The 10 Most Popular Tattoo Designs

1. Stars.
2. Angels.
3. Tribal.
4. Flowers.
5. Celtic.
6. Swallows, as in the birds.
7. Lower Back tattoos, AKA the “Tramp Stamp”.
8. Butterfly.
9. Kanji.
10. Black and Grey.


I have 1 and 7. I am so unoriginal.

PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE


Also, please let them write in a better ending lol

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I wonder if that game runs faster on the PS3.

i really wish i didn't have such crappy hair. it breaks and gets splits ends so easily. i'm not even that rough on my hair! i know people who blowdry and flatiron daily. i might blowdry once or twice a week, and maybe flatiron once or twice a month. i wear it up in clips more often than i put it in rubberbands. i know i've dyed it a bunch in the past, but the last time i dyed it was last fall i think.

my last "professional" haircut was january 22nd. i know because i made a post about it :D but before you go thinking it's been over six months since i've had a trim...i trim my own hair regularly. it's really not that hard when it's long enough. but lately i've been going through it and snipping off split ends. i'm not sure why, but the entire underlayer of my hair is ravaged with them. it looks horrible. if i hold out a chunk of hair, down the whole length of it are broken ends sticking out, most of them split. i seriously would need to cut off like 5 inches to get rid of them all. but i don't WANNNNNAAA cut my hair.

but i need to. gah.

Zea's Rotisserie has a four course brunch on Sundays for $28. That's a little hefty as far as price, but no doubt some of us have spent that before, and I know a few of us have been pretty happy with Zea's as far as food and portions. So it could be totally worth it.

brunch menu: http://www.zearestaurants.com/uploads/14254ZEABRBrunchMenuLR.03.08.pdf

A Sunday in September should work nicely. I don't have any preference, but for the sake of going sooner rather than later, is there interest in a meetup either the 7th or the 14th?

Sorry, no pictures today.

Taking my wife to the neurophthalmologist later on for her optic nerve imaging. The doctor says hers is a “fun” case, since it does not appear to be MS. Anyway, she’ll get that done to get a baseline on the appearance of her optic nerve, then will return for another full exam in early September. She has not had any residual problems since briefly losing the sight.

Having finished the house painting, she’s looking for another project. Can this girl sit still for a minute? Nope. This one has to do with more rocks in the yard, and I’m a bit concerned about it, for the plan appears to involve eradicating the patch of dust that Smokey likes to lie in.

But for all my complaining, and all my varying degrees of MS exacerbation due to strenuous labor, I must admit that the yard does look good. Like a veritable jungle out there—flowers and bushes and zucchini and tomatoes and some sort of large, unidentifiable squash, and so on. Even if the next round of labor kills me, it would still be a nice place to be buried.

Thuggish referee-harassing cunt appointed England Captain. Oh marvellous.

bedroom, different view

Well, after five days of 100+ degree heat, I have learned as well as I want to learn the negative effects of heat on MS symptoms. I had claimed previously not to be affected by heat, but I must now amend this happy conclusion such that it shant include heat in excess of, say, 95 degrees. Not only does this high degree of heat exacerbate my symptoms, but it seems in addition to be cumulative. As the core temperature rises, it apparently does not revive, and so each day is a little worse than the one before.

By yesterday evening a profound fatigue and confusion had set in, along with a persistent sweat that would be cooled by nothing but a cold shower.

Thank God for the rain. And that’s a first for me. Today the temperature outside is perhaps 60, and there is a constant drizzle coming down. I and the dog are both basking in it.

Yesterday was Indonesian Independence Day. Again. How many times did this country become independent? I can’t figure it out. It seems to me that we’ve already been to four or five independence celebrations this year. But anyway it was hot. That’s about all I remember about it. I hope the weather will be cooler for the next one—probably in about a month or so.

As for the house painting project, it is done, I think. The wife is talking about painting the upstairs (because there is paint left over), but I am endeavoring to convince her that the small patch of plain old white that remains makes a certain fashion statement of its own, offsetting, as it does, the Stravinsky-like symphony of color in the lower regions. I will try to post some pictures if I can figure out how.

