Archive for June, 2009

House news (Katie forgot the title)

June 28th, 2009

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.

Throwing rocks

June 12th, 2009

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.