Goodbye love-melissa.com

So after many good, heartwarming years, I’m saying goodbye to not only my webspace, but my very first domain name.  I’ve lost touch with it and I certainly don’t use it to the degree that I feel would make it worth keeping.  I was merely seventeen when I bought it, after many years of using free, ad-ridden web hosting and redirected urls.  I have come a long way, and although for sentimental reasons it’s a little tough to say goodbye, a new door is opening as we speak.

I do have plans to buy a new domain.  At this point, I’m holding off on buying webspace (obviously, why else would I cancel…) because I’m using it mainly for image hosting and not really for myself.  Thankfully Tim showed me Tumblr, which is pretty much a blogging dream in terms of ease of use.  Unfortunately in the past few years I have spent so much time redesigning that I haven’t really focused on blogging in many moons.  When I was younger and maybe a touch nerdier, I used to think that I would grow out of this, and that once I had a bustling social life (although, it was never boring for me) I would give up the need to share myself with the internet. Little did I know that my longing for internet-dom would simply multiply with the years! 

Now is a more appropriate time than ever because until January 16th, my life will be on more or less of a standstill.  I’m at home in central Illinois where the list of things to do is less than plentiful.  So, internet, here I…am.

In addition to my life being semi-peaceful, equating to me having more time on my hands, Tim also introduced me to justin.tv a month or so ago.  And so I went at it a coupletimes, “lifecasting”…thinking…how can this really be entertaining? How can people really do this?…until it became me.  Way fun. A whole new take on my internetity!! How exciting—I’m definitely hoping/planing/intending to take a few more steps forward in lifecasting and get myself out there.  Tim and I did reach number one on views the night we did a fun broadcast, and it was nerdily inspiring. Hmmm.

So I’m keeping this little tumblr simple for now, in hopes that I will truly get back into the groove of blogging, at which point I will fancy myself up again. I mean…design…it’s what I do, right? One step at a time though. And my feet are pretty small and my legs aren’t too long, so my steps are kinda small. Just so you know.