Why the heck is your name Beauty?

Ok, so here's the post that I got stuck writing and stopped blogging for a month.  Here's the funny thing, when I opened up the draft to work on it, I hadn't even gotten one sentence in, not even one word had been written.  I remembered having written a couple paragraphs, but I think I erased them because it was going off on a tangent I didn't intend.

Oops, there, I did it again.  It's been a few more days since I wrote that first paragraph.  I am generally known as the queen sized queen of the overshare, but beauty is something I don't know how to write about.

Ok, well here's the easy part:  My blogger name is Beauty because a guy, a friend, named me that.  I met him on a neat Callahan's Cross-time Saloon forum, in which the people tried to recreate the atmosphere of the bar in Spider Robinson's books.  It's still around.  You could find it if you looked.  Anyway, that was seven years or so ago.

I registered for this blogger (or whatever it was called then) account around that time.  The name Beauty makes me cringe.  It's not "me" in the least.  Most of the time I don't dwell on it.  I might be able to change it.  I've honestly never tried.  For complicated reasons, I wouldn't dream of changing the name my friend gave me.

Just a wee bit later, I rolled the name into an anonymous sex blog with protagonists Beauty and The Beast.  It wasn't as corny as it sounds.  I made that private when I decided to use the account for this blog though.

Ever since I started the blog I've felt the need to explain why my blogger name is Beauty when it's so unlike "me."  I know, I've said that twice.  I'm not quite sure what I mean either.  So in order to research this I asked Ken (my friend) why he named me Beauty way back then.  He told me that he named me that on purpose because he thought I was beautiful and he knew I didn't think so, and perhaps if I saw it enough times I'd believe it.  I think that was nice of him, but I still don't believe it.  :-)

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Hi!  This is why I don't make blogs.  I abandon them after a few posts.  Between work and home and Sheldon's work and Evy, I pretty much end up letting noncritical things fall off my plate pretty much constantly.

I also have a post about beauty that I'm stuck on.  I never was able to finish it (tough subject!), and ended up losing all my bloggy momentum.  I'll finish it someday.

So I've been doing ok.  I've lost a total of 21 lbs, most of them two or three times.  It's really hard for me to not fall off the wagon.  I haven't counted points since Thursday.  I'm starting again tomorrow, and hope I will at least not have gained any this week.  I'm vowing to walk 5 times and work out three times this week as well.  Now that I said it I have to do it right?  Right?  I need to stay serious if I'm going to lose the other 20-40 I need to to be happy, healthy, and comfortable at Burning Man.

One thing I want to do is get my bike in working order.  I think there's a long bike trail in the area that would be fun to ride on.  All I need to fix it is some of that vinyl tubing that goes over the brake cable, and then I'd have to monkey with it to get the gears in proper working order.  I've never done a bike tune up myself, but I'm pretty sure that between me and google I can do it.  I think I'll make that a goal for hmm, I'll aim high and say by the end of this month.  I don't want all this pretty weather to go to waste!