I thought about it. I picked apart this blog (man I’ve missed a lot of typos) and I thought about what it was I wanted from a new one in terms of appearance, content and subject matter. I even registered a new blog with a new title and theme. But I eventually decided that what I want in a blog currently is not substantially different from what I (we? When’s the last time you logged on, Ashley?) have in MLC.
There were a number of other factors that influenced me. Like the fact that it’s a lot of work to set up a new blog and make it look nice… I forgot Ashley did most of that with this one. Or I just recently discovered the name could be abbreviated as “MLC.” I expect to get all sorts of usage out of that in the future. Also, Tiffany just blog-rolled us, and you can turn up your nose at that kind of honor.
I’d still like to update this blog a little. One of the founding missions of MLC (doesn’t that sound classy?) was to chronicle the unemployment experience, and since we’re both gainfully employed now there’s not much to say that you can’t read in the newspapers everyday. Also, this blog has absolutely nothing to do with Missouri, which, I’ll admit, makes the name a bit of a misnomer.
But then I’ve always felt this blog was about youth and coming of age, and what better way to illustrate a peculiar life experience in a blog than to have the blog itself be a testament to how drastically life changes in one year.
But this always has been a fairly generic blog in terms of focus (my last post was about whaling, for goodness sake. Where did that come from?) and until I have a more narrow scope that I’d like to build a blog around, I think I’ll (or we’ll? Seriously Ash, anytime you want to stage a comeback… or a debut…) maintain this one. Besides which, I’m far too sentimental to ever delete this Missouri Loves Company, and it doesn’t behoove anyone to have me leaving a trail of derelict sites across cyberspace every time I have a new idea.
