I Thought of Something to Say:

I like my blog. I really like my blog.

I like thinking about things to write, I like writing it, I like when you comment on it.

Do not be offended engaged / married people at what I'm about to say. 

I love you. I do. 

But I cannot do to my blog what you have done to yours. 

Not ever.

I was talking to a buddy recently and he begged me never to go all mushy on my blog because there are a couple blogs that we follow that we hardly ever check anymore because the originality and individuality has faded from the words. It's like aliens are writing these blogs. Mostly because these "Just Her" blogs have become "His and Hers." 

I guess what I'm saying is this: This is my blog. Just mine. I can't imagine changing it to a "his and her" blog. Not even if/when my life becomes a "his and her" life. It would ruin the sanctity of what little Chester the Best-er has grown up to be. I admit it, sometimes I talk about people I'm (was) interested in. Maybe in the next few years Mr. Chester will come along and make my life a mushy "his and her" life. That's okay. It's kind of fun to think about sometimes. But this blog is still my own. I will do what I have always done when it come to boys in my life. Talk about them vaguely. Use Harry Potter nicknames to disguise their identities. Pretend that they (mostly) don't exist. Mostly because they don't. Hahaha!

I like having my own observations, my own sense of humor, my own reasons for getting up in the morning (or not getting up because I stayed up too late watching episodes of Glee or So You Think You Can Dance or Arrested Development). And though I realize that if/when someone becomes a fixture in my life and suddenly the real world seems to revolve around him, I'd like to think I could come back to this little blog o' mine, and just be myself and by myself with you guys. Like if I wanted a family blog, I would make one. But this one, this one would stay for just me and you. You know? 

Some of you started blogs because you were married already and wanted to let family know about your new lives. I am not talking to you, haha. Some of you had blogs while single and then changed the titles to include your husbands' names when you got married. I guess you're the ones who inspired this post. Sort of. I hope that you'll remember what your writing was like when you were on your own. I fell in love with reading your blogs because I fell in love with you. Not your husbands. Not the person you are with your husband. The person that was just you and only you. 

Don't ever think that I'm saying that you shouldn't acknowledge the most important people in your life because you must, but I'm begging you not to let YOU get lost in the mix. That's all. Please change the titles of your blogs if you want to. Talk about The One as much as you want to. Just, remind your readers of the real, raw YOU every now and then. Okay?

Oh my word.

What a weird post. I'm so sorry.

But do you guys agree?

Or am I really out there right now?

That being said, I love reading Kelsey's blog. I can't explain it, but she has managed to defy everything I just ranted about. So obviously you can't take me too seriously. But I AM being serious when I say

 There will never be a boy's name in the title of my blog.

 Not ever.

Oh wait. 

Chester IS a boy's name.

Crap.

I failed already.