Blogiversary
Happy anniversary, blog!
It was one year ago today that I made my first post in this blog. I wasn't sure what I envisioned when I started, but what I've got now is okay with me.
To celebrate this happy occasion, here is the story of how my blog got its name:
We were sitting around the living room of my aunt and uncle's house one evening, arguing over some arcane bit of trivia from Farmer Boy, and decided to go directly to the source to uncover the answer to our question.
(Farmer Boy is one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series of books, and our family is a teeny bit obsessed with it).
My aunt started reading directly from the text, about something, when she came to this statement: "I'd rather have a nimble sixpence than a slow shilling." We started laughing, because even after having read the book a zillion times, none of us remembered this old-timey quote.
"Nimble Sixpence. My new screen name!" said my cousin, Tim. He was kidding, but I stored it away in my head. And the next time I needed an email address that did not include my name, I became Nimblesixpence at yahoo.
From there, it only made sense to buy the domain name, and then finally, very tentatively, to start this blog.
Looking over it now, it's not really that exciting a story. But that's how it happened.
The end.
It was one year ago today that I made my first post in this blog. I wasn't sure what I envisioned when I started, but what I've got now is okay with me.
To celebrate this happy occasion, here is the story of how my blog got its name:
We were sitting around the living room of my aunt and uncle's house one evening, arguing over some arcane bit of trivia from Farmer Boy, and decided to go directly to the source to uncover the answer to our question.
(Farmer Boy is one of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series of books, and our family is a teeny bit obsessed with it).
My aunt started reading directly from the text, about something, when she came to this statement: "I'd rather have a nimble sixpence than a slow shilling." We started laughing, because even after having read the book a zillion times, none of us remembered this old-timey quote.
"Nimble Sixpence. My new screen name!" said my cousin, Tim. He was kidding, but I stored it away in my head. And the next time I needed an email address that did not include my name, I became Nimblesixpence at yahoo.
From there, it only made sense to buy the domain name, and then finally, very tentatively, to start this blog.
Looking over it now, it's not really that exciting a story. But that's how it happened.
The end.
posted by Melanie at 10:44 PM
