Damn, I slacked off for a few days. I'll try harder in the future. So I found tutorials on
deviantART and I gave this
icon tutorial a try. It opened up a whole new set of tools that I wasn't really aware of in photoshop, primarily the vector tools. I followed the tutorial step by step and came up with:

Pretty cool, huh? So one of these days I'll go ahead and make an icon set for windows or something. Maybe I'll get that warm, fuzzy I-made-it-myself feeling :)