Before I got my first tattoo, I went through quite a bit of trial and error in regards to what designs I’d want, the placement, etc. It wasn’t just a choice on the fly to permanently ink my body. When I would finally decide on a design, I’d get an airbrush tattoo so that I can work on accepting it. There are very valuable resources out there in order to help you with your ink choices, and they don’t require a needle going into your skin at all. Resources like TATstore.com should be very valuable to you. They have stencils, air brushing equipment, temporary tattoos and even tanning solutions. This way you don’t have to concern yourself with anything permanent before you do something you’d regret.

Their ‘starter system’ includes over 250 starter stencils and it even has over 1000 body crystals if you’re interested in textured body art. Some may purchase kits like this for parties but I’m sure you could also turn it into a business where you’re the one who’s paid to air-brush at parties…it’s a win-win situation. You get tattoo-quality paint that lasts up to two weeks on your skin so you don’t have to worry about it falling off you in the shower the way you would with standard peal-and-stick temporary tattoos. They’ve even got glitter tattoo’s for those looking for a bit of glam.

It’s definitely a site worth checking out if you’re interested in body modification that doesn’t require losing any blood.

I’m now up to 8 tattoos, with up to five possibilities in the future, and thanks to systems like these. I know I’m very proud to show them off for the rest of my life.

For my few remaining years in school, all of my friends seemed to be into surfing around the net to download anime. Sometimes they’d come across decent sites but for the most part, they found the most unorganized and poorly coded websites that you couldn’t navigate around without getting dizzy. I’m still in touch with a few of my friends, some of which are still into Anime and Manga so when I came across animeground.com, I was very quick to send them the links.

This site offers over 4,000GB (That’s 4 Tera bytes!) of free & paid anime/manga/dramas. Their free section offers direct downloads at high speeds and there are hundreds of series and movies available for your enjoyment. I’m not sure how long it’s been around but it seems to be a very popular website considering during my time of visiting there were about 200 members online, I don’t think that counts the actual visitors on the site but when you see numbers like that, there’s obviously a reason behind so many guests coming back to the site.

Surfing through their site I came across many different series. I honestly wasn’t aware of how much anime/mange actually existed. When I’d see the images being used on website headers and what not, I thought that they were the same person in different outfits. I’m not too big on Anime so I have no idea who anyone is. I come to find out that they house over 603 Anime Series, 452 Manga Series and over 143 Drama Series.

I think anyone who is a die-hard Anime/Manga/Drama fan should seriously consider checking them out.

With the rate of my back acting up the way it has, I’m officially going to be surfing through my favorite coupon codes at Staples. The chair that I’ve been using is absolutely killing my back and I really need to get a new one. Since Free Shipping on order $50 or more is one of the oh-so-nifty codes listed, I’m going to get myself a new chair. In the process, I think we’re going to get Baby one too, his chair is leaning to the right and it’s royally messing up his back.

While doing a search around Staples, I came across a couple of chairs that actually didn’t look too bad. They were in the $70 range, but there’s also some sale going on around here with a couple of chairs being like 50% off for over-stock or something like that, it’s store based. So I figure if those are the ones on sale then I’m basically getting two for the price of one and shipping is still free, plus no tax so yay for that. I need to go to Staples and sit on a few chairs to feel ’em out. It’s easy to buy something based on looks but considering he and I are on a computer for at least 10 hours a day, comfort plays a huge role as well.

I don’t know why more people don’t use coupon codes when they shop. It’s not like there’s anything wrong with saving some money with the things people buy the most. If you can use a cut-out coupon at the supermarket to get twenty cents off a box of orange juice, than you can use the codes online to get free shipping or 30%-50% off with no problems either.

Coming across helpful resources is always a good thing. A few of my friends (online and off) have a few problems keeping them from getting pregnant. Some of them are on drugs up the wazoo to increase their chances but nothing seems to work. I came across a site, IVF, that’s based on a practice run by Dr. Randy Morris. He’s a fertility specialist that helps couples understand and resolve infertility. The offices are located in both Chicago and Naperville Illinois. I don’t think I’d be able to talk my female friends into traveling this far but I also know that one of my online buddies lives in the area and maybe that would be a valuable resource to her, she’d be the judge of that of course.

