Apocalypse Juke Box: Because billboards said so--

Random Meat--hotdogpuses.

Even if you are squeamish about seafood, you can still enjoy the loveliness of octopus with an interesting decoupage approach to preparing hotdogs. Simply cut the lower half of your hot dog into "eighths" to create "legs".  Oh--and if you fry this thing, seriously? The legs spread out and curl up and look even more octopussy. Which is a really awesome feature in an obviously great appetizer for your next water-themed thing? Right?

But you can still serve your sardines, mussels, whathaveyous. You just won't get the same applause!

I have Identifying Marks.

I've never blogged my tats before. But it seems like they absolutely qualify as Random Stuff.  I have an ankh on my low-to mid-back:

Basically, it's a light blue, stylized ankh. To me, it was to symbolize "rebirth", because I got my tattoos when I was just getting a divorce.  I sort of have considered adding to the theme on my back, using a djed symbol beneath the ankh and a sphinx on either side of the djed to represent my backbone, stability, support and protection.  As an underscore, I would put a wide-based lotus flower with the symbol for nefer inside. (There's a kind of pun there for my given name--Djed-nefer. ) I never got around to this vision because tattoos ain't cheap, and I wondered if it wouldn't look too busy and weird and culture-appropriating.

Also, I have an eye of Horus on the inside of my left calf:

To my mind, this was about the vision to put my best foot forward. I've considered gettting a feather representing Maat on the opposite leg to represent honesty, but the same concern prevailed. What strikes me as balanced and symbolic might not make aesthetic sense to people looking at the design. So I've left my tattoos at just these two.

For now. I got both of these in one sitting, and it struck me that I was very comfortable with the whole process. It really didn't hurt, which surprised me. (I've done things like pierced my own ears and that actually is pretty, um, wince-some.) My spouse is more fully illustrated than I am--I might blog his tatts, some time. Every picture tells a story.

It's possible that if some design struck me as really appropriate to who I am, I would get another.