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January 17: Username (Journaling)

And with this I am as caught up on MOC as it is possible to be. I have to wait HOURS before the next MOC challenge will be posted. Guess I'll have to go do some housework or something. :giggle

Love this challenge and my page. I might like to do some research and make another page with more details though. I think there might be more info to be found in old journal entries from years ago. And I wish I could remember more about how I chose michelepixels.

p.s. I was curious so I used Word Counter . net . This is 739 words. :)
 

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I was looking for a name for the forum for a long time. The suggestions that were suggested to me on some internet forums were very strange. Parts of my first and last name were chosen. I thought that was terrible. I am very interested in the Middle Ages and the Celts. I´m fascinated by the clothes and the jewelry. The saga stories are great. Many years ago I searched for a suitable name on the internet for a long time.
One name I noticed a lot: ANDASTRA. This is the Celtic goddess of victory. And since I am exactly the opposite of this goddess, the name appealed to me. Andastra means "that has a bear in it" or "big / powerful bear".
I was lucky that I did not have to read my chosen username anywhere else. Meanwhile, there are two other users who take the same name with numbers or characters after the name.My german nickname sounds silly in English. My name is Tanja and my former best friend called me “Tanne” That means fir. Since I'm small, I was often called “Zwerg”. That means dwarf. I feel very well with the name Andastra. And one is allowed to dream!
 
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I have read all of these and will come back to read more - I LOVE all the stories - the simple and complicated. My name is simple, but I think I made it complicated... that's how I roll. LOL.



Journal (270 words):
I chose DisneySheryl65 as my user name because the first time I ever ventured into an online forum was at MouseScrappers which is a Disney related site. So as brilliant as I am, I added Disney to the front of my first name and added my birth year to the end. Didn’t really think through everyone knowing how old I was. I found MouseScrappers and many Disney scrapbook kit designers after Creative Memories shut down their digital division. I needed to find out what was out there. I was introduced to a whole new world! I ended up at Scrap Orchard from there and just continued to use the same name. When they closed up, I followed favorite designers and my new forum friends to Lilypad and Sweetshoppe, keeping the same name. I love the on-line scrapbooking community and have been brave enough to apply for CT teams and actually was accepted to a few. I love working with my designers (and SO many others) and most of all LOVE creating scrapbook pages to preserve my family story. I guess I should thank CM for shutting down because I found this wonderful warm community. I have even met some of my internet friends in person, much to my husband’s horror (how do you know they aren’t some creepy guy…haha); he doesn’t get it. Now I use DisneySheryl65 on other social media accounts. The Disney part is obvious – I’m slightly obsessed and visit the parks at least once a year. Sheryl is after my mom, Shirley. My sister is Donna after my dad Donald. Cute, right? Anyway, I love being DisneySheryl65!
 
Great idea for a challenge. For some reason, I use my actual name on this site, but everywhere else I am known as bigmeg33!!!

"In college, I had a really close friend who was also named Megan. oddly enough, we had the exact same birthday!! We also both had blond hair and blue eyes. The greatest difference between the two of us was our height. She was 5’2” and I am 5’10”. During the summer, both Meg and I stayed at school and lifeguarded at Our college pool. Ithaca College had a summer exchange program with a university in Spain and each summer, a group of kids would come over and live in the dorms while taking classes. We got to be really good friends with several of them. To tell us apart, they kept calling us “Big Meg” and “Little Meg”. We tried explaining that in America, “big” often means fat, and it would be better to call us “Tall Meg” and “Small Meg”, but somehow, the “Big” just stuck. I have been “BigMeg” ever since! Often times when the username requires a number, I call myself Bigmeg33... 33 was my college soccer and lacrosse jersey number. Here I am with Danny, Carlos and Andres... three of my closest Spanish friends."

 
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