Breakfast @ Tiff's: ready or not... here i come.

i've been contemplating for a while now... a tattoo. and since i am here at a transition in my life, what better time to get one? i'm starting out fresh and new... so why not add a little art? i've always sort of wanted a tattoo but was always afraid to get one because i'm not really good with pain, and i'm probably the most fickle person you will ever meet. so committing to something permanent on my body wasn't something i was ready to do... until now. i think. i know that i want something small.

on the inside

of my left wrist. where my watch band will cover it most of the time. this is for me, and no body else. i always wanted something meaningful, so why not a peace sign? who doesn't want world peace? but lately, i feel as though if i got this, i would be falling into the recent "fad" of peace sign EVERYTHING. plus lady gaga went and got one on her wrist. copy cat. hers is huge though, just like her personality, but i'm not trying to be anyone else here. i was thinking something along the lines of this, only smaller. like the size of a dime. it is definitely something i am still considering, but it has moved to the bottom of the list following the next 2.

before the peace sign, i had thought about a little heart. just a little one. no big. nothing special. no creativity. just a little heart tattoo just to say that i had one. BIG WHOOP. but lately i've been feeling like my heart is so empty. so why not take that little heart and make it deeper... 'HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT??" you ask. WELL, i was thinking about getting a little open heart like this...

because my heart may be empty, but it's open. and then when i find love... whether it be from a lover, friends, God, a dog, a sweater, or whatever. then I fill it in... what do you think? is that cheesy and stupid? i can't decide. i sort of like it, then i hate it. whatever.

now this is something i thought of a few days after THE BREAKUP. i was feeling extremely down (i still am) and thought there wasn't going to be any tomorrow. i looked down at the table and there was a glass of water. one of my fabulous water glasses, that i looked for years to find... but that is another story. anyway, i thought to myself, the age old question... "is it half empty or half full?" WELL. i immediately thought half full. i guess that was my inner optimism popping through. so it occurred to me that maybe i should tattoo that on my body. it would always remind me to look at life with the glass half full. plus i'm about to turn 25... so my life is half over right? hahaha AND i doubt anyone has one of those floating around. i even googled it and couldn't find a thing. after the MILLIONS of images of hearts and peace signs, this was my best idea yet. i think. so i started to think... how are they going to make this possible without some huge thing on my arm. so i started looking at comics and cartoons online to try and find some drawings and this is what i found.

i think this one is cute (i wouldn't get the "half full") but the glass is small and cute and gets to the point of what i want. only i would have to do something about the blue, because i don't think i want that... or do i??

this is a little design that i found on a t-shirt. what i was originially going for. just a plain ol' little glass full of water. then i found THIS...

my heart literally skipped a beat. a curly straw is JUST what i need to put the "tiffany" touch on it... don't you think? it wouldn't look exactly like this, and it would definitely be small. but it's just an idea.

so here i am. i sunburned myself yesterday laying out with another one of those FAB friends of mine, so when they tell me that i can't get in the sun for a few days.... DONE!

and for those of you worried that I might end up like this...