Introducing.....

Elizabeth Anne Smith, Esq.!

Ok, yes that is just me... and yes that is a picture of me from a while ago... and you may not think that this is anything special, but I am now an Esquire.  That's right folks, I passed the NJ bar exam and am official a lawyer and can put Esq. after my name!!  I can't even begin to tell you how relieved I am to have passed and to now be able to focus on finding a job in NJ.  As some of you may already know, when I found out I did not pass Delaware I was pretty down in the dumps and had a hard time rebounding from it because well, I studied my butt off and was really disappointed in myself for not passing.  I can now say that although I am still disappointed about Delaware, I am absolutely, positively ecstatic about passing NJ.  I am seriously floating on cloud 9 right now!

My New Car

I also recently leased a new car as my old car all but died on me and was not in a drivable condition.  This is a picture of my brand new, shiny 2011 Jetta :)  I need to figure out a name for her (or him?) but nothing has come to me just  yet... suggestions are more than welcome!  I am seriously in love with the fact that I no longer have to worry about whether or not my car will break down when I'm trying to get to work, go to the grocery store, get gas, etc.  For the first time in years I really don't have to worry about my car breaking on me and it feels great!

That's about all that is new in my life.  I know I've been completely MIA from the blogging world these past two weeks, but I've been working an insane amount trying to save up money now that I have a car payment to worry about... plus I've been on the hunt for a lawyer job, so I've been super busy.  BUT now that I know I passed the NJ bar exam and I have my lease payment covered for next month I can try to get back in to the wonderful world of blogging!

Silly Blogger...but Happy Friday!

So I had this great idea yesterday for a post, but this post included some pictures and silly blogger wouldn't let me upload any pics to my blog yesterday so I decided not to post because well the pictures make the post.  I don't want to share too much about it here, because well since I've been kinda slacking with my post writing I've decided to make up my own little series for Thursday so that at least I'll be posting once a week at minimum.  So stay tuned for yesterday's post that I guess I will be posting next Thursday or whenever blogger decides to let me upload pics again, which it is still not letting me do today.  Btw, if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this not being able to upload pics thing, help would be much appreciated!

Anyway, Happy Friday!!!  I have another day of work at Fridays ahead of me tonight, but then it's back home to North Jersey to go to the eye doctor (yuck!) and to have my dad help me look for and maybe buy or lease a new car. For anyone who knows me you know that my car is 11 years old (going on 12) has approximately 170,000 miles on it, and is now starting to fall apart every chance it gets.  I know I can't really afford a new car right now, but I'm going to have to make it work somehow because I don't feel safe driving in my car anymore and rather than spend all the money that needs to go into fixing it so I feel safe, it's probably easier to just buy (or lease) a new car.  Right now I'm looking at the VW Jetta, VW Tiguan, Nissan Rogue, and Ford Edge... not really sure which one I like best, but hopefully after test driving them I'll have a better idea of what I'm looking for.  So it should be an interesting weekend to say the least!