Happy Weekend!

Oh, friends. It is Friday, right? To say this week was difficult would be the biggest understatement of the century. So far, although 30 is lovely, it is extremely stressful. My goal for this weekend is to get my head up and stop worrying about things I cannot change. Easier said than done, I know, but I’ve gotta try.

You know what might help? Some fun links from around the web. Yes? Yes!

– Lane is talking Emmy fashion over on her blog. Who was on your best dressed list? I’m always a sucker for Zooey DeChanel, but I was digging Tina Fey too.

– I love this post from Anne the Adventurer about blogging professionally. I think we (bloggers) get caught up in this space and so many of us feel shy about admitting that we want this to be what we do for a living. I admire her courage in putting it all out there. Can’t wait to see what happens next!

– So, you need fonts, eh? Design Love Fest has some great (and FREE) ones for you.

– A DIY Instagram photo album! I love this!

– A device that turns your digital images into real life Polaroids on the spot? People are so smart.

– I was super proud of this story out of Kansas City about a school’s choice for homecoming queen. With all the bad news on this front this week, I was happy to be from a place that is celebrating differences, all without pomp and circumstance. They just did it because it was the right thing to do. Right on, Park Hill South High School! You rock!

– Dads are the original hipsters.

– This video about the most passionate drummer in the world had me crying what Lulu calls “happy tears.” When people are this joyful in their lives, it makes me remember all the good in the world.

– Paris vs New York.

– Hey, Internet, are you reading my private journal? Because so many of you posted exactly what I needed to read this week. This post from A Cup of Jo was just so spot on for me this week. Part of it includes a poem by Rudyard Kipling, and I wanted to share an excerpt here as well…

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

– I’m so excited for D Moms Magazine! I need my Dallas friends to pick me up a few copies.

– Pretty much any post or photo series on the space shuttle is going to get me right in the heart.

– Why women should stop trying to be perfect.

Whew, that was a lot of links! Guess the Internet was a pretty inspiring place this week. Which, honestly, I needed. I needed to feel encouragement and read stories of struggle, because that is pushing me forward. Onward, onward.

I’m not posting any Instagram photos this week, since most of them are from Vegas and you’ve already seen them here. Instead I’ll leave you with this video. It snapped me out of a major funk this week. Let’s start this shit up, people.