Or, as Cody likes to say, they're going for a Back to Back to Baby Back. I thought that was pretty cute. Get it? Baby back? NIT? Pretty funny, huh? Anyway, now we're resting all our hopes for a season that was pretty dismissal in a tournament that we are still relatively embarassed to play in. Being the Gators - with the Back to Back Championships - people give you a lot of crap. Around here I've heard more then once "so, where are the Gators in the tourney?" I assumed they were asking this because their team (usually University of Missouri) was actually in the NCAA tournament (since the Gator's aren't in it I've pretty much ignored it). Well, NO! Mizzou (that's what they call the University of Missouri) isn't even in the NIT! If only I had checked this out I would have had such a great retort with all the Gator jokes about not being in the Big Dance. Well, at least now we have some hopes for a Back to Back to Baby Back and I've learned that there really are teams that don't even make the NIT (I sort of assumed everyone made it). :)
Aside from this, life is, as usual, nutty. More rain and storms. We lost power for a bit while Cody was at school (which is where he lives - over 9 hours of school a week plus working 40+ hours - doesn't sound like fun - better him then me) and I was freaked out and he wasn't here but now we have power (hense the computer and internet to post this) so life is good again. I'm just curious to see what floods next.
The flooring saga continues. You would think you'd just decide what you want, go to a store and buy it. Well, not us. We are obsessed, as always, with getting ALL available information, getting the best people to do the project for the best price (we refuse to overpay for things - okay, so we're thrifty (read: cheap)) and absolutely tormented by options. But we are moving forward. :)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Better start building the Ark!
St. Louis, being a river city, tends to have a tenacious relationship with water every spring. Every so often (by "every so often" I mean at least once a year, sometimes twice) it rains and rains and rains and rains and then combined with some sort of snow melting or rain upstream causes all the rivers around here to flood. Obviously the Mississippi is pretty well contained by a number of locks, damns and flood walls but there are still portions that are "allowed" to flood. The Riverfront is one of those. Cody and I drove down to the Arch and the Riverfront yesterday to gawk (with the rest of St. Louis - obviously there is just SO much to do here in the spring) at the rising water. 
I just thought this was funny. Follow the sign for Arch/Riverfront Parking. If you have a boat.
Anyway, while the Mississippi wasn't terribly flooded (while this looks bad, it's not half as bad as it could be) the Meramec was, causing whole roads to be shut down, a major part of an interstate to close and several feet of water in homes and businesses - one Steak and Shake had 7 ft of water - not that I could care less if Steak and Shake floods.
Anyway, that's most of the excitement around St. Louis. Oh, and it SNOWED on EASTER! I think the weather man must have gotten Christmas and Easter confused because this was just not right. There is an old saying in St. Louis that if you don't like the weather to just wait five minutes and it will change. :)
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Happy Spring Equinox!
12 hours of sun. And 12 hours of night. That's sure better then 18 hours of night. :) There are some days I just like and this is one of them. I like the feeling of spring on its way (even if we're still lucky to see a day over 60 degrees). It's just a happy thought.
When we were younger my brother and I were convinced that you could balance and egg on its end on each equinox. Whether or not this is true is still speculation but I think he claims to have done it one year. I think my mom and brother even have a photo where they claimed to have balanced an egg on its end. If it were me I would attempt for 30 seconds to balance a Cadbury egg and if I couldn't do it then I would just eat it. :)
Happy Spring everyone! One day closer to summer. I really think I could live in St. Louis forever if I could just discard winter.
When we were younger my brother and I were convinced that you could balance and egg on its end on each equinox. Whether or not this is true is still speculation but I think he claims to have done it one year. I think my mom and brother even have a photo where they claimed to have balanced an egg on its end. If it were me I would attempt for 30 seconds to balance a Cadbury egg and if I couldn't do it then I would just eat it. :)
Happy Spring everyone! One day closer to summer. I really think I could live in St. Louis forever if I could just discard winter.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Runner Up University
Okay, so this is really mean and I try really hard not to be a really mean person but this is just too funny. So everyone knows UF beat Ohio State for the 2006 Football National Championship. And then beat them for the 2007 Basketball National Championship. Well, this year neither UF nor Ohio State made the big dance and both have been relegated to the NIT (which people fondly refer to as the ¨Not In the Tournament¨ bracket). Anyway, as luck would have it for good old Ohio State, if both UF and Ohio State continue to win in the NIT (both won their respective first round games) they could face in yet another championship. As they say in Gainesville, ¨The Ohio State University - Property of The University of Florida.¨ :)
Cody's Fur Coat
Now I know why Cody is comfortable leaving the heat at 58 degrees - he always has a nice warm scarf around his neck. This cat is seriously obsessed with my husband. One day her and I will have to have a nice long chat. If I go over to sit by him she will swat me away - crazy jealous cat. :)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Why Gators and Roadtrips Rock.
