Romy & Jenn

We had to get a lucky dog while in Berwyn. They remodeled inside and it looks nice!

Romy

Romy looks like a huge hick with a mullet in my mom's wig.

Romy

Working on the Buick. . . . still. And its sooooo cold!

Jenn

I am scanning all of the old pictures we found.

Romy & Jenn

We tried the beer at Atlas Brewing near Lincoln Park in Chicago. They had a lot of different beers.

Romy

Buying a few PCV valves for the intake. We don't know which ones will fit.

Romy & Jenn

Working on the Buick never stops.

Jenn & Romy

We had to work on the Buick some more before going to Christmas dinner at Jerrene and Roy's.

Romy & Jenn

Christmas Eve dinner at my mom's in Berwyn.

Romy

Putting in some coolant into the radiator.

Romy

This is the biggest roll of shop towels ever! Jim gets them from where he works.

Jenn & Romy

We made the first round of baskets today, and Romy is making fun of me and the scissors.

Romy

Today we're scraping the old gasket material on the intake of the Buick's engine.

Romy

The Buick engine is so big, I can sit on top of it while working.

Jenn & Romy & the old SAE lab guys

We saw everybody from UIC in a huge reunion of all the SAE lab people! It was sooo much fun!

Romy

Romy's fixing the Buick's radio.

Jenn

I got notice today that my postdoc host institution can be switched to DRI for the NRC Fellowship! Yay!

Jenn & Nicole

Nicole dropped me off at the airport, and now I'm flying to Chicago for Xmas. Romy already left a week ago to start working on the Buick.

Jenn

Just turned in all my surveys and the signature page of my dissertation to the graduate division office at Berkeley. I am done!!!! PHinisheD!!!!!! Woooo hoooooooooooooo!

Jenn

The pitbull that Marcel is taking care of for the holidays arrive. Jack likes to lick everything!

Jenn & Marcel & Nicole

To celebrate, we went to Beer Revolution in Oakland, followed by dinner at Souley Vegan. Yummmmmm!

Jenn

Today I uploaded my dissertation to get published by ProQuest, but first Berkeley has to approve it.

Jenn

I got all my signatures on my dissertation! I am a few days away from being Dr. Jennifer Frederick!!! Wooo hooo!

Jenn

Today I have my poster presentation at AGU. I had to wake up super early to catch the Montclair transbay bus.

Romy & Jenn

We went out for beer at 21st Ammendement in San Francisco after Carolina's talk at AGU.

Romy

The Dingo's new home is in Roseville, CA at Wallentine Motorsports! It was really cold outside, in the low 30s.

Jenn & Romy

We went to Travertine Hot Springs outside of Bridgeport tonight, and when we got out of the springs it was sooooo cold outside. This cold: I didn't know the Subaru could measure a temperature that cold! -13F!!!

Jenn & Romy

We took a hike near Spooner Lake today, and the fire service was doing control burns. We walked past this huge bonfire.

Romy & Jenn

We are officially Nevada residents now and so is the Subaru! This is just a temporary plate - we got a cool Battle Born plate which will be a vanity plate and needs to be special ordered.

Romy & Jenn

Traffic was really bad today, so we stopped at Elevation 66 in El Cerrito on our way home to Carson City. It was kind of cold in there.

Jenn & Nicole & Marcel & Romy

Oh my god the exit seminar is over. Buffett bought a bunch of Chimay instead of champagne (yes!) and then we went out to get fish tacos in Berkeley to celebrate during the after party! YAY!

Romy & Jenn

We're at N&M's. I am super stressed out because tomorrow is my exit seminar at Berkeley. Ahhhhhh!

Jenn & Romy

We're back in Oakland and we found an awesome taco truck - super cheap and yummy. We got tripe and beef tongue tacos.