Oh, geez. Oh, man. So, I’ve got this fancy new website, and when I went to import my blog entries, I realized that I haven’t posted a darn thing since 2014. I am officially the worst. blogger. ever.
So here we are! At the risk of sounding a little conceited, I figure you’re all wondering what the heck I’ve been up to over the last year and change (assuming I have any readers other than Chris and my dad). The answer: LOTS O’ THINGS! ALL OF THEM!
Okay, maybe not ALL of them, but definitely myriad things. A veritable plethora. New job! New school! New husband! I feel like that’s kind of a lot of awesome things. So, first: new job!
I left Morris James at the end of 2014, which was bittersweet, in a way. Like any larger firm, it had its hierarchy-related foibles, but overall, I can’t knock it. At the end of the day, though, the position in which I worked had been… shall we say…. overrepresented to me at the time of my interview and subsequent hiring conversations. I started leaving work feeling worse about myself at the end of each day. It was neither fulfilling nor work I could see myself doing long-term, and the hours just weren’t working for me in terms of getting my urchins picked up and fed in a reasonable time frame. So, with Chris’s blessing, I left that job with not a whole lot on the horizon other than the possibility of a paid gig as a communications director for a software startup, and a student loan overage to get me over the hump until something, anything, popped up. So, you know. Terrifying.
After a few months of having an exceptionally clean house (which was kind of amazing, I must say), I landed a part-time gig in a local law firm doing administrative work. Within a month or two, I became their paralegal, and 20 hours a week turned into 25, and then into 30 or more. I don’t like to toot my own horn, but I do draft a pretty kickass power of attorney. When one of the attorneys left to start her own practice, she made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, and here we are! Two crazy gals taking on the estate planning world by storm. Or, you know, sitting in an office and typing all day, but since drafting contracts and such makes me disturbingly giddy, I’m a happy girl.
But what about grad school, you query? Well, thank you so much for asking! Once I finish up my current semester, I’ll have three classes left, at which time I’ll have a super-fancy Master of Jurisprudence in Corporate Law. What I’ll do with that degree remains to be seen; my aim was to be a compliance officer, but my boss is working very hard to convince me to be her “work life partner,” as she calls it, so we’ll see where I end up. Regardless, it’s nice to have too many options than too few, so I’ll take it.
2015 was a pretty amazing year, but my very favorite thing was marrying my partner in crime and the love of my life. Not much more to be said. We had a small wedding in the chapel of my church, made promises to each other comprised of some standard vows as well as our own; I wore pink, and Chris wore a tie with kraken tentacles on it. An intimate dinner followed at our favorite local burger place, and we spent the next day leisurely wandering through New Hope (if you haven’t been there yet, for goodness sake, do yourself a favor and google map your way to Marsha Brown AND EAT AS MUCH PINEAPPLE SOUFFLE AS THEY WILL GIVE YOU). I’m not entirely sure if we had a honeymoon, but if we did, it was a long weekend motorcycling in West Virginia. In fact, yes. Yes, that was our honeymoon. Because I can’t think of a more perfect way to celebrate us.
Anywho, I don’t really believe in New Year’s resolutions, and anyway, it’s April. But I sure would like to actually post stuff more often than 18 months apart. Feel free to yell at me, faithful reader(s), if you check back and there is nothing new. Do me a favor and head over to my “artwork” link too, maybe that’ll give me a kick in the pants to get some stuff up there more often too!
