Awards and Waterfalls

Feb 9 - Front door - Well, I didn't take a picture of a front door because all the ones I encountered during the day were so boring. So instead, I went the cheesey route and took this picture at my boyfriend's award ceremony for his super awesome grades. He ended up going back to school a couple years ago and he has done so well and I'm so proud of him! Going back to school can be so hard. So this is just showing "opening the front door" to new opportunities!

Feb 10 - Self portrait - took this during the ride to our little getaway today! 

And just wanted to share some of the sights from today...

Series of photos

So for Feb 5 - 10 AM, I was trying desperately to beat this level. I took awhile.

Feb 6 - Dinner - I was out that night and just completely forgot to snap a shot. I'm bummed because the food looked and tasted yummy, would have been a good pic! But I went and got a pic from the website of the restaurant to show some of what I was having:

Feb 7 - Buttons - These are buttons on a dress that I love:

 

Feb 8 - Sun - It's very warm and nice right now, but lots of clouds too, so I got the sun behind a big cloud.

 

Too Much Vino and Creepiness

I seriously am loving this Feb Photo a Day challenge. 

For Feb 3, hands, I went a little liberal with the word and instead of taking a picture of hands I went with a pic of a wine label...

Bird in Hand is some serious yummy Australian wine. I have been told that this one in particular is served at Wimbledon. Don't quote me on it though. But holy moly what a perfect summer wine. It's a pink wine and so refreshing and crisp! And I may or may not have pretended that I was drinking with Dutchess Catherine as spectators at Wimbledon...

In reality I was alone and watching SVU. Same thing.

So for Feb 4, a stranger, I wasn't really sure what to do with it. I felt uncomfortable asking to take a picture of a stranger which was probably the point of it but I just couldn't. Instead, I took the creepy route and just took a picture as I was driving in the car by the beach...on my Blackberry...I might have even involuntarily slowed down as I was doing. CREEPER ALERT.

Photo a Day Challenge

I am so excited to be doing this! This is such a fabulous idea by Chantelle over at fatmumslim.

I’m late to it though and seeing as I am in Australia, it is already Feb 2. So I’m doing two in one day!

Feb 1 – my view today: the view from my balcony. The mountains in the background are such a beautiful area and rainforest like too!

Feb 2 – words. Here, there’s lots of them in the cases I read for classes. There’s always cases.

The Last Half

So I am currently half way done with my law degree and couldn’t be more excited. You could I say I have the J of my JD.

Not only will it be amazing to finally be done with school, but it will also probably be good for my health. I am a person that stresses a lot! So this semester I am trying some new things to maybe help out with my stress, including being more organized. (Sidenote: started the year off not so great by leaving my KEYS in the US, good job Katy).

I started first with getting two new books from Maybooks. O my gosh, I love them! They’re both my first purchases from them and I am so happy I got them. I love the size of them in particular. I got one weekly agenda and one regular.

I also wanted to spruce up the way I organize things. I won’t even lie, I have always thought it to be very silly that people get expensive cutesy folders when you get much more regular ones for the same price. But, I changed my mind. To help brighten my days, I invested in some super cute Lilly folders:

Law school can really run you down with all its work, but these bright and fun patterned colors just make the day better! Seriously! I got mine at a store in Atlanta but I also just found them online here.

I also invested in some cute Lilly notepads to make my task lists a little more exciting:

And last, I FINALLY got a wireless mouse. I spend a lot of time on my computer and I get real sick of using the little touchpad. After checking out some of the more expensive ones, I ended up with a $20 Jenkins one. I searched for them and they may only be available in Australia but I love that they come in fun colors. I chose the bright green:

Give away at College Prep

Carly at College Prep is having a giveaway for this super cute planner for 2012 from Elle & Em

 The Inside!

 The Cover

I would definitely get a lot of use out of one of these. Head over to College Prep to enter. Or if you just want to go ahead and buy one yourself, get one from Elle & Em

Speaking of 2012, what are y'all most excited about for the new year?

Aussie Thanksgiving

This is my second Thanksgiving in Australia and this time it was much harder for me to be away from my family. Thanksgiving is very big in my family, it's an event everyone looks forward to all year. However, I did get to FaceTime with the whole clan and that made me really happy!

But, my Thanksgiving was still awesome! It was just Mr. Aussie and I but it was perfect. I spent the whole day making food:

 

WAY too much food for two people. Needless to say, we’ll be having leftovers for awhile!
And because it’s Thanksgiving, I am thankful for (in no particular order):
1. My family
2. Mr. Aussie
3. My friends
4. The fact that I’m in law school (I know, I’m insane. But I am very thankful for these kind of opportunities in my life.)
5. My dog
6. Just life in general.