Wimberley Wisdom...

Getting Back To Blogging

2010-03-02T14:25:00.000-08:00

Well, it's clearly been a while since I have posted to my blog. Mainly because life happened, and frankly I forgot my blog existed. Starting now I am hoping to get in the habit of daily updates (and sometimes daily venting) in an attempt to keep others updated, as well as something for me to reflect on.

As of now Isaac and I are both full-time students. Isaac is getting his Master's in Athletic Training at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and I am still working on getting my J.D. at the Law School. We will both graduate in May 2011 with high (although possibly unrealistic) hopes for jobs. Isaac is currently working on sending out applications to most of the NFL teams for their athletic training internship program. He would of course prefer to work for the Dallas Cowboys (as any true Texan would) but who would turn down an opportunity to work for any NFL team? I have accepted an internship with the Harris County District Attorney's Office in Houston and am very excited. What an awesome opportunity it is going to be!

I have also recently been elected as Executive Symposium Editor for the Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal at school. Each year we hold a continuing legal education seminar which licensed attorney's attend in order to keep their license current. I am in charge of setting up and planning the 2011 seminar. This will be a great opportunity for me to get to know people in the Probate world and (details still in the works) comes with a scholarship for next year. It has been rumored that a full-tuition scholarship may be possible but nothing is final yet. This is such a great blessing to us and a wonderful opportunity for me and I look forward to what the year has in store.

Spring break is quickly approaching (thank goodness!) and we are looking forward to some time off from school. Both of our birthdays are that week and Isaac's parents are sending us on a mini vacation to a bed-and-breakfast! We are also hoping to go to Amarillo for a few days and spend some time with his family since we haven't gotten to see them since Christmas! (Back to the birthdays for a few minutes. I can't believe how old I (ok, we) are getting. Isaac will be 25 and I will be 24 this year. And we have been married for going on 3 years now.)

Needless to say, life has been crazy and wonderful journey over the last year. I am so excited to get back to blogging so that next year I can look back over this year and see what God has done for us!!!

A Month Under My Belt

2008-09-13T06:15:00.000-07:00

So, school has been in for a month now, and I am loving every minute of it. Thats all I really know to say, I just haven't had time or energy to write lately so there is my small update to keep you going.

Here we go...

2008-08-16T10:11:00.000-07:00

So, I survived Orientation last week, which really wasn't too bad. And thus far I have survived homework. I have finished two of three classes and have started the third and its only noon on Saturday so that is a good sign. Classes officially start on Monday and right now I am still excited about that. I feel like I am already learning so much. Sorry such a short entry but really all I have time for. Just thought I would keep you up to date!

Boot Camp!

2008-08-12T17:58:00.000-07:00

Well, today I attended a "seminar" of sorts put on by the HLSA (Hispanic Law Student Association) and the BLSA (Black Law Student Association) as sort of a pre-orientation orientation. It was not required but Im so glad I decided to go. It was a chance for me to get to know some people going into orientation so that I would be more relaxed and also a chance to get to know and talk to some of the 2L and 3L students who have been in my position before. We got to ask questions and get a students perspective, no lies, just the flat truth of the matter and what we really need to know going into class. We also got to meet some of the students that will be in our particular section with us (we will have all of our classes together) and talk to some of the students that were in that section last year and have them give us tips and heads up about our specific teachers. That was my favorite part of the day because that was so relevant to exactly what I am walking into. It was very intimidating but I am so glad that I went. Tomorrow begins the actual orientation which will be three days long and then class starts on Monday. Tomorrow I am going to get my books so that I can get my homework done by Monday. Anyway, I am still really nervous but very excited and ready to get started and get into a routine! Wish me luck!

The End is Leading to a New Beginning

2008-08-08T15:01:00.000-07:00

Well, here goes nothing. My last day of work for Dish Network is coming to a close, and Monday I begin my life as a 1st year law student. It's amazing how God continues to bless my life each and everyday. Please pray for me as I begin my journey and help me keep my feet planted firmly on the ground.

It's Almost Over! Yet We're Just Getting Started!

2008-08-06T14:53:00.000-07:00

Well, here I am with only two days left at Dish Network, and I am thrilled! Friday is my last day and I am ready for that day to be here. Isaac is busy working with two-a-day's now with SpringLake Earth and loving being around football again. He's not enjoying the long days and waking up at 6 am but he loves being around highschool sports. I'm trying to get all of the last minute things done before school starts on Wednesday with orientation and am getting really excited about school.

We made a trip to Amarillo this past weekend to visit Isaac's parents and had a lot of fun! We finally got to see their new house which is beautiful. John says it's the same size as the house they had in Claude but I felt as if it was twice as big. It's a really great house for them and great location in Amarillo.

