Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year: 2009!!!

Happy New Year! We are excited for the upcoming year. We are planning to accomplish quite a bit this year. We hope to get some work done to our place both inside and out. Last summer we painted the outside, installed new rain gutters, and cleared out some old bushes from our garden area.

We can't believe how much work, and money, it takes to keep a little place like ours up to date. It seems like we moved in last year and everything was brand new. Even though it is just the two of us, the both of us have put some wear and tear on the place. With the housing market on the decline, it will be a good idea to spend the next year putting some money into it.

I hope to finish my dissertation this summer. Trish has worked hard transcribing interviews for me to analyze. I hope to get a few chapters done in the next couple of months and the entire document finished to defend by the end of the summer. Time has flown by so quickly!!! It seems like I need get on a plane to fly back to Tempe to begin spring semester. Even though our Arizona period was an exciting one, we are glad that we don't have to hop on a plane every weekend to see each other. It looks like 2009 will close the ASU period of our lives with my graduation. Then again...

Sam and Trish

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