Trips to Van/Tattooness - Sat & Sun
Saturday:
I was uneasy with going down by myself because my knowledge of Van extends to about a ten minute walk from the skytrain in one direction as down that road resides a comic book store and hair dye shops, so, I asked if someone would go with me since I would have to take the bus from the skytrain to get to the tattoo shop and I've never taken a bus in Van before. Ricky offered to come with me to keep me company even though he doesn't know Van either; yay! We couldn't decide to meet at my bus loop or the skytrain inbetween us cuz we both got the considerate person thing happening here and both trying to do what's best for the other person. So we did what I found to be the only logical fare solution for deciding: I wrote "exchange" on one paper and "skytrain" on the other, mixed them up, and then got him to pick a hand XD In the end he won and we met at the bus exchange down the street from my house. His mom offered to drive us to the skytrain so we did that. Yacked bout this and that. Got to Van and after stairing at the bus stations which are a little different then ours out in Sur we figured out ours was across the street so we caught it and were on our way!
I saw the store out of the corner of my eye when we were on the bus so we got off and walked down. Turned out the design of my tattoo was too intracit to be done that small so she blew it up to 200% size and said it would have to be at least that size and even then it would have to be simplified a bit. So I asked if we could fill in the lines and keep it at the 200% size and she said that would work. However, because it will need to be bigger it is going to be a lot more then we anticipated so I needed to think about and thus didn't get it done today even though they had drop-in time available (needed to figure out if I wanted to shell out that much extra cash for that one or pick another).
So we wondered around Van. See, for some reason Ricky refuses to make decisions about anything, even small things like if he wants to go into a store or catch a movie, so I got stuck wearing the man-pants today in every single way. I don't like that. Really don't. I like it when all parties concerned have input for plans. I dun mind making the decisions sometimes, but I don't like making them alone all the time. So anyways, I ended up deciding I wanted to catch the movie Hide And Seek so we had to blow a few hours since we were right in the middle of the showing times. That was hard cuz he wouldn't say if he wanted to go into anything so I had to pick all the stores to go to. When we finally found an actual mall (Van is mainly made up of stip mall/street stores) he said if I wanted to go shopping type thing we could, that he wouldn't mind. Twas very sweet of him, however, I couldn't bring myself to drag him into any girly stores like clothing or jewelry XD So that didn't blow much time. I finally got hungry (he asked me several times that day if I was and I wasn't till about an hour away from the movie starting time) so we headed into the closest store around: McDics. He bought me the food! LOL XD He already buys me a snack & drink every Tuesday at club, plus he came all the way down there with me plus was gonna come back the next day (Sunday) with me so I felt guilty and uber spoiled (LOL). PLUS, something else I forgot to mention: Last time I was at club I said thanks for the chips & pop cuz that was gonna be my dinner, and he remembered and said he'd buy me a sub next Tuesday now so then I'd have actual food for dinner and asked what I wanted on it XD That kid is so sweet, I am SO not used to constant kindness. Hell, I'm not even that used to occasional kindness o.o;
Anyways, the movie wasn't half bad. Kinda interesting ^_^ We then headed home. His mom was nice enough to pick us up from the KG skytrain. While we were waiting he told me he felt real sick and wouldn't be able to come with me tomorrow, and has been appoligising about that ever since ^^; He feels real guilty bout it, but said being down there today had taken everything outta him. I didn't mind, told him that was fine. He insisted he wasn't lying as apperently he'd never lie to me he says ^.^
We both agreed we had fun though so that was great ^_^ I love the way Van looks at night; there's so many lights it's very pretty.
Sunday (AKA today XD):
Decided I'm gonna get the tattoo I want @ 200% size even though it's gonna be a little expensive. Figured that's the one I've had picked out for years now, so obviously it's important to me, so that's the one that should be perminate on my body. They told me yesterday that if I came in right at 12 (their opening time) that I would probably be able to get a drop-in time. My mom wanted me to take someone with me since she was afraid that if I got dizzy afterwards it would be difficult for me to take the busses and skytrains needed to get home. So I called up T since she originally offered but she didn't have bus money, said she was getting paid tomorrow. I should have asked her bought that cuz I know she quit her last job so I shoulda asked where she was working now but didn't think about it at the time. Will have to ask later. So my mom suggested asking my uncle Ken. I did, and he drove me down YAY no busses! ^.^ They didn't have any slots open long enough for me; I needed an hour and a half and they only had hour slots open, so we booked an appointment for 12 noon on next Saturday. I did the down deposit and left the picture with them so everything is set! ^.^ Tentitively after I get the tattoo done (uncle's gonna drive me down again) we're gonna hit the bars and he's gonna introduce me to some of his dancer friends. I love his dancer stories, they're halerious!! XDDDDDD This is dependant on how I feel of course.
Sorry but I don't have a pic to show you guys of the tattoo of the moment. I was gonna scan my hard copy but the store asked if they could keep it so I said yes (I think they wanted it so they could do up their own version since it needs to be filled in in some spots) and I don't have the comp file of it anymore since my compy has now been sent to bloody Hewlet Pacard for repairs (but that's a story for another day). My uncle bought me a sandwhich on the way home! XD Like I said, I felt spoiled this weekend; I offered to buy HIM food since he spent a few hours with me driving me around (Van = not close to Sur, in fact Van = further away then Jen's job).
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On another note, it's been a hard process to find new pictures, but I've whipped some new icons. Look at them now, I command you, because they rock XD I've fallen in love with the way Microsoft Picture Manager can be used to edit the size of pictures. I've never used it before but that's what's on this comp and it's very sweet for that one purpose/function. I've made more, but some of them are the same emotions I already have, so I didn't bother uploading them because who needs three icons for "happy" or "fierce?"
