code name: lovely
- Author: Jamie
- Filed under: bloggy things
Aug 26,2008
I’ve always wondered about some of your blog name meanings so now is the time to dish!
Why is your blog called what it is called? Your name, favorite color, imaginary friend, a word you like, favorite food, the crackhead down the street?
Whatever it is, I want to know.
My blog was started on a whim (as are all the awesome ones!) and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to call it. I like the word LOVELY and ran with it so there you have it.
Oh! How Lovely!
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Mine used to be Bionic Yoghurt because I was blogging about dieting more than anything else and was aiming to be more than a dieter.
Now mine is called If Music Be after the old addage, if music be the food of love, play on. i chose it because i love music and am still on my diet quest so it fitted both.
My dad made a toast on my graduation day and explained to my extended family that most people’s lives are filled with ups and downs like a rollercoaster. He then went on to say that life with mine, from the very start, has been no ordinary rollercoaster. I think it was a compliment.
i wanted to go underground and All The Wine by The National came up next on Shuffle. A blog was born :)
I don’t have that fun of a story behind my blog name…my name is Vanessa so “Designs by Vanessa” it was lol. I also wanted the freedom to be able to talk about my different creations and not just jewelry so that is why it is “Designs” and not “Jewelry by Vanessa”. ;)
I was toying with the idea of starting a blog about relationship and dating and blah blah blah, when I was consoling a friend who had just been ignored and treated badly for the upteenth time by a man she had been seeing. She asked me, “Why do I go back? Why do I think he’ll change?”
“Cause hope dies last, hon” I said.
And in that moment, I knew, that defined my whole view towards dating (and it turns out, life) in a nutshell.
And ze blog was born. :)
My given name is Catherine. When I was in high school, people called me Cat. The whole very bad thing just came about out of my general mischievousness. Cattails was what really excited me-the whole play on Cat’s Tales, Cattails, etc.
I wanted mine to be in French because I’m part French since I grew up in Quebec and it’s still a fairly big chunk of who I am. So it’s French for “the pretty writer.” Ha, talk about an ego! Calling myself a writer… sheesh.
Um - mine’s not too exciting. Nuttycow is a name I’ve used for… well, ever on the internet.
Parlez-vous moo is just my question to the world. Do they speak the same language as me? In most cases, yes.
well, my eyes are hazel and i’ve always liked that song by kelly clarkson called ‘behind these hazel eyes’ so that’s why my blog is called that!
i knew i wanted the blog to be a way to reconnect with the ladies in my life..hence chick. and i have a weird love for lady bugs. so combined, you get chickbug.
“Poodle” is what I call things that I love (My animals, friends & family: all poodles). I don’t know why I started it or when it began (quite early, in fact), because I do remember feeling both distinctly miffed and happy when I was watching Will and Grace, and you know, Karen Walker.
It’s what I started calling Zoe after we met.
“Goose” is a name my fiance called Zoe, which was more like “Baba Goose.” I took off the “baba,” because “poodle” fits so much better, and Voila! Blog name, though I did struggle for a bit at first.
Mine was also started on a whim, and I just named it after one of my favorite Ryan Adams lyrics ever (song - “Monday Night,” - Tried to Live Forever Every Day of the Year) because it seemed appropriate. But now I realize that sometimes people don’t want to link such a long name for formatting reasons. But nots like I’m gonna change it NOWZ. :)
I started blogging on wordpress thanks to you, my dear. (Actually I think a “Thanks Jamie!†post might be in the works for the coming week) I wanted to be a cool blogger like you and Brandy and all the other wonderful people I read daily,…I wanted a blog of my own.
Thus, A Blog of Her Own.
It’s also nice that it’s a bit of an allusion to A Room Of One’s Own (which works on so many levels for the stuff I typically blog about: relationships/feminism/my life in general). I don’t think I could have picked a better name. Also, it’s fun to shorten to A BOHO.
angilio - my screen name since ughhhhhh 10th grade? loud and proud were two random adjectives i added for the tagline one cold january morning. not really sure why. i suppose i am both of those most of the time.
and for the record: my fave color is green, fave food is mashed potatoes and my fave crackhead down the street wears a tee that says “its called wrigleyville for a reason!” (but i dont even know what that means)
The phrase ‘lip smacking wit’ just popped in my head one day, and I liked it. Googled it just to make sure I didn’t hear it anywhere, and nothing came up, so there we go.
