best of ‘09: best blog find

well hellooooooo!

still alive.

promise.

i have been meaning to do Gwen’s Best of 2009 Blog Challenge and i’m doing about as well with that as i did with the true purpose of Nablahblahblah month.  Oops.  Soooo I’m going to start with today’s challenge and then use the other ones as blog fodder somewhere down the line. because i’m smart like that. and a little lazy sometimes.

ahem.

i have found several new blogs this year that i adore. heart, even. i heart a LOT of things, but i have really strengthened my bloggy friendships this year.

i always love having my real-life friends join the blogging community, and ash did just that this summer. yeah, she doesn’t post all the time, and yeah, she’s a little lurky, and yeah, she’s skipping the #bloggersinsincity meet up to hang out with her husband on their stupid anniversary, but she’s cool.  go check her out.  she’s participating in this project also.

i also love my bitches from when this blog was hosted on blogger, like the queen of dallas (who coined the term “i hate bitches but i love mine”), the lovely ms. kami. she is a momma to Nik and a wife to Nate, and a girl after my own liberal heart. didn’t see her when i was in texas, but next trip i am definitely scheduling a little girl time.

i have also made some new friends, like wishy, and rach, and jill, and lilu, and amy, and other ashley, and jenn, and michelle, and brandy, and mermanda. those girls are the ones that no matter how backed up my reader gets, i never mark them as read, and i always enjoy getting their comments on my days-old posts because i know their readers are just as behind as mine.

i have a tragically short attention span sometimes, so i also have a (large) handful of tumblrings in my reader.  i love beautiful photography and quotes (in fact, i’m a mod for @iheartquotes on twitter — follow us!) so some of my favorite tumblrings are cardboard love, i can read, wears heart on sleeve, eff yeah, love, and of COURSE post secret. and as an added bonus on my short attention span list: jamie’s shopping blog and it made my day. oh, and wordboner.  love.

so i know i broke the rules, but i do that sometimes.  if you want to keep track of all the blogs i mentioned, you can find them all in my blogroll!