Showing posts with label School Girl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Girl. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Coming soon to a mailbox near you...

My Christmas (not holiday) cards!! Anyone else see last week's 30 Rock? It must be seen to understand reference :)

Well, at least the first half of the holiday cards are addressed... I have plans to finish the rest tomorrow night. I'm so excited that it's finally feeling like Christmas!! Cards, trees, lights, and best of all... family!

Thursday and Friday night I get to host my Dad and step-Mom at my house. I have high hopes that these two days will be filled with the following:
  • Advice on my sadly lacking garden
  • Snarky comments
  • "The drive"
  • Clam chowder from Malibu Seafood Co.
  • Busting open the 1 gallon bottle of Galleano Zinfandel (not a joke, a truly ginormous bottle of wine has been on my counter for a week or so now)
  • Cribbage games
  • Air Force 1 at the Reagan Library
  • Merriment in general
  • Rosemary rolls

Added bonus, my fabulous Momma helped me secure a person other than myself to clean the house prior to their arrival (since it's Finals week at school and all.)

P.S. One final, and then four weeks sans school for me!


Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Deep Thoughts

My day started out so well... egg white omelette split with my Auntie P while sitting across the table from my grandparents (so sad they're flying back home, it was a good visit!) and my brother.

But then, it turned into the worst day I've had at work in a very. very. very. long time. Long story short: we can't be perfect, but man do I wish I could be.

But now, at the end of the day, it's funny how things that were overwhelmingly overwhelming just a few hours before somehow become inconsequential when you're at home, in your own environment, hearing the hum of your appliances and sitting in your favorite chair.

Deep thoughts... by me.


Thursday, August 5, 2010

Moment of Truth


My last six weeks have been tough. Not prison tough. Or training for triathlon tough. But for this girl, pretty darned tough.

New job coupled with two summer school classes. Over the past six weeks I have doubted my sanity, my intelligence, my time management skills, and my common sense. But here I sit, 2.5 hours away from my final (as in last) final. Oh how happy I will be in four hours with a glorious three homework-free weekends to enjoy!

Wish me luck.




Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Home Lands

On Sunday I took a break from school work to "sharpen my saw" and went to the Autry Museum of Western Heritage for an exhibit called "Home Lands" about the role women played in shaping the American West.

The exhibit was full of a lot of women artifacts... like this pressure cooker that appears more like a torture device than an item off of a wedding registry.
As well as statistics that showed the stark reality of being female in years past. This portion of the exhibit is a reminder that less than a century ago, 4% of women died in childbirth or immediately thereafter. How lucky we are to live in the times that we do.

So after all that stark reality I had to have myself a little bit of fun... so I decided to pretend I was in jail...
Check out some cowboy art - yee haw!

And listen to live music courtesy of local musicians. I wish I could put in a clip of the song this guy's music on here, but I couldn't find it...

I hadn't been to the Autry since my fifth grade class visited. It was too fun to rediscover it this weekend.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Snapshots of a Messy Modern Life

Today is a typical Saturday for me, and for something so typical to me, at a couple of points today it strook me that my day is not exactly normal. (Strook me... striked me... is that right? Anyway.)

My huband and I apparently don't think working Monday through Friday is quite good enough, so we try to see how much we can manage on the weekends as well. (While simultaneously completely neglecting our home, and social lives.) But I digress.

In an effort to still be "together," when we both have work to do we trek downtown so we can work in the quiet of his office. While we're not actually spending time together, the physical nearness is a good facsimile, and at least tricks us mentally into thinking we are.

On Saturday's like this, I'll often go with him to his gym. But this is totally not a normal gym, it's an Irish gym. (http://www.educogym.com/) You know, since the Irish are so known for their physical prowess, this makes sense. It's on the 57th floor of the US Bank tower downtown, and they're known for a 25 minute workout.

The concept of the 25 minute workout is still very strange to me. Essentially, I spend more time showering and getting ready afterward than I did for the entire workout. But that's where my first "snapshot" comes in.

Check out the view from the women's locker room! (Okay, it's kind of hard to see.) But there's a view of all of East LA while you're doing your makeup and hair.

After we finish at the gym we walk over to my hubby's building, where are able to make and enjoy free sandwiches courtesy of his law firm. (It's Saturday, I'm allowed to have bread people!) And then I set up shop in the office next door to his that is conveniently empty.

About five minutes before posting this I looked up from my book and realized that I have three computer monitors within three feet of me.

Behold, work laptop, school laptop, company desktop.

You gotta admit, it's kind of ridiculous!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Update! The Reckoning

Last night I was reviewing my Finance terms for the 50,000th time in the hour before my final, when my Marketing prof came up to me. He literally patted me on the back (how often does that happen?) and told me my paper was "excellent"!

Okay, I know it's just a paper that no one else will read, but I can't help it. I'm all proud of myself.

Enough being happy, back to studying! Two finals down, one to go!


Sunday, April 25, 2010

Ocean View vs. Point of View


Wishing I was on the golf course with my husband today! He's enjoying an ocean view and fresh air... while I'm in sweats with with dirty hair writing a term paper. Such is life.

The paper is on "The Reckoning" by David Halberstam. A gigantic non-fiction about the auto industry.

I'm struggling because the professor wants to know what "big thing" we learned for the subject of the paper. What I took away from it is that every worker is intrinsically tied to the fortunes of the companies they work for... and the make-up of the workforce creates the culture, which determines the fate of the organization. Is that a big thing? I guess we'll see.

Getting back to work, dreaming of sunshine and tee boxes.