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WhatUp Wednesday #40

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Hey friends!  Well first things first, today I visited Fort Worth and, boy, was it fun! I went to the stockyards and had a steak lunch and wandered around the shops. If you caught my stories on Instagram today, you got a peek at my day but I’ll write a blog post so you all can see it too!  I changed into this  Fashionnova  jumpsuit and man, is it reminding me of 70’s vibes! I am loving the colors of it as well as the lines. I think it’s very reminiscent of fall as these colors remind me of changing leaves and fall nights.  Here’s a couple of pics for you:  You can shop at  Fashionnova  and use my code ONTHERUN for a discount so don’t forget to do that after you load up your cart!  So this past week, I have been unemployed and have been doing a mixture of things while I am off work. Of course I am taking care of business but I’m also getting to do a few things that I’ve been wanting to do and just haven’t had time.  I took a cooking class...

Forty Before Forty: A Cooking Class and Some Macarons

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Mmmmm macarons! I love these light fluffy cookies! Not coconut macaroons either- just macarons. These are two totally different cookies.  Now I can cross off two more items from my list! I wanted to order some macarons and enjoy them and I wanted to take a cooking class. I decided to kill two birds with one stone when a cooking class came up to make Valentines Macarons at Sur La Table. My husband bought me the class for a Valentines Day present because he thought I would enjoy going.  The benefit of taking a class is really to learn the technique and be able to make them yourself. The last time I had a macaron was at a bakery in downtown Charlotte last year as they are not super plentiful around here. I would have really had to order them online and have them shipped to me and it would have probably cost close to the same! It looked like there were a couple of couples in the class as well as a couple of small groups of ladies. I took the class by myself an...