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I cannot believe months have passed since I updated this blog. I haven’t even twittered.
A lot of life lately has consisted of (1) being overwhelmed by work and (2) being overwhelmed by bills. But in he middle of all this self-absorbed inner wailing, I have managed to have some Big Fun.
At the end of July on the year anniversary of taking the bar, J and I traveled back to the scene (Seattle) for a Nine Inch Nails concert. It was awesome. I bagged a nice room at the Westin downtown via Priceline.com and we flew to Seattle and back on my free airline miles. The NIN concert had the usual fascinating pre-show people watching experience. My favorite was a husky gentleman sporting a kilt. There was hair in every color under the rainbow, tattoos people will regret in 10 years, as well as an unusually high number of Gene Simmons boots. Gothic Lolita was the fashion of the day. The concert was fabulous – so fabulous I am seriously considering hitting the show again in Missoula in a couple of months.
The canines are all well and I’ve changed the header image to Lucy at rest in her papasan chair. Lucy had an unsightly health issue recently – her anal gland exploded. It was as much fun as it sounds. Surgery followed, including the extraction of two teeth. Poor little doxie had mayhem going on with both ends. She recovered speedily and is back to her usually passive-aggressive self.
I’ll try to poke my head above the water more often to post. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming – work on my files which I’ve put off for the last two days so I could have a weekend.
Oh, and I’ve been on a Heart kick all of a sudden. What’s that all about?
I’ve been quietly participating in the Jenny Craig weight-loss program since about the middle of April. I’m happy to report that it’s working marvelously and I’ve kissed a chunk of weight buh-bye.
I’m not going to post a weight-loss ticker nor state the amount of weight I intend to lose. Let’s just say…well, the seven years of school were not kind to me! I already had some weight to lose when I started my educational saga, but it was the kind of weight that could be unloaded in a couple of months (only I didn’t). Now, however, I’m pretty much planning to devote a significant chunk of my future to this venture.
The last time I tried to tackle this weighty issue, I was beginning bar study. After a couple of weeks, I realized that was a really, really bad idea.
But now I have school behind me, the bar exam is a fond memory, and I can focus on cleaning up my act.
I am impressed with the Jenny Craig food. It’s actually very tasty. The main reason I picked Jenny Craig was because I needed something that didn’t require actual thought on my part. With a new, debt-laden law practice I don’t have the time nor the inclination to organize one more item in my life. With JC, I show up once a week, chat with a consultant, write a hefty check and leave all of my food. There really isn’t much to buy at the grocery store and I don’t have to plan a thing. Perfect.
Because misery loves company, I’ve also placed Koba the Schipperke on a diet. But really, he isn’t very miserable. A side effect of my goal to get us both back in shape is Koba getting to go on lots of walks. A curious dog + Spring + retractable leash = heaven.
I just opened a twitter account. I twitter here.
Hopefully, I will be more verbose on Twitter since I don’t have the agonizing pressure of coming up with something post-worthy to say. Sadly, WordPress (this free version) doesn’t allow java script or I would have a neato badge in my sidebar. I have it linked instead (which is boring).
The practice is going well – I actually made enough to pay all my monthly bills last month and then some. Hopefully the trend will continue since making a living is the point of this venture.
Meanwhile, the weather this Winter Spring? is hideous. It snowed last weekend. Today and yesterday was rain-slash-hail. My poor perennials are bravely heading upwards as they stubbornly insist that snow is “so yesterday” and green is the new black.
It’s hard to believe, but this time last year I was studying for my last set of law school finals. Damn the past year went quick.
Today I spent four hours in court for a one hour hearing.
To add insult to injury, the sky dumped little ice balls on my head as I trudged from the courthouse to the car.
Only to find a wet parking ticket stuck under my windshield wiper.
Ah. The glamorous life of a litigator.
This weekend I lived dangerously and took the entire day off Saturday. On Sunday I only devoted a couple of hours to the “must be done before Monday” projects. Then I turned off the light and turned my back on the gazillion other items clamoring to get my attention. It’s time to set some boundaries.
Really, I don’t mind working late or working on weekends, which is the heart of the problem. I could easily get sucked into being a beyond-repair workaholic. Not healthy. So the new rule is that if I don’t have anything that absolutely has to get done over the weekend, then I take at least one day off.
For the first time ever I had a housecleaning service come in and do a top to bottom clean. It was worth every penny. There was a lot of grunge in this house that had been building throughout my pursuit of higher education. For instance, I cringed if any guest ever looked up to see all the cobwebs and dirty dust bunnies on ledges and hanging in the corners. It was serious Adamms Family material. I’m planning to have the service come back every two weeks. It keeps the Zen flowing.