This past weekend our local University of Florida Alumni Association group - the St. Louis Gateway Gators - went on a road trip to Kentucky to watch the Gators play UK in basketball in Rupp Arena. We don't get to see many Gator games being so far north and none of us had ever been to Rupp - plus it wasn't impossible to get tickets as usual because neither UF or UK are that good this year.
The trip was fabulous. We had such a great time. There are so much funny stories to tell there isn't even enough room. We left here Saturday morning with one car and one rented minivan (me driving since the rental was in my name) for a total of 11 people. The car ride, as usual, was hilarious enough in itself and then we got to talking about what we missed about Florida - which led to Chick-fil-A. We have one Chick-Fil-A in STL -it's in a mall that is about 15 miles from us and now that they have a huge stretch of the interstate shut down until 2010, there is absolutely no good way to get there - for any of us. So a recent Gator addition to STL called her brother and found out there was a Chick-Fil-A in Louisville Kentucky. Another recent Gator addition to STL got out his GPS (aka Bitching Betty) and found the Chick-Fil-A on there. We were psyched. So we got off the interstate - in the cold, snow and ice (in Kentucky where they are NOT prepared for such things) - and kept driving and turning and driving and turning. Finally it tells us to turn left and we realize that the Chick-Fil-A is in a mall - so that was funny. So we got out and ran our hearts out into the mall food court - but no Chick-Fil-A - apparently Betty was no updated and the Chick-Fil-A had shut down and had moved. In any event, the Gator Club finally found Chick-Fil-A and we were happy. It was just a really really funny event - especially since by that time the van had finished about a half a bottle of Segrams 7 (not me- I was driving).
There were just all sorts of funny stories - Cody fell twice pretty hard on the snow because he was drunk. Then we got back to the hotel and Cody had found himself a bottle of A1 and was eating it on his salad that he had leftover from Chick-Fil-A. A group got kicked out of the hotel bar for trying to bring in beer and then some 12 year olds asked them to buy them some beer. All sorts of fun stories - it was a great time by all. I forgot how much fun roadtrips can be. :)
The trip was fabulous. We had such a great time. There are so much funny stories to tell there isn't even enough room. We left here Saturday morning with one car and one rented minivan (me driving since the rental was in my name) for a total of 11 people. The car ride, as usual, was hilarious enough in itself and then we got to talking about what we missed about Florida - which led to Chick-fil-A. We have one Chick-Fil-A in STL -it's in a mall that is about 15 miles from us and now that they have a huge stretch of the interstate shut down until 2010, there is absolutely no good way to get there - for any of us. So a recent Gator addition to STL called her brother and found out there was a Chick-Fil-A in Louisville Kentucky. Another recent Gator addition to STL got out his GPS (aka Bitching Betty) and found the Chick-Fil-A on there. We were psyched. So we got off the interstate - in the cold, snow and ice (in Kentucky where they are NOT prepared for such things) - and kept driving and turning and driving and turning. Finally it tells us to turn left and we realize that the Chick-Fil-A is in a mall - so that was funny. So we got out and ran our hearts out into the mall food court - but no Chick-Fil-A - apparently Betty was no updated and the Chick-Fil-A had shut down and had moved. In any event, the Gator Club finally found Chick-Fil-A and we were happy. It was just a really really funny event - especially since by that time the van had finished about a half a bottle of Segrams 7 (not me- I was driving).
There were just all sorts of funny stories - Cody fell twice pretty hard on the snow because he was drunk. Then we got back to the hotel and Cody had found himself a bottle of A1 and was eating it on his salad that he had leftover from Chick-Fil-A. A group got kicked out of the hotel bar for trying to bring in beer and then some 12 year olds asked them to buy them some beer. All sorts of fun stories - it was a great time by all. I forgot how much fun roadtrips can be. :)
The Ups and Downs of Living in an Old House
Living in an old house in the greatest thing in the whole world. Living in an old house is also the biggest pain in the butt in the whole world. The current trials and tribulations: flooring.
