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Relaxing…

March 28th, 2009

Well we arrived alright yesterday. No issues with our flight. Upon landing we went to visit Chase’s grandparents out in Beverly Hills. We spent the afternoon visiting them and then drove back to the other side of the panhandle to relax at his parent’s house. Chase kicked our butt’s at Phase 10 (Mary-Jane introduced/reintroduced the game to us just recently).

So far today it’s been nice just hanging around the house relaxing. I’m definitely enjoying the near 80 °F and nice breeze. We just heard that the landing of the Discovery has been postponed an hour and half. We’re hoping to be able to drive out towards the beach and take a few pictures as it lands. It was pretty neat. The wind wasn’t cooperating earlier so they pushed back the landing until 3ish.

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After the landing, we came back and relaxed poolside. Then started working on dinner. This evening Chase and I are making West End london broil. Chase found the recipe online a few weeks ago. We tried it out at home and it was so delicious so we decided to bring it with us.

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And away we go again. . .

March 27th, 2009

Well here we go again.  Katie and I are waiting in the airport ready to travel again.  It seems this blog gets more action (posts/pictures) when we travel.  This time we are heading down to Florida to visit my parents.  We will hopefully get to see the shuttle land, it’s probably not as cool as a launch, but cool nonetheless.  We hope to catch a shuttle launch before the program ends next year.  Anyway, Katie’s almost back with some juice and then off to Orlando in about 45 minutes.  Lots of pictures to come :)

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Break time

March 23rd, 2009

So I’m taking a quick break at school from writing (ugh, still at it) my thesis to write a quick update post.

Chase and I are doing well. We’re looking forward to our extended weekend in Titusville this upcoming weekend. I think we both need it to prevent burn out. It looks like we’ll be there for the landing of the shuttle, which I think will be pretty awesome. Plus we’ll get to spend some quality time lounging in/around the pool and not thinking about work or school.

Back to now though, I’m finally working on the last couple of drafts before my thesis is distributed to my committee. To put it in perspective, I give a copy to each committee member. They then have 10 days to read, comment, correct, and review my thesis. Then I defend it–they ask me questions about my work and anything related to it for a few hours. Sometime in those 10 days I’ll give a talk to my entire department on my work (about 45 min). After my defense I’ll have about a week to make any corrections before I submit my final copy to the library, where they’ll look over it to make sure it adheres to all the necessary standards and if it does and I have all my signatures then they’ll publish it and I’ll officially be done. For anyone keeping track I still have to write my table of contents (including the list of figures, list of tables, and list of schemes), abstract, and experimental–and I’m already past 115 pages.

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Snow, snow, snow!

December 24th, 2008

So we’ve been here in Breckenridge since Saturday. Sunday we enjoyed most of a Denver Broncos game. It was an interesting experience. We all got a little cold so left during fourth quarter. Monday we skiied at Breckenridge. The view of the Rockies up on the slopes was amazing. Tuesday we skiied at Keystone; my legs hurt so I didn’t ski very much. But Chase took the Gondola up to keep me company and take in the view himself. Today we’re heading down to Copper Mountain for snow tubing. Tomorrow we’ll spend a lazy day here at the house enjoying a leisurely breakfast followed by gifts. Friday I think the family is going up to Vail; but Chase and I are planning on attempting to snowboard at Breckenridge. It seems that Breckenridge is the “beginner’s” or “easy” mountain of the mountains in this area. Saturday we’ll fly home and pick up our boys. Assuming no one (aka me) breaks a bone this trip like the last snow trip with my family.

Once again, Happy Holidays!

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Happy Holidays!

December 14th, 2008

For our friends and family that don’t frequent our site, welcome! And for the few that do, welcome back! Just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of our friends and family.

We usually try to keep the site up-to-date on what’s going on with us; haven’t been but so successful lately. So here’s what’s new (or the same) with us:

Katie’s still working on her Master’s in Medicinal Chemistry. She’ll hopefully be defending late Jan-early Feb. We’re hoping she’ll get a job around here since we’ve gotten attached to all of our wonderful friends here in Richmond. But as any scientist knows, research just doesn’t go the way you expect and always takes longer than anticipated.

Chase is still one of three in the IT department at G.D. But he loves the fact that it’s small enough that every day is different. Right now his department is in the midst of writing a new piece of software for their accountants to use so he’s been quite busy.

In the pet department all of our fish have died, probably due to a fungal infection. But Gizmo and Teddy are doing just fine. Gizmo is just as ornery in the morning as always about going in the kitchen. Teddy has had thankfully much fewer seizures. And this fall they got a new little sister, a little roborovski hamster named Kobito. » Read more: Happy Holidays!

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