Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner, the others took care of things anyway. I’m a lazy git when it comes to forums. I found in addition to the soda, that candy helps on top of that. Oh, and breathing. It sounds obvious, but I find myself holding my breath or breathing shallow because I think it makes me move too much. I just take a good deep breath now and again, since I keep automatically doing the above even though I know it isn’t causing any wiggling around.

Oh Chance is right, the itching is bad. I have heard that wrapping an ice pack in a very clean towel and applying it helps, I’ll try it next time and see. I’d rather the tattooing part feel like getting sliced open and having rock salt rubbed vigorously in if the itching would not occur. Now I’m being a meanie, you have two things to look forward to now 🙂

KH, after that comment I have to ask if you have videos of said ball-snapping-by-gay-men incident. I’ve seen some really bizarre things on the internet but that, I have not seen yet. I mean, I have heard of some pretty weird videos. I’m sick, but not that kind of sick, to admit to watching anything like that. Wait, I just admitted it. I’m going to bed..

Oh yeah, another request for pics. Ummmm, of the tattoo when it is done that is 😉

It looks like you got lucky, even mangled it was translated and had a decent meaning. Hopefully it is small, a professional could clean it up to a certain degree, or get it covered up.

Off topic. It *does* look like marker pen, are you having a bit ‘o fun with us? 😉 If not I hope it isn’t ink from a pen.

Completely off topic. The first thing I thought looking at it, is that it looks like a pissed off E.T with funky ribs giving the one fingered salute to someone. No offense, you could actually make something interesting out of that…

Being serious now, I hope you can get it fixed if it is a real tattoo, on second thought a cover up would be best. The lines are so close that even with a good rework areas of it would blur together as time goes by. Best of luck!