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Yesterday my friend Mikie took me out to lunch for my birthday.\u00a0 I finally got to try NorthStar<\/a> in my old hood.\u00a0 I had the brown rice and beet veggie burger with sweet potato fries.\u00a0 Yum.<\/p>\n

After that we hit SoBo Style<\/a> which is the kid of store every girl dreams of having.<\/p>\n

They had lots of furniture covered in Amy Butler fabric- so much cool stuff.<\/p>\n

Here are a few shot with my iphone<\/p>\n

I really need this chair, and if you live in the area- do not go buy it!\u00a0 It’s mine!\u00a0 I am thinking it might be a good late b-day present to myself.\u00a0 I would go get it today but Cole is home sick with the crud.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> And wouldn’t this be sooo cute in Eva’s room?\u00a0 It has a drawer under the bench<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> They had a lot of little bench chair thingies<\/p>\n

\"SoBo<\/a> I think Cole needs this book, but he needs no convincing- which reminds me, did you see the article about germaphobes not living as long as other people?\u00a0 My husband told me about it.\u00a0 See, we could all learn a little from my non-hand washing little friend.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"SoBo<\/a> Walking into that store made me want to get rid of everything in my house and start over.<\/p>\n

But, then I tried to open the drawers on this chest and of course they were lopsided and didn’t slide and all I could think of was my husband in Eva’s room trying to get some pj’s or something out for her and getting really mad that the drawers suck.\u00a0 Because that is exactly what would happen. And next thing you know, I would come home and find it at the curb waiting for the guy that comes through on trash day to score discarded items.<\/p>\n

So, changing the subject- here is a question for you.\u00a0 When you think of your fave blogs- what is it that draws you to them?\u00a0 Is the photography, is it the writing?\u00a0 I used to have a huge blog list and recently it has gone to less than 5.\u00a0 I’m not sure why except that as my interests change, so do my blogs.<\/p>\n

Photography is the biggest thing that draws me to a blog.\u00a0 I like inspiration.\u00a0 Especially home inspiration. Not really into all of the design blogs- or the blogs that show a lot of pics from magazines.\u00a0 I like real life homes, life with kids and pets.\u00a0 The day to day house- not the perfectly decorated house.<\/p>\n

I used to love the scrapbooking blogs.\u00a0 But when I stopped scrapping 5 years ago, I sorta stopped reading those blogs too.<\/p>\n

When we were thinking of adopting it was adoption blogs. So much inspiration from people with very big hearts.\u00a0 There are still a few I will check in on- people that I connected with personally, but for the most part I don’t really read that many anymore.<\/p>\n

Recently a friend of mine sent me some blogs of runners.\u00a0 I have to admit I am intimidated by that one.\u00a0 I am not a runner.\u00a0 I love to exercise but I am not hardcore.\u00a0 I have rules.\u00a0 Like no early mornings.\u00a0 I guess that is my only rule.\u00a0 No early mornings.\u00a0 I will never get up at the crack of dawn to run.\u00a0 Never.\u00a0 Because I love to sleep more than I love to exercise.\u00a0 Now I could spend all day at the gym (you know- as long as I didn’t have to go until like 9am or so), as long as I have an ipod full of good tunes.\u00a0 But the other day I spent 2 hours there- because I had time to kill before picking up Cole.\u00a0 And the next day I had a lot of trouble walking.\u00a0 I was so sore!\u00a0 So probably not the best idea.\u00a0 And as much as I like to exercise I am still horribly out of shape.\u00a0 My diet needs an overhaul.\u00a0 Gone are the days when I could eat anything and everything, but for some reason I still do.\u00a0 Gone are the days when I could skip a meal and be skinny again.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Ok back to blogs.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I went to a blog that I had bookmarked and hadn’t read in a couple weeks.\u00a0 I originally bookmarked this blog because of home inspiration and life with a lot of kiddos.\u00a0 But constant judgment of others is making me delete it from my list.\u00a0 If you run out of topics to discuss, don’t blog anymore.\u00a0 Don’t slam others for their lifestyle choices- yours is not always better, even if YOU think it is.\u00a0 Because it gets old.\u00a0 And off the list you go.<\/p>\n

