I’m Sorry, I Suck

This whole bar study thing has made me a complete and utter hermit.  So, I apologize for not commenting and not posting and not staying up-to-date.  I could make another promise like I did last week, but we all know it isn’t actually going to happen.  So, I promise that I still think about the blog every once in a while…promise.  And, hopefully, I’ll get back to blogging again soon…not that I’m stopping, just that it’ll be sparse.  This isn’t a farewell, just a “I’m busy but don’t count me out just yet.”  I’ll be back…I CAN promise you that.  And hopefully sooner rather than later.

xox ~ Glam

Monday Was Not A Good Day

Monday, being in the normal Monday form, did not start the week out well.  Last night, as I was typing some stuff for bar review class today, a particular muscle in my back when AWOL.  I literally cried myself to sleep because it hurt so bad that I could barely breathe.

This morning when the alarm went off there was still a 3-alarm pain going off in my back.  Fabulous.

I told the BF to please go to class without me, and I would use one of the four make-up streaming audio classes we’re allowed this summer.  It hurt so bad, that the thought of sitting in a college classroom seat all morning was torturous (or tortious if you like a play on words).

So, I finally woke up at 10am to start my own bar class on teh computer while my back throbbed in defiance.  Is there a maximum to how many tylenol you can take in a day??  Because I took some every 4 hours for at least the first half of the day.

Now, I’m nursing myself with a 3rd glass of wine.

I know back problems are uber-prevelant these days.  So, what do you do to help your back ailments?

Hot, Hot, Hot

That about sums up my feelings for the day.  It is really, really, really hot here in NY.  I’m all about summer, but does it really have to be so damn sufficating??

Things I love to do to ward off the heat:

• Eat Edy’s Strawberry and Lemonade popsicles.
• Drink tons of cold, cold, cold beer.
• Pool!
• Stay inside with the wonderful A.C.
• Roll down the windows as I’m driving.
• Beach!!

What sorts of things do you like to do during these hot months??

Blogging is Hard

Be prepared for a very whiny post.  I apologize in advance.

Since starting this blog, as a more annonymous supplement to my first blog, I have not been so good at upkeep.  I honestly don’t know how some of my favorite bloggers do it.  The only thing I am doing now-a-days is bar review.  Why, then, is it so hard to keep up with 2 blogs??  I read some blogs by individuals that have jobs, kids, houses, lives…and I can’t even keep an apartment, dog, bar review, and blogging straight.   My life is a lot easier…so how do I suck so much at this?!?

Anyays, I promise to write more often.  In fact, for the rest of this week (starting today and ending next Saturday), I will post at least once a day.  This actually has nothing to do with the non-existent readers I have…but for my own memory when I look back in a few years.

xox ~ Glam

Measuring

Some moving company is coming out to the apartment tomorrow to give us an estimate on moving our NJ apartment to NY.  Handsome left messages with at least 15 moving companies for estimates.  They tend to call at 7am on Saturdays.  This is all after he has convinced himself we are moving ourselves.  He “just wants to see what the prices are” for a moving company to move us instead.

All 15 of them.  Who call back at 7am on Saturdays.  One after the other.

It’s been fun.

So tonight Handsome has measured everything and drawn it precisely into the enlarged and to scale floorplan our new building gave us.  (He took measurements of everything, including the door to confirm the floorplan was to scale.)

I’m OCD, but I’m not sure I’m thatOCD.  Our new bedroom is bigger, both length-wise and width-wise than our current bedroom.  Sure, it’s only by a few inches.  But, considering it’s bigger and the window is in no different place and the closet isn’t any different, I’m pretty sure everything we currently have in our bedroom is going to fit into our new biggerbedroom.  Ditto on the living room.  Which is why I’m not all OCD about this.

If the room were smaller or oddly shaped, then yea, I would measure.  But the new place is both BIGGER and the SAME shape as our current bedroom and living room.  We’ve already decided that everything in the dining room and second bedroom is being sold or put into storage…which means only our bedroom and living room (our smaller bedroom and living room) is going.  And they currently fit!!!

Anyways, our to scale floor plan ratio is 1 to 0.0217.  I know this because I have been the one sitting at the computer all night calculating inches by 0.0217 so that he can draw in the exactmeasurement into the floorplan.  I’m sure you are very happy to know this.  I’m surely not and I hope I forget it soon.

Aargh.

