Delusions of... Everything

This and That Thursday

It took until yesterday before I fully recovered from the wine tasting weekend I took with my friends!  Talk about dragging through Monday and Tuesday at work, wow!  While I had the best time I've had in a long time I would not want to do that every weekend!

I'm finally done sorting through pictures of the trip and have my first post started, hopefully it will be ready tomorrow!

Other stuff has been going on in my life, like doing laundry, getting my hair cut, grocery shopping, getting caught up on American Idol before last night's show.  Important stuff going on in the life of Tammy!

I would like to leave you with a delicious image from the wine tasting weekend!

We ate some amazing food on the trip!

Now I'm hungry!

Have a great day!

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Monday

One long weekend away equals:

• 109 emails to catch up on
• 59 new posts in my Google Reader to read
• 200 photos to sort and edit

And that's just at home.  Can't wait to see what's piled up at work!

My plan for the week is to catch up with all my blogger friends, sort through all the wine tasting weekend pictures and try to describe with words what a wonderful time we all had.  I'm guessing the pictures will speak for themselves.

Happy Monday!

Road Trippin'

I'm taking off this afternoon for Oregon wine country with these lovely ladies:

I guarantee we will be doing a ton of tasting!

We are taking a long weekend to enjoy the scenery and the taste of Oregon wines!  My friend is a wine buyer at QFC so we will be getting the VIP treatment.

I plan to take a ton of pictures!

If you missed yesterday's post go check it out!  Asthmagirl has set up a page on her blog dedicated to all the happenings for Blog Fest West!  Be sure to bookmark it and start making your plans to come to Seattle this summer.  It's going to be a blast!

Have a great weekend and I'll see you on the flip side!

Save the Date

Summer.  You remember summer right?  Sunshine, warmth, sitting on the patio with a beverage?  I know it seems far away with all the snow so many people have been getting and are continuing to get.  It's really piling up in some areas.

Take a moment to remember Summer...

It's nice to remember Summer past and look forward to Summer future! 

Summer never fails to be a busy time.  So much going on.  I already have most of August on hold for a Pearl Jam 20th Anniversay Festival "sometime in late summer."  Handy Man and my 30th class reunion is right in the middle of August.  That's on hold until Pearl Jam announces the date of the "sometime in late summer" festival. 

Meanwhile three west coast bloggers have been trying to plan a Seattle Summer Blogging Event, from this point on known as Blog Fest West!  You can read all about it here.  Pinning down a date for this event has been challenging, but I think we have finally decided!!

August 4 - 7th 2011!  Save the date!

We would love to have you all join us in Seattle this Summer!  Stay tuned for all the details.

Tattooed

When your child turns 18 and the only present he wants is a tattoo, what do you do?

Well in our case we got him a tattoo.

Please understand that he's been asking to get a tattoo since he was 16.  We've always said yes, but he's been very deliberate in chosing a design.  It's taken him 2-1/2 years to come up with something he loves.

Friday was the big day.  Five months after his 18th birthday.

Here it is, in all its glory:

Here is what he had to say about it (photo and quote stolen from his FB page):

"Tattoo artist Derek Noble’s beautiful interpretation of that annoying as f**k owl from Ocarina of Time, with the triforce underneath. Video games have had a huge impact on my life, and ever since 1998 when Ocarina of Time was released and I fell in love with the Zelda universe, I’ve been telling myself that when I turn 18, if I still love Zelda as much as I did as a young child, I would get it permanently engraved on my body, so here I am."

At some point color will be added.

Then he will get another one.  Once he decided on a design, it was actually two he picked.  The other one will be on the opposite arm, but similar.  It will be the Deathly Hallows symbol from Harry Potter with Hedwig the owl.  He will be paying for the color and the second tattoo!

Are Handy Man and I concerned that he won't be able to find decent employement because of the tattoo?  No.  I see many tattooed employees as I go about my day.  They seem more commonplace than they were when I was a teen.  SWS's career of choice will be something in the arts where people don't even look twice at a tattoo, unless it's to admire the beauty.

Neither Handy Man or I have tattoos, although I have a few designs I'd like to get.  I've never pulled the trigger. 

How do you feel about tattoos?  Do you have a tattoo?  If so, what is it?  Would you pay for your 18 year old to get a tattoo, as a gift?

Inquiring minds want to know!