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the holidays were surprisingly fabulous, considering they completely snuck up on us and we weren't able to do any of the wonderful party planning we'd dreamed about. we spent christmas eve with my jewish grandparents (complete with chinese food) and christmas day with my fam. i got a new phone to replace the one the dog destroyed and i can now access the internet from anywhere, which is exciting but probably not good. luke is still massively in love with the puppy (as am i) and now that things have calmed down around here, we're considering adopting her sister, who is still at the rescue. everyone thinks we're insane, and rightly so i'm sure, but stirring up craziness just when things are looking stable and routine is kinda our m.o. so just get used to it, people. finally, last night was a gorge-fest at our friends' massive duplex near echo park. i think from 7 pm to 2 am i had two beers, three glasses of wine, a bottle of sparkling water, two slices of cake, some pure butter scottish shortbread cookies, two brownies and about my weight in butternut squash risotto and homemade bread. i purposely listed all that out in an attempt to shame myself into being less disgusting from here on out. new year's resolution! at the party, i also totally sucked at charades and forced everyone to watch "kittens inspired by kittens," which of course was the highlight.

in other news, it's been really freezy here lately. granted, a temperature hovering around 40 degrees isn't cold for people who live in places with legitimate seasons, but for this california girl, holy canoli. the worst part of this cold snap is that i'm out at 6:30 in the morning every day excavating in a muddy trench.* meaning: after bailing rain water out of holes for a frigid hour each morning, i'm surprised i'm still in moderately good health.

*just fyi: last night was the first time in the history of my interest in forensic anthropology that my work was actually a welcome topic over a dinner table. exciting!