We moved into our house close to three years ago. Downstairs we had beautiful super old wood floors (original wood) except the addition which had carpet (it was put in the last 15 years or so) and the bathroom and kitchen. Upstairs we had the same carpet - carpet that I HATE. Absolutely hate this stuff - it's super gross because the lady before us never cleaned it and had a really dirty dog so I never feel comfortable even walking on it - for three years. Since we moved in it's been one excuse after another as to why we haven't finished the flooring the way we liked. But now I'm done with excuses - we've been here three years and while it will be an absolute pain to deal with the floors, it either needs to get done or I need to accept that it will never get done and get it off my darn "to do" list. :)
So I talked Cody into jumping off the perverbial flooring cliff with me. There are a number of issues - for instance we have carpet upstairs but know there is at least to some degree old hardwood underneath the carpet. We have stairs that are currently carpet (I cannot stand carpet on stairs - while it is gorgeous in other people's homes it is WAY too much work for me to keep clean) and are unsure if underneath is hardwood or plywood or plywood painted (and likely with lead paint). So tonight we got started figuring all this out. We went all around upstairs with a razor knife and just started cutting the carpet up all over the place. The verdict? Our spare bedroom is 90% good old hardwood that just needs to be finished and 10% plywood where they had to fill in places for old vents, etc. The hallway is hardwood - yeah! The stairs are wood - but not the same hardwood or plywood - but a wood that I think they can "finish" and while the size won't totally match the rest of the wood I'll be happy enough with it because it will have a runner over it. Our bedroom on the other hand looks like it is about 50% hardwood and 50% plywood - basically they used the bedroom hardwood to fill in spots in the downstairs wood when they rehabbed the house. So the good news is we get a new hardwood room and hardwood stairs (two less places with yucky carpet!!), but we will still have two carpeted rooms - but I guess that's okay because we are getting the hardwood rooms really cheap because they don't have to put anything new in, only finish what is already there.
So the next few weeks are an exciting dance of contractors and us painting trying to get it all right at the right time. We are going to try to get the wood guys out first for the spare room while we finish painting our room and the hallway. Then the wood guys can do the hallway and lastly the carpet people can do our room after the painting is done. This is a lot of things that have to happen perfectly in the right order - I'm crossing my fingers. :)
We moved into our house close to three years ago. Downstairs we had beautiful super old wood floors (original wood) except the addition which had carpet (it was put in the last 15 years or so) and the bathroom and kitchen. Upstairs we had the same carpet - carpet that I HATE. Absolutely hate this stuff - it's super gross because the lady before us never cleaned it and had a really dirty dog so I never feel comfortable even walking on it - for three years. Since we moved in it's been one excuse after another as to why we haven't finished the flooring the way we liked. But now I'm done with excuses - we've been here three years and while it will be an absolute pain to deal with the floors, it either needs to get done or I need to accept that it will never get done and get it off my darn "to do" list. :)
So I talked Cody into jumping off the perverbial flooring cliff with me. There are a number of issues - for instance we have carpet upstairs but know there is at least to some degree old hardwood underneath the carpet. We have stairs that are currently carpet (I cannot stand carpet on stairs - while it is gorgeous in other people's homes it is WAY too much work for me to keep clean) and are unsure if underneath is hardwood or plywood or plywood painted (and likely with lead paint). So tonight we got started figuring all this out. We went all around upstairs with a razor knife and just started cutting the carpet up all over the place. The verdict? Our spare bedroom is 90% good old hardwood that just needs to be finished and 10% plywood where they had to fill in places for old vents, etc. The hallway is hardwood - yeah! The stairs are wood - but not the same hardwood or plywood - but a wood that I think they can "finish" and while the size won't totally match the rest of the wood I'll be happy enough with it because it will have a runner over it. Our bedroom on the other hand looks like it is about 50% hardwood and 50% plywood - basically they used the bedroom hardwood to fill in spots in the downstairs wood when they rehabbed the house. So the good news is we get a new hardwood room and hardwood stairs (two less places with yucky carpet!!), but we will still have two carpeted rooms - but I guess that's okay because we are getting the hardwood rooms really cheap because they don't have to put anything new in, only finish what is already there.
