It's all in a Name

Incredible pressure has kept me from starting a blog before now. What pressure? The pressure I felt when I clicked on the icon to “start a blog” and then read the first blank to be filled in. “Title of Blog.”  Hmmm. Title. Should it be a statement about me? What I am hoping to accomplish? Something clever? It all seemed too difficult, and like something to face later.

I have to say I am gun-shy of titles about me, since I had a bad experience with usernames. One day when we were having internet difficulties, I was on the phone with a tech guy who was being inappropriately flirty with me. And he was not flirty in a cute, complimentary way. It left me wracking my brain as to why. I hadn’t said anything inappropriate. He had my username and password and had asked if some of it was the year I was born. And I replied that it was. So, I asked Teddy (because he is a guy) if there was something up with my username that I didn’t understand. My username was a combination of the Girl Scout camp nicknames of myself and my best friend in fourth grade. And it was completely innocent and something I could easily remember. It was” thumperbunny62. “

Teddy laughed when he heard it, “Really Mom?” 

“What?!” I responded.

He asked, “What do they call the ladies at the Playboy mansion?”

”Oh” I said. ‘What do they call the rabbit in Bambi?!” I retorted!

I guess a lot depends on your point of view.

So, since I would like to use this blog to write, I thought about my writing and remembered how I “learned” to type working on the newspaper in high school. I typed like the old-school journalists with two fingers. And I got to be pretty darn fast at it, when my mom didn’t type my articles. It has been a bad habit that I still struggle to break and I am still a poor typist. Maybe this blog will help.

Signed by my new usernames- “Godsgirl62” or “Canttouchthis81”