Changing My Name & Chewing My Cud

OK, so... I'm new to this blogging thing, and many thanks to a dear friend who turned me onto it. But the truth is, unless I have her sitting next to me every waking moment to teach me all the idiosyncrasies of this site, I shamelessly admit... I'm struggling. You have no idea how many things I clicked on just to get here today. Luckily for my friend, she has a life and can only meet me secretly in grocery stores.  "Security, disturbance in the meat department off aisle 3. Bring your Taser."

Last night I was trying to get to my blog, but I couldn't remember where to find it. Now... to the typical person this would not be a problem, but it's me we're talking about. Turns out another friend of mine wanted to read it, and I had to find it. All the handwritten notes in the world couldn't help me. Lordie Lou, save me, I am slowly, but surely, becoming my mother. So since I'd already gone grocery shopping once this week, I did what any normal person would do when her friend with the answers is not close... I did what any intelligent and curious person would do when presented with a problem, question, or word they don't know... I went to ask "The Google".

When I went to The Google and searched my blog name "ramblings by roxie", I discovered that there were a whole lot of Roxies that rambled. I'm talking an inordinate amount of them. There was nothing unique about my blog name at all. And it got me wondering... Are all people named Roxanne naturally rambling? Do we ponder too much? And how much pondering and rambling is considered okay? And how much is actually too much? I also wondered if The Google could help me with these burning questions. Then I got to wondering why people I know never name their children after me... only their dogs and cats are named after me... and suddenly, it all made sense. But, alas, I digress... in a rambling fashion.

Thanks to my relatively consistent confusion, and The Google, I decided I needed to change my blog name. With the help of a writing partner... OK it was entirely her idea... I decided upon "ruminationsbyroxie". A quick visit to The Google verified that I wouldn't be confused with others of the same name. Sadly, it also supported my claim that people name their pets after me. Case in point lifted entirely off The Google...and I quote: "WILD RUMINATION: ROXIE rocks my life!!! ...On October 14th 2009 at 11:33pm , we warmly welcomed a new member into our family. She is an adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel..."

When my friend suggested "ruminations", I had to ask The Google what it meant. Now... you may think... in a Forrest Gump sort of way... that I am not a smart (wo)man... to have to look up that word... but I'd much rather ask lots of questions and check and recheck facts and definitions than have someone smart-assingly (new word, you won't find it in The Google) send me some snopes dot com link and rub my nose in my errors. Again with the dog reference...

So what does ruminations mean? I know there are some of you that probably know already... like my writing partner. But I also know... deep in my heart... and often cobwebbed brain... that there are also plenty of you that need me to share the definition I got off The Google. Actually, The Google was kind enough to offer me a variety of definitions from different sources and so I'll share one and include the others in parentheses.  Ruminations: 1. to turn a matter over and over in the mind, (to reflect on over and over again), (the act of pondering). 2. to chew cud.

Yes, I do tend to turn matters over and over, and reflect over and over, and ponder over and over again. It's the sole reason I chose to blog. I need to clear out my brain so I can make room to work on my screenplay which is far more structured work than my ramblings. But in the end... the reason I chose to include the word ruminations in my title was definition 2: to chew cud. It just seemed most apt for what is going on within the grey matter between my double pierced ears.

So remember... to find my writings... you will need to update your link to "cud chewings by roxie". No wait, that's not it... try this instead: ruminationsbyroxie.blogspot.com