Me & My Blogs: Part 4

Or A Dip in Memory Lane:
So my first blog, Technicolor Day was about anything and everything going on in my life. Very boring blog at first, I must say, blogging about bumper stickers and what I was watching, quotes, bad sites, and other such crap.
Later, I rambled about projects I was working on, goals I was workng toward, games I was playing, and more tv. I wanted to be read by more than myself and a handful of others, and wondered how to make my blog more interesting.
On a whim, after recieving a breadmaker as a gift in December 2004, I started a very specific blog: It's a Breadmaker, Thanks!. It was the beginning of me seperating my one blog into several specific blogs, but it may have been too specific, as the first six months, I only posted about using the breadmaker (now it's a full-fledged food/recipe blog).
These last couple years, the Techinicolor Day blog saw much less posting, including posting about maybe quitting blogging alltogether. And I started to work with iLife, making a more family blog there. (e-mail me if you want that link)

Me & My Blogs: Part 3

My first blog came to be named Technicolor Day. I guess now is as good of a time as any to explain my whole name thing.
My parents named me Michelle Renee (with a little French thingy over the second e), but I was always "Shelly". My mom explained to me that she wanted me to have an 'official sounding name' if I ever wanted to be a doctor or lawyer or something. Good call, mom, I know or have heard of plenty of silly sounding named people trying to be taken seriously. I however, have never found it difficult to be taken seriously as Shelly or Shell (or even shells), but I think it's cool to have a bonus name. Especially with a great Beatles song, and a cool French middle name. Anyway, I digress...
In my college broadcasting career, I saw that most of the DJ's didn't use their real name. At times, I think it was from embarrassment over actually being on the college radio station for some, but also for privacy. So I went about thinking up my 'radio name'. One of the other gals used her middle name as her first name, and made up a fake last name (in some states she still goes by this alias), so that got me thinking about using my cool middle name. So I switched my middle and first names, with a slight twist on my first name to make a 'real' sounding last name, and viola! Renee Mitchels was born.
I have always played around with the color of my hair, and more so in the college years, so it was likely at this time to see me in different hair colors every month, or even week. At one point, someone (and the very cool part is that I'm pretty sure it was The G, my good friend in college, my BFF and life partner now) introduced me as "Renee Mitchels, Your Technicolor DJ". I loved it! I always used the whole phrase after that.
Fast forward...Me trying to come up with a name for my new blog...thinking back to college days and cool radio names...I thought at first that I wanted to sign my posts with "Renee Mitchels, Your Technicolor Blogger". But playing around with the whole technicolor theme, I decided my blog would be named "In Technicolor". It would be like a 70's sitcom (which my life often is) and they proudly, and often musically, announced the show was "in Technicolor". I thought that would be cool.
Well, you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men or some such. The name was taken. Thinking fast, I temporarily, or so I though, changed it to Technicolor Day. My few fellow bloggers that I shared my name delema with, all agreed they liked that name better. So it stuck.

Me & My Blogs: Part 2

In the beginning, I tried Blogger, and it was good.
Seriously, though, I tried several other free blog services, and I emphasize free, I hate to pay for any blogging things, I'm just frugal that way, and I still occasionally try out the latest-and-greatest blog service, but I always stick with Blogger. I used their blog-spot for hosting at first, but this was a long time ago, when they didn't host your blog pictures for you, so I did at one point switch to ftp-ing it to my own space, when my uncle gave me some free space. When Blogger started hosting our pictures, I did come back to the blog-spot hosting. Oh, there were some other features, I don't even remember now, but you could only get them with Blogger Pro, and as I said, I don't want to pay for blogging things, so I was extremely glad when they offed the Pro feature, and gave all of us those features.
One tip on the hosting of pictures. If you don't have or don't want to use other picture hosting, and you want to put some buttons or pictures (or even a new template) on your Blogger page, but not as a blog post, you can still upload the picture as if you were going to put it in a post, then just copy and paste it where you want it.

Me & My Blogs: Part 1

I started blogging in 2002. My man and I were dating long distance, we had really just begun dating at that point, let's see...we started dating October of 2001, and I started blogging in the summer of 2002. I had heard about blogging before that, from various sources, had read a few blogs, but not on a regular basis, and had some interest. He had recently started a blog, and one of his best friends had been maintaining a blog for a few years before that. My guy had, he told me, published a newsletter of sorts when the internet was a baby, and was going to blog now in that same tradition. I'll be honest, I started the whole blog thing because he did. But not directly because he did. As I said, we were long distance, and we had tried the late night IM's &/or phone calls, but they just didn't work for us who had to get up in the morning. Reading his blog made me think that this would be a good way for us to communicate with each other. Plus I had hopes of maybe other people reading it too, so I started a blog.

What's it all about, Alfie

So this little blog is my last in line blog, and tends to get left behind. I post something to my other blogs every other day or so, and by the time I'm ready to post something here, it's time for me to do something else, or I just have run out of steam. But this blog is for me. My say whatever, do whatever, kiss my arse if you don't like it, I'm not going to censor myself blog. That being said, I have nothing to say today. ;p

Tom Noddy's Bubble Magic

I love bubbles. When I was in college I saw this comedian do this bubble bit, and I repeated it at every chance. I would still blow square bubbles now, but I don't smoke anymore.