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Life Lately on a Thursday

I’m leaving tonight for Indianapolis for the Revive ’15 Women’s Conference, so I’m going to do a life lately on a Thursday and no Friday Favorites this week.  But I’ll be back to normal next week!

Here’s a look at what’s been going on around the Shaneyfelt home lately:
I’ve been dealing with stomach issues since I can first remember.  So on Tuesday I had a little outpatient procedure done to see if the doctors could figure out what is causing all of my problems.  So while I was fasting and in misery on Monday, Dustin was napping.  

Please notice the headache pillow on his face.  Dustin makes fun of me for sometimes sleeping with that over my eyes if I have a headache or if it’s too bright in our room.  

Guess who won’t be making fun of me anymore???

……and while he napped, I watched Dancing With the Stars on the couch.

This was my first meal Tuesday afternoon–which I didn’t really finish until that evening.  I’m surprised I was even able to function enough to take a picture since I had just woke up from my anesthesia.  Everything that day is pretty much a blur.

By they way, does anyone else have weird side effects after waking up from anesthesia??  My sister always throws up (which is a legitimate side effect), a girl from work is supper chatty after, and what do I do?  Cry.  That’s right.  It doesn’t matter if I’m not in pain at all, I wake up crying.  I think I forgot to let Dustin know about my little secret because he was a little alarmed as I woke up crying Tuesday!

Yesterday I got a homemade card from a student from last year to encourage me 🙂  Notice the smiley face made from little poms that even has eyebrows?  Yes, this was made by a male student haha!  He was very proud of his craftiness!

Next week is my last week of regular school assignments and then I have my finals and my fall one term is O-V-E-R!!!  I’m not going to miss this cataloging class one bit!

Check back with me on Monday for my weekend recap of my conference!  Happy weekend!

Weekend Recap–last one for summer!

This weekend did not start out the way I had planned.  Dustin was on nights this weekend so I had all of my nights planned out.  My original plan for Friday night was having Dustin arrange the hay bales on the porch before he left for work, a round of disc golf with my dad, and then going to get mums to put on the hay bales on the porch.

Well, I woke up Friday morning sick–as in stomach bug sick!  I originally thought it was the stomach virus but every time I’ve gotten that, I’ve always thrown up, too.  Maybe TMI, but there was no throwing up ha.  It was hard getting ready for school between having to run to the bathroom.  Then when I got to school, I actually felt fine all of first period.  But once second period started, I got sick again.  It’s hard to teach and have the stomach bug at the same time–especially when your classroom isn’t near a bathroom.  I had planned on just toughing it out all day but it started getting worse.  I told myself if I could just make it to my planning and get some copies made for Monday (I have a guy from Boston flying in to observe me and another teacher at my school Monday), then I would leave.  I’m glad I left to go home for the rest of the day!  I ended up falling asleep around 2:00 and after I woke up, I felt better.  It must have just been a stomach bug since I was sick from about 5:30 am – 2 pm.
So here’s what I did Friday evening:

I didn’t think I had the energy to run my scheduled 5 miles on Saturday, so I went to Walmart instead to do our grocery shopping.  It surprised me to see people grocery shopping before 7 am!

My town had its annual Depot Days festival Saturday.  This is part of downtown.  This year they only had vendors lining one side of the road which I think cleared out a lot of congestion.  They lined vendors up all over downtown instead of just on Main Street.  It was HOT out this year! Dustin and I didn’t get any pictures together at Depot Days because it was too hot to even think about smiling for a picture.  

Mom and I headed out to Bridge Street Saturday afternoon to do a little shopping.  I was hoping to pick up something for pictures with Dustin, but I just didn’t find anything I absolutely loved.  I told my mom that I wasn’t really sure what I wanted but I would know it as soon as I saw it.

I wanted this dress from Anthro, but I had just spent a bunch of money earlier so I knew if it wasn’t for pictures, then I didn’t need it.  (It was really hard for me to walk away from that dress.  Like really hard.  Especially since I could have gotten it for 20% off.)
 Can’t you see me wearing this dress with mustard tights and my cognac Frye booties??  

I tried on this top from The Loft because I thought maybe I wanted plaid?  All they had was an XS or L, so I grabbed the large and didn’t like how it looked on me.  It was too boxy and a little too short for how baggy it was on me.
I’ve never worn plaid before but I see how cute everyone looks in it–and I want to look cute, too!  Well, plaid is not for me.  I’ll just admire how well everyone looks in their plaid while I wear something not plaid 🙁

I finally decorated our porch!  I bought yellow and orange mums, so I can’t wait for them to bloom.  And those are the ceramic pumpkins from Kroger that I had to have.

And I baked a cake Saturday night.  Remember when I said that my dream would be do write a cookbook someday?  Since I wrote that dream down, I’ve decided to make it a goal and have started collecting my favorite recipes and changing them up to make them mine!  This will be something I really work on once I finish grad school.
  Look for the recipe for this tomorrow!

I went to church on Sunday and decided to wear my flower jumpsuit since it was the last day of summer.  It’s fall now!  Yay!!

Friday Favorites–are back!!

(I’m taking a little break from The Blog-tember Challenge to get back to some of my normal blog content.)

Today is technically the last Friday of summer–isn’t that crazy?!  We’ve already had a few fall temps around here and I always associate September with fall, but it feels crazy knowing that fall won’t truly be here until next week.  If only the true fall temperatures would come with it.

As usual, I’m linking up with Andrea today for Friday Favorites!

Opening day of dove season.  
This was my first opening day to experience and it was pretty exciting!  We all sat around in the corn field checking our phones for noon to roll around.  Once it did, there were so many gun shots it was exciting!
A selfie stick.
My dad bought my sister and I a selfie stick and Dustin and I played around with it yesterday after school.  He was loving it!  I can see this being used a lot in the future.

Cleaning up outside.
Evening weather this week has been wonderful.  Even though I had on shorts and a t-shirt, I really could have put on a sweatshirt or leggings.  Dustin got a few shots of me sweeping.  Then I decided to sweep the corners on our porches and in our garages to keep things clean.  I’ll be decorating our porch for fall today when I get home from school-can’t wait!

What are some of your favorite things right now?