My life

It's been awhile since I've really updated. I have successfully completed three of my four finals, and my last paper - for the Board of Directors seminar - is due in two days. When I finish that up, life will become much more relaxing.

A summary of life:

-Matt and I had a Christmas party here in Ann Arbor. Matt made delicious pizzettes, and guests brought ornaments to hel pus decorate our tree. We ended up with an angel, a Santa, a snowman, a tree, some glass ornaments, and even one that was homemade. A guest commented that they were excited to bring an ornament, because it seems wrong to buy ornaments for yourself. They should be special, should have a story. Now we finally have a start to our collection, and they all come from great friends.

-I went back to Cedar Falls for break. While I was home, I met up with Cam at Soho Sushi, went to the Stuffed Olive/Voodoo Lounge/Pump Haus with Jill and Andrea, drank a good bottle of merlot with Braden, and threw the annual Christmas party. This year's Christmas party was different than the ones in years past - a little quieter and a little calmer, with fewer attendees. It was nice to have a more relaxing evening really catching up with the people in attendance. We even discovered an incredibly outdated Outburst game that we played a little. (An answer to the category, Things You Do While Driving: dictating notes. Talk on a cell phone was notably absent.)

-My little sister and mom were also around for the holidays, so I got a lot of quality family time. We watched movies, opened presents, visited my grandma and aunt and uncle, and generally relaxed. I came down with some sort of cold/flu thing, so relaxation was entirely necessary.

-Presents were abundant this year. I got cute purses, gift certificates galore, a deluxe Scrabble game (with the fancy turntable and everything), kitchen gadgets, makeup and clothing. The only thing missing was books. I didn't get a single book for Christmas this year (unless you count the Scrabble dictionary to go with my new board - I don't.) This surprised me. I'm used to getting books for Christmas. Surprising books, that I never would have picked out for myself, or good classics. I guess I'll have to start putting them on my Christmas list rather than just hoping someone will buy some for me.

That's all from here. Now I'm back in Ann Arbor, working today, and trying to polish off my seminar paper. I'll try to be better about updating now that I'm back!

Quite a dilemma

I was doing some typing today, and I had to type the word dilemma. In my head, it was always dilemna. But Microsoft Word underlined this in squiggly red, and then told me the correct spelling was dilemma. Am I crazy, or does that look totally wrong?

Scary tax

My Federal Income Taxation is today.

I'm so scared of it even though I'm pass/failing it. Any of you who have been nearby for the last week probably know this, as I've been trying to calculate whether my law firm would rescind my offer if I failed the class.

Not much time left, so here's hoping it goes well and that I relax a bit when it's done!

Christmas party tonight!

Matt and I are hosting our first official Christmas party tonight. We bought a tree, put up some lights, and while I'm out studying, he's cooking and cleaning all day. If you're in Ann Arbor, come by! We'd love to see you.

The scale is ALL off

I've been trying to lose weight lately, doing my best to work out and eating healthily (and not quite so much). If I'm going to get skinny sometime, it might as well be for my wedding day, right?

The problem is the scale. I could weigh myself five times in thirty seconds and my weight would vary by five or ten pounds between weighs. This weekend, after our trip to Las Vegas, the scale was at its worst. According to the scale, I gained TWENTY-TWO pounds during the weekend. Three days? Twenty-two pounds? I mean, I know I splurged at the breakfast buffet, but that much gain was INconceivable.

So when Matt was out running errands today, he kindly bought us a fancy new $40 scale. I was pretty nervous when we got it out of the box. Was the old scale going to be right on? Even worse: was I going to weigh more?

I tapped on the scale, waited for it to zero out, made Matt avert his eyes, and stepped on the new shiny surface. Result? Definitely good news. It turns out I weigh 15 pounds less than I ever thought I weighed and a whopping 37 pounds less than I thought on Monday.

PHEW. Now I am left to wonder, if we had bought the $80 scale, would I weigh even less?

Favorite holiday dessert?

Matt and I are hosting a Christmas party this weekend, and I'm in charge of making desserts. I'm going to make my mom's famous fudge, and also her famous oreo truffles... I'd like to do one more thing, maybe something that's not chocolate. Does anyone have a suggestion for a great holiday dessert to add to the party mix?

Meh.

It is 1:30 in the morning. I'm still working on my Alternative Dispute Resolution final, which is due tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. I just finished a giant latte that Matt sweetly went out and got for me at 11 p.m. I think I'll be up for a few more hours.

Sweet dreams.