Thursday, February 12, 2009

Christmas, Double Bridge Run and Catching Up

Spring is just around the corner - I feel it, despite the fact that the wind sounds like banshees gliding through the trees in our yard. Just wanted to post that I'm still alive! Been trying to keep up with job applications and just fell into a slump with not posting. Ever notice that even though February is such a short month the winter storms make it feel the longest?

I have the day off today and I'm going to my Grandma's for lunch, gonna make her some Chicken Marsala that she loves so this will probably be a rushed, very noncreative post. B has been away at training so my hermit self needs to get my butt in gear and stop staying home so much. I do have some pictures from Christmas again (never too late right?), the Pensacola Double Bridge Run. I met my friend Sara in Pensacola this past weekend for the run, its a 15k - its such a great time of year to do this run because it was about 70 degrees there and this is about the time I want to have a throwdown with old man winter if I have to get frostbite on my hands cleaning the inches of snow off my car one more time. So it was great to go outside without a coat and actually put my feet in the water. And it was so good to see Sara, in my old age I'm appreciating more and more the value of those close friends that you can trust with anything and that are like family.



Well, I'm off to make Chicken Marsala for Grandma! Have a blessed day!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Christmas decorating with friends

This is a quick post to get some more pictures up. B and I spend the evening tree-decorating and gingerbread house making with friends. Uh, as you can see, the men were extremely happy about the tree:


Saturday, November 15, 2008

New York

Well, the dramatic results period is over - I passed the NY Bar too! Whew! I think the biggest impression I've felt is thankfulness that I never have to study for either Bar again and that all that time wasn't wasted. I hope to catch up on blogs and commenting - I have lots of reading to do :)

Now, on to -- what? I don't know, but here are some pictures from our trip to the city on Veteran's Day. We seem to be on a cycle - I think I posted pictures from the city around this time last year. I hope everyone is doing well and I will be writing something more interesting soon; just wanted to post these pictures and the Bar news! (Best quote of the day from B while in NY, at a fancy italian clothing store (after the pretentious but friendly saleswoman just alerted us to the fact that yes, the $5,000 suits are indeed on sale for a measly $3,000 to $4,000 here's B- - "I can't take it...between the smell (there was what must have been toxic amounts of fancy cologne wafting around every corner), the french rock and the retarded clothes, I have to get the F out of here.") I know, I don't swear but somehow the quote just isn't as funny if its not the exact words.




Monday, October 27, 2008

Getting sworn in

Could it be? I'm finally considered an attorney! Happy day!





Whoah...

Now that is a costume:





Friday, October 10, 2008

The Results

I can happily report that I passed the Bar...and more importantly B is home for good!! WOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I must say it has been a happy day and now there is a 3 day weekend, what more could I ask?!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

And Here It Is...........

Well, the day has arrived. Tommorrow I find out if I passed the Connecticut Bar exam, and, much more importantly - B returns home from training for good! I can't wait (for B) but can't help feeling nervous about the Bar. I need to rest on that scripture - "faith is the substance of things hoped for". Even writing that I am reminded how far askew my priorities fall sometimes. The way it is easier to get to church or find time to pray when there is something I am worried about, and how easy it is to get wrapped up in selfish things during my free time now that I'm done with school.

That being said, I find myself wondering lately what exactly "It" is - passing the Bar? Finding that job that you were made to do? I just don't know. If it isn't obvious I have felt restless about the area that is my job lately. I'll be checking in again about that soon.

On a random note and sort of following in Brittny's line of thought about her 8 cookies - I have been eating almond and peanut butter like crazy, like, spoonfuls of it by itself every night. Weird huh? I must just be nuts....OK, OK, sorry....

Welcome home B! It has been too long!