Ever since I can remember, I’ve always had a favorite pair of red shoes…. so I incorporated that into my blog. It is my way of attempting to see the everything in my life as “glass half full” - for me, red shoes just make me happy and put me in that frame of mind.
I’ll share my story when I launch the new design. Stay tuned!
My blog is Sarah and the Goon Squad. When I was pregnant with my twins my husband started calling them “The Goon Squad” it sort of stuck.
I started going by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah because there were too many Sarahs out there and I wanted people to know which one I was when I commented.
I should probs post this on mine someday…
Old family legend that when our great great great grandparent’s came across the name got switched and our actual last name was Vataha (pretty sure thats not how it’s spelled in Polish though)…annnnnyway….when my sissy and I heard the story the first thing we said was “Holy Vataha, Batman!” and voila! the blog name was formed!
Oh I love this!
I pulled my title & tagline from my favorite song by my favorite artist: I Summon You - Spoon. Cassette45: the signal’s a cough
Remember the weight of the world / It’s a sound that we used to buy / On cassette and 45 / And now this little girl / She says will we make it at all
Julybug is my bf’s nickname for me. Like Junebug, but my birthday is in July so Julybug it is.
A nickname I was given at work because I! Can! Do! Anything! I thought it was cute, so I made it my super-secret-blogger-identity. However, obviously Supergirl is a rather popular name thanks to a certain comic company…and I could probably get in trouble for using it…though I’m sure the 10 people who read my blog won’t tell on me :-) Just in case, I’ve been thinking about changing it, but I will probably keep some sort of play on the word.
I have a large ottoman in my living room. And…it is spotted. I knew I wanted a blog, but I was a little stumped so I kept looking around my house for things that resonate with me, and I spend an absurd amount of time sprawled out on the ottoman. There you have it!
You may remember, I started as Informed but Unimportant Musings. I wanted to enter the blogosphere establishing that yes, I DO have an excellent education, I’m a good student, I keep up with current events, I AM INFORMED, but I’m not going to write about that stuff. Buuuut then I realized “Musings” is kind of overused in the blogosphere so I needed something new. Angelaboration sent me a list of wordplays on my name, one being Reneeborhood. As a big Mr. Rogers fan, I created A Beautiful Day in the Reneeborhood. Every day is beautiful here. :-)
My blog is called Kyla Bea because my first name is Kyla and my last name starts with the letter B. At my last job, everyone went by initials as nicknames - there was already a “K†so I became “KBâ€.
Because a lot of what I’m interested in is crafty stuff the “Bea†plays off the idea of a quilting bee or a knitting bee, and it sounds kinda cute!
the freakin million dollar question, right?
because no one ever knows what my blog means, not ever. skrinker? is a made up word. i did a post on the definition of it once and recently submitted it to urbandictionary. basically it means to be sneaky about something, or… get into something, play around with or in, kind of be sly about it. and i wanted to incorporate the word because it’s such a big part of me and my friends’ vocab, involving the heart. writing from the heart. skrinkering about things in my heart.
cheesy, yup.
When I was starting my blog I spent a few days thinking about a name. Then I decided I wanted to use one of my favorite colors (Turquoise), but I needed something to go with it…. So I came up with Ribbons. Ribbons are cute and flowy and girly and I like them. Turquoise Ribbons it is!
My theatre friends nicknamed me downbeat when I started music directing because I’m kind of a freak about strong downbeats. And I talk about lots of random things. Hence, Random Musings from the Downbeat.
I say “ooooooooooh fancy!” and “oh that’s fancy.” and “so you ordered a FANCY drink” (primarily to boys who want fruit in their vodka drinks)….like, all the time. It’s disgusting and weird how often I say “________ fancy”.
