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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