Thing #2

My posting name is surfergirl13. My husband and I are obsessed with all things Beach Boys and Brian Wilson. My husband and I kept what we had engraved inside each others' wedding bands secret until after we walked back down the aisle (to "God Only Knows" I might add) and took off our brand new rings and read them. He had "Forever you'll be my surfer girl" engraved in my wedding band and it refers to a couple of our favorite songs. The number "13" refers to the age that we first started dating each other. We took an 11 year "break" before getting back together at age 24, but we did honor our 8th grade romance by getting married on our original anniversary date.

The name of my blog is "juice box" which is a reference to the pronunciation of my last name--which sounds exactly like a delicious childhood juice box drink that I'm sure we all remember. (psst..it's Hi-C. Fruit Punch was my favorite)

...moving on...

Creating the blog, as I said in my first post, was pretty easy. I'm looking forward to exploring the site further and adding pictures, videos, links, etc. as I go along. I really like to "get into" these kinds of tools. I'll click on every button to see what it does. I have a very particular aesthetic sensibility so I can't wait to try everything out until I get it right. I read blogs all the time online and I have stopped reading many of them because they were so user un-friendly. I can't stand a blog with a billion components and sections and buttons and blinky things and blah blah blah. When I come across a blog that's too hard to navigate or messily put together I dont' even want to bother reading the first post because I know I won't want to bother with exploring the site. I'm hoping that I can create a blog that is easy to use and at least somewhat interesting.

...oh avatars...

I have to say I'm not a huge fan of the avatar. I had fun creating it and thought the process was super simple but I just really have a preference for photos. I'm sure some people aren't comfortable posting their photo on the front of their blog but I think it's much more pleasing to the eye. My husband and I have an inside joke about avatars that goes something like this: "Honey, did you leave your cereal bowl in the sink again?!" "No baby! That must have been my avatar!"

I sort of tried to make my avatar look like me, and pick at least a semi-cool outfit for her to wear. I'm a big leopard-print person (Although the way I just phrased that makes it sound like I'm a big person who is, in fact, leopard printed. That is definitely not the case but I think it's kind of funny so I'll leave it that way.) I'm not sure that I would advocate a leopard scarf and leopard shoes, but it was the most "me" outfit I could find. Since I come to class in sweats every week I'm sure that doesn't seem like it makes any sense but in my real life I do actually wear real clothes.