I was uneasy with going down by myself because my knowledge of Van extends to about a ten minute walk from the skytrain in one direction as down that road resides a comic book store and hair dye shops, so, I asked if someone would go with me since I would have to take the bus from the skytrain to get to the tattoo shop and I've never taken a bus in Van before. Ricky offered to come with me to keep me company even though he doesn't know Van either; yay! We couldn't decide to meet at my bus loop or the skytrain inbetween us cuz we both got the considerate person thing happening here and both trying to do what's best for the other person. So we did what I found to be the only logical fare solution for deciding: I wrote "exchange" on one paper and "skytrain" on the other, mixed them up, and then got him to pick a hand XD In the end he won and we met at the bus exchange down the street from my house. His mom offered to drive us to the skytrain so we did that. Yacked bout this and that. Got to Van and after stairing at the bus stations which are a little different then ours out in Sur we figured out ours was across the street so we caught it and were on our way!
I saw the store out of the corner of my eye when we were on the bus so we got off and walked down. Turned out the design of my tattoo was too intracit to be done that small so she blew it up to 200% size and said it would have to be at least that size and even then it would have to be simplified a bit. So I asked if we could fill in the lines and keep it at the 200% size and she said that would work. However, because it will need to be bigger it is going to be a lot more then we anticipated so I needed to think about and thus didn't get it done today even though they had drop-in time available (needed to figure out if I wanted to shell out that much extra cash for that one or pick another).
So we wondered around Van. See, for some reason Ricky refuses to make decisions about anything, even small things like if he wants to go into a store or catch a movie, so I got stuck wearing the man-pants today in every single way. I don't like that. Really don't. I like it when all parties concerned have input for plans. I dun mind making the decisions sometimes, but I don't like making them alone all the time. So anyways, I ended up deciding I wanted to catch the movie Hide And Seek so we had to blow a few hours since we were right in the middle of the showing times. That was hard cuz he wouldn't say if he wanted to go into anything so I had to pick all the stores to go to. When we finally found an actual mall (Van is mainly made up of stip mall/street stores) he said if I wanted to go shopping type thing we could, that he wouldn't mind. Twas very sweet of him, however, I couldn't bring myself to drag him into any girly stores like clothing or jewelry XD So that didn't blow much time. I finally got hungry (he asked me several times that day if I was and I wasn't till about an hour away from the movie starting time) so we headed into the closest store around: McDics. He bought me the food! LOL XD He already buys me a snack & drink every Tuesday at club, plus he came all the way down there with me plus was gonna come back the next day (Sunday) with me so I felt guilty and uber spoiled (LOL). PLUS, something else I forgot to mention: Last time I was at club I said thanks for the chips & pop cuz that was gonna be my dinner, and he remembered and said he'd buy me a sub next Tuesday now so then I'd have actual food for dinner and asked what I wanted on it XD That kid is so sweet, I am SO not used to constant kindness. Hell, I'm not even that used to occasional kindness o.o;
Anyways, the movie wasn't half bad. Kinda interesting ^_^ We then headed home. His mom was nice enough to pick us up from the KG skytrain. While we were waiting he told me he felt real sick and wouldn't be able to come with me tomorrow, and has been appoligising about that ever since ^^; He feels real guilty bout it, but said being down there today had taken everything outta him. I didn't mind, told him that was fine. He insisted he wasn't lying as apperently he'd never lie to me he says ^.^
We both agreed we had fun though so that was great ^_^ I love the way Van looks at night; there's so many lights it's very pretty.
Sunday (AKA today XD):
Decided I'm gonna get the tattoo I want @ 200% size even though it's gonna be a little expensive. Figured that's the one I've had picked out for years now, so obviously it's important to me, so that's the one that should be perminate on my body. They told me yesterday that if I came in right at 12 (their opening time) that I would probably be able to get a drop-in time. My mom wanted me to take someone with me since she was afraid that if I got dizzy afterwards it would be difficult for me to take the busses and skytrains needed to get home. So I called up T since she originally offered but she didn't have bus money, said she was getting paid tomorrow. I should have asked her bought that cuz I know she quit her last job so I shoulda asked where she was working now but didn't think about it at the time. Will have to ask later. So my mom suggested asking my uncle Ken. I did, and he drove me down YAY no busses! ^.^ They didn't have any slots open long enough for me; I needed an hour and a half and they only had hour slots open, so we booked an appointment for 12 noon on next Saturday. I did the down deposit and left the picture with them so everything is set! ^.^ Tentitively after I get the tattoo done (uncle's gonna drive me down again) we're gonna hit the bars and he's gonna introduce me to some of his dancer friends. I love his dancer stories, they're halerious!! XDDDDDD This is dependant on how I feel of course.
Sorry but I don't have a pic to show you guys of the tattoo of the moment. I was gonna scan my hard copy but the store asked if they could keep it so I said yes (I think they wanted it so they could do up their own version since it needs to be filled in in some spots) and I don't have the comp file of it anymore since my compy has now been sent to bloody Hewlet Pacard for repairs (but that's a story for another day). My uncle bought me a sandwhich on the way home! XD Like I said, I felt spoiled this weekend; I offered to buy HIM food since he spent a few hours with me driving me around (Van = not close to Sur, in fact Van = further away then Jen's job).
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On another note, it's been a hard process to find new pictures, but I've whipped some new icons. Look at them now, I command you, because they rock XD I've fallen in love with the way Microsoft Picture Manager can be used to edit the size of pictures. I've never used it before but that's what's on this comp and it's very sweet for that one purpose/function. I've made more, but some of them are the same emotions I already have, so I didn't bother uploading them because who needs three icons for "happy" or "fierce?"