Naming a blog is hard.

When I decided I wanted to start a blog, the next natural question was what to name it.

I went through a few things in my head. First, I'm moving to Minnesota. Minneapolis Millennial? Too much. Moving Parts? Taken, and (like everything else) sounds like a band name. I think the real issue was that I'm not very lofty or whimsical as a person, but most blogs (including most blogs I love) have lofty or whimsical names.

I then started to list, with the help of a friend, my favorite things, hoping it would give me something to work with. My list went something like:

- Pizza
- Margaritas
- Poodles
- Reality TV
- Not exercising
- Sleeping
- Not working
- Eating
- Food

This wasn't super helpful in terms of naming a blog or in terms of self-reflection. I literally considered "Vegetative State" for about three seconds before my friend pointed out how offensive it is and I realized how much it (again) sounds like a band name. Although Pizza & Poodles may have actually been a more appropriate and perhaps catchier name...

I decided to go with anti-blog for a few reasons. First, it wasn't taken (aside from the exact URL), second, I knew my blog would never be a place of "look at my fashion/delicious food/fabulous life" like most popular blogs, and last, it was short and catchy.

Love,
the blog lover who started a blog named anti-blog.