It's been a while...

Wow! I haven't blogged in FOREVER!!!! I decided I'd make one JUST for my cuppie cakes and another one for my life in general!

So life has been good for a while now :) My new job is great and keeps me busy! Still trying to change up my hours there...victory shall be mine!

It has gotten soooo hot up here out of no where! Its a mile walk to work...so you can imagine how gross I look by the time I get there!!! I leave here a bit earlier so I have time to cool down before I have to meet with people!!! yuck! I also convinced my boss to put a fan in my office because I was melting!!!

So to update y'all on other news...Robert ran a half marathon last sunday...I posted some pictures via shutterfly but i'm not sure if anyone looked at them! I'm proud! I cant run a mile without wanting to die! haha!

He has an "honors" dinner thing coming up this friday that I'm going to attend with him...he's at the top of his class and they're having some sort of dinner for the honor students :) I'm excited! Should be fun! He graduates May 14 and will officially have initials after his name...Robert Mateo, RN, BSN...i'm proud! He has to take his NCLEX exam after he graduates and he must pass it before he can even search for a job! hopefully he'll find a good job and find one close by...preferably in Hoboken if possible! So say lots of prayers for good things to come our way!

Pebbles is doing well :) she has some sort of allergy...dogs are as sensitive as humans! We took her to a baseball field this week and unleashed the beast! I was so suprised that she stayed around robert and I! I thought for sure she'd run far far away...but she just ran circles around us and had so much fun!!!!

Well...there's not much more to report! I hope everyones doing well! I miss y'all and cant wait for someone to visit me :) Lovings!

Pebbles

Nanni's Cuppie Cakes

Hello family! So here are the latest pictures of my Black & White themed cuppie cakes for a birthday party! They were a huge hit...I made 24 big ones (yellow cake and chocolate cake) and 24 mini cup cakes :)

Vanilla frosting with Chocolate cake...lots of sprinkles, cookie crumbs, coconut...you name it...I used it :)

a mini Chocolate chip cuppie cake :) and below the following four pictures are of my mini cuppie cakes and the rest are my big cuppie cakes decorated and ready to eat! They look delish!

The chocolate frosted yellow cake cuppie cakes are packed and ready to go...I hope you enjoyed some of my pictures that i posted! I have a new job on Monday for the Vikings vs. Jets football game...yellow and purple cuppie cakes with football designs! Wish me luck! hope everyone's doing well! lovings!!!

Petit Fours...

Hello family! So as i told you before I'm trying to bake cup cakes for fun...and the picture above is my first attempt at baking what's called "petit fours". I baked them for my friend Aurora's family and they sold all of them for breast cancer awareness at her house...it was fun and everyone looooved them ;)...here are some more pictures...enjoy!

I hope you guys enjoyed my latest creation :) I'm baking a fresh new batch this week so stay tuned :) lemme know what you think :) lovings!

Happy Autumn...

Hello my lovely family...it's been a while since i last blogged...i'm currently experiencing a sleepless night so I decided to jot a few things down...

First of all...happy fall! Although it's supposed to get up to 85 degrees today up here in NJ it's officially autumn! My favorite time of the year!!! :)

So as you may know I have found that life after studying is pretty boring...I feel i have too much time on my hands...well i've decided to make use of it! I'm gonna start a new dorky adventure of baking cupcakes (for holidays, bdays...etc). I bought this cupcake book called "hello cupcake!" and it has all sorts of cute ideas that have got my creative juices flowing...no worries I will not be consuming these cupcakes...they're to bring to places and when I have my girlfriends over. I'm gonna start small and then work my way up to doing it for Christmas as small tokens to people (instead of having to buy presents for everyone...robert has a rather large family!).

As soon as i figure out where i'm starting i'll start taking pics and posting them...i think it'll take a lot of practice to get some of these techniques down but it's something that I enjoy doing.What better way to brighten someones day than to give them some cupcakes :)

That's all for now...I'll update with pics as soon as i decide what to start with :) I hope you had a restful night and that you have a great thursday! Lovings!!!

In the final stretch...

Wow what an exhausting week it has been!!! But...unfortunately it's NOTHING compared to what I have in store in the upcoming final weeks of studying!!!

My 8 hour essay review class yesterday was a bit overwhelming with information...but hopefully i'll be able to put it into practice and get down his method. He says that we should be able to add at least 3 more points to our essays with his method..so I hope he's right...because it seems to be one of my weaker areas as of now.

I want to just give you a taste of how many hours they require for me to study...not including the other stuff i need to do on my own...getting to bed a decent hour is a thing of the past as of this upcoming Monday...

Saturday: July 10--9hrs total --1/2 dayPractice Exam
Sunday: July 11--12 hrs total

Weekend total: 21 hrs total

Monday: July 12--10hrs total
Tuesday: July 13--9.5 hrs total

Wednesday: July 14--9.5 hrs total

Thursday: July 15--7 hrs total

Friday: July 16--3 hrs total--1/2 dayPractice Exam

Saturday: July 17--5.25 hrs total

Sunday: July 18--10hrs total
Week and Weekend total: 54.25 hrs total

Monday: July 19--9.5 hrs total

Tuesday: July 20--9.5 hrs total
Wednesday: July 21--4 hrs total
Thursday: July 22--6 hrs total
Friday: July 23--11 hrs total--1/2 dayPractice Exam
Saturday: July 24--15 hrs total
Sunday: July 25--12 hrs total

Week and Weekend Total: 67 hrs total

The last Monday I basically have to study until I can't study any longer...i have to review all subjects, outlines and fine points PLUS roughly 10 hours of tests and essays. The Day before the exam and during the exam dates...i'm to do NOTHING...they say to watch cartoons or a movie haha.

