This little blog got a nice little face lift last night.  Do you know Erin?  She is pretty fantastic.  She prettied everything up for me and I love it.  As I’m figuring out how to capture my gratitude in a single snap chat, it got me thinking.  This whole blogging thing is pretty crazy.  A whole bunch of friends that I’ve never met before, but I feel like I know them.  For the longest time, I always felt weird talking about it, but lately I feel like that has changed.

It all started that one time that I didn’t get catfished by Heather and Chris.  Justin and I met them on Labor Day.  We had a nice lunch, then a nice visit to a little place called Rogue, then a rooftop visit to see their beautiful view and hang out with their dog & meet their neighbors, and then finally a really nice dinner complete with dessert.  A full day… hanging out with someone I had never met in person.  I’ve been so bad about posting the rest of our San Francisco trip, but I can tell you that that was one of my favorite parts.  I wish I could prove to you that I met her, but I took one picture that whole day…

It just doesn’t seem that weird to me anymore.  We chat back and forth all the time.  I text ridiculous pictures to Alexa and it doesn’t seem weird at all.  I’ve learned lots of things from reading blogs.  Thanks to the blog world, I know about Watermelon Beer, Fifth and Mae, too much about Miley Cyrus and the power of GIF’s.  I feel comfortable wearing yoga pants everywhere.  I feel constant support and get great advice from people all over the country.

On the other hand, I have real life friends that read my blog and sometimes ask questions about it.  They probably don’t understand link ups and sponsors, but knowing that they are out there sometimes makes me smile.  Even my mom and dad check in sometimes on the blog.  People that know me know that I’m ridiculous, cheesy and sometimes inappropriate, so nothing on my blog would surprise them… hopefully.

All that being said, I love having a blog.  As much as I’d like to pretend that numbers don’t matter to me, that would be a lie.  I love getting comments from people.  I love the people that I’ve started a relationship with just because of this blog and I LOVE that people I know take time out of their day every once in a while to read my blog.  

Thanks to Erin, I added a few new pages and I’ll be updating those over the next few weeks with the big move coming up.  I did update the sponsor page and for the rest of the week, you can get $2.00 off either spot with the code UFFDA.