Cannes you do the Can-can?
Woohoo! I'm getting to travel for work! It's been a few years. Last time I had to travel extensively for work was almost 5 years ago and then it was just to other cities in the U.S. Last time I had to travel internationally for work was my trip to London and Paris in 1999.
But now I've got not one but two pretty cool trips coming up.
The first is in Feb for 8 days. I'll be in Cannes, France for an industry conference. I'll actually be staying in Nice, which is nice. (It had to be said.) I've been to France several times, but never to Cannes or Nice. I'm TOTALLY looking forward to it!
The second is in March for 5 days. I'll be heading to New Orleans for another conference. Never been. Should be fun!
Tim is going to take care of the kitties and dogs while I'm gone. I believe his exact words were "I'm going to get the cats back on track". See - I have a bit of a problem with the kitties. It's been going on for a couple of years now. As they've gotten older their feeding habits - actually, their hungry times - have changed. I've always fed them fixed portions at fixed times; I can't leave food out all the time or Spice in particular will gorge himself and explode. So as kittens they would get fed one serving in the morning at breakfast, and one serving in the evening at dinner. When they got a bit older, they stopped wanting to eat in the morning and started getting hungrier at night, so I would feed them two servings each at dinner. When we moved in with Tim, their eating habits changed yet again - and I started feeding them one serving each at 10pm and another each at 11pm so that they wouldn't wake me up at 2am starving and wanting food.
Well now they've discovered that they can still wake me up at 2am starving and in order to preserve my sanity and maintain a decent night's sleep, I'll give in to their wet-noses-in-the-eye and paws-in-the-ear and scalp-kneading, and give them another half portion or so.
So now they're now testing the limits, and it's starting to affect Tim (because invariably now at 2am not only am I getting up to feed them, I'm also muttering "god damn stupid cats" and swearing a lot, which wakes Tim up). They don't bug Tim. They know he is immune to their charms. So while I am gone, Tim's going to "get them back on track". I hope it works :-)
Anyway - Back to Cannes. I found an interesting history of the city at cannes-on-line.com that is worth a read. Not sure if I'll get up the courage to use any of my french while I'm there. It's pretty rusty... could do me more harm than good :-) Ah well. We'll see. At any rate, I'm SOOO excited!