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I’m Not a Businessman, I’m a Business, Man

Oct
12

Posted by: Maggie

For the last couple of months I’ve been telling you all that I was working but haven’t yet revealed what I am doing. Well, here’s the post everyone has been waiting for.

Late in June, my friends Erin and Joseph asked me to join the firm they had started following law school, Le + Pelletier, LLP.  They told me I could have my own practice in any area that I’d like and that I was welcome to open a satellite office wherever I liked. So, I found some office space in Valencia and began working to prepare to take clients.

I’m happy to announce that I’m officially open for business. Check out my fancy business cards:

Here comes the part where I plug my services:

I practice Estate Planning which means that I help clients to create a plan through the use of wills, trusts, and other legal instruments to protect their families and their assets if anything were to happen to them.

I really believe in what I do. It’s important to think about what our families will have to deal with if anything happens to us. Creating an estate plan can really help to provide families with a guide for how you want your affairs handled. It really is a gift that you give your loved ones to protect them and make their period of transition smoother and more comfortable.

A lot of people think that Estate Planning is only for the wealthy, but everyone needs a plan, no matter how much or how little they have to pass on. This is especially true for parents of minor children. All of you parents out there NEED at least a will to establish permanent guardianship of your children if anything happens to you, but you also need to plan for the immediate short-term if  you don’t come home from your date night. You need to make sure your babysitter knows what to do and who to call, so that your kids will not have to spend a night in child protective services.

Please feel free to check out the Estate Planning page and my bio on the firm website for more info. And you can always email me at mkeegangross@lepelletier.com if you have an questions, want more information, or want to set an appointment for a free consultation! I will, of course, give discounts on my services to friends, family, and blog readers alike.

Tomorrow I’ll show you some of the photos that Amy took for me during our photoshoot for my headshot for the firm’s website! I’m so excited! I’ve been waiting to show you all these! They are just too fabulous!


Big News and Lots of It

Jul
01

Posted by: Maggie

The Keegan Gross family is about to go through some serious changes in the next month.

First of all, we’re moving! After an exhausting and exhaustive search of housing in Los Angeles we’ve found a new place. It’s not our ideal location. It is in the most suburban suburbia in all of Los Angeles, Valencia. Does everyone remember the film Edward Scissorhands? Well, Tim Burton is said to have based the suburb in the film on Valencia with the mansion on the hill where Edward lived being CalArts, the art school Burton attended, which is located at the top of a hill in Valencia. It’s not really our style. Just check out the link above, but beware, it might make you a little nauseous.

The community tends to be a little more conservative and religious than we would like, and tract housing is everywhere. But I do have to reluctantly admit that there are a lot of good things about it. Rents are low, it’s very family friendly, it has great schools, and Josh and I grew up there so we know the area really well. Most importantly our new apartment fits perfectly into the criteria I set for our search: washer and dryer in the unit, at least $200 a month less than what we are paying now, and within walking distance of a park with a playground.

Our second bit of big news is that I have found a job! I’ll give you all the details soon, but I’ll be starting in August and be working from Valencia, so no commute! Yay!

This means that Eleanor will likely be going to daycare for the first time, at least a few days a week. This has me feeling a little excited and a little nervous and very broke. Can you believe how expensive daycare is? Uggh. And there are so many. I don’t really know how to choose between them. I’ll be writing more on this soon also.

Lastly, Josh has been working on a big site redesign. We will have a new name and an all-new look. It should launch in the near future. And it will be just in time for me to have no time to blog. I think that after this week I’m going to have to limit my posting. I’m very busy searching for daycares and office spaces, and researching law practice marketing. So, unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up with the daily blogging anymore, but I plan to attempt to post at least three days a week. I know, most of you are probably relieved. Thank goodness, no more filler posts and stories that go nowhere. And you’ll be right. I’ll be limiting myself to just the best photos and the best stories.

Wish us luck with all of our big changes!

MacGyver Snacks at the Office

Apr
10

Posted by: Josh

I’m fairly sure that I’m breaking the rules with this one, (i.e., no one cares what you had for lunch), but for some reason I feel compelled to tell everyone about the snack I had yesterday.

I try to bring my lunch to work as much as possible, cause we’re poor and all, and usually it’s got a snack in there too, for that lonely stretch of time between getting to work and having lunch, when I can feel the tumbleweeds blowing through my stomach.

But because of the Passover preparation Wednesday we neglected pretty much every daily chore, including the one where I make my lunch at night, and because it is physically impossible for me to wake up before the absolute last minute, I of course didn’t make lunch in the morning either.

So I’m at work and now it’s around 10:30am and it slowly dawns on me that I’m STARVING and it’s too early to go buy lunch and there’s nothing leftover in the mini-fridge and there is no free junk food hanging around and I’m getting a little desperate, so desperate indeed that I’m scouring my desk and really considering doing SOMETHING with the mustard and salt packets when I run across one solitary piece of whole wheat bread.

Okay, but why do I have a single piece of whole wheat bread in my desk? Well, generally, lunch is a sandwich of some variety (actually there are really only two varieties: egg salad and tuna, and they gross me out at this point, god someone help me eat something different PLEASE HELP ME). So I tend to keep a small store of bread in my desk and then I just bring the innards each day. Well, now that I’m eating the healthy bread (since we are feeding it to Eleanor), I find that I don’t actually want to eat more than half a sandwich worth of this thick, hearty stuff. Seriously, half a sandwich of it and I’m done, I can’t imagine eating more of it. So eating a slice at a time all week left me with this, the last hope.

But this bread is like stuffing a sweater in your mouth. Its not an appealing prospect as a stand-alone. So I went to the office mini-fridge, real casual like, to see if I could find anything that would send the bread down right.

Immediately my MacGyver-like instincts for cobbling random, ordinary food items together into something explosive (edible) flared.

Expired mixed-berry yogurt? No, not mine (and expired).

Lonely stick of string cheese? Again, not mine (though tempting).

Salad dressing? Salad dressing. Still not mine (nothing was of course or I wouldn’t have had a problem in the first place), but who would miss a little dressing? I lit upon the twelve or so bottles crowding the bottom of the fridge.

Each was older and emptier than the last, some with no more than a drizzle left in them, leaving me to wonder, who would put such a thing back in the fridge? Who ate exactly-less-than a bottle of salad dressing, and then just stopped? But I didn’t have time to consider writing passive-aggressive notes. I needed something large enough that nobody would miss, and there it was: Ralph’s brand “Lite Asian Dressing”.

A little in a bowl, and voila, bread goes down nice. MacGruber would’ve been proud.

Okay, so it was a pathetic snack as snacks go, but listen to this: I wasn’t hungry anymore.

I win.

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