Just got a new tattoo...

My new tattoo got me thinking = I don't have many pictures of my tattoos.  Now I only have 6, but still - shouldn't I keep a record of how great they look now, compared to what they will look like when i'm 80?  So yesterday I got a new one, and here are 4/6 to share...

My Pochacco Tattoo

My forearm tattoos:   Hello Kitty Bow, an outline of WA state and a heart where I am from, and Vita Brevis (Life is Short)

other duties this week

So of course I decide to create an event that sounds super cool... let's make small aquariums fill them with some fun Medaille College Blue rocks and give folks a gold fish. Yup, that sounds great, everyone will love that!
 Things I didn't realize I would have to do:
 1. Goldfish are stinky and poop a lot
2. Goldfish food is equally stinky and I would need to make 50 packets of goldfish food
3. I needed to buy some stuff to make the water okay for the fish
4. I needed a large tank to hold the fish overnight - which we didn't have. So we improvised and just got an empty water bottle from the cooler and cut the top off.
5. That 5 fish would die over night and one more would bite the dust before the event.
6. I would be washing my hands a million times - wait correction - washing my hands up to my elbows because I was so grossed out.
7. For some reason I ordered 100 tanks and not 50?!? Will need to double check my bill.
8. I would have a meeting during the time of the event and my grads would have to run it and I wouldn't even see how excited the students were....

 But I was told the students loved it! Mission accomplished. Now if only I can get that fish smell out of my head.

Night before Italy and all through the house...

It's about 11:30 pm and I am tired but so excited for Italy that I am wake!!!! I feel like a kid about to go to Disney World for the first time. I love to travel and seeing new places, it's all so darn exciting and changes my worldview every time.

I am like some of my FB friends that only mention their children in their status, but about traveling. I can't help myself.

Let's think back the last two years about where I have been that I have never been before:

1. Baltimore, MD (2010)- Work Travel
2. Kansas City, MO (2010) - Work Travel
3. Beijing, China (2010)- Work Travel
4. Shannon, Ireland (2011)- Work Travel
5. Limerick, Ireland (2011)- Work Travel
6. Kilarney, Ireland (2011)- Work Travel
7. Blarney, Ireland (2011)- Work Travel
8. Dublin, Ireland (2011)- Work Travel
9. Somwhere in Wales (2011)- Work Travel
10. London, England (2011)- Work Travel
11. Paris, France (2011)
12. Juneau, Alaska (2011)
13. Sitka, Alaska (2011)
14. Ketchikan, Alaska (2011)
15. Sierra Vista, AZ (2011)
16. St. Louis, MO (2011) - Work Travel
17. St. Thomas, US Virgin Island (2011)
18. Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos (2011)
19. San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011)
20. Half Moon Cay, Holland America Private Island (2011)

Now to the next 10 days - 2012
21. Rome, Italy- Work Travel
22. Florence, Italy - Work Travel
23. Sorrento, Italy - Work Travel
24. Pompeii, Italy- Work Travel
25. Patras • Delphi, Greece- Work Travel
26. Athens, Greece- Work Travel

And for the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Cheery Blossom Festival
27. Washington DC- Work Travel

Traveling (whether for work, as it is my other duties as assigned or for fun) is like having children, it's expensive and it makes time go by fast...