Musically Challenged

I can play piano with my eye’s closed. It sounds really awful though.

Musical instruments and I have never been friends. When I was a youngster, I chose to play the accordion. Yes, I chose it. I can still remember practicing "Waltzing Matilda" on the crazy thing. There was nothing cool about it. I quit the moment my Mom let me.

I also tried the guitar. I had no idea how painful it can be on your fingers. I'm a wimp when it comes to voluntarily inflicting pain on myself, which is why I don't have a tattoo. There is no symbol, picture or graphic that has me so enthralled that I feel I must get it emblazoned on my skin.

I don't judge others who do get them. It's not a moral thing with me, it's just pain and the risk of infection. I know there is little chance of infection, but my perspective is, why take the chance?

Besides, many people get tattoos that they regret later on, or they get one that looks great now, but as age and gravity unite, it hardly resembles the original design.

The same is true with spacers. I would not want to painfully disfigure parts of my body that cannot be repaired without a surgical procedure. I've had too many necessary surgeries to volunteer for one. I guess the young folks that get them have decided against the corporate route. No judgment. Everyone is free to choose, so long as it doesn't hurt someone else. 

I've heard people say that the neck tattoo on Pauley Perrette, who plays the forensic expert on CBS' NCIS, is real. Not true. Although she does sport some of her own, the spiderweb tattoo on her neck is painstakingly placed on her by a very skilled make up artist each day prior to shooting. The artist has to place it in the exact same place every day. I think it still beats having it permanently inked. How much would that hurt? Yikes!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go put a bandage on a pretty painful paper cut.

See you tomorrow.

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