Since losing a hard drive this summer (and my sister losing hers last month), I’m pretty obsessed with online backup services.

I also love funny or conversation-inspiring t-shirts, so when I heard about Mozy’s hilarious Back The F:\ Up t-shirt promotion, I put the brain to work on getting me one of those shirts.

As it turns out, the Mozy folks liked my preggo belly-painting idea, and fortunately I have the nicest sister in the world (though she insists that I’ll need to share the t-shirt with her), so behold: the branded belly.

We used the projector to make it easier to outline the logo (though it did result in some skewing, which actually looks pretty cool) and then Leanna painted it all in with face paint (more typically used for sporting events, but whatever).

I think she did a great job (and truly, I should probably just give her the shirt since all I really contributed was the painting surface)!

I really like Katie’s idea.

I use the term “Christian” pretty loosely in the case because I really only consider one of the shirts to have a message that actually represents Christianity accurately, but the other two are funny to me and would have a good chance of sparking conversations, which is my primary goal in wearing unique t-shirts.

First, the funny ones:

I find this particularly amusing as I’ve attended “church with cookies” since I was about 14 (with a 4-year exception while going to college; I still went to church, they just didn’t offer cookies). One of my favorite things about The Experience is that there’s a meal after each service; it makes it a lot easier to get to know people better, since that seems to happen naturally over food. But it’s not the whole point!

This one has an angel on one sleeve and a devil on the other. The concept makes me smile because in our culture that’s almost universally recognized (though more likely from cartoons than anything else!). I’d probably get the cookie one first, because though this one could land me in a conversation about influences, etc., more likely it would just get smiles. I could get this for my friend, Cindy, though; she claims I’m her conscience.

And the more serious one:

Humans fail, though. Interesting point, and one of the better-designed shirts I found (the downside of “crowdsourcing”: the crowd often has appalling taste… in my hardly-ever-humble opinion).

If I win one of the gift certificates, you may see me sporting one or more of these in the future.