Liberated!

Not that you care, but I was participating in Blog365, where you have to write something, anything, every day for one whole year. Even if all you could write was that you had nothing to write. And boy, was I there. I lost the fun of blogging.  So I decided it wasn’t worth it and I bowed out.

And it felt so decadent to NOT blog yesterday. Before, it was not out of the ordinary for me to get out of bed, turn the laptop back on, and write just to say that I did it that day. Sometimes I even had to cheat and back date my post. So not the point of this whole endeavor. I already have a few jobs, thankyouverymuch, I did not need to add blogging to my list of responsibilities.

I feel so free!

So now I just wanted to write a little post inspired by the news that Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi got married over the weekend. In the article I read, it mentioned that Portia’s real name is not Portia. Her name is Amanda something-or-other. Lots of celebs used totally made up names, or versions of their real names. But it made me wonder. What does Ellen call Portia when it’s just the two of them at home? Portia or Amanda? Does Bono’s wife call him Bono or Paul when she’s yelling at him to pick up his wet towel from the bathroom floor (because you know she has to at least every now and then)?  And if you are say, Bono, and your spouse calls you by a name that is not your “real” name, does that give you some sort of complex? Do you feel they don’t really know the real you if they don’t even call you by your real name? Maybe I should go by a different name for a while and see what happens.

And you just thought the blog content would improve now that I’m not obligated to write, didn’t you?

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