the -ings of sunday

I am currently:
Listening - to Bon Iver. On Spotify, which is amazing if you haven't downloaded it yet. It's basically itunes for free!

Eating - leftover Little Caesar's $5 hot and ready. we have no food. jealous?
Drinking - lots of water and OJ. I've been sick for a week!!
Reading - the second Game of Thrones book. It's gettin good. Really good.

Feeling - besides intense sinus pressure, pretty anxious, confused, and depressed about the job market for lawyers and where I'll end up
Wanting - to get healthy so I can get stuff done! and to finally see harry potter. :)
Needing - a VACUUM!!!!!!!! We have 3 vacuums in our garage - all broken. And Shamus has become a shedding machine this summer. Deee-sgusting. I'm breathing black dog hair. Anybody got an extra? I guess I could craigslist a temporary cheapo before we take the plunge into Dyson-land.
Enjoying - time off. It's bittersweet, since I want a job so badly, but I can't forget it's still time off to relax and try to do some things for me. (like get back into exercising :)
Laughing - at these adorable, hysterical pictures of Taylor dog-whispering! My sister Lisa and her dog Gertie are in town, so Shamus got to go over to my parents yesterday to sexually harass play with her. Gus of course didn't join in on the fun but Taylor did manage to get them all to sit in perfect formation in front of him! <this is me dying of delight>

 my two favorite aussies!

breaking news in gummy vitamins

I am a huge fan of the adult gummy multi-vitamin. Unlike their large, difficult to swallow, pill-form predecessor, they are delicious and easy to remember. (I never forget my daily free candy).

Now, of course, there are a wide variety of options to choose from. You can go for the brand names which are great, and even have sour patch kid-like varieties, or you can save some $$ with some generics.

Target's Up & Up? Wonderful. A+.

Costco's Vitafusion? Same. A+.

But consider yourself warned, CVS's are just disgusting. They taste like robitussin, very medicine-ish rather than delightful candy snack. I'm clearly upset. D-.

So the moral of this pointless post is take your vitamins, and even though CVS is selling these things buy one get one free right now, don't get suckered in. Not all off-brands are alike!

hi there!

I really don't have much to blog about, I'm just hanging out at home job searching. I find out if I passed the bar on September 13th, yikes!! I'm not sure if I'll be able to get a job before then, but here's hoping.

Oh...I must mention Pinterest. I am addicted. I am an addict. I can't stop!!! Join pinterest.com and experience the magic! Haha. Seriously. My dad the other night goes: "so is it like the beanie babies of 2011?" At first I really thought he was asking if it was some sort of website that sells cute stuffed animals, but I guess he meant: is it the new thing you and your friends are going to be psychotically obsessed with? So I answered affirmatively.

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but pinterest is for grown ups and doesn't require my 12 year old self to have every hallmark retail store within a 20 mile radius' phone number memorized to call each tuesday morning and ask if a new shipment came in. 

some updates

1. i forgot to mention the fact that my sister amy is living with us this summer! she has an accounting internship at kpmg downtown so she's working long hours and our house is a lot closer than mom and dad's. and we're like, totally, like, fun. (noooootttt.....i'm in a terrible mood constantly b/c of the bar, but i do get in a number of study breaks with amy playing our favorite game, rummikub!!)

here she is bonding with our huge lapdog:

2. taylor got the soccer coaching job!! he starts camp this coming saturday, and the season starts in august. he'll be coaching c-team boys at shawnee mission northwest. i am so, so happy for him, i know he'll love it and put everything he has and more into being a great coach for the kids. a big piece of him has been missing ever since his knee injury(ies), so i'm glad soccer is back in his life!

exhibits a,b,c,&d - showing the progression of taylor's soccer studliness:

 so cute!

bahahahahaha!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! (please don't kill me babe!)

3. as most of you are probably well aware, i have gained 20+ pounds since my wedding. not good. the stress of the final year of law school and not having 'something' to lose weight for (aka what the wedding used to be) really hurt me and got me to a place i never should have.
but...i'm working really hard to eat right and get back into exercising and i've lost 5, so i'm on my way. it's also really good to work out during bar study for mental health purposes, so even though it's taking time away from studying, it'll ultimately make me do better.

4. i got my diploma! it's huge and awesome. (sorry about the bad pic, i figured i'll whip out the big boy camera once it gets framed)

i miss everyone mucho!! xoxo - molly

unwanted blog break

thought i'd check in real quick and let you know why i'm not blogging.
here are a few phone pics (this stuff is not even close to worthy of being captured on a real camera) of bar prep.

the bar exam is in jeff city on july 26 and 27th...until then, i go to class every morning from 9-12:30, then most other days i also have class from 1:30-4:30, and then i come home and do practice essays to submit to graders, and practice essays to have conferences with teachers about, and make flashcards, and read for the next day!

see you in august :)

graduation and mother's day

I'm DONE! Actually done! On graduation day, I still had my R&W to finish....so I didn't exactly have that 100% feeling of accomplishment, even though I was still receiving my degree.

Bill and Cookie (my in laws) came up from Texas to celebrate the big day - on Friday night we we had italian food, cake and ice cream at our house:

then Mom, Cookie and I got pedicures on Saturday morning, followed by a great BBQ lunch from RJ's, then headed down to school to get pics before the ceremony since we had to turn in our *hot* (literally and figuratively) rented gowns immediately afterwards. Yay. Gotta love pictures. I look so awkward...I need to work on my "mom, please hurry" smile. Or I could work on my patience.

this picture is hysterical. no one can figure out the darned hood!!

Amy, I wish we could have found someone to take this pic so you could be in it! Also, I look like a football player.

My three best friends from school : Courtney, Nancy and Maggie. We all got to sit by each other during the ceremony and my family happened to be sitting right behind us!

I did it! And no, that purple thing around my neck is not a last minute scarf I threw on, it's my hood, choking me :). You carry your hood up to the stage and then the dean "hoods" you before you receive your diploma. This is all very surreal looking at these pictures. I can't believe it's actually over!

After gradumacation, we went to BRGR for dinner, and even though I fell out of the car when we got home and skinned my knee like a second grader, it was a great night! 

The next day was mother's day, and it was the first time in six or seven years that Cookie was with one of her sons on mother's day, so it was pretty special! Great brunch at First Watch, dog park, and then over to my parents house for dinner. De-lish.

Taylor and the ladies of honor - our moms. :)

The pictures I took of the whole meal are not good, but hey, I got one pretty one of the veggies! Hahaha.....random way to finish this post off, but there you go! Sorry for being blog absent for so long, it's been so busy, but I will be back soon! xoxo - Molly Hartley , J.D. 

:)

almost there....

I graduate in eight days, but before then I have a take home final to write, two other finals next week, an R&W to re-write (only 30 pages), a couple pounds to lose to fit into a graduation dress, and a bar exam application to get notarized, order a duplicate of my lost birth certificate to include, order a cashiers check for, and mail in.

I'm trying to stay on top of it all, but I might combust.

However, I have a really exciting post regarding Taylor, I just have to get my scanner to work because it won't be the same without some fun pictures! (Ok I have to spill it now though - he's interviewing as we speak to coach soccer at Shawnee Mission Northwest! My high school!!)

More to come...