Freedom!

See ya in February!

     I am SO excited to announce that I am FINALLY finished grading the July 2010 bar exam. Every year it seems that grading becomes more taxing than the last, but then I change my tune when I receive the nice check at the end. In past years, I deposited the checks into my house savings account.

     From now on, this well-earned cash will be applied toward my share of our property taxes. Jim and I got a sneak preview of our property/school tax bill this weekend courtesy of a new Times Union database -- ouch! Either the real estate broker was citing old numbers when we first considered buying this property in 2009, or he was completely sugarcoating it. Either way, we're on the hook now and are looking forward to moving in sometime next month.

     Now that this monumental task is over, my readers can look forward to more frequent and interesting (I hope) blog posts. In the coming days, I plan to devote some posts to my love of travel and our most recent trips. I will also be spending some time catching up on my guilty pleasures -- watching episodes of Gossip Girl that I missed and reading US Weekly.

     On that note, did you hear that Courteney Cox and David Arquette's marriage officially ended this weekend?  Does it bother you that 11-years is considered a "long-term" marriage these days?