AND. I’ll tack “big time” on to whatever other phrase I happen to be using.
deutlich translates to clear or concise, which I totally dig
and Speak On It is basically how I feel about anything.
Go ahead and speak on it. :)
The mile high city of course.
Mine is a bit of obvious though
I’m a complete klutz. If something falls over I’ll go ‘was that me?’ and usually it was… In fact, I’m so used to that being the case that when one of my friends (I couldn’t tell who) dropped something the other day, I hurriedly announced to an astounded group ‘It wasn’t me!’
And oopsy’s the one word that comes out of my mouth more than any other…
My blog name stems from my frustration that no-one spells my name correctly. My whole life I have been telling people that my name has two l’s. My email address has my name in it … people still email me with my name spelled incorrectly. Gah!
Mine is called what’s that simply because boyfriend made me do it, he told me about wordpress and I said what’s that. He then made that my user name. I have been addicted ever since.
I really like cacti - they’re the only plant I can’t kill - and I’m generally an optomist…hence Happy Cactus
Well, first, my blog was called Much Needed Coffee Break, which it was really needed, sooooo
TheBurbz actually started because ot the WYD blog. I knew it would be big (because of yours and Bens loyal readers). I was really stuck as to what to come up with, so I started to think of things that would describe my life. I thought about other bloggers and their names (yours included!) and I was like, I’ve never lived in the city! Always in the suburbs. I then remembered that I once had a Sim family names The Burbs and went from there.
littlemamabear is for a couple of reason. One being that I’m very petite and I’m a mom (duh) and the bear is because LilB got the nickname “Poopy Bear” after some explosive bowels (lovely, I know), so naturally mama bear and papa bear came next.
Angela + Elaboration = angelaboration
My blog name is because I am random. I bounce around from subject to thought, from thought to subject. One day I’m confused about something simple and the next it makes perfect sense.
Side affects from OCD, ADHD, and lack of sleep!
Sizzle is a nickname given to me by a previous boyfriend. While he didn’t stick, the nickname did. Hence. “Sizzle Says.”
Ta Da!
My blog title actually is derived from a poem by Walt Whitman.
http://www.bartleby.com/142/208.html
The poem is firstly about Walt Whitman’s observations of a spider, and then he write the rest of the poem to himself about having a soul that’s like a spider. Tossing the gossamer to connect things in his world and spin himself a home.
So, Soul Like a Spider. :)
Mine is named after a Priscilla Ahn song. I discovered her randomly on iTunes and she has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard.
I chose that particular song because it was about letting go of something that’s holding you back, and I had started trying to do that re: my failed relationship.
My favorite poem is “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot. One of the opening lines states, “Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets..” It’s my favorite stanza; it paints a beautifully gothic picture.
I wish I had a cool answer like the people above, but I don’t. I needed a blog name and the only thing I could think of on a whim was “No Guts, No Glory”. However it does pertain to a lot of things I do, so it will suffice.
As for my URL name….leahvictorija.blogspot.com, that is a personal (and nerdy) thing. If I ever have a daughter I want her name to be Leah Victorija. Leah is pronounced Lee-ah, and the unique spelling of VIctorija is just the LIthuanian way of doing it.
I’m a dork.
Well, it used to be called “Wubulous” because there was the Wubulous World of Dr. Seuss on tv and I liked the word. Now it’s “My Quiet Testimony” because I was looking through the dictionary for words I liked, “testimony” was in there, and I added “quiet.” I think it’s a good name for a blog.
dooblehvay is “w” in French and through a random linguistical warped sense I turned it into meaning “whatever” as a young French student. Do you like it? It gets addictive. Someone is annoying you? “doobleh-vay”
Yr hair just won’t have a good day? “doobleh-vay”
Yr lover is being rude “doobleh-vay”
It is the perfect switch for the word whatever
and that is what my blog is about
xo
From Sleepless in Seattle. The scene with Meg in her car listening to Tom talk about how finding someone else is mmmagic, just made me think. I was just newly single and movies like that were really freaking breaking my heart so I decided I would be my own mmmagic. So cheesy, so true.
