Happy Birthday!!

My feelings about my husband are best said in a song that I have loved since I was younger . . .

It’s amazing how you can speak right to my heart

Without saying a word, you can light up the dark

try as I may I could never define

what's being said between your heart and mine

the smile on your face lets me know that you need me

there's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me

the touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall

you say it best, when you say nothing at all . . .

Happy Birthday to the man that I adore. To the man that has taught me so much about life and about myself. To the man who is constantly pushing me to follow my dreams, and doesn't think twice about doing everything to help me along the way. To the man who works so hard to provide for our family. I love you baby, and I can't imagine my life without you, so glad you were born 28 years ago, that is definitely an event to celebrate!

What I missed the most while I was in Spain

This sweet cuddly stinker:

And I think he missed me too (sorry it is sideways, such is life with an Iphone):

You also got to see a little preview of the little snot D'artagnan can be. Yes he was making sure Artemis did not get to say hello to me until he was done :)

Spain Sunday: Chris and I

Chris and I has so much fun galavanting around Spain. It really was a great vacation for us. We got some much needed relaxing and spontaneous adventuring time. Unfortunately, since I am a very untrusting person, I never felt comfortable handing my camera over for someone to take our picture so the only ones we have are those "high school" take a picture of yourself ones. I think they turned out pretty cute though.

Tourist bus in Zaragoza

Barcelona

Tourist Bus in Barcelona

The Sagrada Familia

Barcelona

Bed and Breakfast in Jatavia

At the Alhambra

I can't wait for our next adventure together!

Stay tuned for next week's Spain Sunday Post, my favorite sites!

because people have been asking . . .

Not because I am full of myself and think that you are all so interested in my hair, but I have been getting a lot of questions lately about it. Is it naturally curly, did you get a perm, etc . . . I think this is probably because I've been wearing it in different ways lately, but anyways. All that to say:

Here it is, my hair in all of its natural air dried glory:

A close up so you can really see the frizz:

So I have two options, take the sort of waves and gel them into somewhat of curls, or straighten the heck out of it to remove the waves and frizz. Oh the joys of in-between hair!

(on a side note, black is not my natural color, so technically it is not completely natural in these pictures . . .)

This semester

Well this semester is going to be a crazy one. My schedule isn't so bad:

Monday:

• Agency from 9-11
• Constitutional Law from 12-1
• Evidence from 3-4

Tuesday

• Work from 12-1:30

Wednesday

• Agency from 9-10
• Work from 11-1:30
• Evidence from 2-4

Thursday

• Professional Responsibility from 2-4

FRiday

• Professional Responsibility from 2-3

Doesn't seem so bad right? Well throw in Law Review and that is when things get a little more messy. For Law Review I have to right a 50 page research paper that is due on November 1 (with various deadlines for drafts inbetween.) I also spend about 5-7 hours a week editing an article that we are going to publish in our journal. On top of that I need to fit in 15 more hours of helping the editors do the various other tasks for the journal (finding sources, final editing, putting together the issue).

All of that keeps me busy, but I am still on the same type of schedule as last year. Study and School during the day, take a break for working out and eating dinner, study a bit more at night and continue the next day. I still take saturdays off and study on sundays.

What will change all of this is if I get the job I had an interview for last week. I interviewed at the Minnesota Attorney General's office to be a law clerk. Now it is kind of a long shot because I think they are looking for an older student, and I think I didn't do so well on the writing portion of the interview. But if I do get it, I will for sure take it because it is such a great opportunity. It would make my schedule a lot more crazy, but I think it would be worth it. But I will deal with that if it comes . . .

Spain Sunday: San Sebastian

My first weekend in Spain was spent in San Sebastian. I went with my roommates Cassie and Anne. We really had a blast despite the rain on our first day.

The tapas in San Sebastian were the best food I had during my whole time in Spain. Tapas are like small appetizers that are for munching. In Spain they have bars that just make tapas and it is definitely a staple food to them. A tapa can be anything from a spinach and egg soufflé type thing to a salmon or sardine mix on bread. In San Sebastian they set all of the tapas out on the counter and you can pick the ones that you want. I liked this because I could see what I was getting rather than ordering blindly from a menu.

After our eating tapas we wondered around the port and ran across this free concert (it was starting at midnight to give you an idea about what a different time schedule Spain is on) They played traditional Bosque music and every song seemed to have an Irish jig type dance that went along with it that the whole audience would start doing. It was fun to watch, and try and learn, all of the dances!

The next day we were planning on lazing around the beach all day, but unfortunately for us, it rained all day. We attempted the beach, but after we ate our breakfast we realized it was not going to work. So we went shopping

Then Anne and I decided to try and climb the hill up the trail that led to the Jesus statute. It was supposed to have a great view of San Sebastian, so we thought it would be fun. Little did we know that once you are on the hill you cannot see Jesus and so you have no idea which way to go. It ended up being a fun adventure that included MANY small stair cases and quite a few, "Donde esta Jesus" questions. It was really fun!

And there were some great views

And we eventually found Jesus

That night we did more tapas and went to this hole in the wall mussel place that was AMAZING (this from a girl who doesn't usually like seafood). There were no tables and the place was packed, we were like sardines in a can, but once we eventually reached the counter we got to make our order and eat it on the counter, it was quite the experience.

Here we are at the tapas bar

The next day the sun came out for us and we got our lazy day at the beach before we headed back to Salamanca (or in Cassie's case to Madrid to catch her flight home, it was sad to see her go!)

Stay tuned for next week's Spain Sunday post about Chris and I.

You know law school has begun when . . .

• you have no time to just "chill" anymore
• you schedule every moment of your day so as to fit it all in, yes this includes a shower (tmi, i know)
• you spend friday afternoons in you study carrel at the library
• you think that tuesday is friday because you could not possibly fit anymore into your brain that week
• you have a crabby attitude because you spent 5 weeks on vacation and your brain liked that better
• you spend more time with your citation bluebook than with your husband

Here's to hoping for a better week next week . . . and hopefully I will get more Spain pictures up then as well!

wishing I was still here . .