painful in so many ways

this past weekend i was in the berkshires, lenox MA, for my dad's wedding. the wedding was held, and guests stayed at the stonover inn. the inn consists of a main house (3 bedrooms), a school house (one giant suite), and a cottage (sleeps 4). i got to stay in the cottage with my new sisters. that was strange. i've never had siblings before, so i really had no idea how to interact. as an only child i require LOTS of alone time, and at times this weekend when i wanted to be alone to recharge, i felt that i should probably stick around so as not appear rude.

the ceremony was nice and i was really happy that my grandparents and my two uncles and thier wives were there. i got to reconnect with my uncles. our relationships have kinda gotten lost the older i got, but it was nice to hear things like, "you are my favorite niece" and "you're really hot." (the uncles can be mildly inappropriate at all times! hahaha).

Hez and her Uncle Bar and Lars

after that weekend, i drove to smith college. my friend jessica is in school there. she gave up a pretty lucrative career in the music industry, an apartment and the life of an extremely-mid-thirty-year old to finish her undergrad full-time. that means living in a dorm! fun! i had never lived in a dorm before so it was cool to visit her. i got my own room and got to experience a little bit of what that life was like. especially since i had a paper due for MY class. i got to sit in a dorm room and write a paper!

northampton MA is pretty cute. i had never really been there, but it has everything. we even got to see the decemberists at a club! the decemberists: how in the hell are they selling FOLK MUSIC to the kids!?!? i wasn't really impressed. i mean, i like the songs that bagel ted has played but a whole concert was just too much. i mean, 1) they totally stole the BSSB idea. they did havnaegila. hi. the BSSB alreayd did that with dayenu. and 2) they played a cover of the fairport convention. not only any cover but my all time favorite song in highschool, tam lin. and to me, what was just utterly irritating is that the kids were all into it as if it was a decemberists song (no one made it known that it was a song from a 40 year old band that had richard thompson in it and was sung by sandy denny). ANYWAYS, at the show i got to see my all time mid-twenty's crush, dana ong. (that's her in the red pants)

Hez and Jess at the show

dana used to be in one of my boyfriends band, slaughter shack. she is this totally hot woman who is half chinese and half italian and is just utterly beautiful. back then she had long, black, ringlett hair, tattoos and played lead guitar in this really heavy band. nowadays she is designing and making leather clothing for rockstars! i didn't really get a chance to talk to her since i am so in love with her, but i internet stalked her a few months ago and was able to find this out.

i am back in boston and yesterday i had my tattoo (started) done. ok it was supposed to be done yesterday but ram, my tattoo artist, well...he's kind of a dilly dallyer, and he spent a long time drawing and readjusting my designs, and then talking, and then more talking. we finally started at 5pm (my appointment was at 1:30pm). he was all, oh it will take like 3-4 hours. i was all, really!?! because the last one took about FOURTEEN! and this one appeared to be much larger than my last one. at about 7:30 he hadn't even finished the outline and i was all, karen...i'm not gonna be done until 11pm (she had gotten a rental car to pick me up from the almost inaccessbile by public transportation section of boston, jamaica plain). i was like, is that gonna be a problem? and she was all, uh, yeah. but then ram realized that he was free the next day and we would finish it then.

cool! except getting a tattoo is extremely painful and i kinda wanted it done in one day, AND it is totally gonna cut into my H&M shopping time. so after i get my hair cut today i am going back to get it filled in. wait til you see it! its AWESOME. and really big.