life is just insane

so i have made a decent attempt this summer to try to remain social during the month of june because i know that july awaits me with a month full of hermiting and solitude. but i must say, this social butterfly/bar study/working thing has really made me tired. not to mention that i thought it would be a good idea to go and workout this morning before bar review so i could study all afternoon and now all i can think about is a nap...but alas, after i post this and eat my lunch it is bar review time until 6:30 when i meet one of the loves of my life, ms. keegan, for dinner (seriously, don't know where she has been all my life). yes, no time to stop now kids.

my mom actually sent me this email today about this stress presentation she went to. this speaker rates stress on this scale: 0-4 are things that can be displaced by anything that comes along, 5-7 is where we have to be in order to be productive, and 8-10 is where we choose to either be pushed to high production or allow the situation to control us. at the end of the email, she told me to use my level 8-10 stress and be pushed to high production...easier said then done.

but i think jessica simpson giving me this purse as a reward at pushing my stress to produce highly would make it easier...

it's not easy being green...

i think i just fell in love with these shoes...
i have a tiny obsession with green.

domestic goodness

when i was growing up i never thought i'd want to learn to cook. this partially stemmed from my huge tomboyness and disdain for all things "girl." yet, as i am sure happens with most girls, you start to get the domestic "itch."

last year, when i was having a particularly bad week, the best mom in the world (mine) surprised me with a subscription to rachel ray's magazine (love her). over the summer, the boy and i tried to cook meals from the magazine or other recipe books once a week. and at the gym, you can usually find me watching the food network on the treadmill (b/c that makes sense...).

i started to design my dream green kitchen in my head last semester while i was bored in admin law class. for graduation, my mom purchased me my own cute little green tea pot (which i will not drink green tea out of...yuck). it looks so cute in the little apartment.... now i just need someone to purchase me my green kitchen aid mixer...any takers?

p.s. if you look closely enough in my teapot picture, you will see my favorite gift from my alaskan "brother" mandy. it has a lumberjack on it to remind me of a very special breakfast which led mandy to coin the best word ever: "fantasty."