So the next few weeks are an exciting dance of contractors and us painting trying to get it all right at the right time. We are going to try to get the wood guys out first for the spare room while we finish painting our room and the hallway. Then the wood guys can do the hallway and lastly the carpet people can do our room after the painting is done. This is a lot of things that have to happen perfectly in the right order - I'm crossing my fingers. :)
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Who is this man?
Do you ever look at your mate/spouse and wonder who in the hell that person is? Well, I usually don't. While I by no means of the imagination know everything about Cody, or ever will, we know each other pretty darn well and can foresee a lot of what the other one does - at least to the point where the other's behavior is ever "shocking." Well, today I had two "shocks."
First - while I was in the bathroom changing out of my workout gear and into my going to Home Depot gear (which includes the first pair of pants I can find on the floor and a shirt that doesn't have too much cat hair on it) Cody came in and was looking in the mirror. He said "I think I'm going to take my earring out." Just like that - all simple, calm and matter of a fact. But back up a minute - this kid has had this earring in longer then I have known him. When we first met he actually had another earring and then I lent him one of mine that he lost so my grandma actually got him the earring that he has been wearing for 10 years now. I seriously don't even notice it at all anymore - I've never know Cody without the earring. People ask him all the time when he is going to take it out and he snarks back "when you stop asking me" or something equally "leave the hell alone" attitude. Which I adore - he's his own person and everyone should just leave him alone about whether he likes the earring or not. People asked if he would take it out for the wedding pictures and I hadn't even thought about it. Anyway, I thought the day he took it out would be this big event, but no, just like that he took it out, put it in the jar with all my earrings and said that he was going to try without it for a bit. I just stared blankly at him, like "WHAT? Are you kidding. That was it? Just like that?" My jaw dropped. He had just changed something that he had been holding onto as "his" in just a split second, just like that. I'm still a little floored.
Second - and this one is equally "shocking." Cody and I cannot make decisions. Everyone knows this. We cannot pick dates, where to eat, what movie to watch, what game to play, where to go on trips, etc. We typically procrastinate until the choice gets made for us - and usually that is just fine by us. This is why almost three years after buying our house, it is still not all the way painted- we could not pick a colour for our bedroom. First we wanted it a nice blue, but then I got over that. Then we were going to paint it generic tan like the rest of the house - plus we had that paint already. But then during the wedding planning process I really fell in love with the colour green. No clue why. I had never been particularly fond of green over any other colour - but all of a sudden I loved it. And I still really like it. So on a number of occasions we have looked at dozens of paint swatches and tried to find a perfect green. No success yet. So while we were at Home Depot buying our "greenhouse" supplies, we took a trip through the paint department to get some more paint for our hallway (Cody's parents are coming to visit - YEA - and people visiting always gets me moving off my butt to get things done - in a very good way). While we were waiting for the hallway paint (same tan as the rest of the house) we started looking at green. I kept saying "look at this one," "what about this one," "do you like this one." I never really expected us to actually pick a colour - after all we had done this dozens of times. I figured we look at a few, kill some time and maybe take some home to hold against the wall and then eventually throw away. So he looked them all over and then I showed him one and all of a sudden he said, "yeah, let's get that one." I was floored. "You're kidding? Just like that? Let's get this one?" Yup - just like that. A process that has been dragging on for three years now was over just like that. He just picked one. That was it. Since a decision had just been made and I would potentially have a painted bedroom shortly I was all about this - I grabbed the paint, we took it to the guy and ever so confidently said "we want this one." Just like that.
I am still sort of floored. He (and 'we' and 'me') never makes decisions like that. We're so insanely annoyingly overly cautious so many times. But, nope, not today. Just like that my husband has no earring and I have a bedroom paint colour. Just like that.
