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Good Morning, Everyone! It is 5:02am as I start this blog and I figured I would start my first post off with a little about myself! My name is Paige Cunningham, I'm 21 years old and attend/commute to Bradley University in Peoria! Not too far from Peoria is Pekin (about 20 minutes), the place I grew up and love. Most people (for some odd reason) want to get out of their hometown and move, but that's not my case. Ever since I got into high school I decided that my dream job would to be working at Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, the headquarters of CAT. For some reason I was interested in being a part of the CAT team and wanted to pursue my career there since I have had high influence from most of my family working there. Along came Junior year of high school where I did my research and decided on Bradley University, a way to get my foot in the door at CAT but still be close to home. Unlike most people, I chose where I wanted to work first instead of what I wanted to do.. and that's where my pursuit started. Through college I decided on my major, marketing, something I was interested in doing AND could do for CAT. My social media concentration was and is purely for my enjoyment. I am a social media junky, I love keeping up on the news and seeing what other people have to say and what’s going on in their life! Here I am, senior year of College and I have now been working at Caterpillar for a year! I absolutely love what I do and love this company.

As for my interest.. I love tattoos, heavy metal music, cats, duke basketball, Packers, and engagement rings. My father and I have been Duke basketball fans for about 10 years and I am a big college basketball fan (Go Blue Devils! Boo Tar Heels!). Recently, specifically the last 3 years, I have picked up a love for the NFL, in particular the Green Bay Packers! My boyfriend has been a fan since he was a child and I supported him and now consider myself a cheese head! I love traveling up to Green Bay and watching the games and this year we are even going to the Thanksgiving Packers vs Bears game to watch Brett Favres jersey get retired (and be in the Lambeau leap zone!). Music and concerts are another passion of mine. I have seen about 80-100 bands, mostly heavy music including some big names such as Slipknot (my most recent), Three days Grace, Motionless in White, ADTR, and obviously a lot more. The last odd interest/passion I have is engagement rings. I have been with my boyfriend for almost 4 years now and we just started looking at them for fun our first year of dating, which turned into me making a twitter account full of information and pictures of engagement rings. I actually got paid to tweet for some NY companies that sold engagement rings, I would RT and tweet about their business and their sales, I've had this account since December of 2013 I believe. I have stopped doing advertising for companies as it took up a lot of time and now just post pictures of rings for people to see (approximately 15,000 followers).

I could talk about a few things forever, tattoos and engagement rings. My love for tattoos started when I was around 14 when I actually got my first tattoo. Once my parents found out, I was grounded for 8 months (mom and dad were not happy!). From there on I had continued my tattoo obsession and now have around 10 tattoos, not too many but enough to satisfy me for the moment. Even after my young exposure to tattoos my parents continued to ask me why I loved tattoos so much, honestly I still cannot answer that question, I just do. Now, my parents have a couple tattoos and support me in my decisions of what I want and where I want them. I am an advocate of being smart when choosing your tattoo and place of ink. I don’t think its right you can be judged as unprofessional for having tattoos, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles! Always chose places you can hide, especially in a professional environment. I hope you all enjoy my blog that I am starting, I'm going to post each week a new style of tattooing, what they are, how they do it, some history or background, and some good photographs of examples! I hope you enjoying reading each week and enjoy Tattoo Nirvana! :-)