Looks like I caught the tail end of this one - the whole thing took me a good 20 minutes to read (maybe I shouldn't be on Boxer World while at work :p ).
I just got my first tattoo back in May (it was a birthday present from my SO). I've wanted one since I was 21, but never could decide on something I wanted forever. Then about a year ago, I decided on a celtic cross (it's a heritage thing - I'm about 80% Irish) and I stuck with it. I got it right in the small of my back and it's only about three inches long, and about 3 inches wide. People ask me all the time if it hurt - it did for about the first 5 minutes, then it just became this dull sensation.
I also had my navel pierced back in 1994, before everybody and their brother got one. I still have it in, and it's OK. I vowed to myself that I'd take it out when I turn 30 (damn, only two years away from that).
I'll probably get one more tattoo, but that's a long way off.
Great question, and it's really cool knowing all the different tattoos/piercings/styles.
Erin
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