Reload .emacs

[Henrik Austad]

Hi all!

I'm configuring my emacs22.1, and I catch myself restarting emacs (quit and 
start) for every change. 
Are there any ways of just reloading the .emacs-file without restarting emacs? 

I've googled for 'emacs reload config' and variants thereof, but I'm not 
finding a useful guide. 

If there are places I *should* have read before bugging you with these kind of 
questions, please let me 
know - I don't mean to annoy you! :-)

thanks

-- 
henrik