Other than that we are just hanging out enjoying spending time together before we both get into the swing of school. Life is good and we are very blessed!

Amarillo!

2008-07-31T07:00:00.001-07:00

I'm so excited, this weekend we are going to Amarillo to see Isaac's parents one last time before school starts. They actually used to live in a small town about 20 miles east of Amarillo, Claude,TX home of 1300 people. About a month ago (on our anniversary) they actually moved into Amarillo to be closer to work since Lauren graduated high school and is moving to Lubbock this fall. So this will be our first visit to their new house! Isaac is a little sad about not going back to Claude anymore, and thinks it is funny that we are going to have to get directions to his parents house. It will be really nice not to have to drive the 20 miles into town and back again everyday we are there so we can go into Amarillo...we'll already be there! And I'm also really excited because I have a hair appointment with their hairdresser Birdie on Saturday! I need a trim and color soooooooo bad!

Also...I only have 7 days of work left! How awesome is that. But that also means that school is only a week and a half away! Yikes!!! Isaac starts tw0-a-day's on Monday and will have to leave the house everymorning by 6:30 so he can make it to SpringLake in time for practice. Then he will come home and shower and eat and be at NorthStar from 2-5. We are gonna be one busy family, I tell ya! But we are really excited about where God is leading us.

I guess that's really all for now. I'll try to take some pictures this weekend and post them for you! Have a great rest of the week!

Another day...

2008-07-25T18:12:00.000-07:00

So I had another one of those days where I deal with rude people and lose faith in mankind. However today, this one apologized and realized that it was not me personally who was making her life difficult but the difficult company I work for. It gives me hope to realize there are still people in this world that will and do care about the feelings of others. I have been thinking about this alot lately because I just finished reading a book dealing with the very same thing. Francine Rivers, one of my favorite authors, rights Christian books that really get you thinking. This one was called "And the Shofar Blew." It was about a family of believers whose church congregation was dwindling due to age and death, and a young pastor and his family who were called by God to serve and help build the church. As time goes on, the young pastor begins to relish in the power he is given as head of the church and loses sight of everything he has ever believed in, mostly he loses sight of God and begins running all over his family and everyone he loves in his effort to build up his own reputation. In the end, God awakens him and he comes back to the Lord but it really got me thinking. I hate how often we, ok mostly I, forget who I am here to live for. Jesus Christ. I try so hard to make people think that I love God on the outside, and it's not that I don't love Him, I just sometimes forget to include Him in my life and my decisions and thoughts. That's something that is not going to get easier as I enter law school which is drenched in the worldly. I just hope that I can stay focused where I need to focus. On God first, and trust that everything else will fall into place as He has planned it. Pray for me will ya?

Obsession...."So You Think You Can Dance!"

2008-07-25T13:01:00.000-07:00

So I have an obsession. I cannot miss an episode without going crazy. I am also very disappointed in how America is choosing to vote. Over this season, my opinions have changed multiple times as the dancers have grown and come into their own. Right now, Im really rooting for Katee to win, although at first I was very upset when they let her on the show with such a poor attitude. However, I see now that she is the most talented Dancer this season, and possibly that this show has ever seen. Last night was a really hard elimination for me to watch because I didn't believe that either of the guys should have been in the bottom two. I really felt that Mark should have been the one to go even though his personality is my favorite. Dancing wise however, Will is the best guy dancer on the show and I just wish America would have realized it. Will was the whole package...and they blew it by voting him off the show. As far as the girls go. It was time to see comfort go...again! She never should have been let back on in the first place. And as far as Courtney being in the bottom two girls, now it's just down to how the show works. Katee and Chelsea are the two best girls on the show and america realizes that. They need to take a harder look at the guys however and vote better next week. I even took the time to vote this week so as not to lose the ones who deserve to be there. So everyone take the time to watch and vote for the good people!!!!

Getting nervous....will I survive?

2008-07-23T07:03:00.000-07:00

So, orientation starts three weeks from today. That means I only have two and a half weeks left of work!!! But that also makes me nervous because that means school is starting in three and a half weeks and I am just so nervous about it now that it is actually here. I mean, yes this is what I have dreamed about my entire life, but now Im so afraid of failing. What if it's not what I was born to do? Just because its what I want to do does not mean it is what God has planned for me. I guess I just have to hope for the best and keep faith that God has led me where he wants me to be.

Vacation!!!!

2008-07-14T15:04:00.000-07:00

I am so very excited that on Thursday Isaac, Meredith (my sister in law), Blake (my brother in law), and I will be going on a roadtrip/vacation to Dallas! It is a very much needed vacation as Isaac and I have been working so very much lately and haven't had any fun time in a while. It's also my last vacation before I start law school in 3 1/2 weeks! EEK!!! We aren't doing anything to special because we're what you call poor...but we're gonna go to the Dallas Zoo, and the Aquarium, and shopping, lots of shopping because it's my favorite thing to do. And we're gonna go out to eat and nice restaurants that we don't have in Lubbock, because what fun is it to eat at places you eat at everyday when you are on vacation? But anyway, Im so very excited to be getting out of town if only for a short time and will post pictures as soon as I can!

