jamie ann

code name: lovely

August 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am . Posted in bloggy things .

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!

Your turn.

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The Modern Gal
Aug 26, 2008 @ 6:11 pm

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.

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wishcake
Aug 26, 2008 @ 6:22 pm

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.

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sophie
Aug 26, 2008 @ 6:26 pm

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.

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Phil
Aug 26, 2008 @ 6:59 pm

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.

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Miss Em
Aug 26, 2008 @ 7:32 pm

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”.

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Rachel M.
Aug 26, 2008 @ 7:51 pm

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…..”

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Nat Marie
Aug 26, 2008 @ 8:05 pm

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…

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Susie
Aug 26, 2008 @ 8:21 pm

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!

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Brittany
Aug 26, 2008 @ 8:25 pm

Mine’s “Class Act” because I thought it’d be mainly college-related stuff, which hasn’t exactly been the case.

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Dan Mega
Aug 26, 2008 @ 8:46 pm

Jessica named my blog. This is a fact.

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erin
Aug 26, 2008 @ 8:57 pm

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.

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CurlySue
Aug 26, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

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.

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alexa
Aug 26, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

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!

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Jessica
Aug 26, 2008 @ 9:32 pm

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.

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sandy
Aug 26, 2008 @ 9:49 pm

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!

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A Jill of All Trades
Aug 26, 2008 @ 10:05 pm

Because I’m a multi-purpose gal!!!

I am multi-talented.

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libby
Aug 27, 2008 @ 12:24 am

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!

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Jordyn
Aug 27, 2008 @ 12:28 am

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.

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Jess
Aug 27, 2008 @ 1:39 am

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.

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ally
Aug 27, 2008 @ 3:30 am

tequila vs mockingbird, a literary allusion? or do i drink too much?

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mandy
Aug 27, 2008 @ 8:15 am

Just A Small Town Girl –just seemed to fit.

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rialeilani
Aug 27, 2008 @ 8:19 am

This is such a good question!

Mine is the last 3 letters of my first name and my middle name

rialeilani

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Anonymous Amy
Aug 27, 2008 @ 8:40 am

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.

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Katie
Aug 27, 2008 @ 9:09 am

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.

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ashley.marie
Aug 27, 2008 @ 9:45 am

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!

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Janet
Aug 27, 2008 @ 9:53 am

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.

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sass
Aug 27, 2008 @ 10:51 am

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

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Rebekah
Aug 27, 2008 @ 11:06 am

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. )

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Nuka
Aug 27, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

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.

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Marie
Aug 27, 2008 @ 3:04 pm

I love coffee. Would love to sit in a cafe most days and read or blog. Hence my little cafe on the internet!

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margot
Aug 27, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

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.

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Liz
Aug 27, 2008 @ 6:14 pm

Started it on a whim when I got fed up with my old blog name. But really? I just like cake.

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e.p.
Aug 27, 2008 @ 9:11 pm

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, â€œHi, EP! While your handwriting is quite stylish, I find it very hard to read. Please consider printing for the exams. Thanks!â€

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e.
Aug 27, 2008 @ 9:56 pm

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!

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Lulu
Aug 27, 2008 @ 10:55 pm

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!

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kim*
Aug 28, 2008 @ 10:47 am

how the heck and why do you get so many comments lol

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Wei
Aug 28, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

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.

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Truly
Aug 28, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

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.

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Ashley
Aug 28, 2008 @ 3:18 pm

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.

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Amanda
Aug 28, 2008 @ 3:47 pm

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.

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Erin
Aug 28, 2008 @ 4:34 pm

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.

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Cait
Aug 28, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

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.

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thatShortChick
Aug 28, 2008 @ 5:47 pm

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.

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deeter
Aug 28, 2008 @ 8:13 pm

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.

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emrlds
Aug 28, 2008 @ 8:17 pm

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. =)

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R
Aug 28, 2008 @ 10:06 pm

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!

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Amanda
Aug 29, 2008 @ 12:46 am

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.”

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Claire
Aug 29, 2008 @ 9:58 am

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.

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amy purple
Aug 30, 2008 @ 9:18 am

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.

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chele
Aug 31, 2008 @ 1:19 pm

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.

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Princess Pointful
Sep 02, 2008 @ 5:07 pm

Honestly? I just thought it was a fun, underused phrase!

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Toni-Marie
Sep 03, 2008 @ 7:55 pm

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…

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amy
Sep 06, 2008 @ 12:05 pm

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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