My URL is nothing exciting, just exactly how I felt, I’m just an average 20 something. But my psuedonym is another story. It was coined by Noelle of Daily Tannenbuam because my brother-in-law is a founding owner of WAKA, the World Adult Kickball Association and I live in Dutchess county, so I am the Dutchess of Kickball!
I love this idea!
Mine was a nickname I had when I was younger… Miss Priss. There’s a home video of me decked out in this flowing red ‘dress’ I found in my grandma’s closet (turns out it was a negligee… AHH, gross), high heels, and hot pink lipstick.
My mom asked, “so what’s your name, miss?”
With the fattiest lisp you’ve ever heard, I replied, “Miss Priss.”
I was the coolest, in case you didn’t know. :)
I came up with mine because I always hear from my friends what an ass I can be, so I thought, “You think it’s hard dealing with me? How do you think I feel? I can barely surviving myself.”
And there you have it.
Well ours isn’t horrendously inventive. We had just gotten back from the honeymoon, so of course we were obsessed with our new status of Mr and Mrs Corwin. But it seemed like any domain with Corwin was already taken, so we started throwing around different ways of saying it. Those Corwins flew out of my mouth and we loved it.
well-intentioned heartbreaker = i’m constantly breaking hearts, but only with the best of intentions.
Mine is a quote from the office…
i hate so much about the things you choose to be…
but now it’s more about how much i hate… everything.
wow that sounds more negative than I wanted it to.
It’s Wolof for “she doesn’t say that.” Because I was still on my Senegal kick when I named it.
Oh fun!
My blog was originally a way to share my on-going experiences with friends and family when I was abroad in Rome. So I just stole the common phrase “When in Rome” because it fit my situation so well.
My URL, and the name that appears when I comment and refer to myself, is a nickname I acquired somewhere along the way that is a play-on my last name.
dmb are my initials……i used it a lot for emails and usernames and such and everyone always asked: “man, you must really love dave matthews band huh?”. it got to be very annoying. i had the initials first!
Perks of Being a JAP - I wanted a cute blog name, and as a Jewish girl from NYC, I’m jokingly referred to as a JAP. I had just read Perks of Being a Wallflower, so there you go!
After I got divorced, I signed up on match.com. I had a photo that I cropped my ex out of and posted for my profile. I was so incredibly happy to be rid of my ex and having a great time being single again so between my joy and the fact that everyone commented on my smile in the photo I was using, my user name on match was Michelle Smiles. I met my husband on match and continued to be very happy. Then we had some fertility issues. It was a rough time emotionally. We decided to adopt and I felt like I suddenly had hope again after a very dark time - I found my smile. (Yes, corny, I know.) I started my blog when we started our adoption so I liked the feeling of everything coming together using the same name for my blog.
My dad wanted to name me Seven when I was born, but then they decided that my name should be Brooke. I always thought it would have been really cool to be named Seven, and when I first started blogging at a blogspot address, my blog was called “Just Call Me Seven” because I wasn’t going to put my real name on there. I decided to switch to Wordpress, and my brother wanted to buy me a domain. We tried to find something short and memorable, and he suggested OhMySeven. I liked it, and voila.
I’m a cynic…and I think I often see things from a different perspective than other people…thus, My Cynical POV was born! :)
(I wrote this on 20sb, but copying to here, too, since that’s what you intended.)
A MinD in MoTown was, more or less, me cropping down my name and the town I live in and attempting to be clever. You can either read it as “A Mindy in Motown” or “A mind in Motown.”
My name is Mindy (short for Melinda), but I have friends who write it out as MinD, which is really mind, hence reading into it two ways.
MoTown is the nickname for where I live: Mooresville, NC. Because of the population size, it’s technically a town (Town of Mooresville, ToM), so MoTown was born.
Possibly the most boring story:
There are five of us.
We are blonde (usually).
Five Blondes!
My blog name is Learning to Be Me. I guess I decided on it because I started my blog to find myself. To learn who I really was. After I realized that..it all just fell into place.
