HNT #70 - Happy Belated 5th Anniversary, HNT! 4-year Evolution of a WingHouse Regular's Tattoo!

My HNT #1 - This first pic is of the 2nd tat I ever got -- 5 years ago, I had no tattoos whatsoever. Now I have 6-8, depending on how you count, & one more on the way in 2 weeks! Actually, the wings here were just the beginning of an ongoing tattoo that I have added more pieces to over the last 3-4 years since I got it. It evolved, but I knew I liked the basic design taken from the WingHouse logo. I was an AF flyer & I missed my wings.

BTW, if you click here: http://www.winghouse.com/ , you can go to the WingHouse Girls' photo galleries and select each one of the locations. There you will see photos of most of the bartenders & servers in unique Dress-To-Impress outfits which happen one day near a big holiday every couple of months. They pay to buy (or make) and then doll up in their sexy, new outfits -- Customers that day get to vote for their favorite outfit which gets only 1 girl of 15 a $100 cash prize and another a $75 cash prize. Since most of them shell out about that much on their outfits to dress up for you, be sure to leave them a really good tip that day!

I just wasn't sure what I wanted to put in the circle altho my first favorite WH bartender's initials, BH, were a possibility I was considering.


OK, I finally found my WH Tat current as I began writing this article 3 weeks ago -- let's see if I can get it in here! Yeah, looks like I got it transferred OK. However, there is one little update: Change the K to an H since H****** planted a COUPLE of great, unsolicited kisses on my lips IN the WingHouse on her day off! Whatta girl! I gotta find her again & make sure she knows her H replaced Krista's K a whole year ago! Krista started denying the true facts on how she used to cheek-kiss the CORNER of my lips to sweet-talk me out of more loans and bigger tips! Screw YOU, Krista! (Altho I never would now, huh?)

A little more explanation to decode this tattoo: It's mostly hidden under my left arm placing these special WH Girls "under my wing" and keeping them close to my heart! You'll notice the blue wind added to represent that these girls were the wind beneath my wings at one time or another. I am going to add an "A" and another B for some new, young kissers who've made out with me! (Well, one dry, 2-sec. kiss on the lips at least one time. LOL)

Some time passed since I started writing this article and, on Memorial Day, I added some important updates on the way back from Orlando's tattoo convention. And the changes are likely to be the last additions to this tat for some time. Notice in the picture below that the "B" now has a "3" superscript indicating 2 more girls whose first name begins with a "B". The contest's B-category is now officially "closed." All remaining intials in the alphabet remain open for adding higher powers above their initial. It doesn't matter whether a WH Girl plants one on me outside in broad daylight around town or surreptitiously in my Mobile Home Park 8-minutes north of the local WingHouse.

What matters is that they are or have BEEN WingHouse Girls; I guess I should allow FUTURE WingHouse Girls to try out too, but I now have a 17-year-old on the waiting list until her 18th birthday. (She's BEEN on it since she was a 16-y.o. WingHouse part-time "Hostess" opening the doors to greet & seat patrons, but not to serve alcohol. I address her as "My Favorite Jailbait" just so I'm reminded she has to stay on the waiting list until next January! I do accept girl-initiated platonic hugs, however! ;-)

HNT #69: T-Bird Pics for Maeve (Sorry they were delayed, Doll!)

I've really wanted to post these T-Bird pics for awhile but first, I had to get the tree crud and mildew swept off and scrub my Bird with soap & bleach!! The only day I had to do it a couple of weeks ago, it was 2:30 PM in the bright Florida sunshine when I finally bought the rest of the cleaning materials & got over to Ted's. After 3 hours of hard scrubbing and sweating, I had only 60% of it done when I stopped before passing out from heat exhaustion! (Yes, I know I'm out of shape, LOL!) I was staying hydrated but I've noticed that summer heat "cooks" the insulin right out of my body that I take oral meds for! THAT was probably playing in the action, too. I'd forgotten--haven't been out in the sun working for months!) We've had lots of Spring sun in the Sunshine State, but I seem to focus too often on this computer (eMail more than blogs, obviously) and housecleaning!

Anyway, here's Ted, my car guy -- back after shopping or doing counseling work with his church group rescuing strippers from sin at one of the local strip clubs, the "Mons Venus" (I think he said). I didn't know any of this until he explained what was up as he washed the T-Bird. He had 2 young women he just evangelized on this day who want to make the jump to a more godly, sinless existence. One declared she would give up the $25,000 wages of sin she'd been offered to pose in Playboy magazine. Since there are so many girls doing drugs & casual sex in the stripper lifestyle, I'm glad for his success. I've noticed that many good-looking girls in this area seem to get into bartending or serving drinks & food immediately after high school, and to make ends meet living on their own (with no education or credentials except bartending experience), they often turn into the proverbial "party girls" going out nightly after they get off work between 9PM and 2AM!

So many places here have "Ladies' Nights" with free drinks or 2-4-1 specials for women, I now know why I see a lot of the girls I care about developing dysfunctional drinking habits in their early 20's! Beautiful in earlier calendar pictorials, they lost their stunning looks by age 26 from profligate use of sex, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. (So many treat "weed" as if it's not a drug, OMFG! DUH!) Oh, and EVERYONE has a 21-I.D. long before they're 21--they get served easily cuz the tourist-based economy encourages lax enforcement to produce good business profit. (I was surprised that servers & bartenders in Florida do not need to be 21 to make or serve alcoholic drinks!) No WONDER there's a fucking drinking problem in this young age group. I see very few with serious life or academic goals and, as a consequence, their predominant belief-system is Hedonism!

Oh, before I got off on that rant, I was going to tell you Ted WAS a Godsend -- unexpectedly, he cleaned the remaining 40% of the T-Bird while I continued to recover. In all fairness, it was much cooler by the time he got home. Actually, knowledgeable Floridians schedule their heavier work out-of-doors for the cooler morning and evening hours. I gotta remember that -- I've lived in Florida for 28 years now {OMG!} and I STILL don't feel like a Floridian. But most of the people here now also came from somewhere else -- I actually fit right in, that way!

Now, the 2nd & 3rd pics just show the classic lines of this clean, 1959 Ford Thunderbird! After we got it all cleaned up, I could see why Ted prefers it "all original." I'm tempted to leave it in its original white paint after we sandblast the little bit of rust off all the metal edges. I can see where it retains its classic original design beauty that way, and would be worth far more $$ than if I "trick it out" in a candy-apple red like I've always wanted in a jazzy car I own. But I'm not doing this to resell it -- I'm fixing it up so my older son can inherit it! LOL! Well, I DO want to drive it around and turn a few heads and give some pretty ladies rides in it out to our excellent beaches! A couple WingHouse hotties already want to have a professional photo shoot as they lie all over My Bird! Hot Damn!

How about YOU, Maeve? You check in here, yet? Wanna lay out at the beach with my Bird? ;-) We have no oil yet anywhere near Clearwater Beach (Gulf Coast/ Tampa Bay area) so hurry cuz it HAS reached NW Florida! (No oil but you might feel some wetness.)

PS: Won't be able to submit another post for a couple weeks as I'm taking my old Gateway back in for a Hard Transplant (DRIVE, that is).