Naming my Blog

I'm the one who, as a kid, reached the end of the buffet line with nothing on my plate. Too much to choose from. Couldn't make up my mind. If I took this then I couldn't take that. Might be something better down the line. And so I passed by the salads, then the breads, then the vegetables and the meats, and finally the desserts. I needed more time but the line kept moving me forwards. Decisions were not my forte.

I decided to create a blog site this evening and proceeded to figure out how. No problems. And then I got to the part where I had to choose a name for my blog. Great. Whatever I chose would commit a url address to my blog that couldn't, I figured, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever throughout all eternity be changed. Dang. The line was pushing me forwards and I'd end up with nothing on my plate.

So I grabbed a note card (leaning forwards, messing up the pixels on my screen because something is wrong with this computer) and started writing some words that I associated w/journal writing, even using the online Thesaurus hoping to come up w/something interesting. I love Amanda's blog title - MizeTimes has that wonderful alliteration and I love playing w/sounds in words. Not much I can do w/Beth though. (I also use the online rhyming dictionary...I get death and meth.) Since it's probably not smart to write my last name given that this is the internet, I can pretty much assume anyone reading this knows me, so you realize my last name doesn't rhyme w/much and the "org" in it just doesn't dance over the lips. Rhyming and alliteration were out. So the Thesaurus led me to some nice words like "inklings," "notions," "musings," and "reveries," but those all sounded like words someone who takes him/herself too seriously would use.

Then I thought, "Hey, maybe I'll use an acronym!" After all, acronyms are fun, right? So...I'm a Middle Aged White Woman... And now you know why I decided not to go w/an acronym.

Maybe I'd call it Say What? (influenced, maybe, by thinking "it's just a blog. It doesn't matter. So What?") But Say What was taken. The computer suggested beth-say what as a substitution but that was very lame.

Meanwhile, that line is pushing me forwards and I'm getting a little frustrated by my empty tray. I have to choose a name and that NEXT STEP icon is really big.

Back to the rhyming idea... maybe I could rhyme w/initials. bj's day? Sounded dorkey. Maybe the In a Fog Blog? cuz that was how I was feeling, but it was also one I knew I'd immediately regret, like nearing the end of the buffet line and quickly grabbing the chocolate pie that was made with instant pudding.

So I went back to the idea of a journal. I like etymology - the history/source of words. The word journal begins with jour - the French word for day. Jour is also the beginning of the word journey. Journal, jour, journey. I liked the connections. On a whim, I used the online dictionary for jour and that cinched it. Not only is jour the French word for day, it is also, I learned, the abbreviation for journal. So, my blog's name would be bj's jour. It even has a little alliteration.