Would a blog by any other name be as interesting?

Choosing a name for your blog is like choosing a name for your first-born child ... it's going to have it FOREVER, so it better not blow.

You've seen them before in grade school — the children who run around the playground, playing teatherball, just minding their own business. And trying to forget about the fact that their name is Vagina Rainbow Gonzales.

My mother, who was a labor and delivery nurse for many, many years, always heard the most ridiculous names. She told me a story about a family that had a daughter and named her Vagina because they thought it pretty.


I don't want this kind of shame for my blog! Poor Vagina. She didn't do anything to deserve a name that would ravage her social life for eternity — but, yet, there she is, trying to get a friend to play marbles with her at recess. But no one wants to be her friend. There she sits, all alone with her cat's eye and galaxy marbles, playing Vagina vs. Vagina. Sad.

And, being that the entire POINT of having a blog is to get people to be your blog's friend and read the rants you post, I needed to make sure my blog name was a great one. I'm not sure if I've accomplished that — but I'm happy with it and the name will never not apply to my hot-mess life.

So there it is — http://myrisiblelife.blogspot.com.

That pretty much sums it up. My life is risible. Not miserable. Risible. What does that mean, you wonder? Here's the dictionary definition that my new MAC computer at work has so graciously provided: "Having the faculty or power of laughing; inclined to laugh." Yes, that is very fitting. My life is laughable for so many reasons.

I'm hoping this blog will make you laugh, cry, yell, hate me, love me, want to hug me, want to hit me, and, in the end, simply understand that every entry helps me keep me sane.

Writing. Expressing myself. These things help keep my sanity intact. If you don't like it, don't read it that day. But tune in the next, because I'm bi-polar. And if you don't agree with me one day, I'll probably have a completely different stance the next. That's just how it is. Like I said, I'm a hot mess. Cheers!