Our new house on Hawthorn Street in Morgantown :)

After a long 4 days in Morgantown, WV Jay and I found our home!! We decided on a house in the Evansdale neighborhood which is right above campus. We live in the same neighbor hood as the Universities president and Oliver Luck (WVU Athletic director). We are close to campus, so close that it is a 2 minute walk to my office!!!!! We can see my building from the end of the block. Although we are really close, it is not a party neighborhood and we are really happy about that. Location location location is great!

Here is the front of

914 Hawthorne St.

Morgantown, WV 96505

The curbs are blue for car parking and zoning purposes- due to the closeness to campus, we'll have to get a parking permit because the students like to park there :) But we do have a 2 car garage in the back also .

Here is the side door that goes either up to the kitchen or down to the basement for laundry.

If you go through the side gate, you see the garage and our huge back yard! Jay will have fun mowing :)

There is a huge pine tree that will give wonderful shade in the hot hot summer months. 

Looking at the back of the house, there is a cute back porch that lead into the kitchen- perfect place for morning coffee and watching the bright red cardinal birds. 

Here is the opposite side of the house and the other fence to get into the backyard. 

Just down this street is West Virginia University! Go Mountaineers!

Here is the other direction down Hawthorn Street.

Now for the inside!!! 

Here is the view right when you walk in the front door. To the left is a staircase that goes up stairs and to the kitchen. 

Here you can see the front door and the staircase- love the red paint!

After you go through the livingroom you find this blue dining area that is connected to the kitchen. 

 Here is the kitchen that looks into the dining room.

View of the kitchen from the door to back porch.

First bedroom at the top of the stairs. 

Bathroom and large storage closet across from the first bedroom.

Second bedroom that looks over the backyard- possibly the office??

The third room,  Lilac #5, this was the owners daughters room and we have permission to paint over it :)

We are relieved to have found a place and look forward to everyone coming to visit! We plan to set up one of the rooms as a guest room and hope that it is used!! XXOO

AHHHHHHHH

Well. Here I am. 5pm and still working.... Stressed because I have a dead-line tomorrow and yikes. I may be here quite late. Well, no one ever said PhD land was going to be easy. 

Countdown to professor hood

Whoa, does the time fly by!!!

I have been in a dash for the finish line but need to give an update!

Jay is searching for jobs in Morgantown and found several accounting firms and companies that are in need of a CPA or general accountant. I am feeling relieved about that because it is important for us to both  move towards our career goals. I am so happy we can do that together. He is also taking on the task of contacting rental homes for us to check out when we visit at the end of the month. There are a lot of really nice homes in the area and I am so excited to find one that works for us. (also excited to decorate!)

Dissertation update:

Data collection complete! THis includes 28 in-depth interviews,  for ensuring validity and 14 member checks to ensure reliability. 47 hours of transcribing. I am in the analysis phase where I align my objective with my findings and look for similarities across the participants. It is great and I love hearing what women have to say. Found this comic to represent my last 2 years......... I am in-between the despair and drudgery phase at the moment........ :)

Well, I should be off to working on my results but here is a sneak peak of a model I am working on... still needs work- haven't quite figure out a name for the model..... the. And I will explain it all at the defense :) So excited to hear my family and friends are going to be there- feeling the love and support

Back in the USA

Just got back from Noasra, Costa Rica with my Mom. What a beautiful country! Wow, the food, the resort and the people were great. We lounged on the beach, went to yoga, relaxed and played with rescue monkeys.

They were so soft and warm and their tails are soooo long! Awww how sweet they were. So playful and they each have their own personalities. 

Back to work for me. I have a ton of grading to do, a proposal and grant to write, interviews to transcribe and a summary section to write. Whoooaaa. Looking forward to Thursday though..... Jay and I are beer tasting and then swing dance lessons :)