It's been a while....

Hey everyone,

It has taken us (me) a long time to get organized to post up some goodies. John and I had a great time in NC for the holidays, and we even got to see Wake Forest play in the bowl game in Charlotte. Check out Brian's blog entry about John's wonderful time watching the game. I stayed in NC for two more weeks to chill with the Goldstein Lab and to do some experiments that will hopefully help the paper Bob and I are writing find a nice home in a journal.

The last few weeks in AZ have been my Return To Routine. If anyone knows me well, this RTR is an exciting time for me; my obsession with my red daily planner and pages of to-do lists comfort me, while the chaos around holidays keeps me a bit unsettled (even if I am having an awesome time). I've heard that this part of me stems from my early childhood problems with potty training. Happy New Year, everyone!

I do want to share a bit of my joy with everyone. You may remember, a few posts back, that our house was burglarized. When talking with our landlord about making the house more secure, I mentioned the doggie-door in the back possibly needing to be closed off. This was sad to imagine Winston running into a wall where the door used to be, but I felt that someone could crawl through pretty easily (especially in the likelihood that would-be robbers could be thin from all the meth around Tucson). John quickly said, "That's ridiculous. Nobody could fit through there." I could smell the challenge before he finished his sentence. Some of you may have even weighed in on our bet over whether or not I could fit through there. Some thought my head too big (wrong! quite the opposite, folks), my shoulders too broad (really?!), or even my hips too wide (thanks very much, jerks). I'm writing about this, because you can only imagine the outcome......Enjoy!