Change Is Good

It’s time for a change.  I’ve changed several things about my blog—the design, the colors, the fonts, my picture, the blog description, and the URL (web address); but the most important change I made is the name.  I just didn’t think the title “At Home With My Thoughts” fit anymore.  Oh, I’m still at home and I still have thoughts, but I just didn’t think it was me.

A while back I came up with a title for a book should I ever write one.  I thought it was important to nail down the book’s title to set the direction of the book.  I’ve heard said that you should write what you know.  So the title of the book was going to be “Memoirs of an EXTRA Ordinary Woman” and it would be a story about my life. 

(Sidebar—I came up with that title one night while trying to go to sleep.    Did you notice that the main words spelled out MEOW? You all know how much I love cats!!)

So here I was with this fantastic book title and no book.  I really think writing a book is going to be a bucket list item that I will take to the grave.  And that’s okay.  So I thought the next best thing to do with the title was to use it as the name of my blog.  I believe “Memoirs of an EXTRA Ordinary Woman” fits me better.  I can be ordinary and even extra ordinary at times, but I can also be extraordinary.  My blog contains stories from my life about me and the people I know, so it is like my life story only told in short stories.  I like it, I like it a lot!

My old web address was www.athomewithmythoughts.blogspot.com and I always thought it was such a mouthful!  My new web address is www.patsmeow.blogspot.com and I think it is easier to remember (cat’s meow, pat’s meow…get it?). 

If any of you are reading my blog for the first time, I hope you will take some time to read a few posts.  I guarantee you some are ordinary, some are even extra ordinary, but some you will find to be extraordinary for sure.

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~ P

Please Feed My Fish

I did something interesting recently, something that opened up a whole new world for me…I clicked on the “Next Blog” link at the top of my blog page. I discovered other blog pages like mine, filled with others people’s thoughts and experiences. Some were very interesting, some not so much. Lots had to do with family, travel and cooking. What I noticed about many of these blogs was the way they looked…very decorative and creative. These blogs had links to sites that offered free backgrounds, banners, buttons and blinkies...just what my blog needed.   Below is one of the things I found that I've added to my blog page.  You just click inside the tank and the fish will swim and eat the food.  How clever is that?  Give it a try, but watch out, it can get addicting! [This feature has been removed]

I hope you like the new look of my blog page, but if you don't, that's ok.  Who knows, the next time you visit it may look different again.  Like I said, a whole new world has opened up for me and I'm having fun experimenting with all the possibilities.

Something New

For years my friend Barb has been telling me I should write a journal to keep a record of where I've been and what I've been doing.  This year 2010 was the first time I purchased a journal to handwrite my thoughts.  After seeing Debbie's blog I thought it would be much easier to journal online since typing is so much easier for me than handwriting.  I always seem to grip the pen so tightly that my hand cramps after just a few sentences. 

So here I am...starting the new year as a blogger.  Who would have thought?  Certainly not me.  I can't say how interesting my thoughts will be to you, but they will be honest and sincere.  Thanks for reading them.