I said on Friday that I was going to start the Blog-tember Challenge today, even though it has been going on for a week.  The thing is that I had some posts scheduled for last week and I didn’t want to push them off until next month – that’s why I’m starting this challenge a week late.

Today’s prompt is to tell how we came up with our blog names, which is a good easy one for me to start off this challenge with.  So, here’s how I came up with the name, orangeowldiaries, for my blog.

It was a dark and stormy night…

Wait.  No it wasn’t.

Or was it?

You know what, I don’t remember.  Moving on…

The truth is, there is no elaborate story behind the name of my blog.  I tell most people that it’s because orange is my favorite color, the owl is my favorite animal and since my blog is like a public diary… well, there you go.  It’s actually not like that though.  It wasn’t just something random that I chose because of my favorite color and animal.

What really happened was I had already had another diary-like blog, which is no longer existent, and I hadn’t been active for a few months, but I was looking to start again.  A fresh start.  So I needed a new name.

Since I was looking at this blog as a means of public journaling, I realized I would probably not use my actual journal to write in anymore (though I hadn’t written in it for a year anyway).  I took one look at my journal, and I knew what the name would be.

Orange Owl Diaries.

Maybe you can guess from that picture why it hit me so fast.  My journal, or diary, was orange and had a picture of an owl on it.  Pretty awesome, huh?

And that is pretty much the story behind how I came up with my blog name.  I really like it because it was a name that just hit me, plus I have a personal attachment to it.

Is there an interesting story behind your blog name?