*****

On a happier note — we went to the pool today for a couple hours and it was tons of fun.  Definitely something I’m going to miss once we move back into the city.  Not that I go into the pool all that much, but it’s nice to have that sort of space to chill out and catch some rays and cool off when the sun is beating down on you.  Now I’m already starting to miss our pool.  Man, this happy note didn’t turn out to be so happy…

Loving…

WiiFit - We preordered the game about a month back, and now we’ve got our very own!  While Handsome isn’t so fond of it (it puts his Fit Age about 10 years above his real age), I think it’s a fun way to get a little exercise.  I love the skiing games and haven’t yet tried everything else, but I’m sure I’ll love it too.  I have to mention though that if you get offended pretty easily, this game is not for you.  It definitely makes you feel bad at times, even if you’re staying on track and working out everyday.  But as long as you’re realistic and watch the graphs, you’ll be fine.  I love it, but just a warning.

My New Apt – Haven’t moved in yet (not until beginning of August) but it is right in the center of Manhattan and is bigger than any apartment I’ve ever had in the city.  Plus, we were able to negotiate our rent to exactly our max possible, down $150 from what they were originally asking.

GPS – I just got a GPS system from Amazon.com and I love Love LOVE it.  I won a $200 gift card from Amazon during a work promotion and then went all out and got the $400 GPS system, so I still ended up spending $200…but SO WORTH IT.

Three-Day Weekends – Not that I work Monday to Friday, but it is nice that bar review takes a short hiatus.  (Which reminds me: Hating…bar review.)

The Local Fruit Market – They are sooo cheap and also have most vegetables and fruits…even things I can’t find any my local supermarket.  Even things I would normally think I would be able to get at my local grocery store…like zuchinni.  Yea, my local grocery store doesn’t have zuchinni.  What’s that about?

The Weather – The pool at our building opened today.  How anyone made it into that water is beyond me, but yah for summer!!  The weather’s been in the 70s (after tons and tons and tons of rain for the past few weeks) and it’s been absolutely beautiful.  It’s still a little cool at night, which I LOVE because it means that we can just leave our windows open at night.

Graduation Gifts – So, beyond tons of money (thanks family), I also received some other great gifts.

From the (real)-dad, a beautiful diamond necklace:

From Handsome’s Family, a Bulova watch that was a little small and needs another link, so it’s currently at their main office.  But, here’s a picture (and don’t miss the 26 diamonds):

Two fabulous crystal Baccarat champagne flutes that my aunt bought while in France.  While not exactly the same, they look something like this (as do most champagne flutes I would guess) but only a little thicker throughout the stem:

And, not yet received but promised when the new one comes out, an iPhone from my mom and (step)-dad:

So, what are you loving right about now??

Yah! David Cook & Apartment Stuff

So, since I posted yesterday about my love for David Cook and my hate for the judges that totally dissed him, I feel I need to blog today about my TOTAL AND UTTER EXCITEMENT FOR THE FACT THAT HE IS THE NEW AMERICAN IDOL!!!  WEEEEEEEE!!!

Ok, now on to other matters…

Handsome and I put in an application for a new apartment in NYC this week and WE GOT IT!!  Woot!!  Here’s the back story on our living together and relationship generally:

Handsome and I met in law school during our second year.  We didn’t meet our first year because he went to a totally different law school his first year and then transferred.  We met pretty early on in our second year, and were “serious” by Christmas.  By mid-Spring, we were basically spending every night together in all it’s sinful glory.  So, when both of our leases were up in July, we made the decision to move in together.  We were spending every night together anyways, and I was having trouble with my roommate.  Plus, we could get a larger 1-bedroom in NY together instead of trying to each have studio apartments or convert 1-bedrooms with roommates.

So, we started looking.  And, kept looking.  And finally decided that maybe a NJ apartment would be a good option — both financially and for my desire for more space.  While we looked in Hoboken, it really wasn’t any less expensive than NYC.  So, we looked further into NJ and finally settled on an apartment about 25 miles from the city where we could get a huge 2-bedroom for nearly half the price of anything in NYC.

Well, fast foward a year.  The lease on the NJ place is nearly up and we have to decide whether or not to renew.  Well, Handsome only had one year in the city before we moved 25 miles out.  Neither of us lived anywhere near the city before coming out here for school, so he really only had ONE year, as compared to my TWO years.  Plus, all of our friends live in the city and he’s working in the city next year and the city is an experience everyone should have.

So, we decided to move back into the city.  But I had requirements.  First, I’m working in NJ…only across the river, but still in NJ.  So, we had to live on the Upper West or Midtown West or somewhere on the west so that I could hop into NJ quickly.  Second, I wanted some room.  Do I need the 1200 sq. ft. that we have now??  No, and there’s no way I could expect us to afford that in NYC.  But more than a shoebox is necessary.  Third, I wanted a real kitchen.  No, half-sized stove and half-sized fridge and no dishwasher whatsoever.  I wanted a real kitchen.

