I'm a Big Girl Now

It was just about seven months ago when my dear friend Jen suggested I start a blog.  She got me set up here on Vox and I never looked back.  Seventy two posts later, I am still here and loving every minute of it.  Writing this blog has been one of the most healing and affirming experiences ever.   

But now, well, I think I've outgrown this little spot over here at vox.  Its hard to leave comments if you are not a vox member.  Its impossible to get stats.  It's very hard to really personalize the site and frankly I am sick of the ads.  I am ready to move on and have a REAL blog, a community and a site that makes sense for both me and my readers.

Thanks to the butt kicking of the lovely Jenni Ballantyne and some encouragement from Jen Lemen I went out and purchased my very own url.  It sat around getting dusty for awhile while I tried to figure out how to load wordpress and make it nice and pretty.   I had such hopes for it to look beautiful and perfect, to be full of art I had yet to create.  For about a month I was paralyzed by my own perfectionism and visions of art.  I didn't know how I would get  started let alone how I would make it how I wanted it to be so I just avoided it.

But these days I am working on letting go of perfectionism and in holding it all so much lighter.  So I decided to go ahead and launch it even though it wasn't quite perfect.  Afterall, my blog is a perpetual work in progress just like me.

I finally finished getting it look acceptable, if not completely finished.  I have loaded my old posts up on there and after this post will start to blog over there now.  Head over to it here to check it out.  If you want to know the url and maybe even set up an RSS feed its www.megcasey.com.  Not clever I know, but hey, it will be easy to find me...

I am still struggling to come up with a good tagline and invite you all to comment (over here or over there) to help me out.  Bamboo Journal was a name I chose in a fit of desperation.  Really I picked it because I love bamboo and I couldn't think of anything better.  Frankly I am not wild about it.  When I purchased the url www.megcasey.com I did so also in a similar fit.  I picked it because it was available and frankly I couldn't figure out a more clever name for my blog.   But I need some help from you all who read this blog, who may be more clever and witty than I, to come up with something that will help capture the essence of my little writing home..

Lastly, I am sad to say, that while I was able to figure out how to upload all my old Bamboo Journal posts, I haven't really figured out how to get your soulful and wonderful comments up there as well.  Right now it feels a little naked and lonely without you there.  So please feel free to come by and leave a comment.  If you are a regular reader who has never commented over here because of the difficulty of commenting on vox, please delurk and drop me a line over at the new place to let me know you are here.  I would love to hear from you.  And it will make the new place so much more cozy.

Hope to see you over at the new place.

xo and blessings,

Meg