Flop, not and wreaths

I feel like I'm stuck in a web. I can't really move, don't have a lot of motivation cuz I'm tired from trying to move, and it blows

Pass list, baby! Totally used this as my phone background
for a few days until I got the letter in the mail that
basically said "we're not kidding." 

A week ago today, this happened:


It was rather surprising. Austin can tell you I was a big bag of nerves all day. I even went to work on Thursday (when I don't usually) because I needed something to take my mind off of the news.

Thankfully, it was also good news for my three best law school friends, who I studied with for most of my time at McG. It would have been so awkward if one of us had not passed, I mean, specifically the four of us, because we constantly studied together.

But for the past four months I've been able to avoid being serious about applying for jobs because a lot of them strictly require a bar passage first before they actually interview you. So, my not applying for jobs was excusable since I want to work public sector and not at a firm, where I might have more wiggle room.

Now that I have passed, I actually have to get a job. I sent in 2 applications this week to public defender offices in Northern California, not far from where we're living now. I want so very badly to work for one of those offices. It'd be perfect. But, what will be will be. Deeeeeep sigh.

All that is just to say that I am feeling stuck again.  After we got the above good news, we celebrated. Since our engagement a bottle of champagne was in our fridge - it was promptly uncorked.

Then my cousin, Ryland, his girlfriend, Devon, our friend, Danny and Austin and I went out on the town. Eventually we met up with some other law school peeps who passed to celebrate. But first.

Yeah, it's dark ... it was night time.

Fishbowl happened. It was that kind of night.

On the homefront, I've been cooking but not well or memorably. When it is memorable, it's for all the wrong reasons. That dinner I was planning on putting up here was really unpleasant. Not kidding. I made tamales again, I've made them a few times now, and they're good, but I don't know... not something worth sharing I guess (particularly these ones because I just used old frozen veggie burgers I made a month or so ago as the filling, and that just does not sound appetizing.)

yes, it is upside-down, but I wasn't the one eating it :P

But I was redeemed this morning when I woke Austin up with a bunch of these --

The picture leaves a little to be desired. They are crêpes filled with cream cheese and cinnamon apples. The filling really was the star; Austin had four filled crêpes with extra filling on top.

Basically, I diced up a fuji apple in chunks, added a tablespoon of butter and 1/4 cup water to a saucepan with the apples with a tablespoon of brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon of cardamom. Cooked it for 4-5 minutes until the apples had softened.

THEN, I took some of the juice from the apples, 1 teaspoon of maple syrup and beat in about 1/2 a brick of cream cheese. After cooking my crêpes with my handy dandy crêpe maker I slathered on some cream cheese, added in the apples and sprinkled on some powdered sugar and voila!

Out of my rut!



Also. As you've seen on instagram, I made wreaths. The picture I put up there was the wreath I gave to my Grammie, who we spent Thanksgiving with. I also made one for our door.

I was fairly proud of my work - even though they aren't professional quality or look particularly fancy, I am just completely not crafty, and so the fact that I could make something resembling a wreath, well that was just magical

ooooooooooh ahhhhhhhh

I liked the berries that were in my grammie's wreath, but I had a bunch of flowers left so I arranged them in a pretty vase (wrapped with red gardland).


I think we're going to spend the rest of the day decorating - putting up christmas tree and decorations.

Overall, it's been a pretty darn good week, though, I'm excited to get back to work next week.