Finally making progress at a job I'm leaving

Just now, I received a call from one of our partner agencies with questions regarding an informational letter we had sent to them. As the woman asked me questions regarding the new policy, she stopped and said "Oh, if I read this letter, I dont' have to ask these questions."

Yes, this is a breakthrough 3 years in the making with these blessed partner agencies. Believe it or not, I don't send out letters to confuse you or make your life, and my life, more difficult. If you read ANY of the signs, letters, postcards, emails and flyers I create, you would NEVER EVER have to call us with questions. And then, if you read the informational sheets and flyers that I must create because you didn't read the first ones, you would never have to contact us at all! I would never have to utter "Well, if you read the letter in your hands...." and neither will you. It will be splendid!

This is just another sign that my work is done here.

It's official because Elle just got her class schedule

Many of you know that I am obsessed with the movie "Legally Blonde," the inspiration for the title of my blog. The main character, Elle Woods, is a Malibu blonde who decides to go to Harvard Law school to win back her ex-boyfriend. When she checks in for the first day of classes, she gets her class schedule, and informs the staff that she's missing her social calendar, "You know, mixers, clam bakes, trips to the Cape?"



Well, I was relieved to receive my social calender, which includes a "picnic supper" (I love that it's supper, not dinner) and a retreat for vocation and the law. Yep, that's when I cried. I'm really going to be a law student, and soon after, a lawyer.

My class schedule has 4 courses in the following: Torts, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Lawyering Skills, and I'll also have Foundations of Justice and Homocide cases for the first week. The good news is that I don't have too many long days, and Tuesday & Thursday I don't start classes until 10:30. Very exciting!

These are pics of St. Thomas. The top one is the front of the law building. The bottom one is me in front of the law school. Andy took these when we visited in January. Yep, it's 10 below zero in those pics!

Power outagaes create much-needed excuse to avoid packing

So, Arvada, where our current apartment is, was assaulted Monday night by a freak thunderstorm with sheets of hail. I come from thunderstorm country, so this wasn't exactly terrifying, but I have never seen hail come down in sheets like that. Well, the hail took its toll, and our power was out for 8 hours yesterday.

Quite tragically, this forced me to eat dinner out, alone, since we had nothing in the house that could be eaten without cooking, toasting, or microwaving. I was also forced to avoid packing since the apartment was black; shucks.

Instead of sitting at home in the dark silence, I went and watched our company softball team get their pants beat off. I think even if I'd had power, I still would have prefered laughing hysterically at my co-workers dropping grounders and pop flys and swinging wildly at balls picthed a full foot over their heads. While I had to pay a dollar to get in to watch, the experience was truly priceless!

On an unrelated note, I have to share that at least 10 people have asked me if Andy is moving with me to Minnesota. "Well, I'm going for three years, and he might miss me after awhile, so yes, he is moving with me." Really? You thought he would just send me up there and send me care packages each month?

We're moving

And while pretty much everyone has known this since April, I'm a sad-sack, my husband is cranky, and my co-workers are frantic that I'll be irreplacable (*which is extremely flattering, however far-fetched.)

I am beginning law school in Minnesota in August, so my husband, my cat and I are leaving amazing Colorado in just 3 weeks to start a new "adventure. " I mock the "adventure" because I don't do adventure. Adventure is wild, unpredictable and usually involves nature. I don't do nature, and I am a neurotic planner. "Unpredictable" is my nemesis.

Don't get me wrong. I am REALLY excited about starting law school! I love the school I'll be attending. I have wanted to be a lawyer since I was about 8, so I am seeing a big dream come to fruition. I get a little bleary-eyed thinking about it. But, packing and leaving your friends and family sucks. And I refuse to act like it doesn't.