Happy Birthday Honey!

Happy Birthday Honey! I hope you really enjoyed our Whistler trip to celebrate your birthday! We got some great skiing in!
Love you lots.

Customs

We are waiting at customs at the US/canada border. We have been idling for about 30 minutes so far. Hopefully we only have another 30 min. Skiing was good-it was really cold though, so we had to take some hot cocoa breaks. It was a little rocky/pebble-y...I need to assess how much damage it did to my skis.
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whistler

We are headed to Whistler to celebrate David's birthday. It is about a 6 hour drive, so we won't get there until about 3-4 tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to it. We will take lots of pictures to post later.

felt like christmas eve

Do you remember back to when you were 5 or 6 and still believed in Santa Claus, and Christmas Morning was magical? Back then I would have such a hard time sleeping through the night. I would wake up often and remind myself that I had to go back to sleep or Christmas would never get there.

Well, last night felt just like christmas eve to me. There was so much anticipation that I couldn't sleep. I fell asleep just fine, but it sure was hard to stay asleep. I kept waking up...I can't even count how many times I woke up. And I didn't just roll over, look at the clock and then go back to sleep. Often I would roll over, look at the clock, and then think about how exciting the next day was. By then, I had woken up enough that my body temperature was increasing and I would get hot and have to throw off the covers. Then I would try to fall back asleep, eventually doing so once I had regulated my body temperature.

Today was exciting. And last night it was clear how exciting I thought it would be...I could hardly sleep!

early to work

Tomorrow I'm going to get up early to go into work early. I don't want to miss any of the inauguration, and people at work have pretty much indicated that we'll all be streaming it live, and maybe huddled around one person's computer.

I'm very excited and looking forward to it.

Liz

inauguration

For all of you who want to celebrate Obama's inauguration, consider making part of your celebration a white knot.

http://www.whiteknot.org/

This is a great website and I whole-heartedly support its message.

mission semi accomplished

Well, I did work on both saturday and sunday and I felt like I was really getting somewhere. I was able to correctly calculate the Index of Dissimilarity for gender segregation, now I just have to work on the Index of Association.

I'm still not ready to give someone this chapter, but hopefully soon I will be. Maybe after this upcoming weekend? The only way I'm going to finish this damn dissertation is to allot time to work on it- so sorry honey- looks like I won't be much fun in the near term future :_(

working weekend

So, I've now passed two deadlines I had for giving my advisor something to look at about my dissertation. So, I have promised myself that I will do some serious work this weekend on it. I have been working on it, but it just isn't at a place where I feel like I can share it. And no, I don't think this is my perfectionist side coming out..I really don't think it is shareable at this point.

So, here's to getting some serious work done!

Congratulations Mom and Peter

Congratulations! I hope you have many long happy years together.

photos from christmas visits

I can never remember which order to upload the pictures in so that they will come out in chronological order! So, Instead of moving all of them like I usually do, I'm just going to tell you about our trips in reverse order.

Here is the Price Tower in Bartlesville. The only skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ever to be built.

My honey at Will and Sandy's house. Their yard has a creek that runs through it. Very picturesque.

Will and Sandy and the Tulsa Aquarium. We saw some really interesting fish. Their shark tank is pretty cool.

Sandy took this photo of the 4 of us getting ready to watch a video on Matt's big screen TV.

We got to stay one night of our trip at Matt's new house. It is really nice and he has done a great job. This is Matt and his cat Dyna, getting some X-box stuff ready for David and Matt to play on the big screen.

Now we are in Kansas City. This is the recent addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art designed by Steven Holl. It is pretty cool how it glows at night.

We went to see where Suzanne works, at the Kansas City Free Health Clinic. We pulled into the garage and closed it behind us. Only problem was that halfway through the tour the power went out on the whole block and we thought our cars were going to be stuck in the garage. Luckily, Matt helped find the manual opener and we manually opened the door. This is us trying to put the cover back on the emergency opener. It was quite a bit of excitement.

David and I thought this was especially cool. It is the original mission statement of the Kansas City Free Health Clinic.

The next few photos are of either during the gift opening or just after we were done opening gifts.

This is Casper. He's a cutie.