1 Year

Today is my -1 Anniversary! In one year from now, Curtis and I will be married and I will (probably) become Christine Hart! We are celebrating by going to a nice dinner at Il Fornaio. It's fun to realize that as of tomorrow we're getting married in less than a year, the time since our engagement has gone really fast.

Anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge that :-)

Our new baby!

In the Monday updates I forgot to mention that Curtis and I got a new baby Wii! He bought it from one of his old UCLA roommates who is moving to Europe. I had to go to Target and then Best Buy today just to get an extra controller for when he brings it up on Friday. Wii is an addition to our little family, a younger sibling if you will, to his sibling, Xbox 360. Now we're trying to figure out what we should get for it. We're interested in getting Mario Kart, and I think some party games would be fun, but we'll see. I'm also tempted to get Wii Fit, but it is a little pricey ($90 or so).

So among the other plans we have for the weekend, we will be playing with our new baby :-)

(brief) Monday Updates - 5/19/08

7 weeks left at work! I'm trying to start transitioning my cases to the other paralegals, so they aren't overwhelmed when they are left by themselves. I'm feeling more productive today, so hopefully that will continue through the week.

Law school is still in a holding pattern - right now I'm leaning towards USC, and I'm starting to grow weary of moving to D.C., even for Georgetown, but I'm still thinking. I guess the convenience of staying in Southern California is starting to manifest itself, as I'm going through the process of cleaning stuff out of my apartment.

I'm excited because Curtis is coming up on Friday, which is also our -1 anniversary. I'm still thinking of something special to celebrate the fact that we'll be married one year from Friday. Plus I'm happy that a 3 day weekend is coming.

That's it for now, more later this week.

Updates - 5/15/08

First - Happy Birthday Curtis!!!! For the next 3 months he will be 23 and I will be 22. And, in a year and one week from now, we will be getting married!

the old guy in D.C.

Second - The poll is still active. As you can see the answers are mixed, so if you haven't done so yet please go vote. I'm just trying to get some outside perspective, it's not the basis for my decision (although we were floating the idea of just flipping a coin).

Law School Updates:
Pretty much the same as before. I haven't decided between USC and GW and I probably won't hear from Georgetown until the beginning of June, if at all. Fortunately, I don't have to put another deposit down until early June, so there's really no reason to fret about the decision right now (other than that I can't help myself). My new idea to help me make a decision is to record each day which school I'm leaning towards (GW or USC), and then when I hit the next deposit deadline (June 16th, unless I decide earlier), I'll see how I've felt from day to day (see sidebar called "My Indecision 2008"). Today I'm leaning more towards USC, and I started looking at areas where Curtis and I would live after we got married.

Wedding:

We booked a wedding photographer on Saturday! His name is Jim Kennedy. Click here for his blog. We're planning to take engagement pictures in July so I'll make sure those get posted here when we get them back. I'm close to a decision on bridesmaid dresses (not sure what's holding me back really). So as far as a current to do list, we have:
- gather addresses for Save-the-Dates

- book florist

- book hair/makeup

- design the cake

- decide on menus

- Try on dress when it comes in for alterations

- do our marriage counseling sessions and start planning the ceremony content/music

- choose invitations (surprisingly difficult)

- actually book the church (we're not in a hurry b/c no one does weddings there)

- start looking into reception music

I'm happy that I'll be off for a few weeks to work on this stuff. It's a long way off but as of July-August the wedding will be less than a year away, which means vendors start getting booked. And as much as I love the fact that our wedding is on a holiday weekend, it's a popular date for weddings so there is some competition.

Work:

Work is really really slow right now. I feel like I should be getting stuff organized for my transition out but I'm completely unmotivated. So hopefully it will pick up in the next few weeks so I can have a good last few weeks.

Weekends:

Last weekend was fun, I was in Orange County. I was down there for Mothers' Day but I ended up being able to watch my brother play baseball and see my Grandmother. Overall it was great to get away. I'm not sure what I'm doing this weekend to be honest. I'm thinking about doing Bay to Breakers with some tridelt alums I know, since I've never done it and it could be a fun way to see the city before I leave. But we'll see, it's really hot up here right now so options are limited. Plus I need to try and get in gym time over the weekends because it's hard to be motivated to go during the week.

New Poll - Where should I go?

I just put a poll up on my blog (Facebook readers - please go directly to my blog) and tell me where I should go to law school. You can select more than one answer.

If you care about US News rankings, they are as follows:
Georgetown (DC) - 14
USC (LA) - 18
George Washington (DC) - 20

Please vote! I could use all the help I can get in making this decision. And if you have additional feedback, please make a comment on this post.

Thank you!

Monday Updates - 5/5/05

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Unfortunately I have no party plans but I hope some of you do.

Law School - Same as before, can you tell that I'm growing tired of the subject?

Work/Life - I will be done with work in less than 2 months, which is crazy. It feels like the end of an era, where I was able to just work hard, and not worry about much other than myself. My life is about to change drastically in the next year. Not only am I back to student life, but I will be moving to a new area and getting married. I'm trying not to let my emotions get to me as this transition unfolds.

Wedding - Adelyn tried on dresses on Saturday. I think I'm 90% sure of my decision to go with with dress with the embroidered overlay. I just need to figure out a sweater to go on top of it for the ceremony and the shoes.

Weekend - I had a really nice weekend. On Saturday Adelyn and I hung out in Santana Row. We had lunch at Left Bank, went to David's Bridal to try on bridesmaid dresses, went back to Hagen Daas for ice cream, went to H&M, then went to the wine bar for a few hours. Sunday was also fun because Juls came over and we went to Melis' track meet, which she won in the shot put (yay!). I ended up falling asleep last night at 9PM, which was wonderful.

This coming weekend I'm flying home for Mothers' Day, and I'm hoping to see my brother play baseball and book the photographer for our wedding. That's all for now :-).

I'm a Blog Stalker

Obviously we all Facebook-stalk. But I also have a habit of stalking blogs. Yes, I realize that this is probably more common than I think, and that people like me write blogs hoping that their friends and acquaintances will come visit every so often to find out what I'm up to. But, after finding out some really big news via a blog tonight, it occurred to me that I probably wasn't the intended audience.

I went on a blog of someone I know from an activity I was in at Stanford (details withheld to protect the innocent stalk-ees). I don't know them very well and they would probably be surprised to hear that I read their blog. They don't post very often, but I'll check it from time to time just in case. But when I checked tonight, I read about some REALLY BIG EXCITING NEWS. I went back to their Facebook pages to see if anyone else caught it and wrote on their wall. NO ONE HAD SAID A WORD ABOUT IT. So of course, I didn't want to write "congratulations!" on there because one, it would give it away (and it was the kind of news that's fun to tell other people personally), plus I'd be exposing myself as a blog-stalker. So I didn't, but I wanted to talk about it with someone, so I decided to post it here...without any real details.

So to any fellow bloggers out there whom I'm even remotely friends with - I'm probably reading your blog, or at least checking up on it from time to time, I hope that's ok :-)