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My husband and I recently bought our first house! YAY! Before we bought it I knew we would have a few projects to do even though the house was move-in ready. Once we moved in, we started finding more and more projects. I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I've noticed most of the projects. I figured since I've learned so much from other blogs I would start my own since I'm tackling my own projects now! Let me start by telling you a little bit about myself. I work at an observatory as a telescope operator, so I work 4pm to about 7 or 8am (it all depends on the time of year). I do my job for a week at a time and then I get two weeks off. It's kind of awesome but let me tell you, I earn my weeks off after 112 hour work week. I also stay pretty close to a night schedule during my weeks off (I try to go to bed at 4am and wake up around noon but in the winter it's not realistic). During my time off I try to make updates and improvements to the house. It usually goes at a snail's pace since I can't exactly hammer things into the wall while my husband sleeps...well I can but I prefer to not have an angry man squinting at me asking me what I'm doing in the middle of the night.

Before we moved into our house, we found out that the previous owner was an engineer. I thought, well that is great. If there were ever any problems then I'm sure he was able to fix it using his brain. But I've discovered that he was more like a theoretical engineer or maybe a regular engineer and he needed a physicist's help. Enter me. I work at an observatory because I have a BA in Physics and concentration in Astrophysics. I sound hard-core but let me assure you, I'm not. I've always been a hard working person and never considered myself to be all that smart. When I went to college I took an astronomy class and loved it. I talked to my professor and asked if I was stupid to think I could do physics because I loved astronomy. He said I would do great, so that pushed me into it but I always struggled in school and figured why should I do something easy that I didn't like when I could do something I liked even though it was hard. (You know the whole, 'We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard') So, I thought of Physics as just another challenge.

Let me start by telling you a little bit about myself. I work at an observatory as a telescope operator, so I work 4pm to about 7 or 8am (it all depends on the time of year). I do my job for a week at a time and then I get two weeks off. It's kind of awesome but let me tell you, I earn my weeks off after 112 hour work week. I also stay pretty close to a night schedule during my weeks off (I try to go to bed at 4am and wake up around noon but in the winter it's not realistic). During my time off I try to make updates and improvements to the house. It usually goes at a snail's pace since I can't exactly hammer things into the wall while my husband sleeps...well I can but I prefer to not have an angry man squinting at me asking me what I'm doing in the middle of the night.

Before we moved into our house, we found out that the previous owner was an engineer. I thought, well that is great. If there were ever any problems then I'm sure he was able to fix it using his brain. But I've discovered that he was more like a theoretical engineer or maybe a regular engineer and he needed a physicist's help. Enter me. I work at an observatory because I have a BA in Physics and concentration in Astrophysics. I sound hard-core but let me assure you, I'm not. I've always been a hard working person and never considered myself to be all that smart. When I went to college I took an astronomy class and loved it. I talked to my professor and asked if I was stupid to think I could do physics because I loved astronomy. He said I would do great, so that pushed me into it but I always struggled in school and figured why should I do something easy that I didn't like when I could do something I liked even though it was hard. (You know the whole, 'We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy but because they are hard') So, I thought of Physics as just another challenge.

As I was saying, we bought a house from an engineer but I'd really like to know where he got his degree from so no one I know ever goes there...he was also heavily invested in zip ties. By that I mean, if something broke and could be zip tied together that is how it was 'fixed'. So, now I'm fixing (notice the lack of quotes around fixing) the house and making it ours! You should also know, I have been Jon Snow when it comes to home improvement (I know nothing). Hopefully,someone will be able to learn from what little I have grown to know! Let's hope this blog has more than one post.