So what about you, what kind of blogs do you like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday my friend Mikie took me out to lunch for my birthday.\u00a0 I finally got to try NorthStar in my old hood.\u00a0 I had the brown rice and beet veggie burger with sweet potato fries.\u00a0 Yum. After that we hit SoBo Style which is the kid of store every girl dreams of having. They had lots of furniture covered in Amy Butler fabric- so much cool stuff. Here are a few shot with my iphone I really need this chair, and if you live in the area- do not go buy it!\u00a0 It’s mine!\u00a0 I am thinking it might be a good late b-day present to myself.\u00a0 I would go get it today but Cole is home sick with the crud. And wouldn’t this be sooo cute in Eva’s room?\u00a0 It has a drawer under the bench They had a lot of little bench chair thingies I think Cole needs this book, but he needs no convincing- which reminds me, did you see the article about germaphobes not living as long as other people?\u00a0 My husband told me about it.\u00a0 See, we could all learn a little from my non-hand washing little friend. Walking into that store made me want to get rid of everything in my house and start over. But, then I tried to open the drawers on this chest and of course they were lopsided and didn’t slide and all I could think of was my husband in Eva’s room trying to get some pj’s or something out for her and getting really mad that the drawers suck.\u00a0 Because that is exactly what would happen. And next thing you know, I would come home and find it at the curb waiting for the guy that comes through on trash day to score discarded items. So, changing the subject- here is a question for you.\u00a0 When you think of your fave blogs- what is it that draws you to them?\u00a0 Is the photography, is it the writing?\u00a0 I used to have a huge blog list and recently it has gone to less than 5.\u00a0 I’m not sure why except that as my interests change, so do my blogs. Photography is the biggest thing that draws me to a blog.\u00a0 I like inspiration.\u00a0 Especially home inspiration. Not really into all of the design blogs- or the blogs that show a lot of pics from magazines.\u00a0 I like real life homes, life with kids and pets.\u00a0 The day to day house- not the perfectly decorated house. I used to love the scrapbooking blogs.\u00a0 But when I stopped scrapping 5 years ago, I sorta stopped reading those blogs too. When we were thinking of adopting it was adoption blogs. So much inspiration from people with very big hearts.\u00a0 There are still a few I will check in on- people that I connected with personally, but for the most part I don’t really read that many anymore. Recently a friend of mine sent me some blogs of runners.\u00a0 I have to admit I am intimidated by that one.\u00a0 I am not a runner.\u00a0 I love to exercise but I am not hardcore.\u00a0 I have rules.\u00a0 Like no early mornings.\u00a0 I guess that is my only rule.\u00a0 No early mornings.\u00a0 I will never get up at the crack of dawn to run.\u00a0 Never.\u00a0 Because I love to sleep more than I love to exercise.\u00a0 Now I could spend all day at the gym (you know- as long as I didn’t have to go until like 9am or so), as long as I have an ipod full of good tunes.\u00a0 But the other day I spent 2 hours there- because I had time to kill before picking up Cole.\u00a0 And the next day I had a lot of trouble walking.\u00a0 I was so sore!\u00a0 So probably not the best idea.\u00a0 And as much as I like to exercise I am still horribly out of shape.\u00a0 My diet needs an overhaul.\u00a0 Gone are the days when I could eat anything and everything, but for some reason I still do.\u00a0 Gone are the days when I could skip a meal and be skinny again.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Ok back to blogs. Yesterday I went to a blog that I had bookmarked and hadn’t read in a couple weeks.\u00a0 I originally bookmarked this blog because of home inspiration and life with a lot of kiddos.\u00a0 But constant judgment of others is making me delete it from my list.\u00a0 If you run out of topics to discuss, don’t blog anymore.\u00a0 Don’t slam others for their lifestyle choices- yours is not always better, even if YOU think it is.\u00a0 Because it gets old.\u00a0 And off the list you go. 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