Annual Leave!!

 I have just started a week of annual leave.  I've been working for 4 months now, and I am definitely feeling the need for some time off.  I'm shattered.

I'm going home to see Dad and Liz for a few days- nothing earth shattering, just a few days on the Welsh boarders looking at sheep and enjoying the peace and quiet.  I can't wait!

In the meantime, I am off this afternoon to have my NMC registration number tattooed on my wrist, because whatever the future holds for me, I finished my degree and got myself registered, and that is something I am insanely proud of.  I may not work in the NHS forever, but this will always be part of my history, and that is worth remembering. ^__^.

In Other News:
I got a tax rebait on my pay this month, because they had me down on the wrong tax code.  I'm using it to replace my manky old leather jacket, and to buy some graphic novels.  Nothing too earth-shattering- I just figured that since I'm buying myself that amazing Lady Death doll, I may as well buy a few of the comics and pretend like I know something about the character. ^__-.

Oh- and Rambo shed, finally.  It wasn't as clean as I'd like it to have been, but he ate right after and looks well, which is good.  I'm probably going to take him to the vet later this month for a general check-up, not because I'm worried about him, but just to be certain nothing's been missed. 
He will, of course, hate every second of it.  -__-; Poor little guy.

Ink!

 Further to my last post..... INK!

Skelly was awesome, as always.   Anybody who happens to find themselves needing ink in my neck of the woods should definitely head his way, because his stuff is consistently excellent quality, and he's a generally all round awesome dude.   Having said that, these hurt like a bastard!

 This is my NMC registration number.  You can actually look me up on the register using this (and I don't really care who knows it- that's actually what the register is for, after all!)  I wanted it to look like a rubber stamp on my arm, and I think we got that pretty much dead on.  Debated on the colour a lot, but red was a clear winner in the end.

 
While he was all set-up, Skelly asked me if I had anything else that needed touching up, since the stamp didn't take too long.  I asked him to refresh Bastard Dragon.  Bastard Dragon was named as such because it hurt like a bastard when I first got it.  Well- it was no better the second time around! >__>;  Hurt like a complete asshole, and is now making it hard to move my thumb.

On the plus side, it's now all one colour and no longer looks faded. ^__^.  I am well pleased.