(Hardly) Wordless Wednesday

Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy!  Aren't we all!  It's reached a head here and I don't anticipate any slowing down.  Work, work, work, visitors, renewing my permit to live in Italy, lectures at my library, grant applications, etc.  Well, maybe it will slow down for a few days circa Dec. 24-26.  Sounds lovely!

We recently had Nick's sister and her husband in town, and we spent some time out of Rome too.  Here's our triumphant return to the Blue Grotto in Capri:

A gorgeous sky, with Mt. Vesuvius, over the Forum in Pompeii:

And a little Christmas in Sorrento for good measure:

The next week or so is also a bit crazy: my appointment with a diabetologo (finally!), a Christmas concert with the King Singers, the Nutcracker, and then next week we leave for our Christmas trip!  It will be fun, but definitely not relaxing!  We'll be freezing our way through the sights and Christmas markets of Munich, Vienna and Budapest!  And it will also be my first reunion with my pump in about eight months, and for that I am very excited.  To me, it's the perfect use of my remaining three infusion sets and fresh vial of insulin.  But, if things go well tomorrow, my pump and I will hopefully be stuck together again more or less permanently....here's hoping!