I couldn’t actually THINK of a name after I changed my blog - and I wanted something relatively anonymous, so I went for “Insert My Blog Name Here” as a temporary measure. But most people seemed to like that name, so I just left it as is.
Funnily enough, I was dealing with some correspondence in work from a bloke (which I know you are not!) called “Jamie Pretty” the other day and it made me think of you!
my last name is bode.
pronounced bo-dee
and it goes great with everything, so bodeblog, is the name, and bodelou is me :)
the almost right word was inspired by a Mark Twain quote: The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
I had considered a play on words using “write” instead of “right,” but it seems (after extensive googling) that some are already on that train.
I really wanted something to do with literature and great writers. Mark Twain isn’t necessarily one of my favorites, but he’s up there. And I am constantly searching for the right word.
LOL - if I had to explain the name of my blog, I really haven’t been doing my job right!
There was no real secret for coming up with mine, it was just “My life is crazy!” The SO looked over at me and said, yeah and you ramble on about it all the time. A blog was born!
“because it’s all about me” … um, because everything *is* all about me … i am just that self-centred! ;)
well, mine’s sort of self-explanatory, but there are three main reasons why i chose “is there a doctor in the house”
1. i’ve always sort of loved the idea of being able to be the one person in the place that could help somebody out. and i figured since i was going to school FOREVER i might as well tout the fact that, someday, i’d be a doctor.
2. i was also, at the very same time, making fun of myself because, hello, i could help anybody out of anything but a danging modifier. not exactly life and death stuff.
3. in the live version of “bad medicine,” jon bon jovi croons “is there a DOCTOR in the house?” and anything that jon likes, i like.
Well… being an unwed female is where the Miss if from.. Roboto - I love the 80’s song “Mr. Roboto” by the band Styx. It’s goofy and doesn’t make much sense, kind of like my life.
‘gorgeous footsteps in the sand’ is a quote in the dispatch song ‘flying horses’, it’s one of my faves and i always loved that line. and katelin, yeah that’s my name :)
The “elle” part means girl in french, “L” is the first letter of my name. “Electric” just rolled off the tounge.
I actually went to a website where you can click and two-word combinations pop up. I liked it because it is true - I have an “Unclean Conscience” … :-)
Fun!
Well, I lived in Krakow, Poland for two years and zubrowka is the name of my favorite brand of vodka…
As for Tea and Crumputs? How could you not love a crumpet warm from the oven with clotted cream and jam on top with your cuppa tea?
When I got married, I took Hubby’s last name, Klick, after losing a bet. Thus Klick-Here was born. It’s probably for the best, because Presan-Here doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Let’s see. The Modern Beau (before he earned that pseudonym) suggested I start a blog about everything that modern women like myself like. The modern girl seemed to already be used in a lot of places, so I went with The Modern Gal since I’m a southern gal through and through. Plus I say gal quite often.
Mine is kind of rediculous, actually.
My blog name is “simply, me.” because I didn’t really plan on keeping this blog around and it’s the only thing I could come up with. I wasn’t worried about being original, but now I wish I had been!
My actually blog address is “okayyeah.blogspot.com”. Again, it has to do with everything-under-the-sun being taken, so, I just did the first thing that came into my head. I want to switch to a dot-com, but the ones I want are taken, so I may have to do the whole dot-net thing, too…
My alias is “wishcake” and that is just because it’s a random email address I came up with one day, and it makes me happy. So, I keep it around.
My hairdresser once told another patron in the shop that she couldn’t have hair my color because, “You can’t get this from a bottle.” So that is my name.
My original blog was a generic “Phil’s Blog” on a community site. I didn’t know what kind of theme I wanted for it, so I settled on a theme that could involve everything. At the time, I wanted to be able to be completely open about who I am (without revealing personal information, of course), so in a title it became “All Things…” of who? Me. Hence, All Things Phil. I look at it and sometimes think it’s a tad egocentric, but then I remember when I started it and came up with the name, that it is anything but. It serves to always remind me to be myself. It’s good for me to have that reminder, and better still that I did the reminding myself.
