Christmas Cards

Since the presents are wrapped, yesterday was spent writing Christmas cards.  For me, it was simple.  At least number wise.  I had 15 to mail out.  The difficult part came in writing sentiments.  Does anyone else have a problem doing this?  Or has law school stunted me emotionally so that I don't know how to put feelings onto paper?  What should have taken a half hour took me 2.  I would start with a very merrily written "Merry Christmas" then ... nothing.  Do you tell them to have a Happy Holiday?  But that seems like you might not want others to have a Happy Holiday.  Do you put in a few words about yourself?  "I graduated law school, passed the bar, and now can't find a job!"  But that seems like a little too much information (and it is slightly depressing).  How do you bridge that gap?

I get some Christmas cards that are eloquently written.  They balance the good wishes to me with the information about them and it makes me extremely jealous.  The only way to feel better after opening that card is to open the photo card of a couple with their dogs.  You know the type.  They are married but don't have kids so to get in on the whole photo Christmas card bandwagon they take a photo with their dogs.  Every year that I don't send out that type of card, I feel good about myself.  It's the little things in life, right? 

So in the end, I stuck with the tried and true method of Christmas card signing.  I used an interesting ink color and put two explanation points at the end of "Merry Christmas".  Hopefully my friends will understand that the card itself is a sign of my appreciation of them.  And even better, hopefully they will appreciate the fact that I spared them from the photo card of me and my dog that I could have sent. 

Wrapping Presents

If anything prepares me for the job that I know I will eventually get, it will be wrapping Christmas presents.  Anyone who has wrapped more than 10 presents at a time will understand me completely.  I sat down with my mom at 12:30pm  today fully prepared to put in about 2 - 2 1/2 hours worth of work.  8 1/2 hours later we are finally done.  No, you did not misread.  The living room looked like a tornado had formed, ransacked the local trailer park and left the remants on top of the couch, coffee table and floor.  At one point items were strewn in so many places that my dog was unable to stand up without stepping on wrapping paper or getting her hair pulled out by Scotch tape.  It felt like a never ending process of cutting, folding, taping, tying, and tagging.  But we persevered!  With a little bit of DETERMINATION and DEDICATION each present is rip free and adorned with some sort of bow.  The end result was well worth the hard work, just like my future job!  And if my job, like today's wrapping experience, comes with pie and coffee as a reward after a hard days work I will be an extra happy girl.

Background of the Blog

As I was reading the blog of a sorority sister, I realized that most blogs these days are written by new mothers who are wanting to share their experience and their wonderful child(ren) with the world.  Seriously?  I don't know about anyone else but my life is nothing like that.  Then I found a blog that was created to help the author reach her goal of running daily.  I thought, "hey, I have a goal".  It may be getting a job instead of running, but the same concept applies.  That author became a marathoner, hopefully I'll become employed!