10 Things: Checking In

1. Finished finals last Thursday, yay!

2. I wrote my last final paper in under two hours while working on an server related incident at work, boo!

3. JT keeps asking me, "How do you spell an?" Yeah, I don't get it either. Of course, he is the king of random these days. His favorite knock knock joke is, "Knock knock? (Who's there?) Pumpkin! (Pumpkin who?) Pumpkin in the head!" Huh?

4. Evie and I are on spring break together and so I took a few days off to do very little of anything. Took the kids to a museum and play ground today and had lunch with some of mommy bloggers I love to read. I was so not worthy, but they were awesome.

5. I bought lunch from this place. If you are ever in Oakland, ohmygodyouneedtotryittheyareSOgood.

6. I got my grades, they were both Bs. At least I tried obviously, not hard enough.

7. I need to seriously start thinking about law school since I'll be applying this fall for next fall. I want to stay local. Unfortunately the law schools that are local or relatively local are Hastings aka Univ. of California, Boalt Hall aka Berkeley, Stanford, and Santa Clara University. In other words, really hard to get into. These Bs aren't helping me any.

8. If it weren't for some amazing people and their support, my grades would have been far worse. My parents are in Vietnam, I can't even begin to thank them or speak of how much their support and almost free babysitting mean to me and this whole endeavor, but I do hope that painting their bathroom this weekend and cleaning up the house before they get back will speak a volume or two.

9. I hugged my dad for the first time in probably twenty five years when I dropped off my parents at the airport when they went on their trip. I normally just hug my mom and say, "bye dad be good"...It was...why didn't I ever do it sooner? He seemed surprised, but we had really talked on the way there, as adults about life and his worries and frustrations. I'll have to come back to this somewhere along the way but it felt so good to just give my dad a hug. He's always been one of those stereotypical hands off, laconic, stoic Asian immigrant fathers and so that hug meant SO much. The best part? He hugged me back and I got to yell at him, "quit yelling at mom dad and have fun!"

10. Another person whose support I would have failed without is my dear hubby J. I haven't hugged him today yet, but he gets one almost every day because he so deserves them. He works so hard and then helps me out when he gets home by occupying the kids for me when I have to study or work late. Sometimes he has to bathe them and put the kids to bed by himself, duties I normally do. He's not perfect with his video game and mac and cheese methods, but hey, he was a latchkey kid and a gamer who likes to wing it. Some people might think that these are things any husband and father would do in similar circumstances, but you know, it never hurts to let the people you love know that every little bit of help is appreciated.

Hope everyone is doing well. Aren't you glad it's spring?