miss me much? no? whatever. i have my life back. the law graduate is done with the bar exam!!! since late june, life has been a blur, a combination of the exceedingly mundane and major stress. i'll do a recap for you, in list format of course, but not in chronological order. i can almost feel your enthusiasm.
things that happened during bar exam study time
1. just yesterday i got into a standoff with a yellow jacket (or some other mean stinger) in my car right before going to work.
2. just call me lord of the flies. they have infiltrated our house. every time i smash one, two more appear. i spent most of my lunch break yesterday sneaking up and squashing them between the blinds. nothing like bug blood on window panes.
3. spent most of yesterday terrified someone was going to break into our house and steal the roxy. lots of dognappings for dog fighting going on lately. disgusting. we were lucky they didn't take roxy when we were broken into.
4. i helped free a teeny tiny baby chameleon during pilates class one afternoon. i set it free in the garden outside. i told my sister this, and she in turn told me of her most recent lizard experience--she flushed a live one down the toilet.
5. my boys came back for season four! whoo! my favorite tbs show ever.
6. i'm starting to work out and walk again. i. hate. cardio. it's not as easy as it used to be.
7. that said, i am trying not to focus on my looks/trouble spots as much, knowing that a) it's really easy to get caught up in that at the expense of other more important things, b) God looks at our hearts, and c) i'll kill to look like this in ten years. it's all about balance.
8. but i have good genes. once this summer, while i was getting my wedding ring cleaned, the girl cleaning it asked me if i was in town for orientation. for college. the next week, a woman asked me if i had just graduated college. i will appreciate this more when i turn 30. you know, in five or six more years.
9. i'm going to a bible study on thessalonians at church. love it. i've also taken to reading bible passages out loud. it helps me remember the passages better. i think there is a lot of virtue in this practice. ask me about it sometime.
10. i got to hang out with my best friend at her engagement party! i'm so happy mandi and heath are getting hitched. it was a joint party with her oldest brother. i just love her family.
11. i'm admitting i'm obsessed with greek salads.
12. i can't wait for football season. now i just need more maroon.
13. unlucky 13. the law graduate's car died, or might as well have for all the trouble it caused. two weekends before the bar, he went to the library to study and finding it not yet opened, sat in the car listening to music. after twenty minutes, the battery died, and all hell broke loose. for the next five hours, we tried to jump start the car, removed the battery, lost a tool in the car, made two trips worth $100+ to autozone, installed a new battery, and then a new battery post terminal node (or something), all in the pouring rain. with no luck. the car still had to be towed last monday. after the mechanics ignored it for 2.5 days, we called and learned that as an anti-theft control, the security system locks the car if it is unsuccessfully started more than five times and must be unlocked by the dealer. five times. i'm sorry, if you can't hotwire a car in less than 5 tries, you may need to look for a new career. dad wanted to try his hand at it first though, so he switched out cars with us. at 9 pm, i'm unloading the corvette (mid-life-crisis red and convertible, of course) and loading our car onto a flatbed wrecker. at least the loner's not bad, although the last time i drove it it whined a lot. apparently we are the kiss of death when it comes to cars.
that should about do it. i promise to upload a summer picture post.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
weekend redux
um, so after a blogging hiatus and general craziness, here is an update of sorts. (i'm drinking wine, and will try to correct as many errors as possible prior to posting, but no promises.)
1. the law graduate was approved to take the bar! yeah, that's right. they don't tell you you've been approved to take the bar until about a month before you actually take it. nice of them, huh?
2. i invented a new game with the apples to apples card game. never heard of it? it's so fun. but my way is better. it is best played late at night with dear friends and plenty of beer.
3. the law graduate cannot hang. over 4th of july weekend at the lake, he went to bed at 10:30. twice.
4. why is it that whenever i post an "update," i number it?
5. my hairdresser is back in business!!! i'm a smidge thrilled. i have only just recently found a place in oxford worth paying money to for a haircut. but now angie's back and my hair has never looked better.
