Monday, July 18, 2011

NEW NORMAL...YEAH, I'LL TAKE IT

So, yes...my blog name has changed. Again. But this time it wasn't by choice.

No worries. Too many other things going on that actually are worth using brain power.

As I'm talking to the rep at GoDaddy.com, who is the one who informs me my URL has expired (long story, short: they sent renewal notice to my old email) but they are happy to sell it back to me at the slightly elevated price of...well, let's just say, it was WAY more than I purchased it for as others have already expressed interest in it...whatever. Anyway, he asks me what kind of blog I have. I tell him it basically just chronicles mine and my kids life so they have something to look back on and read in case I don't remember the little every day stories.

I go on to tell him that I started it during a rough time of my life and we now have a "new kind of normal", to say the least. I heard no response from the other end. I hadn't told him what made this time of my life "rough" but went ahead and added..."you know, everyone has their new normals when life takes turns you aren't expecting" thinking, who knows? I could be talking to a guy who's thinking, "Yeah right lady...".

Finally he says, "Yep! There it is!" and I ask, "There what is?". He replies, "Newkindofnormal.com. It's available. You should get it. That's a perfect name for what you said you are writing about. And you're right. Everyone has their new kind of normals on various levels."

Hmmmmm. Okay. I took it for a year thinking I might come up with something better, but it's kind of grown on me.

As I thought about it, I realized just how many 'new' kinds of normal I have these days. So many things I define differently than I used to. Family. Friends. Loyalty. Home. Unconditional. Love. Happiness.

Yeah...I think I made a good choice.

And am ready to start writing about how definitions have changed. And oh boy have they!

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