Friday, February 23, 2024
It’s Friday and I am at the end of my long week (I will tell you why it was long later in the post! ! I am happy to link up with Andrea and Erika for a happy post!

I did not have off on Monday for President’s Day, but I had the whole day to work at school on catching up. I took time out for a cup of tea with colleagues, and I went to breakfast/lunch at Con Huevos like a real girl with an hour lunch break. Tuesday, we had another teacher day with meetings, but I still had a cup of tea, lunch out at McAllister’s and time to get things done and ready for students on Wednesday.
Do I still have my frustrations and personal problems of the last weeks – yes! But I shifted my mindset this week with the help of a great little book, lots of sunshine, and a pep talk I gave myself!
So, let’s do some happy favorites from the week…
Andrea recommended this and it’s so good! I’ve been struggling to get all of my water in so this has been nice.

I really like my new Duck Plump as a topper.

I bought this in November and just now need a replacement. It’s pricey but it lasts a long time (I think – 4 months for a deodorant is pretty good, no?) and it serves as my fragrance,too. I need to test it in the sweaty summer months. Combined with my Diva laundry capful that I add in with my regular Tide myself smells real nice.

I marveled at my coordination in my Monday outfit. Yes, I wore tequila earrings to school with no students present. I’ve really enjoyed this light yellow/green flourescent press on mani this week!

This was our Mexican breakfast/lunch on Monday:

And, my salad and baked potato on Tuesday:

A couple of teachers skipped lunch or brought the same old boring sandwich, but I felt it was important to make the days “feel different” and I was right. This was one way I was kind to myself this week.
After work on Monday, I met my friend Jessica for a pedicure and a catch up:


I chose a dark teal color and I love it! After, we tried to get a drink and snack at Mojito, but it was closed so I asked her back to my patio and we chatted a bit more. It was so nice!
I had some healthy food faves this week…
Wednesday Erica made ground chicken kofta bowls:

Thursday I made farro, chicken, garbanzo beans with a tahini sauce bowls and it’s on a plate because it was also dinner for my family the night before:

I made a couscous, sweet potato, black bean, red onion meal:

I had a bunless Boca burger on the side:

Ernie and I took a slow sunny walk each day after work:

Puxatawney Phil was right! I kept saying we would get one more winter weather event, but now I’m not so sure.

I chose to go in to work an hour early and stay an hour late Wednesday through today to do my parent teacher conferences – we could do 6 hours however we wanted which was nice – and I was kind to myself by ordering Chinese instead of trying to rush to cook something.

And, it was even so mild that I was able to do my coffee outside one day this week. It reminded me of most of September through November when I did this and What’s App’ed with Mason in England to start each day.
And, again with the color coordination with the nails and the mug! It makes this color loving lady happy!

I’m buoyed by the time change coming soon! Are you excited?

People are starting to talk about the solar eclipse April 8th, too. We are out of school that day – it’s the Monday after Spring Break. We were IN school for the last eclipse and it was a waste of a day, so this is much better.
I cannot recommend this book enough! I already do some of the things so maybe I am a little Swedish?

I hope you also had many, many favorites this week! Leave me one in the comments!
This week I posted Hello Monday, My Current Blogroll, Pinterest Fun, and Fashion Files if you missed anything!
Happy Weekend,
Amy










































































































