News and photos

Here's the latest from the Johnson home:

*First of all, it is snowing. We didn't see that coming.
*We have a new niece. We said that already. We're really excited.
*I (Emily) have heard from 2 schools and have been invited for 2 interviews (2 for 2!) I heard from University of Northern Colorado this weekend and they want me to come to Greely, CO to interview for a position in their Ph.D program on the 13th of February. While this is very exciting, we need to figure out how we're going to afford the trips!
* We finally got ALL our wedding pictures sorted and albumized, and we put up our photo display on the wall in our dining room and it looks fantastic! We put up a canvas print of our cake cutting surrounded by smaller silver frames of other wedding pictures:




Finally, a picture of Malcolm "hanging around" and entertaining himself:

Welcome to the world, Lillian Kate! (Lily.)

As you can see, Adam and I have a new niece! Her name is Lillian Kate Johnson, and she was born at 9:20 a.m. on inaguration day (1/20/09). 7 lbs, 6 oz. 20 inches long.

We love her!!!

Baby, it's cold outside.

It has been extremely cold in Indianapolis this week. In honor of (or perhaps in spite of) the weather, I cooked pot roast, mashed potatoes and green beans for the fam for dinner. Now Adam and I are watching the Steelers/Ravens game and it's not looking so good for the Ravens. Adam and I both worked all week, so it's nice to be able to chill out at home if only for a few hours.

This week I secured an interview at the University of Indianapolis for a position in their doctoral program but I haven't heard from any other schools. Hopefully I shouldn't have to wait much longer. In the meantime, I found out that despite the funding changes given by the state of Indiana, my job won't be eliminated, as least not for now. I'll be working with my boss and my boss's boss to devise a new community program, but the details are still pretty fuzzy.

We planned a ski trip with Mollie and Martin for the first weekend of Feb. and we are so excited. I haven't been skiing in years and Adam's going to be snowboarding. We found a great little B&B in Southern Michigan with a killer ski package and a jacuzzi to boot. Exciting to have a mini vacation!

Mistake of the week: On friday night, I gave the bunny a bath. Apparently rabbits are self-cleaning, like ovens. She was very unhappy with me and is still holding a grudge. And, despite the bathing, she's still shedding all over the place, but at least the shedding smells like shampoo.

Sheba the Destroyer

I'm thinking of renaming our rabbit (Lucy) Sheba the destroyer... would that be bad for her self-esteem? The first week we got her she chewed through my laptop power cord, but then we got wise and but cord- wrap around all our cords. However, she continues to move from one room of the house to the next, destroying any valuable items she can find. Baby gates do not keep her out, oh no. She can leap a gate in a single bound. Yesterday she descended on our Scrabble game, which I rescued, but I'm running out of storage space that is counter-level or above! She also has taken to "re-modeling" her cage, i.e, dumping and throwing her food dish and litter box. Adam bought a really strong magnet to attach the food bowl to the bottom of the cage (cage floor is metal) but somehow she outsmarted that...

Also, Max and Malcolm invented a new game yesterday...Max, who is flighted, flies to the window and watches for any potential dangers (a dog, a hawk, a leaf blowing in the breeze, etc). Should he spot one, which happens at least every 5 minutes, he announces it loudly to Malcolm, who sounds the alarm with his earsplitting screeches. Good thing this new development has occurred to keep our apartment a danger-free zone, because before all this commotion, we just had cougars stalking around like crazy...

Welcome to our blog!

Emily here. I've decided at long last to abandon LiveJournal and join the scores of newly married couples and young families on Blogspot. It seems there's more of a forum here for the lengthy ramblings of ordinary life. So I plan to use this blog to update friends and family on the goings on of the newly created Johnson family, and if I can get Adam to blog on occasion, I will. :) If you're really lucky, I might even narrate a few of my batshitcrazy dreams, which I like to share with unsuspecting friends and family over dinner. Adam thinks I should write a book about them-- trust me, you've never heard dreams like these.

Meanwhile, we'll treat you the the adventures of our newlywed life and our practice children! (I.e., Max, Malcolm, and Lucy, our two parrots and rabbit.)