BIG NEWS!!

No, we're not pregnant (unfortunately)... You always have to clear up that one right off the bat since that's typically the first thing that people think of when you say you have big news. No, but I got my results from the bar this weekend, and I passed!! And I don't usually use multiple exclamation points, so this is big, as you can tell from the previous sentence and the title. I realized a week or so ago that I haven't posted anything for a few weeks ago, but I feel lame doing a post when nothing has really happened, especially since we don't have kids and I can rarely think of interesting things to post. So since something big and exciting has happened, I feel justified in posting my good news. Anyway, back to the story at hand, we went to my parents' house this weekend. When we got back on Sunday, there was an envelope from the Utah State Bar in our mailbox. I was a little nervous--98% excited, 2% scared, or maybe 2% excited, 98% scared (name that movie...). I kind of wanted to tear it open right there in the drive way, but being the incredibly self-restrained person that I am, I calmly walked into the house and sat down on the couch for a few minutes until I was absolutely sure that I wanted to open it. Lucky for me, they don't play around with you, and the first sentence was "Dear Ms. Lucas: On behalf of the Utah State Bar...I am pleased to inform you that you have passed the February 2008 Utah State Bar Examination." Woo Hoo! I almost stopped reading out of pure joy, but it was a good thing that I didn't since the next sentence went on to describe the additional fees that I am now required to pay. By the time I am done with all of the licensing, I will have paid almost one grand just to have the label "attorney at law," so I'm really hoping that it pays off eventually since it won't be paying off this first year of work. So I'm very excited and relieved that I passed and that I will never have to study again (unless we move to another state). Blair tried to tell me yesterday that I passed because I'm smart or some nonsense like that, but I set him straight with the truth, which is that I prayed a lot for the two months leading up to it and then asked almost everyone I knew to pray for me the week I took the bar. So that's the secret, I guess. And now I'll be saying prayers of thanks for the next two months because I totally could not have done this on my own. Yay x3 + sigh of relief!