Tuesday Recap

I'm here for the Tuesday recap ;) I was home sick yesterday (I caught some weird cold that manifested into some bacterial infection that was no joke on Sunday night, so staying home Monday was a no brainer), so I couldn't have written a post even if I wanted to. But enough about that...

FRIDAY
One of my favorite ladies came by on Friday to see our house and to spend the day wandering downtown CL. We started at Benedict's for brunch. Alicia got the breakfast street tacos and I got the apple, bacon, and brie omelet and I don't even like omelets but I was HERE for this one. I'm a sucker for brie every time. I'll definitely be recreating this at home.

A lot of of the shops downtown were participating in sidewalk sales, so we browsed a few before heading over to the antique mall.

We both found some awesome finds. I got a dried bunch of Eucalyptus which is exactly what I've been looking to put in this spot on our entryway table (and in every other room in our house, if I'm being honest) for five bucks! I'm obsessed with the smell of dried Eucalyptus, (well, all Eucalyptus actually) so I was pumped to find this large bunch.

I snagged this 1950's Gourmet cookbook for $3! Can't wait to display it with my other vintage cookbooks when I get some shelving in the corner by our kitchen table.

Alicia and I both grabbed one of these super cute porcelain menu stands. You can write on it with dry erase marker and I'm definitely using it for every party going forward.

  

This hippie stopped into Evolve to get some more sage to burn in the house ;) I forgot to cleanse the house when we first moved in, so I did it Friday afternoon. Sammy was super enthused.

After Alicia left, I Sammy put together this cheapo vanity I bought on Amazon so I'd have a place I could do my makeup outside of the bathroom. I'm big on natural light, so I don't do my makeup in the bathroom at all and have been using a cardboard box on the floor in front of this window up until now ;) I'm excited to have a little space where I can spread all my products out.

We also got our desktop up and running, along with building our desk chair. I grabbed it on Amazon for $30, and so far, we like it a lot. Eventually I would love a thrifted chair with a little more character to go with this desk, but we needed a chair here in the interim, so this will do just fine.

I'm hoping having this space set up and functional will result in me doing some writing...

SATURDAY

By Saturday morning I was starting not to feel great, so I took it easy while Sammy went to work. His dad came over in the late morning and stayed until dinnertime doing various projects around the house--God bless him--while my lazy ass watched SVU on Netflix all day. 

One of the projects we asked him to do was anchor my bookshelves to the wall and he did it in like two minutes. I don't understand Dads. They do things like that so effortlessly! By the evening I had gotten all the books I had on the floor of this loft on a shelf and semi-organized. My momma has since brought me more of my books from home and I have even more in various places in her house, so the empty shelves shown here will be filled soon :) I'm excited to play around the shelf space now and get some of my "knick knacks," as Sammy so lovingly puts it, dispersed throughout. I also have the coffee table my mom had in our living room while I was growing up in this room now and I'm obsessed with it. It makes the room feel that much cozier. Will definitely post another picture of this room at some point.

It's county fair season!...and my dad and I had to be at the LCF early Sunday morning to start setting our division up, so I spent the night by my mom's on Saturday so I could be closer to the fair come Sunday. Her and I stayed up late continuing the SVU binge :)

SUNDAY

I headed over to the fair with my Dad Sunday morning and we spent most of the day setting up our division which is Culinary.

The table/presentation setup is different this year which threw my dad and I for a loop, so we had to roll with it and make do with what we had decoration wise.

My chef uncles, and mom and brother judge our division for us, so they came by in the early evening to get that process started. I don't know how they taste so many jams and honeys...

The local news station is coming by tomorrow morning to do a segment on the fair and they called us to see if a contestant could make a cake "welcoming" the news show. Since the call was so last minute, and because we typically don't know the contestants prior to them dropping off their entries on Sunday, we didn't have anyone to ask. But my momma came through, as always. How cute is the cake she made?! She just whipped that shit up. And now she'll be on the tomorrow's morning news ;)

forever sneaking my vintage cookbook collection into the decor ;)

 I wish I had taken a picture of this cake from close up. The category was to make a cake inspired by a TV show or movie and this junior contestant made one inspired by Pete Rabbit! It was so cute, especially all the vegetables in the garden. And it deservedly won grand champion in the junior division.

Unfortunately we're down entries this year in the fair, so the judging went faster than it has in previous years which kinda stunk but I also wasn't complaining since I just wanted to get home haha. I was starting to feel worse and being on your feet all day doesn't help. *first world probs*

Sammy and I hung out for a bit when I got home before heading up to bed. I woke up every hour and then half hour after 1 a.m. that night with such horrible stomach pains, and without going into disgusting TMI detail, I determined it to be what I think was a bacterial infection from something I ate. 

I have a hard time staying home from work because I'm sick. I was the same way in middle school, high school, and college. I always felt so guilty about staying home and would have my mom rationalize my decision to stay home for me haha. This was the first time I stopped myself from wandering down the "what's due to the printer tomorrow? what do I need to edit? what needs to get done?" train and just said, nope, I think I'll stay home. Wrote my boss an email at 4 in the morning and called it a day haha. It did me a WORLD of good to get extra sleep, drink fluids, and watch the Hallmark Channel all from my couch, and I'm hoping I remember that the next time I get sick.

I'm feeling much better today and eating normal foods, so that's great. Hoping the week continues to go smoothly! I'd like to get through some house to-do items this week which really means organizing the bins of my stuff my mother seems to be sneakily bringing to me every time she comes over ;) that are now accumulating in the garage. 

Sammy's dad is coming over tonight to put our blinds up for us (Jesus, it's like we can't do anything ourselves), and his mom and grandma are tagging along for the ride and to have dinner with us. I'm so excited to see them and show his grandma our home :)

Hope everyone has been having a great start to the week. xo