electronic toothbrush

so i finally caved in & went with my dentist's recommendation: i bought & am now using an electronic toothbrush.  happily, i was able to find a much more affordable model than i had thought possible.  so i'm just into it & learning how to make sure toothpaste doesn't fly everywhere.

and, whoa, the 2 minutes built into the functioning of the brush is a lot longer time than i expected!

boats & the like

okay, so it turns out my last blog post was vague, at best. here's the low-down on the boat. we're moving aboard at the end of the month! so greg is working very hard to make it ready to go while i spend time blogging:). we put down some new flooring & greg's working on something electrical. and i'm shopping for a used full-size mattress that will fit!

part of the reason for the live-aboard life is because i've been accepted to phd school at northwestern and am going to go. wahoo! just call me a wildcat. (which is funny to me because right now i work at WSU, whose mascot is a cougar...and wildcats are kind of related to cougars, right?)

g's going to stay here, at least for the first year. so living on a boat that we bought out of foreclosure will be much easier than having two rents!

that's right, ladies & gentlemen, i'm going to be a midwesterner again.

the real question is: will i change the name of this blog again?