6. reason #32 i have a walmart nokia go phone that only makes phone calls and texts, and only costs $30: last night's late night text from baby sister. "i just shattered my iphone. $700. $500 deposit. fml." sorry, baby.
7. finally watched the movie waitress with mama this weekend. it's pretty cute. mama hasn't stopped singing that song for the past month. "baby don't cry..." check it out, it's super cute.
and last, but not least. i may or may not have accidentally almost given my mother a mild concussion. really. i was packing up to leave to meet daddy for lunch and had loaded everything in the back of my car and was saying goodbye to mama. i tell her to move because i'm closing the door. i guess she didn't really believe me, or moved out of my line of vision and i thought she was safe, i don't really know, but i slammed that door down on her poor little head. and it was scary. especially when she was stumbling around, holding back tears, trying not to pass out or cry and telling me her face felt numb. so then i had to call a friend from whose baby shower we had just come from (she's a nurse) and tell her i had just injured my mother and did i need to call 911? (it would have been my third time ever. the first time, i was 6 years old and made rebecca do it before school. they don't like that and chewed rebecca out. mama didn't like that and chewed the operator out for terrifying a 4-year-old. the second time i saw a guy wreck in front of me when i was 16 in alabama.) i felt (and still feel) so awful about almost taking mama out. but all's well that ends well. mom did not have a concussion and did not require medical care and did make it through the night alive. for which i am very thankful. glad to still have you with us, mama! sorry about that knot on your head. but maybe your hair will have some volume this week.
"mama con't cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle."
"almost-gave-mama-a-concussion pie: cherry pie with a blackberry center."
1. the law graduate was approved to take the bar! yeah, that's right. they don't tell you you've been approved to take the bar until about a month before you actually take it. nice of them, huh?
2. i invented a new game with the apples to apples card game. never heard of it? it's so fun. but my way is better. it is best played late at night with dear friends and plenty of beer.
3. the law graduate cannot hang. over 4th of july weekend at the lake, he went to bed at 10:30. twice.
4. why is it that whenever i post an "update," i number it?
5. my hairdresser is back in business!!! i'm a smidge thrilled. i have only just recently found a place in oxford worth paying money to for a haircut. but now angie's back and my hair has never looked better.
6. reason #32 i have a walmart nokia go phone that only makes phone calls and texts, and only costs $30: last night's late night text from baby sister. "i just shattered my iphone. $700. $500 deposit. fml." sorry, baby.
7. finally watched the movie waitress with mama this weekend. it's pretty cute. mama hasn't stopped singing that song for the past month. "baby don't cry..." check it out, it's super cute.
and last, but not least. i may or may not have accidentally almost given my mother a mild concussion. really. i was packing up to leave to meet daddy for lunch and had loaded everything in the back of my car and was saying goodbye to mama. i tell her to move because i'm closing the door. i guess she didn't really believe me, or moved out of my line of vision and i thought she was safe, i don't really know, but i slammed that door down on her poor little head. and it was scary. especially when she was stumbling around, holding back tears, trying not to pass out or cry and telling me her face felt numb. so then i had to call a friend from whose baby shower we had just come from (she's a nurse) and tell her i had just injured my mother and did i need to call 911? (it would have been my third time ever. the first time, i was 6 years old and made rebecca do it before school. they don't like that and chewed rebecca out. mama didn't like that and chewed the operator out for terrifying a 4-year-old. the second time i saw a guy wreck in front of me when i was 16 in alabama.) i felt (and still feel) so awful about almost taking mama out. but all's well that ends well. mom did not have a concussion and did not require medical care and did make it through the night alive. for which i am very thankful. glad to still have you with us, mama! sorry about that knot on your head. but maybe your hair will have some volume this week.
"mama con't cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle."
"almost-gave-mama-a-concussion pie: cherry pie with a blackberry center."
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