I'm alive. Promise.

This is the first time in MONTHS that I've looked at my blog. And now that I've seen it, I'm realizing how much I've missed it!

[PS: DO I REALLY STILL HAVE HALLOWEEN WALLPAPER? You don't even know how excited I was to change my blog background for all the holidays, and then I totally just missed them. At least there's Valentine's coming up.]

[PSS: I'm typing this from work because I seriously need at least a 30 minute break or I'm going to lose it. It's been nonstop lately.]

So my last post was in November, the day after bar results were released (remember how fun THAT ordeal was?). Work may be crazy/tiresome/stressful, but a bad/terrible/awful day at work beats the best/delightful/easiest days of Barbri. Kind of.

I guess the best way to pretend this blog hiatus of mine never happened is to just pretend it didn't. So here's a quick recap of what's been happening the past three months, then consider us all caught up:

1. I pretty much work Monday through Friday from 9AM to 7PM and the occasional weekend. November and December were manageable; stressful at times but never out of control. January, however, different story. The firm wasn't kidding when they said we'll get busy when the new year starts. All I want to do is get in bed before 9PM without some sort of work product in my hand. I can't even tell you the last time that happened. A long time ago. Long long ago.

2. My dog is recovering well from her back surgery. She can walk!!!! Sort of. You can definitely tell there's something wrong; she stumbles a lot. Her legs often drag. But she gets around. It's better than what we thought was going to happen (first, she was going to die; and then second, if she lived, she'd never be able to use her back legs again).

3. My husband is fantastic. Like SERIOUSLY. You don't even know what he has to deal with.  He even took down all the Christmas decorations by himself JUST THIS PAST WEEKEND (while I was billing 10 hours at the office on a Saturday, ahem). But, yea, I am a terrible wife. I left the Christmas tree up for a month. And if it weren't for my fabulous husband, we'd still have our Christmas tree up for Superbowl.

4. We went to Vegas for NYE. It was the most fun NYE and the most fun trip to Vegas I've ever had. We'll probably end up going back sometime in February. One thing I've learned with work: The only way to get away is to literally LEAVE TOWN. And I think billing 200+ hours a month calls for frequent vacations. So there's that.

5. Our one-year wedding anniversay is in April. Don't even ask how it's already been a year. I can't tell you. We're also planning some magical getaway, preferably for a whole week, but I'm thinking it may just be a long four or five day weekend.

And that wraps up the past three minutes. Well, also, Christmas was awesome. But DUH. It's Christmas.