So as you can see I'm going to be extremely overwhelmed and busy until this test is over...dont get offended if I dont call, or dont pick up...or pick up to talk for just a few minutes...i'm in the final stretch!!!

My exam , which is on Wednesday, July 28th and Thursday July 29th, is thankfully located less than 30 minutes from my apartment and I wont have to dish out extra money for a hotel. :) This is the schedule that the Board of Bar Examiners have provided us with:

Wed/Thurs: Arrival Time: 8:00am
Wed/Thurs: Morning instructions: Begin: 8:30am
Wed/Thurs: Morning session Begins: 9:00am
Wed/Thurs: Morning session Ends: 12:oo noon

Wed/Thurs: Afternoon instructions Begin: 1:10pm
Wed: Afternoon session Ends: 4:3opm
Thurs: Afternoon session Ends: 3:45pm

I'm not allowed to bring my cell phone AT ALL...so i'll either call or text y'all with how my first day went and then how my last day went.

I told Julie...that we are having a beach day date the day after my exam...July 30th...i'll want to have a relaxing day catching some rays and not think about the exam! We dont get the results till the end of November.

I'm putting forth my BEST EFFORT for this exam...but some prayer would also be appreciated :) I'm thankful to have your support and love! This may be my last post until August...but dont forget to check up on me and send lil prayers my way! Lovings!

EXHAUSTED...

Good afternoon my loves...

What a long week it has been...at least it feels like it. i've had my barbri ups and downs...going generally ok in most exams but majorlly bombed one. I'm about to go into my last major multi-state subject...con-law...and i have my first 1/2 simulated multistate exam Thursday...which so happens to be Pebbles 1st birthday :)! and my first FULL (7hour) Multi-state bar exam on Friday...i'm a lil nervous bc i want to do well enough that i know i can improve...whatever happens happens I guess.

For a few hours on Saturday...we are going to do a mini get together at my apartment...with Roberts parents and sister and do a birthday party for Pebbles...I originally wanted to invite some of our puppy friends...but there's really no time to mingle...so it'll have to do with just 6 people :) I'd do it on my own if it weren't going to hurt Roberts family's feelings...they're quite obssessed with my baby :) it's cute...sometimes haha

Oh..not to get TOO ahead of myself...but for now...Robert and I have decided that if all goes accordingly that we are going to drive down for Christmas with Pebbles and stay for a few days...it'll be cheaper and that way we can alternate holidays being here and there...I already told Pedro and Dannah so they can plan accordingly as well. So you have... roughly 6 months to prepare :) we have to talk about it because we both need to let our jobs know with months in advance so we just kind of decided that we would go for Christmas and since we wanna take Pebbles that we'd drive again :) yay! can't wait!

there's really not much to talk about at all this week...last night Robert's sister came over and we watched a movie...after 12 hours of studying...that's right TWELVE FULL HOURS...i was beat but i wanted to wind down...so we watched Twilight (seeing as Eclipse is coming out on Tuesday night at midnight wahooo).

Sorry this blog was so boring...hopefully i'll have something more exciting to talk about by the end of the week. Lovings!

Week 3 & summary of Week 2

Hello family! First of all I just wanna show you this picture of a wedding a went to recently! The furthest one on the left is Julissa (AKA julie...roberts sis) and the rest are Robert's cousins...the girl next to me in the black and the one next to her in the blue dress and dark hair are the "black sheeps" of the family...they're literally the ONLY two Mateo girls that dont have blue eyes or blond hair (like the other two on my other side) and the last girl is a distant cousin of Roberts fresh from Cuba...she's adorable! I just wanted to "show off" my figure to you guys haha! what do you think?

Anyways onto the important stuff...week two was going well until i got to EVIDENCE...i dunno what happened to be but I panicked and just cant seem to grasp it. There are so many details and exceptions and they're throwing me off. Not to mention the fact that I felt like the lecturer sucked and so did his handout. So far that's the only class i'm worried about. I'm doing pretty "well" on my multiple choice exams and okay on my essay exams...depending on the subject.

BARBRI offers an additional one day intensive essay writing course workshop on july 8th and i think i'm gonna pay the $75 and miss work and take it...i think it'll be worth if i can make just a few extra points on each essay! What do you guys think?

I just want to do anything and everything within my power to pass this test once and for all. I feel very motivated and although i'm BEYOND exhausted at this point I know that this is very do-able...all i have to do is pass...not get a good grade ;)...and if i dont pass...no worries i'll keep trying...i'm much more confident about this than i've ever been :) just keep prayin for me and sending my good vibes :)

Week three is off to a good start with Real Property on for the next few days! That class is the most boring and roughest but the professor is crazy and makes up songs and stories for us to remember everything...i hope it sticks :).

well i'm off to la la land at 10pm...i'm so tired! i hope everyone is doing well and i hope to write again soon! lovings!!