.
So where's my fucking Ferrari?