Christmas in Mexico

We are back from Mexico. It was fun and very warm (so happy about that). The only problem was travelling home. I will finish this post later because we have been travelling for 30 hours thanks to Frontier Airlines. Off to bed for us.

Christmas Tree Cookies

Robert and I have started Christmas baking. It just wouldn't be Christmas without cream cheese brownies, magic cookie bars, sugar cookies, and of course Christmas Tree Cookies. Cream cheese brownies and magic cookie bars come my mom's side of the family, and sugar cookies and Christmas Tree Cookies come from my dad's side of the family. We have these every year without fail. My mom was great and always let us help even though it would have been easier and faster to just do it herself. Grandma Duffy has the best sugar cookie recipe. Jan and Ann gave it to me at the family shower. Our family has never found a better one. The cookies stay nice and soft for days afterwards and they are yummy.

Christmas Tree Cookies are good but can be a chore to make. You need a cookie press and the one my mom (and hence the kids) used was one that you had to screw down and then you had to bend over and check the bottom of the cookie press to see how much dough was coming out. Grandma Duffy bought a cookie press for my parents when they got married and taught my mom how to make them. Robert and I received a cookie press for our wedding and I decided to make the cookies today after we came home at seven from studying for the final. I was prepared for a long night of baking when, lo and behold, I was done and my kitchen cleaned in less than an hour. The reason? My cookie press is totally awesome. It has a hand trigger that you squeeze and it doles out the perfect amount or dough, no twisting the handle or having to crane you neck to get the job done. I was shocked. I called my parents and they said "no fair, Christmas Tree Cookies are supposed to be a chore." They used to be but not anymore. Thank you Crate and Barrel for making a totally awesome cookie press. Now, onto more finals. sigh.

Death to Finals!

Finals are almost done. We have one left tomorrow and then we are done and free until next semester. My computer crashed during our business associations final. Thanks computer, really, you shouldn't have. So I had to grad a bluebook and finish my final by hand while everyone else had their computers. Robert saw what happened but he couldn't do anything about it. They were able to get most of my computer final off of my backup final, but I lost about twenty minutes of my final (bad grade here we come, oh goody). We had Professional Responsibility on Friday, it was a normal final. We went to dinner and ice cream with some of out law school friends and it was great to be able to see them all outside of school.

Monday we had Geek Night 2. It all started with a movie that we had to watch for one of out classes. The Ellises, Smiths, and us all had the same class and decided to watch it together to get it done (there was a question on the final that asked if we had watched it this semester). We started playing video games and then we organized an official Geek Night for the following week. We are all geeks/nerds by default because if you are in law school you are a nerd. It's a fact. So we had another one. We had the Shills and Jackie come and it was so much fun. We just bring snacks and play a ton of video games, including the original Nintendo. So we had a little break and even some fun during crazy, stressful finals.

We're Back

Sooooo it's been a while. Before I get flamed there was Thanksgiving, and then one week before finals started. We have four finals in four days this week and it sucks (sorry for the language but it really does). We had evidence yesterday and the test was so hard it sucked out my will to live. I walked out of there convinced that I failed it. Well, everyone else thinks that they failed it too so with the curve I may be okay. We had trusts today and both Robert and I feel that we did well. Business Associations is tomorrow. It has been our least favorite class and it appears that the final won't disappoint. Friday is Professional Responsibility and then we will be done until next Thursday when we had Real Estate Finance.

My Visiting Teacher is so awesome she found out about our crazy schedule and brought us dinner tonight. Well, this was my study break so back to un-fun stuff.