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Women of the Week

11751934_10101471181577145_8442469844993514420_nThis week my life was filled with amazing women. Many of them, from all walks of life, some new friends, some old friends, and all fun. Thursday evening I attended the Bloganista Mixer with a plethora of fellow women writers and want-to-be-writers (me!). Our fearless leader, Javacia, has been knocking it out of the park since I met her a few years ago seeing The First Lady (it was our first date!) and she hasn’t stopped. She founded and runs an amazing group called See Jane Write for women writers and next Saturday, she is putting on the Bloganista Mini-Con – an all day conference for bloggers and boss ladies. The mixer this past Thursday was a nice time to mingle with fellow attendees, speakers, and panelists while shopping at the best consignment shop in Birmingham, Collage Consignment. I left inspired and with a perfect, cheap dress for the beach next month.

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Yesterday, the Birmingham Girls Club was privileged to be invited by BGC member Julia to her family’s place on Yellow Creek. It was a family fun event with lots of amazing food, floats, boats, and laughs. About eight BGC members made the trek, with their families, to a beautiful house on the lake complete with 2 levels, a huge deck and pier, lovely pontoon boat, and more water noodles than you could shake a stick at. We spent the day chatting about life, love, body hair, and so much more. The beautiful women of BGC got a chance to talk in depth in an extremely relaxing environment while also getting to know significant others, which we rarely get to do. After returning from the lake, I then spent with a few more gorgeous gals – pictures below. I hope you had an equally inspiring and relaxing weekend. You deserve it! What did you do to take care of you this weekend?IMG_1876

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It’s time to get crazy

Today starts BLOG LIKE CRAZY! It’s a fun, 30 day challenge started by my friend Javacia, founder of See Jane Write, a few years ago. During November, we blog everyday for 30 days. I usually start strong and then peter out. Fingers crossed and mind ready to go strong all month long this year! Javacia always gives us great writing prompts to help in case we get stuck, but I want to build off that. What do YOU want me to blog about during the challenge, dear reader? Do you have any questions for me?

I’ll answer one that I asked a few of my blogger friends the other night during our Power Girl Book Club meeting: what is my brand? I’ve heard “You are your brand” numerous times from Chanda, Jennifer, and Javacia, but what did that mean for me? I wasn’t quite sure so I asked a few close friends their thoughts on my brand. They nailed it: my brand is Birmingham and building community. My passion for Birmingham is no secret and I love connecting people with each other and building those relationships. Kyra Sedgwick was The Closer….I am The Connector. So, look for more posts about Birmingham, connecting friends and community, and, of course, unicorns.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Or rather, I have one. Ok, so today’s #bloglikecrazy post looks fun. We are to write a post celebrating a part of our body. This is a wonderful prompt from Javacia because I don’t think we do it nearly enough as women. So, hopefully today there are tons of Janes out there writing about how awesome they are. Let’s make it everyday, ladies!

Not to sound arrogant, but I have a lot of great features. We ALL do. And though it may knock things over on its own every time I turn around in a department store, I LOVE MY BIG BUTT! lol. I’m not really sure why and I *probably* shouldn’t be so proud of it since it is rather large and basically its own planet. But I’ve always had it, I’ve learned to embrace it, J Lo helped A TON growing up (“In Living Color” anyone?), and it is what it is. It fills out my pants, it cushions me when I ride my bike, and it keeps me warm. It has a ton of positives.  There are some negatives, but they don’t matter and I’m not thinking about them.

There you go – short and sweet. My bum rocks. 🙂

And just to give you even more awesomeness to think about, go read this amazing post I saw online today. I think it may be my favorite internet post ever because it hits so close to home. Thank you, Teresa. You are my new hero.

Love yourself.
Find peace inside.
Share happiness.