(Mood's broken right now... I'm not angry anymore. )

Okay so, first off, driving downtown alone (well, without my father) actually isn't too bad. (Take that! mother) Even when Mapquest sucks and doesn't know what it's talking about for the return trip. All I had to do was keep in mind which way was North and which way was West, and it was easy to get out. (Though rush hour traffic is very annoying).

Second, Taylor and I got to Immaculate Concept wayyyy too early because parking was easy to find and we didn't get lost once. So we had to play the waiting game for like an hour, and I was getting uber finicky. Then Steve (who I learnt earlier today is actually the owner of the shop, and he used to work in a hospital's sterilization department) realised he'd drawn up the design for the wrong client and he had to draw up mine... so I had to wait again. -eyeroll- Thankfully, he gave me a discount for this inconvenience.

When the inking finally got started, all actually went very smoothly. It didn't hurt nearly as much as I thought it would, except when he got near the center of my belly near my navel for some reason. Shaun of the Dead was on in the background (they had flat screen TVs in all the rooms) so I was entertained. It took longer than I expected because he revamped the design quite a bit, placing the first two words on top of the other two, to make it bigger and more legible, but he stylized very nicely and it has some shading... (I will take a photo tomorrow when the bandage comes off, if it isn't too red). He took FOREVER making sure all the little lines were perfect, and it's all very whorly and delicate looking and I love it. It amused me, because as he was finishing, one of the younger tattooists came over and looked at it and recognised that the lyrics were from a Tool song, and it turns out Tool was his favourite band, which was pretty neat. xD

So, the whole thing cost $210 ($15 less than he originally quoted, even though it also took longer than he oriinally thought it would), and is about 4x10cm in size. My parents aren't crazy about the change in dimensions, but screw em. I'm happy with it. I don't think I'll be getting the angel and the demon for awhile though. I can see the benefit now in resizing them, and I can appreciate his original 4-6 hour time quote, after this. Two hours would have been seriously pushing it for the whole thing.

Anyway, I don't feel so jewed anymore, which is good, and the whole experience was decent, minus the endless waiting. I even got some free cake in the process. Anyway... yeah. Pics will be coming soon.

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I am...so frustrated.
I'm trying to work a not-very-legal crack type thing for the Sims 2, but I have no idea what my dear son ~Banabo means by overriding the .exe file of the expansion pack, which I thought was the main link file thing, which I can't find anywhere, and yadda yadda qwerty. Computers make me nauseous.

Social essay is DONE. I think I did pretty good on it, but I have no idea how they'll be marking them, so.... :/ Whatever.

Tattoo day is tomorrow, and I'm actually driving there, in the crazy world of downtown, so, wish me luck.

Bio on Friday. I should probably study like a madman.

Fucking office is a mess, I can't wait til I can start throwing shit out.

Signing out,
Teh Snappy One
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