Anyway, she had to go back to work today, so I think I’m safe from the paint for a time. I don’t think my wife rightly understands the whole notion of a vacation. Rather, that is not really fair to say. She simply has a different definition than mine. To her, a vacation is a period of time wherein you can get a lot more work done than usual. I think more in terms of lying on a beach reading a book, taking a cruise, visiting the walrus caves, and other such wastes of time and resources.

As for me, there are four more days left of vacation. The wife is gone, the boy is playing with his Legos, the dog is digging holes in the new mud, and I’m just sitting here on my brains, doing absolutely nothing, and loving it.

I tried to wakeboard. Really, I tried.

Watching the Olympics late at night with my cousins was fun!

I am mildly allergic to both the sun and sunscreen. Maybe just the sunscreen.

Psych is still hilarious! Monk is having a better season.

It took me three full days before I got in the water.

The moon is BRIGHT.

Meteor showers are cool.

Found a couple of cute shirts in, of all random places, the Bryce Canyon gift shop.

So I'm going to Cancun in December, right? The 11th to the 14th. Twilight, the book series I'm obsessed with had its first movie coming out...December 12th. So I was going to miss the opening. I kept hoping they'd change the date. AND GUESS WAHT!!?!!?1!1!!! They moved the opening date up to November 21st!!! WIN!

Also, I finally put my black curtain up in my window to block the light. We have interior shutters on all the windows, so I had to put it on the inside, but that kinda worked better. Then I put my decorative curtain rod up and hung my new purple IKEA curtains (along with some silver IKEA curtains I already had...it's a fun stripe effect). Not only is my window pretty, but OMG my room is so freaking dark it's amazing. Even with the shutters closed I still got a little light seeping through from the streetlights at night, and then from the sun in the morning. Now it is pitch black all the time. It is so great.

First weekend of the Premier League is over then. Good weekend? Bad weekend? Best player? Worst player?

Ours was a good weekend, just. If they play as they did in the second half for the rest of the season, West Brom will be just fine. If we play like we did in the second half for the rest of the season, we won't be. Still, a win's a win, Nasri was excellent and Tottenham lost. Hahahahaha.

Otherwise I was impressed by Newcastle (that new winger they've got looks decent and Coloccini or however you spell it has cracking hair) and depressed by an abject, spineless Portsmouth.

Does anyone have any details of that Show respect agreement of managers + players with Ref's? Specifically - Will the managers + players get anything in return for them showing more respect? some guarntees about the quality of judgement?

I accept the need for players not to gang up on the ref or have silly tantrums in the ref's face, and that its better if just the captain approached the ref with questions.
But I dont really accept the managers being asked to shut up - after all, the Ref's do do blunders and awful decisions sometimes. Like not giving a perfectly sound goal to Boro yesterday when it was still 0-0 with Spurs. Or like giving blackburn the winner against Everton from an offside. I didnt see any other games but Im sure that that you could also find mistakes there.

No one is expecting the ref's to be perfect - they are human armed with human eye & human emotions, but thats exactly the point - being humans they make mistakes and hence they should be accountable OR that they should be given assistance by a non human eye (like video) - it works in Rubgy, it works in Tennis and it does not disturb, by and large, the flow of the game.

So why not? and again - were the teams given any "better refereeing" guarntee?

Frank Lampard says he decided to snub a move to Italy after receiving a letter from West Ham fans urging him to stay strong after the death of his mother. (News of the World)

( actual letter )

Went out this evening and sat on the beach for 2-3 hours. Read until the sun set and then chatted for a while.

Level 23 Mage in Asda Story....getting pretty excited because my next class change is at 24 :D

Ian is writing a game for me, whee~

it's tax free weekend in texas, but unfortunately it only applies to clothes and school supplies so i wasn't really able to take advantage of it.

( but IKEA is fun regardless )