This is perhaps the longest I have ever gone without updating this blog and without taking pictures. Candidly, this blog has just not been at the forefront of my mind lately. There is just so much else going on in my life that my tattoo in general has sort of fallen into a secondary role. Horizakura and I are still having regular appointments, but I just haven’t always had the time to take pictures and update and when I have had the time, I haven’t had the drive. I’m not too bothered by it to be honest. All of the missing photos were of cherry blossoms being colored in. In fact, our most recent two hour appointment was coloring in the last of them. I think that puts us at 15 appointments and approximately 30ish hours just on cherry blossoms.

Tomorrow Horizakura will start putting color into the phoenix on my belly. In case you had any doubt, I’m not looking forward to two hours of getting stabbed in the gut… but I am very excited to see what it’s going to look like! I had considered begging him to finish my arms next but that old mantra is never far from my mind. It all has to get done eventually. What’s the difference what we do next?