What an awesome question! And so many responses!
Mine is called “Can You Point Me To The Bar..?” for a few reasons, mostly because it’s a well-worn phrase. I use it a lot. But also because I figure when I travel next year, it’ll be the only phrase I’ll learn in different languages. Oh, and maybe “please”.
Well I was sitting around trying to figure out what to call it and Dan asked,
“Just say what you are out loud and see what happens.”
“Well, I’m a mom. I’ll be a mom in this blog since I am one in real life…..hey…..”
Long story short, I was looking for a short one-word domain that reflected my life back then (actually, it still does! Hmph.). I thought of despair, desolate, words along those lines. I came across a synonym for desolate: crestfallen. Hmmm…
Well, I mean everyone loves a Boston girl right? When I first started, I was “The mere sense of living is joy enough” ummm and that lasted like a day. I knew I wanted something with Boston in my name and “Everyone Loves a Boston Girl” just seemed perfect.
And as for We are not Martha….well, we’re not. But we wish we were!
Mine’s “Class Act” because I thought it’d be mainly college-related stuff, which hasn’t exactly been the case.
Jessica named my blog. This is a fact.
i just changed mine ;)
my original (pb&razz) was named after peanut butter & raspberry jelly sandwiches as i ate them ALL the time right around when i started my blog. and they are two of my favorite things (not including chocolate or booze).
so just changed to i’d rather be dancing because…i would. and this is in my facebook profile and i think it clearly sums me up. so there.
but i am always jealous of people with awesome blog titles because i can never think of them.
Well, if you see my picture you will totally understand :) My natural curly hair has been my “thing” since I was a little girl. My dad called me Curly, guys starting in middle school called me Curlysue–I even fit that onto my license plate in high school (CRLYSUE). I love my hair and as for the “Twists & Turns” part–well, my life seems to be nothing but a same soap opera. Although I don’t always get around to posting about it all or to the fullest extent–I’d never get anything else done–my life is all but boring.
cleveland’s a plum came from an old failed marketing campaign for the city of cleveland back in the 70’s. it was, “new york may be the big apple, but cleveland’s a plum!” there is an old retro store on the east side that had a tshirt with this slogan on it. i bought it for my sister who lives in new york because i loved the phrase so much. a month later i turned it into a blog.
great topic by the way!
I really wish I had a great story about this. I’m always sad to tell how it actually came about.
When I decided to blog, I knew I wanted to write about my adventures in Chicago so I wanted something cute-sounding so I said, “I’m starting a blog and it will be titled ‘The Everyday Adventures of Me in the City.’”
Sometimes I wish it was a bit more creative than that.
I just thought of the one word that would aptly describe me, and, obviously, neurotic topped the list! ;)
The only thing I regret is making it my wordpress login, because I swear.. it takes me forEVER to type and I always slip up the spelling at least once. Yep, I’m a doofus!
Because I’m a multi-purpose gal!!! ;)
I am multi-talented.
ooh i have a post about why i go by libby.
as for ‘in this skin’…i think it was in this finding my identity and the ‘real’ me when i started blogging!
Ok when I was a wee little one my aunt babysat me along with this other kid, a boy named Jordan. We were best friends way back in the days before kindergarten. But anyways, to keep us separate the family would call him Boy Jordan and me Girl Jordyn. I always liked that and I think I was thinking of him when I named my blog.
I wasn’t being creative when I named my blog. Basically, I wanted something that was easy to remember so that people didn’t need a link to go to my site. So, my name is Jess. And I write. wow, jesswrites.com
Lately I’ve been sort of regretting not being more creative… but whatever.
tequila vs mockingbird, a literary allusion? or do i drink too much?
Just A Small Town Girl –just seemed to fit.
This is such a good question!
Mine is the last 3 letters of my first name and my middle name :)
rialeilani
Well, My name is Amy and I wanted to remain as anonymous as I could while blogging. The joke is on me though, I now know that is impossible.
