Workaholic Weekend

Yay for my new blog layout!  Same title, of course... all about the HEART. :)

So I'm on lunch break in the middle of my first murder jury trial... (we're still on jury voir dire, which is my least favorite thing as a court reporter.  If you're ever called to jury duty, by all means, SPEAK UP.)  Anyway, I brought a PBJ for lunch, and I decided to blog for a minute.  It's been an intense week.  The only "new" or out of my usual routine thing to report is working ridiculous hours through the entire weekend.  My mom came up on Thursday and stayed with me to proofread the case as I scoped it (700 page transcript that the attorneys needed quickly and didn't mention until last week.)  I'm thankful for the money, and with mom and tons of junk food to keep me company, it really wasn't all that bad.  But we were here at the courthouse till at least 11 every night... it took much longer than I anticipated.  My mom is awesome and I'm so grateful for all her help!  Apparently, I was way too optimistic when I thought we could finish by Friday. lol  Also, I truly don't understand how anyone works like that on a regular basis.  Yikes.

In better news, my BFF, Malori Riah officially passed the Bar exam!  (Picture is of her law school graduation, but still, kinda appropriate.)  I watched the website closely, then left a congrats voicemail on her work phone that morning, which is apparently how she found out, so yay!  I'm really glad, for me and for her, that she doesn't have to go through the intense studying ever again... very exciting!!

Other than work being intense, Bobbi, Natalie, and I went running at LaFortune again Saturday morning.  So refreshing after sitting for so long.  I honestly really enjoyed it, and have decided that I prefer LaFortune to Riverside.  I know there are more hills, but there's also the golf course, tennis courts, park, and plenty of things around to take your mind off the running. lol  And for obvious reasons, I enjoy a smaller crowd more than the full running group.  And while running and talking, I've decided I wanna play golf and tennis again sometime soon!  Yay!!

I also took a break on Saturday night to go to Jay's B-Day party.  I gotta say, I don't see the appeal of Incredible Pizza when you're not going with young children, but as Bobbi told Chet about the Wanda's cake, "This is Jay's day!"  I did have a lot of fun at Jeff's house afterwards.  There were 4 cakes and lots of great friends and several new people, so that's always good times.  Also awesome because I got to hang out with Chet Lee, one of my favorite people ever, who I've missed lately.  Hooray for him graduating next month and having more time to be social!  (;  [that's a "sad wink," according to Chet - lol]  Natalie came again and joined us for "the Van."  I was tired from the above-mentioned workaholic schedule, so I didn't stay very long.  But I did get in on one 'ghetto dance,' and the lonnnnngest-version-ever of the Electric Slide!

Mom and I went to Battle Creek on Sunday, and the sermon was something I really needed to hear.  I plan to write a more in depth blog on that later, but anyway, thankful for TCABC!  God is good!!  Now, back to work...