Wednesday, March 31, 2010

E, F, G

Here's my Alphabet Dating update! I was such a terrible blogger last year and have so much to update on. I hope I don't forget anything. We started off our ABC dates by taking turns picking the dates but last semester was so busy for the both of us so we picked our dates together because it was so difficult to find weekends we were both free.

E IS FOR EIGHT YEAR ANNIVERSARY!



Jesse and I celebrated our eight years of love last September by going to Plano for my friend/sorority sister's wedding. The wedding was so beautiful and it was particularly touching because I had met her and her husband (Matt) my freshman year and watched them go through the awkward beginning of a relationship to where they are now. They are such a great couple and am so excited to see what the future holds for them.

Jesse and I went to Plano the day before the wedding and arrived just in time to get ready for dinner. We went to Macaroni Grill for a yummy italian feast. I had lost the diamond earings that my mom gave me for graduation and cried for days about it. I was shocked when Jesse gave me diamond earings for our anniversary. He also gave me a Coach wristlet that fits my essentials and can be thrown in my backpack for school. I have so much school related stuff to carry on a daily basis and have had to sacrifice carrying a purse to school! About those earings, I haven't worn them in a while because I am afraid to lose them but now I don't remember where they are. YIKES!

The next day we went shopping for Matt & Jess's gift...leave it to me to get a gift last minute. Then we went to the mall and I bought him Polo stuff and a new wallet. Boys are so hard to shop for so I decided I would let him pick his anniversary gear.


F IS FOR FINALLY, KINGS OF LEON!

For those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, you know how THRILLED I was when I found out Kings of Leon were coming to Houston. I waited patiently for the tickets to go on sale in June and then bought them the minute they went on sale. The concert just happened to fall on Jesse's 23rd birthday - what a great way to celebrate! KOL is one of our favorite bands and we were counting the days to the concert all summer. October 6th came around and it was during the week. Jesse cut class and met me in downtown (I go to school 3 blocks away from the Toyota Center) and we went to McCormick and Schmick for dinner and then the show. We discovered that day that McCormick has an excellent happy hour. I highly recommend the $2.50 quarter pound cheeseburger with fries accompanied by a $3 order of calamari to share! Here are pictures from the show:

G IS FOR GAME DAY DOUBLE DATE!

Later that month, my best friend Jessica (not the one that got married in Plano) invited Jesse and me to go to the Rockets Home Opener and sit in her dad's suite. It was October 31st (Halloween!) and a lot of the fans wore silly costumes. Jessica and her boyfriend Marc rarely get to see each other because she is in med school and he works most weekends and we hardly ever get to see each other because of school. I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to spend time with the two of them AND Jesse at the same time. I can't wait to be a successful attorney and have a suite at the Toyota Center - they really get the royal treatment there. Each person in the suits was given a home opener t-shirt and were paid a visit by the lovely Rockets dancers. Marc and Jesse took pictures with them while Jessica and I dove in to the dessert bar that stopped at our room!


Tuesday, March 23, 2010

HEY AGAIN!

I haven't blogged in months and I feel terrible about it. Law school doesn't allow me to do anything more than facebook and tweet but I will try to keep up with it from now on. Here are a few highlights since last summer:
  • Jesse and I are still working on our alphabet dating. I will update soon about our dates since then.
  • Law school has taken over my life. Everyone says it's hard but you really don't realize how much work/reading there is until you're there. If you want to go to law school: don't go unless you're ready to spend all of your days and nights studying and writing!
  • My niece Caleigh is now 10 months and she is brilliant! She can already say "Jackie".
  • I have made a lot of great friends in law school. Whoever said everyone was vicious and competitive was wrong.
  • I got really into working out and then stopped because I had some weird illness last month that is now going away...I had it for about a month.
  • I have a clerkship this summer! I don't suck at life!
  • I still miss Baylor terribly! Speaking of...

TWO MAJOR THINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST BAYLOR MONTHS THAT I WISH WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WHILE I WAS A STUDENT, RATHER THAN AN ALUM:

#1 BAYLOR MENS AND WOMENS BASKETBALL ARE IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT AND KICKING BUTT!


This is LaceDarius Dunn. I like to believe that we are best friends.

I have several brackets and I only picked Baylor going to the championship game in one of them. I'm sure we'll at least make it to the Elite Eight. I have tickets for the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 - they're both here in Houston at Reliant Stadium. It will be weird to see Reliant set up as a basketball court rather than the Texans field or the rodeo dirt that was there the last couple of weeks. A lot of my friends from Baylor are driving in for the game(s) so I'm super excited to see them!

#2 Kappa Alpha Theta (my sorority) made Pigskin!!!




Every year Baylor greeks participate in the second largest off Broadway production in the country. It sounds a bit crazy when people hear that every fraternity and sorority practice everyday starting the first day of school in the Spring semester for 4 hours! Judges are flown in that are experts in dance/theater/vocals and judge the groups during each performance. The groups perform two weekends, Thursday - Saturday. The top 8 acts get to perform during Homecoming Weekend in the Fall in a short version of Sing called Pigskin.

Theta made it this year! (for the first time in 3 years!!!) Their theme was "Ring by Spring" and was a satirical view of a young freshman looking for love. So cute! I'm so proud of Theta! I can't wait to see what the girls stir up next Spring.



The next post will be an ABC dating update and a sequence of pictures from the months since I've been in law school.

SIC'EM BEARS!

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Kate da Kat Lady

(Tommy sleeping on Kate's cases for her final memo, Fall 2009)

Tommy & Kate: A Haiku

Kate's cat is Tommy.
Tommy eats chicken at night;
Kate wakes up and yells.