Weekend Recap

It was my second full weekend in Columbia and it was a great weekend. At least this early in the semester, I can spend part of the weekends relaxing and hanging out with friends.

Friday night, Sara came over for dinner. We typically get together on Thursdays but Greys isn't back on yet and we were both swamped with homework on Thursday night. We pushed our get together til Friday. I made homemade fried catfish. It was delicious. I had never made it before, but it was sooo yummy. I will definately be doing that again. We paired it with cubed potatoes with melted butter and spices (one of my favorites), green beans and rolls. It was a great dinner. We watched a Lifetime movied I had on my DVR from earlier in the week, "Bond of Silence". It was such a good movie. I even convinced Chris to watch it Sunday night and he liked it too. We also watched some other TV after the movie. We made fresh and homemade rice krispie treats. They were perfect. It was a good night. I crashed around 10:30. I feel like such an old lady.

Saturday was a wonderful day. I got up early to do a little shopping and studying. No luck on shopping in Columbia but got a little studying done before having to get ready for our girls day. Aroung 11:30, Sara, Claudia, Maggie and I headed to Rocheport. Rocheport is a small little town just west of Columbia. It is such an adorable town with great little shops. We had lunch at the winery. This winery is beautiful and it sits overlooking the Missouri River. Steve (one of the attorneys that I work for up here) and his wife Tracy met us for lunch. We had a great time. After lunch, we took a few pictures outside. Here are just a few

View from the winery

The whole lunch group

Us girls with the winery in the background

After lunch, we spent the afternoon hitting up the antique shops and other businesses in town. We stopped by for homemade ice cream at the General Store. We stopped by Steve and Tracy's on our way out of town. They have an adorable house that is 150 years old and have 2 super cute puppies. It was a great day but we were all exhausted by 5:30 when we go back home to Columbia. I watched a little TV, ate a little dinner and hit the sack early.

I got homesick when I had to miss my grandmother's birthday. Her is a picture of my two grandmothers. Noma is on the right and Opal is on the left. (We lost my grandmother Opal in July 2009)

My grandmother, Noma, turned 88 on Saturday. My mom planned her a big birthday party. Two of my brothers and their families were there. Chris went to represent our portion of the family. I hear that it was a great time. Grandma cried becuase she never had anything like that for her birthday. She is a special lady and I wish that I could have been there. I hate when school gets in the way of my family obligations. I know they all understand that I am doing what I need to do, but it still doesn't make it easier to miss those things. It does make me happier that Chris went. I love that he had gotten so close to my family that he goes to family functions when I cannot be there. Gosh, I love that boy!!!

Sunday was a homebody day. I stayed in all day. I did laundry, dishes, cleaning and studying. I got lots done and even had time for a little nap. It was nice to just stay in. I was in bum clothes all day and just stayed at the house. I only wish that I could have got the ambition to go outside to go for a run. Oh well.

It was a great weekend. Next weekend is Labor Day weekend and I am sooooooo looking forward to going home to see Christopher, my puppies and the rest of our families.

Getting to Know You Sunday

It is Sunday morning. I have laundry going, started the dishwasher and getting ready to start on homework for the week. But before I did, I thought that I would post for Getting to Know You Sunday by MannLand5.

1. If you accidently knick a car in a parking lot..Do you leave a note or do you get the heck out of there? I would definately leave a note, but I would also take pictures of it so no one could come back at me later


2. Love your body or plastic surgery? For sure, there are things that I do not like about my body, but I don't think I would ever go through plastic surgery

3. What about your favorite blog(s) continues to drive you back? Just following the life of that person. You feel like you know the person and you want to follow up to see how the stories unfold

4. What percent of your blog is BS just to make your life seem more interesting than it really is? None, I tell it like it is. If things are boring, I say that. I would never lie to draw people to my blog

5. If you had to give up one type of meat for the rest of your life, what would it be? Fish - there aren't many types of fish that I like so I'm pretty sure that I could live without it

6. How often to you eat out? Probably about twice a week

7. Skinny jeans or boot cut jeans? I look terrible in skinny jeans so for me, definately boot cut

8. If you caught your spouse cheating would you forgive, divorce, or plan your kill? Gosh, I hope that I never have to deal with this issue and it is hard to say what I would do. I would definately be pissed and not speak to him for quite a while and probably want to kill him and whoever he cheated with. I cannot imagine just working through it, but who knows. I'm pretty sure I'd go for the middle line and just leave

5 Question Friday

Well, here we are again. Friday at last!!! Time for another 5 Question Friday.

1. How many pets do you have?  Christopher and I have three pups. Kit-Kat - our pit bull and she is 4; Dozer - our little mutt with a big attitude and he is just over 7 months; and lastly but certaintly not least, Boots, our bird dog and he is just over 6 months. These are our children and they are sooooo spoiled!!!

Here are our babies

Kit-Kat and Dozer

Boots

2. If you could switch places with anyone in the world for one day, who would it be? Just someone in a country far away, just to see another culture for a day
3. What is your favorite money saving tip? We follow the rule of not putting anything on a credit card that we cannot pay off at the end of the month. We only use credit cards because of the rewards and when you pay it off every month it is just like making money to shop

4. What do you want your kids to be when they grow up? Whatever makes them happy will be great for me. I don't want to be one of those parents who force their children to follow in the parent footsteps or join the fmaily business. Not every career is right for everyone. I just want them to be happy
5. What is your favorite quote? Failing to prepare is preparing to fall. My dad preaches this all the time but it rains true. I'm a huge planner. I try to be prepared for everything that I do though sometimes that I probably over plan

Hope that you have a great weekend. I have tons planned for this weekend so it should be great, especially with the weather. If you want to play along, head over to My Little Life and link up!!!

