Don't even get me started on smoking.

It is an absolutely beautiful rainy day here in the in the garden.

My boss is out for a meeting. I've got a huge room to myself,

plans to transform our storeroom into an office space for me and the Banquet team,

a very sugarless hot latte,

Bon Iver on iTunes..

+a pile of work i will get to in just a little bit, promise.

How often has anyone with a tattoo seen an aunty on the bus turn her face and pull her kid away from you? hands up!

This shouldn't even be up for debate, people. Seriously.

(I am totally excluding tattoos of vulgar words and images and hate slogans and the likes..)

I have tattoos. I have seven. Unfortunately, the issue of tattoos in the work place continues to be a contentious one.

Do you really think wearing the skirt and blouse, or that shirt and tie, makes you professional?

Society has attributed professionalism with putting on the right shoes, and the appropriate heels.

The increased popularity of any one person above 18 obtaining tattoos are becoming more and more apparent.

It still baffles me how close-minded some people still insist on being. Tattooing has a gut level of appeal, to all ages.

It's very simple, people with tattoos are not forcing you to have them. If you dont like them, dont get them.

That has nothing to do with people who dont share your thoughts on the subject.

Pipe down grandma.

Open your mind to the fact that things are changing whether you like them to or not. People with tattoos have just as much brain matter as you do, we speak the same, we need to eat and breathe and dump and love, just like you.

Ignorance should never be misconstrued as professionalism, or any form of worldliness.

I reiterate, i have seven tattoos. I read books in my spare time, i spend time with my friends, some have tattoos and some dont.

I eat, laugh, give up my seat for people on the bus, i dont scream curses in public and i smile at old people.

I got kicked once while in the bus helping a lady pick up coins she dropped, because? She thought i was stealing them from her.

Its funny really, everyone who gets tattoos knows the problems they're going to have to deal with regarding the general public and their insane aversion to these things.

Once in awhile it gets to us, but mostly, getting them probably hurt more than the looks and stares of the close-minded.

Back to work,

happy friekin monday!