'The Kelly Green'
Obvious - the color. Kelly green is perhaps the perfect color, it's so happy and bright. I've always been drawn to the color and I am oh so lucky that I married a Kelly. So the name comes from the color, my new last name and GOLF, as in a golf course green! My husband is a huge golfer. He'd say not so much but I like that he's into it, especially since it's truly the one thing he really does for himself. For an amateur, he's pretty good and does compete in local tournaments. A good part of our summer is spent in Southern Illinois, going to various golf tournaments on the weekends. It's good times and I do intend to document some of those here. For the blog name, I had to stick 'the' in front because without, the name was already taken. I'm not in love with the name but it'll do.
What's it all about?
Well, I'm not quite sure yet. Right now, just a little bit of this and that. I registered for Blogger so long ago and let it sit unused. I had a little extra free time on my hands this summer, so I thought I'd start.
I have this thing that I struggle with sometimes, I think about things too much and with that I was worried that this blog had to be something specific. Was I going to write a personal blog, were I'm writing about my life? What about a 'lifestyle' blog, where I'm writing about my style and taste. I don't think it was ever going to have a type, my blog. But I don't care anymore, it's all mine whatever it ends up being. I follow at least 10 so-called 'Preppy' blogs regularly and they are all in one way or another the same. Don't get me wrong, I follow these blogs because I think they're great. Do I really have to say anything different? Maybe somedays.
Mostly right now, I'm trying to figure it all out - this social media world. I had been on Facebook for a while, not really doing anything with it but I was there nonetheless. This summer I started this blog and quickly started a Tumblr blog. Before too long I had registered a Twitter account. So I'm in the thick of it now. I love my Tumblr blog. It's really just a long list of pretty things. It's all pictures and whatnot that other people own and post, then you go on and 'reblog' what you like to your own blog. So naturally, my Tumblr blog has become a fun place for pretty things that I like. I'm really interested in how interconnected some of this can be. Most specifically, the way a presence online with social media develops. There are a few small businesses/brands that I've seen develop with great help from this online world. It's really amusing actually. There's this one brand in particular that's a favorite of mine. They started a Tumblr blog early this summer, I was quite excited but what's been fun is seeing how, from their point of view it's expanded the brand. On Tumblr, you could actually see how quickly they'd get more and more followers, it kind of spread like wildfire. I have a somewhat relevant reason to be interested in branding. I've been throwing around an idea in my head for sometime now. 2012 might just be the year that I pull the trigger, we'll see. If I do, I'll need a strong online presence. I'm not ready to start anything yet, so for now, I guess it's all a sort of research. Perhaps I will give it a go and then this blog will end up being a documentation of my business start-up too. We'll see what happens.
For now, as random as my posts can be. This is my blog. I know I have three readers, and I love them all very much - my Mom, Dad and husband.
Anything else?
I am very much looking forward to December. The last year has been a bear. It was about this time last year that chaos ruled. My husband and I were faced with a dilemma and an opportunity all in one. The end result was that we'd move to Chicago-land. We started to make plans and he even started a new job up there. This was Thanksgiving time through just after Christmas. We were both excited and scared at the same time. Neither of our families live here. This is my hometown but my Parents, and eventually my Sister moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. My husband's family lives 2 hours away in Southern Illinois. We were scared about putting even more hours in between us and our families but if it was for the best. The harder pill to sallow was leaving our lives here. As I've mentioned before, I have been blessed to marry into an amazing and close group of friends. These are the kind of people you choose to be your family too, they'd do anything for my husband and I. Such good natured and talented people, you wonder what they see in you. Leaving these people was not going to be easy. Last year's holidays were emotional to say the least. I should say that my husband and I were hesitant, not scared and that hesitation lead to a better opportunity here in Champaign. And thankfully, as of February 1 we were staying put for the foreseeable future. Life was good until about June, when I got the rug pulled from under me professionally. It hurt like hell and we were once again unsure of what to do. We did look into moving out to the East Coast. My husband and I have always known a move out to the Coast was in our future but the time wasn't right just yet. So the question became, what to do with me. The job market left little possibilities and we quickly decided that it was best to have me knock out some more college classes. So that's what the last year has been like. Things got so serious that we had started to pack. We now have a storage unit with quite a bit packed up and organized to perfection. What's the most impressive about the whole 'we're moving, we're not moving' dance we played is how much we purged and got rid of. I have been to Goodwill donating so much stuff, it's tiring just remembering. I'm loving how freeing and clean it all feels though! So why the long, random story? I'm just very much looking forward to Christmas and this new year. I'm also very much looking forward to Champaign being home for a while longer. So with that, stay tuned for much more Central Illinois adventures. Of that I am sure, I'm going to be writing a lot more about my husband and I's local scene here.
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