First - while I was in the bathroom changing out of my workout gear and into my going to Home Depot gear (which includes the first pair of pants I can find on the floor and a shirt that doesn't have too much cat hair on it) Cody came in and was looking in the mirror. He said "I think I'm going to take my earring out." Just like that - all simple, calm and matter of a fact. But back up a minute - this kid has had this earring in longer then I have known him. When we first met he actually had another earring and then I lent him one of mine that he lost so my grandma actually got him the earring that he has been wearing for 10 years now. I seriously don't even notice it at all anymore - I've never know Cody without the earring. People ask him all the time when he is going to take it out and he snarks back "when you stop asking me" or something equally "leave the hell alone" attitude. Which I adore - he's his own person and everyone should just leave him alone about whether he likes the earring or not. People asked if he would take it out for the wedding pictures and I hadn't even thought about it. Anyway, I thought the day he took it out would be this big event, but no, just like that he took it out, put it in the jar with all my earrings and said that he was going to try without it for a bit. I just stared blankly at him, like "WHAT? Are you kidding. That was it? Just like that?" My jaw dropped. He had just changed something that he had been holding onto as "his" in just a split second, just like that. I'm still a little floored.
Second - and this one is equally "shocking." Cody and I cannot make decisions. Everyone knows this. We cannot pick dates, where to eat, what movie to watch, what game to play, where to go on trips, etc. We typically procrastinate until the choice gets made for us - and usually that is just fine by us. This is why almost three years after buying our house, it is still not all the way painted- we could not pick a colour for our bedroom. First we wanted it a nice blue, but then I got over that. Then we were going to paint it generic tan like the rest of the house - plus we had that paint already. But then during the wedding planning process I really fell in love with the colour green. No clue why. I had never been particularly fond of green over any other colour - but all of a sudden I loved it. And I still really like it. So on a number of occasions we have looked at dozens of paint swatches and tried to find a perfect green. No success yet. So while we were at Home Depot buying our "greenhouse" supplies, we took a trip through the paint department to get some more paint for our hallway (Cody's parents are coming to visit - YEA - and people visiting always gets me moving off my butt to get things done - in a very good way). While we were waiting for the hallway paint (same tan as the rest of the house) we started looking at green. I kept saying "look at this one," "what about this one," "do you like this one." I never really expected us to actually pick a colour - after all we had done this dozens of times. I figured we look at a few, kill some time and maybe take some home to hold against the wall and then eventually throw away. So he looked them all over and then I showed him one and all of a sudden he said, "yeah, let's get that one." I was floored. "You're kidding? Just like that? Let's get this one?" Yup - just like that. A process that has been dragging on for three years now was over just like that. He just picked one. That was it. Since a decision had just been made and I would potentially have a painted bedroom shortly I was all about this - I grabbed the paint, we took it to the guy and ever so confidently said "we want this one." Just like that.
I am still sort of floored. He (and 'we' and 'me') never makes decisions like that. We're so insanely annoyingly overly cautious so many times. But, nope, not today. Just like that my husband has no earring and I have a bedroom paint colour. Just like that.
It's not what you think. . . .
It's not what it looks like - seriously. Cody and I have become totally nuts. It all started when we first moved into our house. I've always wanted a house so that I could have a garden and when we finally got a house I couldn't wait to start one. The next spring (since we moved into the house in June) I forced Cody to the stores around town looking for veggie plants. So we both picked out a few - me some tomatos and an eggplant and him a lot of peppers. So I sort of forced him into helping me plant them and then it just took off from there. He loved to check on them and make sure they were okay and then when they started producing fruit you would have thought we hit the lottery. So last year he couldn't wait to get the garden started. We waited until we got back from the honeymoon (I cannot believe we have been married almost a year - damn does time fly!) and then went on our hunt for plants. We planted a few different varieties last year -some worked great, others not so much.
So when we were at the store the other day we ran across the seed packets. I told him seeds are a pain in the butt and we'll just wait until April/May like everyone else and buy our little saplings to plant directly into the ground. Well, apparently that was just not good enough. He thought the idea of planting seeds was just fabulous. So we each picked out some seed packets, bought our little peat pots and went to town. We got them all planted in their little pots and got them set in these little tin things to make watering easier. Our theory was that we would put them in front of a sunny window and let them grow until spring. Little did we realize that we live in MISSOURI and there is no sun here in the winter. So for the last few days our seeds have been sitting on the ironing board by a window but with no sun. So we did what all inteligent people do - we got on the internet. And we found that most places (Missouri included) do not get enough sunlight through windows to support seedlings. But "sun lights" do.
