Legally Wandering Jen

             I’ve always hated Halloween.   It had been seven years since my real reason for hating it, but this year still didn’t stop the haunting memories.   On October 31, 2017, I wandered around shops and restaurants on my last day of my first true vacation since I had graduated law school.   My life had been consumed with work and doing what everyone else expected of me.   I couldn’t remember the last thing I had done because I wanted to do it, until I went on this trip.   I felt cool, calm, and collected.   Actually, I felt the best I had felt since that horrid Halloween weekend in 2010.                I purposely chose to take a red eye back to San Diego on Halloween night so that I could avoid the costumes and activities surrounding the holiday that brought back so many feelings of dread.   I arrived at the airport early to avoid the expected ten-fif...

I'll go ahead and admit that I've been a horrible blogger recently.  Starting a new job has been really stressful, but I'm happy to say that I love my job.  I think its a really great fit for me and its such a great change from law school.  Plus its really helped me to get out of my comfort zone by having to answer the phones and deal with people who aren't always the nicest.  For the first time in my life, I finally feel like I've started a new path doing something I like rather than doing something that is just teaching me what I don't want to spend my life doing :) Anyway, now that I'm getting used to my new routine, I should be back to blogging more.  I figured the best way to celebrate my return to the blogging world would be to do a much belated review of September's Birchbox! For those of you who are unfamiliar with  Birchbox , it is a monthly subscription service that typically sends you 4-5 samples of beauty products for only $10...

I'm so excited to have had such a great first day of work that I can't help but feel like I need to keep doing things so I thought this evening would be a perfect time to blog!  I love being a productive member of society again plus it kind of helped that the building I work in had a customer appreciation day today so I got a free ice cream bar :)  There was also a moment where I had gotten so into filling out today's date with paper work that it was my birthday today!  Free ice cream + fake birthdays = a perfect tuesday. Anyway, yesterday morning I got a mysterious FedEx package with no note and just two packages of ChapStick in it!  I was extremely confused until I remembered that last week,  Birchbox  sent out an email with a contest for 100 Birchbloggers to win a set of Hydration Lock lip balms.  You had to tweet which one you were interested in trying and Birchbox was supposed to notify winners by email.  I never received an email s...