I’ll try to update this blog more, honest. I did a little spring cleaning by replacing the snowy Malamute with the grassy Dachshund in the header.
Lately it seems like every article I browse pertaining to cosmetics always mentions bronzer. Apparently, I’m supposed to use bronzer at all times. Suddenly it’s assumed that I use bronzer. I’m confused. When was I supposed to start using bronzer? Are people looking at me askance wondering why I’m not using bronzer? I should point out right now that my spell checker does not acknowledge the existence of bronzer.
Anywho…that’s kind of what my mind has been like today, wandering in and out of reality and things that matter. It took me an incredibly long time to get my head into some revisions that needed done for a complaint I’ve been working on over the last few days. It seemed like every time I settled down and started concentrating I would be interrupted by some outside force or my mind would start wondering about important, cutting edge issues like whether or not my life lacks luster because I don’t own bronzer.
And what the hell happened to December? Didn’t we just do Thanksgiving?
Finally, I’m coming up empty on the Random Dog Photo today. I have a photo of Koba in his elf outfit sitting on a memory card in my camera. Maybe next time I post I’ll upload it. Maybe next time I post I’ll be bronzed.
Hassle of the Day: The weather today sucks. It’s rainy and windy – windy is the part that sucks. I don’t mind rain and I don’t mind snow, but add wind into the mix and I begin minding.
This morning I had an interview for a job I’d really like to get. I felt good about the interview overall. As always, there are other candidates for the position so time will tell.
After the interview I headed for my home office and took care of some junk that’s been piling up. The pile is mostly nit-picky quick items that I’ve been putting off with my usual flare for procrastination. I still have a massive backlog of personal paperwork to sort through, trash, and file. I pretty much stopped trying to control my mess during the third year of law school and there is an abandoned desk in the spare bedroom piled high with what I assume will mostly be trash (as in it sat for so long it is now moot).
Christmas shopping conundrums are beginning to bother me. I’m stumped for gifts for quite a few people. I may have to take a day and just wander around a mall looking for inspiration.
The past 24 hours are very newsy:
The state bar has finally assigned my bar number. I’m officially an attorney. Watch out world.
I assembled our brand new fully lit, hinged Christmas tree all by myself.
We had our first snow.
Sallie Mae sent me my first loan statement. I sent Sallie Mae my first deferment request.
All four dogs had a bath.
Proof of first snow:
I love people who design xml blog templates and then post them on the web for me to use for free. Although I have a link credit in my sidebar, I should call attention to the designer of this lovely new template located here.
I gotta go reserve my spot in bed before a wiener dog is given my space. Bulleted info dump:
- I have a new desk for my future home office. woot!
- If you like different hip-hop/rap with great lyrics and produced by the always-wonderful Trent Reznor check out Saul Williams’ latest release. You can download a low quality version for free or get it in the format of your choice for only five bucks! Trust me it’s awesome and it is here.
- I have a new pre-lit fake Christmas tree. I love it. No needles on the floor and no lights to hang. I just unhinge the perfect tree and hang my pretties.
- I have a hair appointment to get my “natural blonde” touched up and to plot either a brief grow-out or a new cut.
- I have a manicure/pedicure schedule just a couple of days before my swearing-in. I’m going to be glam in a suit.
That’s it for now. This creature may be invading my personal bed space right now. Must go defend territory.
This weekend I went on a Martha Stewart frenzy. I cooked hearty food and decorated for autumn. It was pretty out of control. I have lots of space above my kitchen cabinets that I’ve wanted to do something with for years (literally, years). We had a mish-mosh of things up there that didn’t match and didn’t scream “theme”.
Well, now we have an autumn theme going on up there complete with maple leaf garland. I had to start my attack armed with a dust mask and hand-held vacuum. It was ugly. In hindsight, a large shovel would’ve been the better tool.
That night I was feeling incredibly self-satisfied when it hit me that my level of self-satisfaction was at an all time high because I had no guilt. For the first time in seven years was able to do a big project around the house without silently freaking because I wasn’t working on a paper, reading 100s of pages of textbooks or casebooks or working on an outline. I worked all the way through my undergrad and law school so weekends and evenings were pretty much swallowed up by study. If I wasn’t studying, I was worried about studying.
Just icky.
Enough whining about the stress of law school. I’m going to start a new thing with this blog where I post a random dog photo, just because. I have four dogs and I they are usually the subjects of my photos. In fact, even if I’m taking a photo of something else, a dog usually wanders by and I cannot resist.
Today’s Random Dog Photo is Koba playing dress-up with a shower curtain.
