Saturday, January 31, 2009

Decisions.

I'm unemployed, sort of. And I'm trying to think long term, think stratergerically, ya know?

And law school is a potentially appealing prospect, but I run into several problems, not the least of which is that law schools want recommendations. I don't have recommendations. Like, I really don't.

I have one professor from the Community College I went to, that I know would write me a good rec... I don't have a single professor from the college I graduated from whom I'm confident wouldn't put in a few things I'd rather not be said.

I had a love/hate relationship with both my bosses in Arizona, my couple bosses before that knew me for less than a year, my boss before that no longer works at the restaurant we were mutually employed by, and I have no way of getting a hold of her. The one boss who knew me the longest and would write a great rec, if, ya know, law schools actually wanted to hear about how well I wait tables, I haven't seen since I was 18...

the local University wants three recommendations. Three. One general and at least two academic (or if you've been out of school for awhile, they can be professional). They also make you wait two years before you can apply, if you're already done one year of law school somewhere else, which I think is kind of Bitchy... I mean really, what is that. They are So not worth waiting two years for! They also don't have a part-time program, I sort of think the law school takes themselves a little too seriously...

I checked - Harvard lets you transfer immediately, AND they only require two recommendations, what's up with that??? I wouldn't even Really want to go to The Local University, they're just the school that's within a 10 minute biking distance, so I can't really ignore them... except their application process is more restrictive than HARVARD'S!!! Excuse me???

Really, I was looking at The Local Law School because I was thinking, I should get into whatever school I can, and then after a year, use Recs from those profs and good grades to get into the school I'd really want to go to (D would be done with his social work thing by then too)... cause I surely couldn't get into any highly desirable school now, the only thing I have going for me is my LSAT, I don't have a good GPA and I have maybe one recommendation, so what's a girl to do???


I'm looking at secretarial stuff, oh, excuse me, "Administrative Assistant", there are possiblities at law firms, an accounting firm and an engineering firm... I turn 25 this summer and I should have been getting jobs like these three years ago, then again, we were living out of our car three years ago, but then I'd have some professional recs...

details.

P.S. D's going to say "I told you so" and I'm going to hate him for it.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Quote of the Day.

"And some of it was even ridable."

-Chris (referring to an alleged 30 minute hike-a-bike that didn't quite take 30 minutes)


Edit-

"I'd do Mister Rogers."

-Dan (context irrelevant)

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Inaugural.

First you mix up some blue icing. Blue food coloring + a tiny bit of water + a whole, whopping gob of powdered sugar.
Wrap the plastic bag over a pint glass (cause you don't have a pastry bag). And spoon the icing into the bag.

It should be nice and neat and look like below!
Get your 52 sugar cookies from the night before (note three cones of icing in red, white and blue).
Cut the tiniest bit of corner off the bags - remember, you can always make the hole bigger, but not so much with the smaller. Ice with pure Hope.
Careful to get the nuance of the slightly arched red and white lines. Otherwise you'll lose the Hope.
Rinse and repeat with a friend to help and keep your hand from cramping.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

My fortunes.

Yesterday I pulled one of my favorite tricks, D called to say when he'd get back into town (from a short course on state policy making at the legislative session in Helena), so I called in an order from a Thai restaurant for him to pick up on his way...

they're Thai, but they do a Chinese menu too, which means when you get ToGo food they include fortune cookies :)

My fortune read :

You will be traveling and come into a great fortune.

I will be traveling, we were suppose to leave this morning, but we're both feeling under the weather, so we're taking it easy, departure in T minus 38 minutes and counting.

As for the fortune part, I got fired on Thursday afternoon, so as D said, "Obviously that's not a monetary fortune you're in for".

Good times. The job search commences in T minus nine days, 8 hours and counting...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Wabbits!

I hereby challenge the Sprinkled Unicorns of Evergreen to a duel...
with an angry herd of Iced Bunnies...  yes, you heard me right, ferocious icing topped bunnies!!!
With their fearless leader, The Pink Bunny...  made with the juice from some boysenberry jam, after I realized we didn't have any food coloring...
details.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A little R&R... and R...

We got a new place, and we plan on being here for at least the next year and a half, till D finishes his degree, so I wanted to make the place into a happy home... I haven't gotten to do a lot of "Nesting" in our previous residences, so I obviously wanted to buy a lot of large furniture on Craig's List... I mean really, that's how a girl like me "Nests"... except D decided that we only needed as much furniture as would actually fit in our, somewhat small, new home...

details.Anyway - after not getting this very large (very cheap) entertainment center... six pieces, three cupboard bases and three shelving tops, that I wanted to use partly in the bedroom for clothes and partly in the family room for D's desk area, I went back to this thrift store I'd been at last week, and bought myself a little R&R... Remington and Rand, that is.
And then some Royal...
With the old style, glass-topped keys!!!
And an extra long carriage!!!
I already apologized to D, profusely... but seriously, they're soooooo much fun... I have to keep from coming home from work (late at night) and typing on them and waking D up :)

Winter Tree.

This is my winter tree. We cut it down in the forest.We don't have a winter tree holder, so we had to improvise.

The first night, the tree fell over around 1am. In the morning I had to take all the ornaments off, have D fashion a new holder, and put them all back on. It was traumatic.
Now it looks pretty though.

So wrong.

This is D doing a load of dishes in our new sink, USING BODY WASH... cause apparently he couldn't be bothered to find and unpack the dish soap...

I'm so proud of my boy!!!

Next up, a photo of me from our recent ski trip, with both feet still on the ground :)

Monday, January 5, 2009

Umm... Dork.

A couple days ago we started, and tonight we're about to finish, watching the Christmas episode from each season of The West Wing.

Yeah - that's right, it's episode #10 in most of the seasons, #9 in season 5...

everything sort of breaks down for seasons 6 through 7...  too much campaign stuff, really ruins the calender...