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I passed my preliminary exams! YAYYY! I just got the news tonight. I am so relieved and can finally BREATHE! And…Mandi and I can book our tickets to Italy! We were waiting for this good news to book, otherwise we would have had to put the trip off another year. WHEW!  Read More →

Mandi came to visit this weekend, and we had a BLAST as usual. Our weekend was full of our seeking out adventures. She was in later than expected on Friday, so we went out to have some tapas in downtown Davis. We came home and got snuggly in PJs and watched Friends episodes of our choosing until we fell asleep on the couch (”I want to see the one where Ross says, ‘It tastes like feet!’”) On Saturday we headed out to the outlets in Vacaville, and did some Banana Republic, Fossil,... more

This was written a couple of nights ago. The summary isn’t complete, but I figured I should get it out before I slack off on my blog again. I won’t get to the rest this weekend beceuase Mandi is visiting right now! Yay! Last night was went out for tapas in town, and today we’re heading to the outlets for fall clothes shopping and then coming home to make an autumn meal. Here is what I owe my blog: Summer Summary, Part I I sit here snuggled with Nik under a big soft blanket on an... more

I love living in the house!  Spring has definitely arrived in Davis, and the neighborhood literally smells like flowers.  I got out of the car after work today and it smelled delicious.  My backyard also smells especially nice.  There’s a tree that we thought was some sort of fruit tree…but is suddenly blooming thousands of white flowers.  I’m pretty sure that’s what’s perfuming the backyard (and maybe the neighborhood…), but I also stuck my nose to all our... more

Our chapter was just submitted to Amaral (research director at the MIND Institute) and Dawson (prominent autism researcher out of U of Washington).  So cool!  My name is right up there next to Sally’s at the top.  I am so proud of myself!  Read More →

We are all moved in and it is lovely!  So comfortable and pretty and…perfect!  I don’t have time to post pictures or elaborate, because I need to finish packing for Denver and Abby is picking me up in 3 1/2 hours, but I will later on.  JoJo has been a champion although she is confused about why we aren’t leaving the house.  She LOVES her backyard and keeps bringing me rosebush branches that I left out there in the planter.  Ouch.  Just now, she looked up at my desk hutch,... more

We’ve sort of been haphazardly packing the last few days.  We are moving the furniture (via movers) on Tuesday, and we’ve been bringing things over, and are going to bring more things over tomorrow.  It’s been kind of tough to pack what we won’t need before Tuesday, plus what I won’t need for Denver, which is Wednesday.  Denver is difficult timing–should I pack for it before I pack for moving, before we move, after??  With classes starting up on Monday, too,... more

So I spent Sunday through Tuesday with my family in Las Vegas!  It was my mom and Memere’s annual birthday celebration.  We did a lot of wonderful eating, relaxed in the spa, saw La Reve (great!!), met some dolphins, leopards, and tigers, and shopped a lot!  Here are some pictures from the trip. Here I am with my mom and aunt Debbie, eating Dim Sum.  We weren’t sure what everything was, so we said YES! to a lot of food.         Next, we checked out the Bellagio,... more

Hello!  I have been neglecting my blog–weird how once I get free time, I am so much less productive.  I’ve been on spring break and it’s been so nice!  I will add a general update soon (telling tales of Las Vegas), but this will be an update on the house.  We are done with painting.  We chose a green for the office, a blue for the guest bedroom, and a bold rust for the master bedroom.  I think they all came out really nicely.  The carpets are also done, and I have been working... more

So…the house has closed, we have keys, and we’ve been busy working on it!  I don’t feel like going through all the steps to upload pictures, but here is a link to some: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018743&id=1262058331&l=699a7  Maybe Nik will feel like adding them officially onto here, but it’s kind of a complicated process and soon I am going out with my friends, hence short time… We are going to be painting all the bedrooms, and redoing the floors. ... more