Getting back in the groove of things

I could not tell you how ready I am for it to be Friday and then the weekend.

I have been back at school for 4 days now and already feel like I need a break. I have had each of my classes at least once, and at the end of today (with a make up class) I will have had Estates 5 times this week.

It never ceases to amaze me how draining school is on me. I have been going to bed earlier than I did when I was home, staying in bed at least 30 minutes more each morning and I am still more drained in the evenings that I was at home. I think part of it is the schedule that I have.

Most nights it is at least 6 or later when I get back to my house, which doesn't leave a whole lot of time to eat, read and relax to get ready for the next day. When I am home, I get off work at 4:30 and typically have dinner done by 5:30 and usually i get time to relax with Christopher and play outside with our pups.

I guess that my body is just having a hard time adjusting to the change as it does every year. My heart and body want to be back in Howell County with Chris and my furbabies. But I know that all I have to survive is the next 11 months and we will be good to go!!!

Do you really just not care?

So, as many of you know, I am in my final year of law school. I currently only have classes with people in their 2nd and 3rd year of law school, and most of my classes are with my fellow 3Ls.

I am been amazed so far this semester at the lack of people caring about their school.

I have had people show up to classes as much as 20 minutes late (and these aren't even 8:00 a.m. classes). I mean come on. It is the first week of class. There is no way that you are so tired that you cannot make it to a 11:00 class on time. I understand sometimes traffic can mess with you or you have to handle other things in life too, but it is the same people over and over again. People who I see will be sitting in the hallway an hour before the class starts. So, please tell me why it is that you find the need to show up and disrupt class 20 minutes into the 50 minute class.

Secondly, in my Conflict Management class today we had a paper due. It was a simple paper. We only had to write a 2 page paper about a conflict in our life that was non legal related. Hello, piece of cake. Plus, it was posted as an assignment at least a week and a half ago. Law school has all been run the same. All assignments are posted online and you will have an assignment/reading due on the first day of class. By your 3L year, this should not be a surprise. However, in my class today, while I was standing in line to turn in my paper, I heard no less than 3 people make a comment like "Oh shit!" or "There was an assignment". Things such as this. Really?

Law school is not cheap. We are spending about $8,000 - $9,000 per semester (yes, only 1/2 of the year) on tuition. That doesn't include my books, computer and living expenses. How could you possibly be spending that much money and not care??? And if you aren't paying for it and somehow managed to get a scholarship, please tell me who is giving those out to such slackers because I would like to hit that person in the head.

Thank you very much and this is the end of my rant as I have to prepare for my Estates and Trusts class.

Weekend Recap

This weekend has been pretty uneventful.

Friday, I left home to return to Columbia. I left town around 9:00 a.m. and arrived in Columbia around 12:30. I was sad to leave, but tried to think of the positive. I got my last hug from Christopher around 7:00 a.m. before he went to work. Of course, I cried, but I took it worse when I had to say goodbye to my puppies. It is just hard becuase they do not understand why momma is leaving. They just know I left and won't be back for 2 weeks. My mother tells me that Dozer is looking for me. Every noise in the evenings, he runs to the window to see if it is me coming home. As pathetic as it sounds, I have talked to Dozer on the phone. He just listens, licks the phone and then tries carrying it off. Gosh I miss my little boys!!!

Friday afternoon I spent cleaning the house (sitting for 3 months makes it really dirty) and unpacking. I also took a trip to campus to pick up my books and parking permit. This semester, I got off with only $500.00 of books instead of the typical $900 that I have been spending since I was in law school.

I had a wonderful dinner with my Columbia girls. I had missed them all and we had a fantastic dinner. We were catching on life that we had missed (a lot of details are not sent in text messages and facebook). We all met up at Macaroni Grill and had a great meal. It is nice to go somewhere that WP doesn't have. After dinner, Maggie and Sara came back to my house. We spent the rest of the evening talking and watching TV. Friday night, Columbia had two rounds of storms. Geez, I wish that rain would happen down in WP. It needs it bad. My field is sooooo dry.

Saturday I was up early. My body has trouble sleeping in. I waiting around for a bit for the internet/phone guy to come by and fix my phone and internet. I was dying Friday with no internet. After that guy left, I went to the grocery store. My house was so void of food. I had to stock up on all the basics and good school snack food. I had lunch with Maggie and we went shopping to look for a headpiece for my wedding and looked for shoes to the bridesmaids. We struck out looking for both. I spent the rest of the evening at the house finishing unpacking and reading for Monday classes.

Today has been a pretty boring day. I have been cleaning, doing laundry and reading. Nothing too exciting. I am almost happy that school starts tomorrow and I will be more busy again. I don't do boring well.

Well, I am off to bed. Hope that you all had a great weekend. Sorry I had no pictures from this one.

Semester #11

This is it. The final year of school for me. I am so excited. It seems so hard to believe that it is finally here. Graduation is so close. Time had flown by the past few years in school and I hope that this year continues to speed on by!

I have been getting some reading done for classes this week. I am pretty excited about the classes this semester too. All of the classes but one are classes that I wanted to take. The only required class is one that I would have chose to take anyway too.

So here it is, classes for this year.

 - Criminal Procedure
 - Family Law
 - Estates and Trusts
 - Conflict and Conflict Management
 - Pre-Trial Litigation

Plus 18 hours of work and wedding planning, I will be keeping busy.