Well, the contract we had on the house during my last post fell through. But everything happens for a reason. And the weekend it fell through we resumed our house search; we found a better (and cheaper) house that is new construction that we like better. We now have a contract on that house. Our appraisal is next week, if all goes well with it we should be in the clear as far as being able to get the house.

In the meantime, in preparation of our move out of our apartment we’ve starte packing and repainting the walls. Chantel’s old room is back to white primer instead of the blue that it has been for 3 years. Everything in our office has been disassembled and removed. It’s been taped up to prep for bringing it back to primer next weekend. So we’ll have to say good bye to the orange and maroon. After that all we have left to repaint is our bathroom. We still need to pack about half the apartment. It’s getting there, slowly but surely. The more we pack the more we get excited about the concept that we’re going to be homeowners in less than 2 weeks. My only question is when did I actually grow up? I don’t remember doing that.

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Okay, so I don’t mean literally. I just mean to say when you throw rocks in a pond it creates huge changes in the surface of the water. Back to my analogy… Chase and I are experincing rocks being thrown in our pond. I got a job working as a lab specialist in a lab at MCV working in Spirochetes (a particular type of bacteria). It’s a lot of fun and I’m learning a lot. I’m in charge of making sure there’s buffers, broth, media, etc that everyone in the lab uses. On the side I get my own little piece of a project to work on. And any other time is spent helping other lab members if they need anything done.

Besides that Chase and I found a house that we really like. Our offer was accepted, we have had our home inspection. Now w’ere waiting on the appraisal and the underwriter. We’re hoping to close at the end of the month. It’s this really cute transitional house in our area (only about 10 miles from our apartment). We’ll get the pictures up soon so everyone can take a look.

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Refraction
Noun
Physics
1. the change in direction of a wave, such as light or sound, in passing from one medium to another in which it has a different velocity

After a few days of pondering life in general, I have gathered a good idea of what is going on and it relates to the word above.  I have never been good at metaphors, but I am at least going to try.

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UPDATE:  As was stated in the post after this one (Refraction), this post was taken too personally.  I have updated it a bit to help show that we didn’t mean to offend anyone.

Now that Katie has finished up school and graduated (Yay Katie!), we’ve had a chance to step back and take a look at our life and the direction it is going.  No one is truly ever sure of what their future holds for them, but I think we can influence it by the actions we take and the people we interact with.

Truthfully, if there has ever been a time for me to question the direction on which my life is going and whether I’m at the right place, doing the right things, surrounded by the right people now is it.  Really I shouldn’t just say my life, since I have to have Katie’s best interests in mind too.  We are one now. . .we are the Chatie!  Anyway, this has all stemmed from a particularly nasty email Katie and I found in our inboxes this morning from a “friend.”  The details of this message are going to remain only with the people who it concerns, but it is the main reason for all of our reflections this morning.  This isn’t going to be a rant attempting to chastise this person or anyone else,  I am better than that.

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Well I finished up the last few corrections yesterday and I go the School of Pharmacy and the Graduate School Deans’ signatures. Converted it to a pdf file and uploaded. Once I turned in my signature sheet I’m done. Now just to make sure my grades get put up (for my research seminar and research).

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