So off we were to Home Depot where we found a balast and two "grow lights." We already had the set of shelves so we went to town. We took the treadmill downstairs (we were meaning to do this anyway because when Cody runs on the treadmill it shakes the chandelier and walls downstairs) and set up the shelves where the treadmill was. Then we set up our light and loaded up our seedlings. We made the bottom two shelves "cat friendly" in the hopes that would entice them to stay off the shelf with the seedlings - we'll see if that works. So anyway, our plan is to rotate them daily, raise the light as the plants (hopefully) get bigger and bigger and if all works out right, by the time spring ever comes the plants will be ready to move outdoors into the veggie garden area (bigger and improved from last year). Cross your fingers or else I'm going to have a very upset husband on my hands. But we are really learning a lot about all this and are having a hell of a time with it. Plus we get yummy veggies. :)
A few photos.
Here is my own personal "winter wonderland" -
This is our backyard - or it was before someone covered it in cotton balls. That little house looking thing is our garage - we debate back and forth whether that was an old house back in the 1800s or something (our house wasn't built until the late 1800s or early 1900s). Anyway that thing on the right is my raised flower bed I built - except you can barely see it - and the snow hadn't even ended by the time I took this photo. The little arcs are the border to our vegatable garden - barely visable under the mass of snow. READY FOR SPRING!
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Winter Wonderland My Butt
Snow, snow, snow. When I first moved here it was a novelty. Even back in November/December it was neat - the first snow of the season, sledding, snowball fights, snow angels, getting exercise shoveling the stuff. But itś MARCH now and I´m gosh darn tired of the stuff. People say itś so pretty and itś a ¨Winter Wonderland"- maybe if you live in the North Pole and Santa is your neighbor, but not in Missouri. I´m just plain tired of the stuff. Yesterday it started ¨icing¨ - yeah, like on a cake, but not as sweet. Rain turned to freezing rain turned to sleet which later turned to ice. I now know more about the process of precipitation freezing then I ever wished to know. Anyway, it simply involved some elbow grease and a ice scraper. Then over night it started snowing. And snowing. And snowing. I think the weather failed to switch its calendar to MARCH (Have I mentioned itś MARCH and itś supposed to be not crappy anymore?). So it was snowing. And of course we all have to go to work because us making Corporate America money is more important than our lives. If we die in the snow/ice they just find someone else in Corporate America to take our places - we are not indispensable. Anyway, so we mosey into work. Where it continues to snow and snow and snow. Finally I make it home in the ice and slush and dirty nasty snow/slush/water stuff in a car barely a foot off the ground so it gets stuck in snow very easily. When I got home I fell only twice (which is an improvement over the last few months) walking from the street to the house (not a far distance). I brought out my handy dandy ruler stick and measured the snow around the house - between 6-8 inches. Not too bad for MARCH.
Anyway, it really is pretty if youŕe inside and don´t have to go to work and can sit under the covers, watch Oprah and sip hot cocoa (spiked with Baileyś preferably). I´m just getting really tired of the winter. I tried to be patient and understanding. I tried to feel blessed by having all four seasons (people ask me if I was sad in Florida not having all four seasons - the answer is NO - I was not sad - we had quite enough change of season for me - plus when your supposed one ¨season¨ is good, why do you need three more?!?!?). So I´m doing my best to grin and bear it but I really wish spring would get here already!
In other news, I´m back to normal at work - no more being sick or bar studying. While the worst part of being a lawyer is billable hours (that and spending your entire life getting yelled at) it was actually sort of fun to be back in the billable hunt these past few days after such a crummy month in February. I´m sure that exciting feeling will wane by the end of the week though. :)
Anyway, it really is pretty if youŕe inside and don´t have to go to work and can sit under the covers, watch Oprah and sip hot cocoa (spiked with Baileyś preferably). I´m just getting really tired of the winter. I tried to be patient and understanding. I tried to feel blessed by having all four seasons (people ask me if I was sad in Florida not having all four seasons - the answer is NO - I was not sad - we had quite enough change of season for me - plus when your supposed one ¨season¨ is good, why do you need three more?!?!?). So I´m doing my best to grin and bear it but I really wish spring would get here already!
In other news, I´m back to normal at work - no more being sick or bar studying. While the worst part of being a lawyer is billable hours (that and spending your entire life getting yelled at) it was actually sort of fun to be back in the billable hunt these past few days after such a crummy month in February. I´m sure that exciting feeling will wane by the end of the week though. :)
Sunday, March 02, 2008
In like a Lion, Out like a Tiger.
