Sipdown (140)!
I think I oversteeped this a little; I was making it while cooking summer and I totally lost track of time while chopping up some veggies. It still tasted very floral, but wasn’t as clean and smooth of a flavour. At the end of the mug it was tasting quite bitter and metallic, in a not so pleasant way. On the positive side, I definitely got a bit of that muscatel flavour that Scheherazade mentioned in her review. I definitely missed that the first time around.
It was solid, but not as nice as the first time around.
In other news, I got started on my next tattoo! This one is the largest so far, and it’s the first I’ve gotten done on an area other than my arms. I’d say it’s probably close to around four inches by four inches, and it’s on my lower calf on my right leg. I was at the studio for nearly four hours getting it done; it’s a rabbit with some garden vegetables (carrot, garlic, etc.) done in a sort of cartoony style, but with some very detailed greyscale shading. Except for the eye, which is red.
It’s a Buffy The Vampire Slayer tribute tattoo! One of my favourite characters, Anya, has a crippling phobia of bunnies, so I got this adorable little bunny with a red eye to acknowledge their “secret evil tendencies”. I mean, what’s with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway…
I have to go back in to get it completed though; I want to add some font across the top/bottom reading out “There’s Nothing We Can’t Face. Except for Bunnies.” (first sentence on the top, second on the bottom) in a sort of really campy, D-List horror movie type font. Something like this:
Though my concern with that particular font is that with how blocky the letters are over time they’re gonna blur out and just look like blobs…
Also, if you’re not familiar with the show/reference check out this clip of the musical episode, which is where the reference is from:
Awesome!