Curiouser and Curiouser......

I know that it’s been such a long time since I’ve written a post.  I guess it’s something I’ll have to get used to and definitely do more!

So as you know, William and Mary is a go!  I am not ashamed to say that I cried for a good half an hour when I got my acceptance letter.  Unfortunately, no one was home to share in my tears of joy.  AJ came home, and I acted like nothing was out of the ordinary, but then all of a sudden I burst and said, “I just can’t hold it in any longer.  Come here!”  I showed him the status checker that said, Congratulations! and we jumped and yelled around the living room for about 10 minutes.  I really wish I had videotaped it because it was pretty priceless.

William and Mary may not be Boston or Cornell, but it is a pretty sweet law school, and has the prestigious title of being the first school of law in the country.  That’s good enough for me.  And I won’t have pretentious snobs ripping pages out of my casebooks and judging me for not taking vacations in Europe every break.  Not to mention, AJ and I get to stay in close quarters, which makes me just a little happy ;)

So since my last post I have switched jobs.  I was offered a private nanny job for much more money than daycare, and I only have to work three days a week.  This sounded like the sweetest deal in the universe until I did my week of shadowing.  The kids are, unfortunately, pretty awful.  They are 18 months and 3 and a half so that does make it a little easier.  However, there is no discipline and their parents are both doctors so they are gone all the time.  The mother is an army doctor and served a six-month tour that she came back from 7 months ago.  The kids have had countless nannies because these people have ridiculously high standards and seem to fire people at the drop of a hat.  No one told me any of this before I started. 

It’s getting better, and I think the fact that I am college-educated makes me more favorable in their eyes (elitist of them, I know).  The mother is done with the army in June, so in July she’ll start staying home.  However, the other nanny that works Tuesdays and Thursdays has basically agreed to stay on with her a few days a week because she has expressed that she is terrified to stay home alone with her own children.  Not messed up at all, right?  Regardless, it’s four months for me, a good chunk of money, free organic food, and a nap in the middle of the day—this is the mantra I tell myself every morning I have to go there. 

But……I have lots of fun plans for my days off!  AJ and I are going to Richmond on Thursday to see a Picasso exhibit that is only visiting 16 cities internationally.  I am so excited! 

Other things I plan on doing during my time off:

1. Planting an assortment of flowers, herbs, and maybe some tomatoes in my tiny back yard. 

2.  Redecorating (or really actually decorating) parts of our house because now I’m staying and can totally justify spending the money :)

3.  Buying used Bikes for AJ and I because apparently Virginia is famous for all of it’s bike trails.  Who knew?

4.  Reading all the books I can for fun, because I know that in six-months reading will become a not so enjoyable task.

And finally,  I have been doing Insanity now for almost a month.  It is, to give credence to its moniker, INSANE.  I have never pushed myself so hard in working out in my life, and I love it.  AJ and I are doing it together, and my best friend from NC is also sweating away as a long-distance workout buddy.  There is a nutrition plan that goes with it requiring us to eat 5 small meals a day that are incredibly healthy and still pretty tasty.  The difference i have already seen in a little over 3 weeks is incredible.  I have become a muscle machine (of course not in a gross body-builder way), and I can almost see my abs again.  They’ve been M.I.A. since I stopped ballet at 18.  It is truly invigorating.

Hello everyone out there.  So, I basically have no idea what I’m doing here.  Just learning and trying.  I thought that it would be a great way to keep up with my friends, who I miss dearly, and that thing called writing that I also miss dearly.

A little life update:

So I finished applying to law schools finally this month…topping the list off at 8 schools. Whew!  That was awful haha.  I thought I was done in November, but then had a little panic attack at the end of December that I wasn’t going to get into any schools I applied to-typical Nikki neuroticism.

My little attack could have been set off by the fact that Cornell had promptly rejected me and GW wait-listed me.  I also read the all too famous NY Times article about law graduates not getting jobs and felt as though I didn’t get into a good school I was going to be 30, in debt, living at my parents, working at the local Rite Aid.  I am happy to report that I have already heard a positive back from Fordham, so at least I know that I am in somewhere decent!

In the meantime, I am working at a childcare school down the street from my house.  The kids are ages 6 weeks to 5 years.  If anything it has pushed my “want to have kids age” from 30 to like 35, which is probably a good thing because I don’t think you hear about maternity leave in corporate law haha.

Life is getting curiouser and curiouser for me……I bet we all never thought we would be where we are when we started our freshman year of college, but especially not me.  I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately.  We all thought I’d be married to Ben by now, living in Hancock, and teaching high school English.  THANK GOD THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!!   Back then I couldn’t cook a thing, never wanted to be more than 2 hours from my parents, and thought that yoga was for hairy hippies

Now I spend at least 2 hours in my kitchen every day creating delicious things, live the farthest of all my roommates from my parents, do yoga constantly, am thinking about studying international law, traveling the world, and actually have a healthy relationship.  IMAGINE THAT! 

So for now……I’m pretty content with all my musings…..just waiting curiously to see where life is going to lead me next…..