The month-long week.

Oh. My. Word. This past week has been so long. I could swear that last Monday was a month ago. Honestly. When I am not in classes, I'm in meetings. When I'm not in meetings, I'm preparing for meetings. And when I'm not preparing for meetings, I'm doing homework. I feel like my little blog has not been getting a ton of love this week, and for that I am sorry. But we did get to do an awesome Coffee Lovin' linkup AND you got a chance to catch up on my book, right?

Which reminds me - you all left such sweet comments on my update. It is truly a dream come true to have our manuscript in the publishing process and as soon as it's available for purchase I will let you all know! It made my heart so full to hear all your words of encouragement. I have the best readers in the world!

Yes, this week has been absurdly long and has had its fair share of stresses, but at the end of the day I love what I'm doing and, when I really think about it, I got some awesome news this week, too!

How can it be a bad week when you win a giveaway?! That's right, I scored a gorgeous bubble necklace from Whitney at I Wore Yoga Pants to Work (this girl is adorable and hilarious - one of my latest favorites!) AND she announced me as winner at the bottom of a really, REALLY sweet post that made me love her even more. Whitney my dear, we are kindred souls.

How can it be a bad week when you get TOOKIES in the mail?! That's right. Two S'mores bar jars arrived in my mailbox via my beautiful blog friend Danielle (seriously, this girl and I are going to get together this year even if I have to march my butt out to her and her crazy organic chem schedule! Consider yourself warned, Danielle ;) )


And speaking of Tookies and Framed Frosting, how can it be a bad week when I made the final two of their marshmallow flavor creation contest?! Yeahhhh, buddy! My idea of brownie turtle (seriously, are you drooling? Think about how delicious that would be for a second.....yep. Now go get a tissue and wipe that drool up.) I never dreamed of getting to the final two and I am super excited to see what Bryce thinks of it when it's all cooked up.

How can it be a bad week when my Sephora birthday gift (and a few other Sephora goodies) came in the mail just three days after I ordered them?

How can it be a bad week when I re-watched my college's admission video. Yeah we redid Call Me Maybe. Yeah I'm pretty dang proud. Go Knights!

So even with all the stress, this has been a pretty dang good week. To celebrate, I am wearing my first ever "This is gonna be a dang good day" outfit.

I'm also linking up for High 5 for Friday and Just Because. Have an awesome weekend!