type = bashert

lately, i've been hankerin' for some new ink.  the last tattoo i got was the ohio on the top of my foot, and that's been years now, so i've been getting the itch lately to get back in the chair and to hear the click and buzz of the gun.  i have been wanting a type piece forever now, and yesterday, i think i managed to figure out what type piece i'm going to get. 

a few years back, i used to work at a jewish non-profit agency.  there, i met a girl named tamar, who was orthodox, and taught me the ways of judaism.  i was her first trip through a drive thru window.  she taught me about basherts.  in yiddish, bashert means 'destiny', most often used in the context of one's divinely foreordained spouse or soulmate.  i didn't believe in destiny or soulmates, pre-mike.  i still think the term sounds hokey in a way, but i understand the meaning now, for sure.  mike and i are quite kindred.  since the beginning of our relationship, we've joked and spoke of being each others basherts.  we often share a brain.  he is, in a non-hokey way, my destined one.  so rather than getting all ghetto-billy/kiss of death and getting mike's name tattooed on me somewhere, this is a nice, more personal alternative:

in some sort of cute scripty type like so.  or handwritten-y.  as a type junkie, i'm still hashing that part out, as well as location on my person, but i'm pretty sure this is the winner for fresh ink.  [by and by, basherte would be the lady version of bashert, for the fellas, it's basherter]  now i just need to make that appointment...