I picked the name of my blog, Scattered Starlight, because I like the sound of it. I wanted something with “star” in the title because my name around the web has been secondstartoright. And right now I feel like I’m a personal disaster area because of everything going on in my life–grad school, sick/dying family members, and working full time–so I chose scattered.
Most of the time though, I look at my name and wonder if it actually makes any sense to anyone else. I’ve though about blogging about it, and might still.
Oh this is soooo interesting to read!
What a great question, obviously, Jamie. :)
Mine is currently “Our Little Apartment”. Why? Because last summer after we got married, we moved into a teeny, tiny, cozy apartment.
So I thought a cozy, welcoming name for my blog was in order.
It’s nothing fabulous, but it’s me!
My husband actually came up with the name. I loved this piece of artwork by Wayne Thiebaud–a slice of cake–so we were just coming up with a name that involved cakes and pink or something along those lines.
Some people take the term “slice of pink” to mean something provocative, which it totally does not.
lovely is a great word and baby pink is just right to go with it.
it’s the reason why i love sarah jessica parker’s lovely fragrance.
but that’s just it. it’s lovely!
i picked zucket because the favourite word i arbitrarily picked for myself was bucket. and i just put a spin on it with a z y’know to sound a lot alike other *ucket sounding phrases. haha
Welll, the old Red Stapler blog was named when I was setting it up at work and I was bored and looking at my office supplies. I wrote about work back then, mostly.
But now? All about relationships and my effed-up life? She’s Got Baggage? Well, DUH. :o)
I chose my name: My Own Superhero because it sums up how I look at the world. That it is important to find strength within yourself and be dynamic in how you live it. :)
I love coffee. Would love to sit in a cafe most days and read or blog. Hence my little cafe on the internet!
I was trying to think of cliche phrase of places where people ‘go’ since its the end of my name. so it was either margotfekyourself or margottobed and i thought to bed was friendlier.
Started it on a whim when I got fed up with my old blog name. But really? I just like cake.
On the first day of class in Media Ethics, my teacher forced us all to write an essay about ourselves so she could know us and what we were about.
I got the paper back the second day of class. A note was written on the sheet of looseleaf. It said, “Hi, EP! While your handwriting is quite stylish, I find it very hard to read. Please consider printing for the exams. Thanks!â€
I named my blog after a radiohead song (”Like Spinning Plates”). I felt like my life was totally out of control at the time and I felt like the song expressed that feeling. Nothing too complicated!
My blog name came about because cherry blossom season had just ended in Japan when I started it and I love Cherry Blossoms and they are a bit of a symbol of Japan you might say and my blog was about my adventures there so that is how Cherry Blossom Adventures was born!!! Not really a very exciting story!
Anyway just popped in from Enny`s blog to say you have been tagged in a link lovin! meme if you care to participate! It is a little bit of a way to discover some new blogs and celebrate those you read religiously! I am a new reader to your blog as of today!
The instructions are on my blog if you wish to participate! Cheers!
Ps: Love your blog name! And it was great to hear how others had come up with their own blog names!
how the heck and why do you get so many comments lol
Mine is called, Wei’s Open Secret. First of all, Wei is my name (of course), plain and simple. And I remember liking someone’s blog a few years back, call The Carrot Box. So I knew I want my blog name has a similar format… You know sharing my thoughts and stuff…. in public on the Web! Hence, Wei’s Open Secret is born. :D
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My Blog is called “Letters in E Minor” it’s a baby blog and not really going anywhere yet but the original concept was to have a place for the letters i write to people when i have something really important to say. because I think Letters are for the deeper truths. so the blog is supposed to be all truth.
the thing is that truth isn’t always nice. I play piano and E Minor is one of my favourite chords, it’s melancholy, dark and beautiful. so I was hoping that “Letters…” would take the same tone.
Mine actually started off being called The Observatory—how friggin original was THAT? Yeah I didn’t like it either and one day I was in the bookstore at FIT and saw a mug with the saying This Is Not The Life I Ordered!, had one of those aha! moments and that became my blog name. It very much fits me and my life and my big plans I’ve always had that definitely have never worked out.
