Daddies

I am grateful for my daddy.  I know that I already made a post about being grateful for my family, but odds are I am going to give each of them their own post.  Today I am grateful for my daddy because he has taught me so much about how to take care of myself.  Prior to letting me drive my car alone he forced me to change both a front and a back tire on the car.  It took me almost forty five minutes but I have never once been stranded with a flat tire.  He has also taught me how to fix a toilet, build things, keep my finances in order, and many other things.  Today I am especially grateful for him because I have to fix my closet.  The shelving thing in my closet broke, and when it did it ripped a hole in the wall.  I am in the process of patching the hole and then I am going to re-install the shelves in the closet.

I have an awesome daddy.  He truly is the best.  I cannot wait for him to walk me down the aisle at my wedding or to see him with my children (in a completely figurative way - I am waiting a real long time to have children!). :)

Day 4 (but really Day 2)

I am grateful for the e-mail that I received on Wednesday morning at 12:06 a.m.  See, as those of you who have read my blog know, I just graduated from law school.  During the summer I took the NY bar.  On Wednesday I found out that I had PASSED the NY bar.  YES! I have been clinging to that happy feeling for three days (since the rest of my life seems to want to go to sideways).

I have been repeating this prayer to myself for about a week now.

It has become my mantra.  I just wish I could put it to better use.

I am grateful for...

I have been seeing people write things they are grateful for.  It is something to do with November, and Thanksgiving.  You are supposed to list one a day.  I am three days late, but after the way my life has looked for the past weeks, I figure I should start counting my blessings.  So today I am going to list three things.  Then I am going to post one thing I am grateful for every day.

1. I am grateful for my family.  I have a wonderful mother, father, brother, and fiance.  They are amazing, loving, kind, supportive, awesome people.  I don't know where I would be, or who I would be, without them.  I love you guys.
2. I am grateful for my job and co-workers.  In this economy I know having a job is a big deal and I am grateful that I get to go to work every day and earn a steady pay check.  I am able to save up for after the boy and I are married.  To make it even better, my co-workers are awesome.  They make me laugh every day and that is important.
3.  I am grateful for my puppy.  She is soo super sweet and loves me unconditionally.  Everyday when I come home she is super excited to see me.  She barks, jumps up and down and licks my face.  She is incredibly well behaved and wonderful. She makes my life better.

So that is a good start.  This challenge is also helpful because it will help me blog more often.  I told myself I would start doing it, but then never did.  So now, hopefully, I will. :)

MASSIVE UPDATE

Some of this information is new, some of it is new to those who don't me know, and some of it is just old. But here goes!

I have the arthritis of an 80-year old in my right knee.  It is between the knee and the knee cap.  The rest of  the joint is perfectly healthy.  No surgery required.  I do, however, have to have a needle stuck into my knee once a week for five weeks about every two years.  I have gone through my first round of treatments, and they seemed to help a bit.  The biggest problem is that my knee still clicks and pops and locks and just plain hurts.  That is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life.

I got engaged this summer!! Woohoo!! That's old news though.  The new news about that is that I picked my resort.  I have permission for the groom's little sister to come and we are now off to the races with planning.  I do not have a wedding date, cause I can't pick one until the Navy decides what the boy is going to be doing, but planning is about to go into full swing! Yay!

I moved.  Not to NY but to Richmond.  I love my apartment and my roommate is pretty awesome!

I got a job.  I work for a legal placement agency that places me with law firms to do document review.  I love the flexibility, the pay, and the hours.  It is pretty much the perfect job for where I am in life right now.

I should find out what the next few years of my life will look like on Tuesday.  That's crazy!!

I am going to join a gym, pack my lunch, and start cooking dinner every night.  I want a routine.  <---This is pretty random, but true, so I thought I would share.

I will start updating more frequently now.  I have a whole post related to the wedding and it's drama coming soon, but I need to make sure it is written exactly the way I want it written before it goes up!

:)

9/11/01

I remember where I was on that day; do you?

NEVER FORGET. And teach those who do not know, who do not remember, the strength a nation.

And We're Back...

So my life has been absolutely insane!  I have taken the NY bar (I wont find out if I passed until sometime in late October, early November).  I am looking at moving to NY, looking for a job, and trying to catch up on all the things I failed to do while studying for the bar.

The truth is that my life has been pretty boring.  I have been doing work that got neglected while I was studying and I have been spending as much time with the boy as possible.  He leaves to go back to school here soon and I don't want to have to say goodbye.  It will mean that I wont see him again for a couple of months.  Just the thought makes me want to cry.  But we will make it.  We always have.

I am working on getting better (I fell down some stairs yesterday) so that I can get my exercise back on track.  During bar studying I ate like crap, didn't exercise, and barely slept.  So I am trying to remedy two of those three things (the eating and sleeping) so that I can get back on the exercise routines starting on Monday.  I was doing pretty good with my physical therapy (which was sort of a "mini-exercise" everyday) until about two weeks before the bar.  Then I put that on hold to study.  I went back yesterday to start again and then immediately preceded to fall down a flight of stairs.  So now my PT is on hold until the swelling in my knee goes down.  No worries, I was not seriously injured, only bruised.  This is not like the last time I fell UP the stairs and ended up in the hospital.  I am the biggest klutz ever.  :)

So, sorry that my first new post is super short, but I really have nothing else of interest to say.

Changes

The boy came home a little over a week ago.  I have been on a hiatus because of hanging out with him.  I just wanted to absorb as much of him as I could.  We had a fantastic time!  My life is at the best point it has been in a really really long time. :)

I am doing bar prep now.  Serious bar prep time is here.  So, for all the millions of readers I have out there, I know this is going to depress you to no end, but I wont be writing again until after the bar.  But after the bar, I will definitely be back.  Try not to miss me too much.

Love love love.