So, yup.  I’ve returned to California.  :D  It still feels like I’m back visiting San Diego, but I’m sure that will wear away quickly.

I got a job at UC San Diego (GO TRITONS!).  It’s nice to be back, and working with some of the same people I worked with before.  They seem excited to see me back here.  I’m excited to see them again as well. 

I got to move in to the new place on Monday night.  Once Conor can send out our items and they arrive, we’ll get to unpack and try to settle in.  We looked at some things at Ikea to supplement furniture (mostly for closet space - we both have a lot of clothes, especially me) and have started to try to figure out what will work out best to fit our two apartments worth of stuff into this place.  I have a lot of stuff.  And that’s an understatement.  I’ll see if there is more I can purge that I hadn’t already when I unpack it.  I did a lot of recycling when I packed…

To take a step towards normalcy, we bought a new car last night.  Yay new car!  We were able to find a Honda Civic Hybrid unreserved and available.  It was really by luck.  I had looked up area Honda dealerships and Conor was calling to see if anyone had availability and what the wait list looks like, since most Honda and Toyota dealers will tell you that you have to be on a wait list to get any Hybrid vehicle.  But…they had one that just came off of the truck that wasn’t spoken for already.  So we test drove it…with all of the plastic all over the inside and outside of the car.  We bought it with nine miles on the odometer.  It’s pretty darn awesome.  There is a neat thing on the car that tells you the mpg for the trip you are taking.  We reset it when we bought the car to see how it was doing, and had to drive downtown and back for something.  When I drove in to work this morning, it said that we were getting 41 mpg.  And the car is pretty.

I guess that’s about all around here for now.  We’ll be driving up to LA for Trixie’s wedding, and then Conor will be flying back to Ithaca for a short week.  And I’ll be in Miami for the CMA meeting.  Busy times.  But, say hi.  :)  We’re excited about all fo the changes around here, but settling in.  Let us know if you’re going to be in the area, or if you are here and want to hang out.