Not such a great interesting story but thats where I came from. I really want to find that mug though.
Well, let’s see. I was discussing with my friend Karen how I’m a pretty weird sometimes… but I’m just on the cusp of normal…. meaning I’m close enough to pass as “normal” in the business world, grocery store, etc. But when you really get to know me, you might start to think… gee… that Amanda is kind of kooky…
:)
My boyfriend has another explanation though… and I will share that with the blogosphere shortly on Cusp of Normal.
My blog name comes from a song by Belle & Sebastian. I was actually just planning a blog post about this myself, but I’m still looking for a good video to use so you can all hear the song.
I’m a big fan of clever blog names, so it was obvious that’s what mine needed to be. I combined what I was writing about - finding balance between all the aspects of my college-girl life - with something dance-related. I knew I wanted the title to reflect my love of dancing, and somehow I came up with Finding My Balance and realized that it really also describes my life and what I write about.
mine is inspired by the amy cohen book “The Late Bloomer’s Revolution.” I LOVED the book and have always considered myself to be a late bloomer when it comes to love, height, and just about everything else.
my blog used to be called “coming up short” because it was a take on the fact that i’m short and that I feel like i’m aways “coming up short” in life. if i ever write a book that’s going to be the title.
its a line from “Crush” by Dave Matthews…i know people either love or hate him, but that song is one of my all time favorite songs, and has been for like 8 years now…it must’ve been playing when i made the blog, that or i just pulled it out of no where. for me, it’s one of those songs for every occasion.
well, emrlds came from my obsession back in the day to move to seattle - the emerald city.
’she’s only waiting on the next best thing’ was a line from a song that just fit. you know when you hear it and it feels right? that was it. =)
I just started a new blog, in order go anonymous. The new name is a combo of my favorite color, orange, and the coolest word on the planet, phantasmagoric.
Hence, OrangeMagoric!
I’m so behind on the blog world with moving! I’m so glad I finally got to this though. So interesting…
Well, I started my blog while I was interning in LA, where a movie or TV show being worked on, rewritten, revised, and basically created is labeled as being “In Development.” I thought that was a nice parallel to my life at this point, thus “Life in Development.”
These are fun to read! My story is not that interesting… I was fifteen and I’d started a blog and I needed something to call it. Something self-deprecating and…alliterative? Why not? So, Confessions of a Chronic Dork. I’m not entirely sure I still like it, but I’m also a creature of habit.
Someday I would like to start a new blog, mostly because the only thing more painful than reading what I wrote as a fifteen-year-old is knowing that other people can read what I wrote as a fifteen-year-old. I would not mind burying those archives and moving to a bright new spot on the Internet. To that end, I purchased the domain name I’m currently using, because Miss OJ (or just OJ) was what people called me in high school. So my next title will be something about juice, I guess.
When I was little, my mom used to call me amy purple pink and orange. However, she has no memory of why she used to call me that. Bummer, I wish I had the story behind it.
I use the name amy purple not as a shortened version of that actually. When I first met one of my longtime friends, he asked me what my last name was. When I pronounced my maiden name to him, he thought I said Purple. To this day, he calls me amy purple and I kinda dig it.
this is so great.
anyway my url is siameseviking.blogspot its the best way to describe me being half Thai half Norwegian and I take great pride in it and because of this mix it affects my life allot.
the tambourine queen. I love music more than anything and tambourine is my favorite instrument. I feel i gives the extra spice to a song, I always like being the girl on the tambourine its so hippie, rock, disco all at the same time.
Honestly? I just thought it was a fun, underused phrase!
I used to have a blog, called interventionistgod after the Nick Cave song ‘Into my arms’ but I kept getting religious nut jobs on there, sending me hate comments and letting me know how i was going to hell for all the excesses that I partook in, so I got a new one, and used my name, Toni-Marie - excelling in excess since 1988…
I always loved Little House on the Prairie books, and I live in the world’s TINIEST house, surrounded by quarries…Ergo…Little House on the Quarry. It’s always subject to change, though.
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