Belated Honeymoon Bliss...

2008-07-04T13:35:00.000-07:00

By belated I mean I'm way late in posting these pictures. In fact we still have a camera from our Honeymoon that has yet to be developed! We're such slackers. Anyway, these are some of my favorite pictures from our honey moon! It was amazing!

The Picture from inside the building...Im not sure why the picture is fuzzy though...

Another fuzzy view from the building.

Hanging out in our room before dinner during the big 4th of July celebration...That's right we celebrated the 4th of July in Jamaica!

Me being my true self, a complete goober at heart!

The newly weds! Aren't we cute??!?!?!

We Made It!!!

2008-06-30T07:28:00.000-07:00

Well, today is it. Our one year anniversary. We made it, alive! I can't believe how wonderful it has been to be married to Isaac this past year. I am so incredibly happy with life and everything that we have encountered. I look forward to so many more happy years of building a life and family together! Happy anniversary Isaac. I love you with all of my heart!

People make the world so difficult...

2008-06-27T09:31:00.001-07:00

So, I work for Dish Network, therefore I cannot make decisions on my own and must follow rules and regulations set forth by the national network, which is an umbrella network for all Dish Network Retailers. Let me start off by saying, I guess I was very naive to not realize how stupid some people really are. It amazes me everyday the amount of dumb questions I get or how often I have to explain the simplest of concepts over and over and over. But here is what I really don't understand. Why do people think that yelling and cussing at me is going to change something that I have no control over. I understand that people get upset when things dont go the way we hope, I am the same way, but yelling and cussing at someone who is only doing their job is not going to get anything changed. Especially, when they repeatedly call and complain about the same thing and insult me personally when I am just following the rules of my job. I wish that every person in the world would be required to work in a retail field and deal with customers just once. Then maybe we would all realize what its like to be on the other end of a griping we can do absolutely nothing about other than grit our teeth and try not to hang up on them. This week has been a perfect example. I have had a man call in after hours for two days in a row and when I call him back during business hours I get no answer. He then reaches me today and immediately begins to yell at me and cuss constantly and I explained that we are not open 24 hours a day and that when I attempt to call during business hours I get no answer. He then proceeds to get upset that Dish Network requires a debit or credit card number and a social security number to set up an account. Dish runs a credit check (as do most respectable companies these days) to ensure they are going to get paid. You don't want to spend all of the time and money that goes into setting up an account and dish to not get paid in the end. So this gentleman proceeds to call me back and explain that his sister is going to call and give me the information I need to set up his account. I speak with her and she does not want to give me the information that I need to set up his account, he then calls to see if she has called and I relay what she has said to me and he treats me as if it is my fault. And asks if I told her any information that would make her not give me what I need. I have talked to him at least six times thus far and am just waiting for the next time he calls. I often want to tell people that we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, and them being rude is not helping me want to help them out.

People make the world so difficult...

When You Say You Love Me...

2008-06-26T13:14:00.000-07:00

So, I cannot believe how quickly our one year anniversary crept up on us. Monday, Isaac and I will have been married for a year, and it honestly seems like we just got married. I have always heard that the first year is the hardest. If that is true then God Bless because this year was amazing. I cannot believe how wonderful it has been. I am so blessed to have such an amazing and loving man in my life. I know next year will probably be our worst since I will be starting Law school, I just pray we have the skills and love to make it through the worst. This is just what I have been thinking about lately and needed to share.

The second greatest day of my life.

2008-05-08T19:50:00.000-07:00

So today happens to be the second greatest day of my life. The first of course would be the day I married Jonathan Isaac Wimberley (June 30, 2007). Today is May 8, 2008 and I just got accepted to Texas Tech School of Law! I had previously been placed on the waiting list (many many months ago) and had truly given up hope on following my dream. And then today, there it was just sitting in my mailbox. As soon as I saw the Logo, my heart jumped and I tore open the envelope and made it only to the word "congratulations" before I broke into tears. I began shaking so violently I could not drive myself to work for several minutes. I immediately called my husband who almost lost it when he misunderstood me through my crying and thought I said "I had a wreck" instead of "I got into tech" which is what i really said. And of course my mother began screaming her head off out of excitement, and my father, like me broke into tears. I am still in shock at this fact and cannot stop thanking God for blessing me this way. This is somthing I have dreamed of since I was a little girl and was not prepared to give up on quite yet. And now I do not have to! So today is definitely the second best day of my life!