Celebration: Living my Private Life

Some of my friends like to blog a lot, like maybe every day. Or twice a day. Or more. I love reading these friends' blogs and reading the minuter details of their minds' workings. I've realized I'm not one of those people that can be on my blog that often, typing away. I tend to fade in and out of blogging activity. The thing is, I sometimes get really focused on my not-blogging life. It's not particularly interesting--not anything to write home about, you know--but I enjoy it (except for those times when I'm unbearably tired and I throw tantrums worse than a two year old's and then immediately feel mortified about it).

I've got a lot of nice things going for me in my life. Maybe they're not amazing things, but they're really pleasant. I'm married to someone really great. I've got an awesome family. I have cool in-laws that I like more and more as time goes on. I have uber fantastisch friends. Uber. I've got a job that isn't too stressful most of the time and my supervisors like me and I've got a lot of friends who work there. I've got an active mind. I'm pretty clever with my hands. I've got lots of wonderful books to read and reread. The sun is out almost ever day. Thanks to our wonderful landlords we have fresh strawberries right outside our door. We are never in need of anything vital. I could go on and on about things that may be considered normal or everyday that make my life a really nice life to live.

So I will probably continue to write on my blog frantically (or sometimes not so frantically) for a few days and then disappear for several more. But just remember at the times when I'm not writing it's not because I don't have anything to celebrate; I'm just busy enjoying all those things.

Have a happy, beautiful, comfortable, sunny week! I'm spending most of this week in Williamsburg with my in-laws. Then my mom comes to visit for the weekend. Then my nephew shows up on a school trip on Sunday. I mean, could this week get any better? If you don't hear from me, I'm having a TON of fun.

Celebration: A Suspicion and a Secret and a Goal

Suspicion: Part of being "mature" is not flipping out when Someone Who Has No Business Telling You What To Do insists on doing it. A lot.

Secret: I have not acquired this level of maturity.

Goal: I hope one day to be enough in control of my behavior that I can handle Someone Who Has No Business Telling You (ME) What To Do in a way that makes them stop without their knowing I'm controlling them...ha ha. Or I hope that I can at least handle it better in a way that can help everyone feel good about themselves instead of silently fuming and feeling annoyed for an hour afterward.

It's nice that goals exist, and that they can make us feel like better people before we actually ARE better people.

Celebration: Taking Steps and Good Employers

Three weeks ago Jordan graduated from law school and became, though unlicensed for the time being, a lawyer. Unfortunately for him all this meant was a day-long respite from studying law before he became fully immersed, almost every day, in summer-long studies for the bar. Unfortunately for us, he does not, as people graduating from law school used to be able to expect, have a job lined up when the fall comes. However, though we still exist uncomfortably in the limbo land of a completely unforeseeable future, mostly what I have been feeling for the last three weeks is relief. We may still be in limbo, but we've taken a step toward that unseen future and the limbo doesn't seem even half as unbearable as it did before. I think that Jordan is still daunted sometimes as he studies for the bar, but I have noticed a lighter mood on his part too.  So thank goodness for being able to feel finally that we are actually moving toward something. YEAH-YAH!

 

Another relief: I have been given a raise. My employers are so nice, and they gave me a significant enough raise that, with the money we have now, Jordan and I should be okay for at least another year before we end up in debtor's prison (I've been reading Charles Dickens for school, and debtor's prison was a reality, okay?) even though what I will be making doesn't quite cover our monthly expenses. Let's celebrate wonderful employers. And also, how about a little side note celebration for federal graduate loans, because we certainly would not have made it through the last couple years without that (soon to be costly) assistance.