While doing a quick surf around ivf1.com, I learned about Dr. Morris and what his services can do for you. He has a few articles about IVF (In Vitro Fertilization), from Fertility Fact & Fiction to how low fat dairy can increase the risk of ovulation problems. It’s a fairly interesting read that I’ve book marked for future reference.

Dr. Morris doesn’t just help the ladies with their problems, he offers help to men as well. They have male fertility testing, an advanced semen test that uses sophisticated imaging and computerized analysis to get a highly accurate sperm count, sperm motility and sperm morphology. Now, considering I’m not a doctor and have no idea what any of that really means, I’m sure any man who isn’t…holding up to his end of the pregnancy bargain, can find this information valuable as well.

Check out the site, invf1.com, maybe you’ll learn something you didn’t know before. Maybe you’re a candidate for it, who knows.

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Lately, Baby and I have been doing some serious talking about our futures. While we’re not married yet, we are already planning ahead in finances and what-not. The difference between him and I is the fact that I have a life insurance policy and he doesn’t. My father took one out on me and my sister many years ago. At the rate of school shootings, the drug dealers and just stupid people in general being around us, it was just the smart thing to do. He’s covered for around $100K and my sister and I are covered in the $35K range.

I honestly have no idea what it means if someone mentioned the term whole life insurance to me. I’m sure it’s something extremely important but having the ability to find out in depth information without having to spend any money is kind of rare. Thanks to my endless database of new and interesting links, I’ve come across one that will actually help me out without having to spend a dime. My newest bookmark is – lifeinsurancelowdown.com. This site offers you life insurance news, reviews and even tips. It’s pretty helpful for anyone looking into setting themselves up financially.

After reading through the site I’ve found some valuable information about life insurance. I’m confident that I’ll be able to use this site as a valuable resource for all of my future questions and I know for sure that I’ll get Baby on the bandwagon and get himself into the life insurance state of mind as well.

I’ve been scrap booking for years, something I haven’t really let people in on. In my new home I don’t really have as much room as I used to in order to really take full advantage of my craft. Because of this, it’s been placed on the back burner. Or…so I thought. I like the idea of cutting out random images and turning them into a book of collages on my life. I’ve yet to start one for Baby and I which is strange considering we’ve been together for as long as we have. Hopefully I’ll be able to regain everything soon to move forward with it.

In the meantime I did some poking around and came across an interesting site where you can do some real online scrapbooks. With this site you’re given everything you need in order to create a virtual scrapbook. You’re given textured backgrounds, random cut-out images to paste into them and the ability to upload your own images to really bring forward the whole scrap booking experience. I started creating my own scrapbook, you can find it here. I know there isn’t very much to it but that’s because it’s after 2am and I’d really have to sit here and play with it some more. I hope to have a full scrapbook up and running sometime soon. I really do like this idea quite a bit.

There’s the option of embedding it into your website with either a flash or a JavaScript file. For the time being I’m just going to link directly to it because WordPress, for some reason, won’t allow me to paste it into the text area. I’m sure I’ll have that figured out soon, I may have to create an external template page and link it in there. No real hassle though, considering I intend to use this site quite a bit.

The site has a very scrap-booky feel. It’s not a standard business looking site that’s clean line and proper. It looks as though you’re actually looking at someone’s scrapbook. There were a few sections that wouldn’t work but at the moment it’s in it’s Beta release so I guess that would explain it. The Gallery icon doesn’t work and I can’t find anything when I search but the database isn’t big enough for that yet.

All in all I can say it’s going to be a fairly cool site and I think that if you’re interested in starting your own online scrapbook and getting away from Flickr and whatever gallery script you happen to have installed, heartvault.com is the way to go. It’s completely free and may turn out to be the next big thing amongst all the artsy people that over-run the internet. Check it out, you may enjoy it.