Well, we found the place that fit all my requirements and that Handsome loved also.  So, we put in an application late last week and found out we got it!!  And we’re signing the lease on Friday. 

Now, we have to figure out whether to move ourselves or hire a mover…and what to put in storage because not everything can fit in the new place.  Decisions, decisions.

Short Post About AI

What is with the judges tonight totally hating on David Cook??

Between David Archuletta and David Cook, I think Cook is definitely the better artist.  He has stage presence, and a great voice, and can do more than ballads, and is cute (but not in the 14-year-old way that Archuletta is).

But tonight???  The judges were totally hating on him.  So yea, I’ve already voted 15 times and plan to continue voting for Cook until the lines close in 4 hours.

I’m a dork, I know.

Can. Barely. Lift. Head.

I am so so so so so so exhausted.

The family has been in town all weekend and they finally left this morning.  On top of that, Handsome and I started our bar review class this morning, which meant we had to be out of the house by 8am.  And finally, yesterday was one of the longest days of my life.  It was also really great.  It was a great long great day.  This weekend was a great long great long weekend.

I am now a law school graduate with a juris doctorate.  Yah me!  But, said graduation required that I get up at 5am to get dressed and get to the hotel by 7am to direct my family to NYC for the graduation, which started at 11am.  I know, I know…you’re thinking “Why did you have to get to the hotel at 7am for an 11am graduation?”  Well, here’s why.  First, because trying to coordinate 17 people takes time.  Second, because it took a good hour to get into the city and park; and then we had to walk to the subway and take that downtown; and then we had to get the family into line so that we could go inside at the official “Graduates Arrive at 9:30am” time.  Which was crap because all they did was have us stand in line for the next hour…annoying!

Anyways, following our 4-hour graduation, everyone headed back uptown for a reception at the law school.  Which, let me tell you, was a HUGE disappointment.  Let’s just say that our school tends to serve hot and passed hors d’oeuvres and open bars at everything.  Well, for a reception which would include all of its graduates’ families, they decided that not enough cheese and water would be perfect.  WTF!?!?

We decided to leave and go to our dinner reservation early, which was another ordeal all in itself.  The restaurant did not officially take reservations, but we had finally spoken to someone high enough up that marked our party of 17 in the hostess’ black book.  We only chose this restaurant because it was near the school and everywhere else we tried would not do a party of 17 unless we agreed to a prix fixe menu.  Well, since we are all family and not a school organization, a prix fixe menu was not going to work.  So, we settled on this restaurant and were assured that even though they didn’t take reservations normally, they would with us.

Well, we get to the restaurant and the manager on duty has no idea what we’re talking about.  And, on top of that he finally seats us at a table that has a huge pillar in the middle and isn’t really a table, but 4 different shaped tables shoved together.  Let’s just say that I couldn’t see half the people at the table because of this. 

Then, one of my guests got SUPER SUPER SICK towards the end of dinner.  In fact, she had gone to the bathroom and a little later someone from another party came by our table saying that someone by my guest’s name was in the bathroom very sick.  We ran down and she was laying on the floor unable to even hold her head up.  The manager (the same one that had no idea their was a party of 17 coming) came down to see if everything was alright and one of the first lines out of his mouth was “It’s not the food.”  Um…hello?!?  Does it really look like I’m blaming you right now??  Or, does it look more like one of my guests is sick and I’m taking care of that??  Yea…I think the second one…so back off buddy!  Anyways, we finally had to call an ambulance and take her to the hospital.  She is fine today and they think either she had an allergic reaction (she had lobster and shrimp for dinner) or just a really bad GI problem.  Or both.  Or something else all together.  They were really specific.

Anyways…that’s been my weekend.  Stressful.  Tiring.  Exhausting.

I’m out to take a nap.

The Fam

All of the family just left.  Our graduation is tomorrow, but we had our party tonight.  Everyone was here, including both of our “real dads” and both or our “real” families.  It surprisingly went really well.  We had too much food, but that’s better than not enough.  And, our families seemed to get along just peachy.  This of course works for me because Handsome is a big fan of his family and would likely break up with me if his family didn’t like my family (at least it would cause issues).

Anyways…just wanted to update everyone on our progress.  I think everyone left full and happy (though I didn’t eat at all because I was cooking and worrying and running around the whole time).

xox, Glam