Oh yeah. I'm gonna be 31.

Started off this new blog yesterday. I forgot to mention the other inspiration for the blog title was that I am turning 31 this year. So why not make it even more so a year to strive to be "that 31 woman?"

I started blogging in 2002. I love looking at my old blogs and seeing how I have changed since then and how I've stayed the same. I don't like some things I read, and some things make me nostalgic and very happy. A lot of great memories are stored in my old blogs.

I pretty much stopped blogging in 2004. I had moved back to Missouri after a failed attempt to move to California that ended up with me in Reno, Nevada, living with my dad, my brother, my uncle, and three male cousins. Thankfully I felt God telling me that, in spite of my grandiose move out West (which included lying to my dad about having a co-pilot so I could drive the 4,000 miles to MO and back in order to graduate and also pack up all my stuff for said planned move to Cali), He wanted me back in Missouri to focus on getting out of debt before "pursuing my dreams." So I did that and it completely altered the course of my life. But, I'm out of debt, married to a wonderful man, and now a stay-at-home mommy. In the midst of those drastic changes to my own plans I felt silly and superficial whenever I tried to blog.

Since that time, blogs have truly taken off. I now subscribe to 10 or so blogs, most of which include vast amounts of creativity coupled with beautiful pictures. Lots of the pictures have to do with food or home improvement or upcycling. It is incredible to me that there are blogs about almost anything a person could dream up. Recently a couple of friends encouraged me to start one up again. I guess I just needed some middle-of-the-night inspiration.

Anyways, what are some of your favorite blogs? Here are just a few of mine:

http://www.designsponge.com/

http://www.ecovelo.info/
(Ooh! Looks like an awesome commuter bike post today!)

http://my50syear.blogspot.com/

http://smallnotebook.org/

Wanna know what they're about? Check 'em out. Gone are the days when I don't know what an RSS feed is.  A follower of my old blog once "begged" me to get one, and I was dumbfounded. Now I find subscribing to blogs and reading updates as satisfying, if not more so, than getting a new, shiny magazine! Which, for those of you who have known me a while, is saying quite a lot.