"Life is like a sewer.

ARGH! I can't decide what I want for my tattoo! I want it to be something that doesn't make a big statement, but is still me - and I don't know if those owls are it. Here are all the options I'm deciding between right now:

First, we have the matching owls for my wrists:

SodaSippingPanda

I think I've found my owl tattoos! However, I'm not sure because I don't know how they'll translate as a tattoo. But I'm pretty sure these are the general style, shape & size I want so all I have to do is find an artist now:

The grey one will be on my left wrist and the green one on my right! I'm still interested in a panda one too. Not sure if I know where I want to put it - so that might be a 27th birthday thing :) Here's what I was considering though:

GreatestJournal is dead. Officially.

Awhile back when GreatestJournal started having problems I wondered if I wanted to even grab my old posts, then I decided that the posts were important to me and I was going to put them here on Vox using the backdating option. I moved over a few, but before I knew it GreatestJournal really fell through the cracks and I vowed to power through reposting my journal entries because I had no idea how long I had. I got as far as May 12 2004 - though I still had entries until November 2006.

Well, I didn't have very long. I'm not sure exactly when it happened but GreatestJournal is show a 403 error when you try and access the site and I'm assuming there's not going to be a way to retrieve anything.

Checking my backups, I realized that I backed up my official entries until June 20th 2005, and I have drafts until December 30th 2005 - however only when I had a lot to say did I make a draft.

Needless to say, I'm disappointed in myself because I took too long. That's a lot of memories, lost. I have GOT to start backing up my Vox!

So, the more and more I look around for a good owl image for my tattoo, the more and more I'm not sure if owls is what I want to do. I love the look of owls, yes - but only some. I've realized after looking through a LOT of images that there are some kinds of owls I do not want for a tattoo.

Plus, I ran across a slew of panda images that I was in love with. So now I'm not sure what I want to do... Below are some images I'm considering.

Bikko___za_ouru_by_Yuusaku

Panda Leaf

Smiling Panda

I've decided what I wanted for my birthday: A tattoo. I've always thought about getting one - and my tongue pierced, but I've left that one behind - and now I think I'm ready. I'm thinking of getting two little owl tattoos that go together, but are different, on the inside of each wrist.

So I need some help! Anyone want to design some tattoos for me? :P I want some that looks cute and kawaii in nature but not bubblegum cute. Something simple - don't want to spend TOO much time in pain :P - and clean.

So let's see 'em!!!

Oh, and my birthday is July 7th - so you guys have to hurry :D

Falling asleep at work.

I'm amazingly tired this morning.

I keep seeing all of these things talking about sleep and it's KILLING ME!

I have to turn in my yearly self-evaluation today. I hate doing self evaluations.

Tomorrow Wednesday, my day off - yay.

I'm sick.

I blame it on myself because I had stopped taking my prenatal vitamins recently. No real reason why, just did. Anyhow, I believe it was those vitamins that was keeping me in good health and now I've gotten sick just from someone coughing on me.

I picked up some cough medicine last night (because I have one of those dry coughs, where I have to cough whenever I take in a deep breath - and I can't do that and be talking on the phone all day) and was frustrated to find the many sides the medical community has in regards to breastfeeding and over the counter medicine. Half of them say, "There haven't been any studies to conclude if it's bad or not." The other half say, "Everything that you eat and drink goes into your milk and into your baby - so don't take any kind of medicines." At last I also heard, "Oh, most over the counter medications are fine! The amount that actually get's transferred is so minor." Who am I to believe?! In the end I waited until I went to bed to take it - that way it would certainly be out of my system before I fed Evy again.

So this morning I woke up, and immediately took my prenatal vitamins. I need to get into the habit again because it's really just as important now as when I was pregnant. This morning I also started my first round of Fenugreek, a herbal extract that is supposed to drastically boost my milk supply as long as I pump every 2-3 hours. One woman was even so drastic as to say that I should be waking up to nurse my baby, or pump if I can't wake my baby. Um, I'm going to use that step as a last resort because I am SO blessed to have a baby that sleep through the WHOLE night and I'm going to take advantage of it. That's right. I put her to bed at about 9:30 and she doesn't wake again until 5:30-6am.

Anyhow, I'm at work today even though it's Wednesday because we're so short staffed - so I'll be having a three day weekend instead :)

What is something you consider to be "overrated." (Ed. note: Bonus points if you show it to us!)
Submitted by Laurie.

Guitar Hero. So over-rated.

Guitar Hero

What's the hardest part about your job?

Trying to overcome a communication barrier caused by uneducated users. Good example:

Today we get an email in from someone who recently had a new hard drive put into her PC. This was done because her PC was just really old and was not performing well. We get an email from this woman who says, "I recently got a new hard drive and now I don't have the internet."

Now, what I hear when someone says this is that they can open an internet browser, but they are unable to access any web pages.

But that was not the issue. The issue was that she couldn't find the desktop shortcut for the web browser. She didn't think to look under her programs - OH NO! - if its not on her desktop it doesn't exist.

So that is the hardest part of my job. Deciphering what they mean in relation to how I would refer to it.