Happy Friday friends! I’m linking up with the ladies at A Little Bit of Everything Blog, Grace and Love Blog, and Momfessionals as usual! 🙂 Head on over to all their sites if you wanna join in the link ups!
I’m also linking up with other blogging women at A.Liz Adventures, Carolina Charm, Hello! Happiness, and The Good Life Blog.
And last but not least The Farmer’s Wife, September Farm, Fitting It All in Blog, Life in Leggings and Meet at the Barre!
This week I finished My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock and I loved it! If you’re looking for a light, uplifting, summer read I’d totally recommend this one. She chronicles facing her fears for an entire year from cage diving with sharks to doing stand up comedy.
It got me thinking about my fears and how we build up things in our minds and they usually aren’t so bad!
If you’re looking for other ideas for good summer reads, check out my book club page. I’ve put asterisks next to my favorite books. I’d also love to hear your book recommendations, please feel free to leave them in the comments!
I had so much fun last Saturday at the Summer Shape Up event in Hermosa Beach. I got to work out with P90x creator Tony Horton and Autumn Calabrese.
In the last week or two I’ve made some new blogging friends, who have been super sweet and supportive. I wanted to take a second to highlight them and their blogs and say thank you girls!
Lauren at Post Grad in Progress is a Charlotte based girl navigating her way through life in her post college years.
Molly is a sweet, full time college girl sharing her life in Texas on her blog Colors of Life.
Kylie McGraw is a grad student in the DC area who is also big into fitness and running. The runner in me relates to a lot of her posts. She blogs at Kylie McGraw.
Julia and Amelia are two best friends (like Vi and I!) since 6th grade, who blog together in the Seattle and Bellevue area. And since I’m moving up to Seattle in the fall, it’s fun to follow their adventures and see what they’re up to up there!
I saw this quote this week on Pinterest and just loved it. Life is too short to be surrounded by negative people. The people you invite into your life should be positive, inspirational, loyal, and supportive, to name a few traits. I’ve moved a lot in last few years from Chicago, to DC, Santa Monica, Orange County, and next up Seattle.
Each time I move I focus on making meaningful, lasting friendships. You get what you give. You have to be a good friend in order to have good friends. Friendships and relationships are what make a place home for me. I will continue to seek out positive vibes, real people, honesty, and humor in my search for new friends.
And lastly I wanted to feature again, for those of you who may have missed it yesterday. Continuing my interview series I interviewed Hanne who has visited more than 50 countries in the world, with the hopes of visiting every country! She speaks 5 languages and blogs over at Places, People, Stories. Be sure to check out her interview here.
Have a good weekend friends, see you back here Monday!!
Aww, thank you so much for the shoutout! You are too sweet 🙂 I’m so glad we discovered each other’s blogs. You, me and Jules will definitely need to schedule a coffee date when you move up here!
Have a wonderful weekend hon!
xo Mil
https://southbynorthwestblog.wordpress.com/
Of course! Happy to share the blog love.
That would be so nice to meet up! We will be in touch 🙂
Have a good weekend Mil talk to you soon!
Julie
Oh my goodness you are too sweet!! Thank you so much for the shoutout! I love to read your blog and I love how I’ve made “blogger friends!” Have a great weekend!!
Lauren
http://www.postgradinprogress.blogspot.com
You are so welcome! 🙂 Love that I found your blog too. Have a good weekend Lauren!
Adding My Year with Elanor to my to read list, thanks for the recommendation!
I’m so glad! Let me know what you think 🙂
I read Kylie’s blog every day! I need to go check out the other bloggers you featured. That book sounds good, I’m going to check out your book club recommendations. How exciting that you’re moving to Seattle! I love it here, so I hope you end up loving it too!
I love that the blogging world can be so small sometimes in a good way. It’s nice to see ‘familiar’ faces around 🙂
Let me know if you end up liking any of my book recommendations! I’d love to hear yours too.
Glad to hear your love it in Seattle! I’m excited but have heard that generally people from Seattle have friends from childhood who they stick with and don’t usually let people into their ‘inner circles.’ Hah, do you agree with that statement?
Just had to come see for myself, hehe. Love that interview series, it’s such a great idea! Now I need to go check out your book club page so I can add to my Amazon order 🙂
Thanks Molly for all the support, you’ve been so awesome! I’d also love to hear your book recommendations too!
That’s crazy you got to workout with the P90x creator – that must have been one amazing workout!
My cousin who loves P90x and has done it many times, was VERY jealous that I got to work out with Tony Horton! It was a really fun and cool experience 🙂
That workout session looks amazing, wish I lived where you were to try it out.
I definitely agree with that quote. I believe in that too, I look to people raise me up, not bring me down.
liz @ sundays with sophie
It was really fun, my first beach workout!
I love a good quote and friendships are so important to me!
Thanks for visiting and commenting Liz!
My Year With Eleanor has been on my “to-read” list for a little while! I’ll have to check it out with I’m done with my current book 🙂 My blog is very new (as in, last week new!) and I’d love to incorporate what I’m reading into my posts- you’ve inspired me!
I’ve been wanting to read My Year with Eleanor for over a year now and finally got to it and it was great! What book are you currently reading? I love good book recommendations.
Welcome to the blogging world! it’s fun. I feel like I’m just getting the hang of blogging now even after having a blog for a while. Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂 Feel free to email me.
I’m so glad I inspired you, thank you for saying that.
Oh thank you so much for sharing the blog love! 🙂 Besides writing, making blog friends is my second favorite part! How was the workout?! Autumn was in Pittsburgh a few months ago but I missed it! I worked out with Sagi Kalev from Body Beast in March…he is a BEAST for real!
You’re so welcome! You’re awesome and it’s been fun getting to know you through your blog!
The workout was super fun. I’m so glad I went. It was really inspiring, I need to step up my workout game 🙂
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