cat, tat and travel plans

Dun dun dun....it's finally looming on the horizon...t w e n t y f i v e . . .


OOOooooOOooOOooOohhhhhhh.....

*shivers* not that I feel old or anything. I just feel like I haven't really been doing much. I haven't traveled out of the state in over two years and I haven't traveled out of the country in--oh em gee...it's been seven years.....extremely unacceptable. I am a free-spirit and I demand that I go abroad, right away! I forgot to add an important resolution to my New Years Resolutions list...to TRAVEL. I think I'm going to have to do so in order to make up for the past 7 years of inexcusability. I mean, come on... no offense to the folks in Las Cruces, New Mexico--you were all very nice and friendly people--but I'm pretty sure I've had better places to travel to during my college years (although, to be fair, you folks had some killer chip and salsa. Oh, and the whole deserted in the desert thing was kinda cool for the week that I was there).


But I digress.


My point is, I'm getting a major case of island fever and it's high-time I worked it out of me. Whereas my HUGE goal of 2010 was to run a marathon, my very reasonable ambition of 2011 is to travel to seven different places, outside of the United States of America. Here's how it will work:

1. Provinces count:  I am allowed to go from one region to the next so long as it take mass transit (train, plane, boat or bus) to do so since it would be the equivalence of going from state to state.

2. It must fall within my vacation time: I am allotted a total of 17 vacation days (includes sick days). This means (with the exception of holidays), I will receive about three weeks total.

3. If I decide to travel on my own, I cannot go to a country where internet, communication and female-rights are restricted severely (mainly because my sass would most likely land me in prison).

4.  I have to have a legitimate reason to go to this country. I cannot simply go just to go. I will come up with a Where's Waldo-eque hunt for specific things that I must either do, look for or receive while I travel abroad.

  Wow...I feel much better just planning a trip. I'm not sure if it'll be something that I do on my on or if others want to join me. I just know that recently, I've become very depressed and moody (sorry, Babe) about my situation and have come to the conclusion that it's time that I take matters in to my own hands and shake it.

  In the meantime, here are a few pictures for your enjoyment:

"huh?"

"..."

"overit."

I know, right?

"Color inside the lines"

Circle of Life.

While I was out jogging.

Food porn for Paige. Sweet potato puffs.