I know it's March that is in like a lion, out like a lamb but it felt like February was in like a lion and out like a bigger tiger. The month started off bad with a foot of snow, got worse with the worst sickness I have likely ever had (other then having pnemonia when I was younger), then proceeded with crummy because I was behind at work and had to study for the bar, then it ended with the worst bar exam of my life (granted it was only out of three - but still, it was pretty crummy).
But now it's March. So far it's been the best weekend of the year. Aside from the unseasonably warm temperatures (we got into the 70s for the first time since September - I even had on shorts and a tank top!) it was just so nice to relax and hang out with Cody. Friday night I was invited to see the new Court of Appeals judge in Missouri get sworn in so that was awesome - got to meet the governor (he's much shorter then I thought - and young) and the mayor and a ton of other judges and congress-people. Then went out with some friends afterwards. Saturday we just relaxed. As in really really relaxed - for the first time in a very very long time. We didn't jump up in the morning screaming "we've got so much to do! Get up now!" We lounged. And hung out. We picked up the house and then ran some errands. We didn't really even "run" errands - we honestly leisurely went about the things we need to do and enjoyed ourselves ("enjoy ourselves" and "shopping" usually are not in the same sentence). Today since it was so nice we worked in the yard- for the first time since we finished the tomato harvest back in October!!! It was the most fabulous thing ever. It felt so much like spring I wanted to sing. But alas, it will only last a day as tomorrow it will freeze and we are to get a ton of freezing rain, ice and snow. Not kidding. But we had a great time in the garden. We turned over the veggie garden and actually even expanded it. I worked in my flower bed a bit and was thrilled to see a lot of my spring flowers coming up (tulips, narcissus, paper whites, etc.). We just had a good time playing around outside. Then we started all our vegetable seeds inside in those cute little seedling cups - since it's March we started onions, bell peppers, jalapenos, brussel sprouts and spinach. So that will be fun in the next few weeks to watch those start to grow. Then we grilled out - well, Cody grilled out - and made delicious pork chops. He's really a great cook -and fabulous with the grill.
Anyway, it was so amazing to really get to relax. My life really is wonderful right now. The bar is over, another HUGE project that I've been working on is now over so now I can really enjoy life again. I'm thrilled - except tomorrow is Monday. :)
But now it's March. So far it's been the best weekend of the year. Aside from the unseasonably warm temperatures (we got into the 70s for the first time since September - I even had on shorts and a tank top!) it was just so nice to relax and hang out with Cody. Friday night I was invited to see the new Court of Appeals judge in Missouri get sworn in so that was awesome - got to meet the governor (he's much shorter then I thought - and young) and the mayor and a ton of other judges and congress-people. Then went out with some friends afterwards. Saturday we just relaxed. As in really really relaxed - for the first time in a very very long time. We didn't jump up in the morning screaming "we've got so much to do! Get up now!" We lounged. And hung out. We picked up the house and then ran some errands. We didn't really even "run" errands - we honestly leisurely went about the things we need to do and enjoyed ourselves ("enjoy ourselves" and "shopping" usually are not in the same sentence). Today since it was so nice we worked in the yard- for the first time since we finished the tomato harvest back in October!!! It was the most fabulous thing ever. It felt so much like spring I wanted to sing. But alas, it will only last a day as tomorrow it will freeze and we are to get a ton of freezing rain, ice and snow. Not kidding. But we had a great time in the garden. We turned over the veggie garden and actually even expanded it. I worked in my flower bed a bit and was thrilled to see a lot of my spring flowers coming up (tulips, narcissus, paper whites, etc.). We just had a good time playing around outside. Then we started all our vegetable seeds inside in those cute little seedling cups - since it's March we started onions, bell peppers, jalapenos, brussel sprouts and spinach. So that will be fun in the next few weeks to watch those start to grow. Then we grilled out - well, Cody grilled out - and made delicious pork chops. He's really a great cook -and fabulous with the grill.
Anyway, it was so amazing to really get to relax. My life really is wonderful right now. The bar is over, another HUGE project that I've been working on is now over so now I can really enjoy life again. I'm thrilled - except tomorrow is Monday. :)
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