YUCK!

I have officially experienced winter!

Today was some of the worst weather ever. It snowed overnight and early in the morning, and then we were graced with ICY rain that fluctuated between hail and slush all. day. long. It literally took all of the willpower in me to get up out of my warm and cozy bed to trudge through the slush and rain to get to school!

The absolute worst part is the street slush. It is sooooooo nasty! And today when I left for school and was waiting to cross the street, a taxi cab rushed through a yellow light and threw up a HUGE wave of brown street slush onto a group of us (so sad because that was the only part of the day that I was dry.)! There was a unified cry of "OHHHHHH!" from all of us as we realized that we were all now covered in who knows what!! I seriously almost died when I felt it on my face.

Nasty city slush:

That jerk. I wish I could carry around rocks to throw into the windows of cabs that run through the puddles/snow/slush and splash me.

To make everything worse I got an email from JetBlue about suuuuper cheap flights from JFK if you fly this weekend. Palm beach is looking reeeeaaalll good right now! :)

Once there was a snowman...

It snowed like crazy last night! We looked out the window and there was a thick layer of fresh snow everywhere!

We're lucky enough to have a little patio/backyard all to ourselves (totally unheard of in Manhattan), so we ran outside to make a snowman at 11:30 at night! It was actually a little hard because the snow was so powdery. This was actually like our 3rd snowman...the other ones just fell apart.

This is Seth dancing in the snow...ha!

I love the snow! Its so pretty to see everything covered in fresh snow! I wanted to go into central park today, but I had to do lab work all day long. I saw people heading there with sleds and tubes this morning--I bet they had so much fun!

The gross stuff is the city slush after the snow. It gets all watery and brown (and yellow...from all of the dogs peeing on it!) And you have to stay away from the curb because it kicks up when cars drive by......all I can say is that I learned that the hard way.

Here's the view from my lab as I was wishing I was playing in the snow instead...

I hope it snows some more! I especially hope it snows hard enough that we're snowed in and I don't have to go to school/lab. hehe.

I'm back!

Wow it's been a while! And we've celebrated so many things since I last posted.

We flew back to California to visit our families for Christmas!

I actually didn't take many pictures of our Christmas visit...we even took family pictures with the Kressins and I didn't get any of those!

My mom took this one:

Oh wait I did take one picture:

My faaaavvvooorittteee FATTY!! It was so much fun to see him, and he is SO FAT now! He's completely lost his neck and waist and is now a big white blob. I love it!

So we had a great Christmas, and had fun seeing both of our families! We also celebrated our 4th anniversary on the 28th of December. We tried to go to Disneyland, but it was actually sold out. I've never had that happen before! It was so lame! To salvage the day we headed over to the Irvine Spectrum and spent some Christmas giftcards and went out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. I had started to get sick that day, so we headed home so I could get some rest.

We finished celebrating our anniversary by spending another day in Seaport Village in San Diego. I've never been there before and it was a cute little town to hang out in!

We also had a great new years, but I didn't take any pictures of that either. Oops!

While we were in California, New York had a huge snowstorm and we were so lucky to miss it! However when we got back we got to see all of the leftover nasty city snow/slush. This city can get so dirty!

But it just started to snow again today, so we got to run around Central Park and see the pretty snow, not the nasty slush! I'm always amazed at how gorgeous Central Park is. This is my first time in the snow and I had a lot of fun! The snow is so pretty!

We also got free tickets to the Late Show with David Letterman this week, and that was a blast! Technically he was the first celebrity we've seen in NYC! When we went to get our tickets, we acted super excited to be in the audience, so the stuck us in the very front row so we could yell and fake laugh really loud! It was sooo much fun. They told us a million times to laugh incredibly loud at every joke, and that was actually kind of hard to do. hahaha. I felt really ridiculous just yelling HAHAHAHAHAHA at everything everyone said. The guest was Jennifer Connely, which wasn't too exciting to be honest...but it was still fun! Dave came out before the show to talk to the audience and he seriously stood like 4 feet from us! I resisted the urge to reach out and touch him haha! It was just really cool to see all of that in person!

Here's me and our tickets with our "special" yellow stickers!

I started school this last Monday, and Seth starts school in a few weeks. School was just as difficult as I remember it..haha. My PI didn't waste any time catching me up on my lab work and had me working in the tissue culture room for hours on my first day. I'm also taking more specialized classes like adv. immunology and 2 journal clubs. Ok, the name "journal club" makes it sound like a happy little get-together, but journal club sucks. Every week we meet to each present and discuss a recently published article for a specialized topic. Its the most boring thing ever. Really. Anyway, I'm tired of talking about school. I'm just happy that its the weekend! Even though I'm still sick, I plan on having a great time and SLEEPING! [oh yeah and studying].

And guess what else! I scored 2 tickets to the Colbert Report for March 1st today! YESSSSSSSS!!