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Thoughts on Originality

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The monkey survey tells us that you guys are curious about “how we come up with so many unique ideas for our home and DIY projects.”

In a word – we don’t.

I’m sure it’s incredibly shocking, but we find our inspiration from magazines, blogs, Pinterest, etc. just like most of you guys.

Carmel inspired our curtains, John and Sherry our entire blog, Sue my shop, Emily my treasure hunting hobby, the list goes on and on.

So with all of that being said, this post is dedicated to my general thoughts on originality. This is something I had been thinking about since you guys asked (a few months ago-yikes!). I wasn’t really even sure if I should attempt this post until I saw a sign the other day that read “Don’t Forget You’re Unique… Just Like Everyone Else.” Kind of cheesy I know but pretty true. We all try, but with the interwebs and what not it can get tough.

Confession: this sign was located outside of the Woodcroft True Value, now Ace Hardware, that I still call True Value.  They’ve taken to posting thoughts on life on message boards outside. They usually make me throw up in my mouth a bit – but this one came to mind again later because of your question. I never snapped a photo due to the mentioned throwing up in the mouth but trust me, that’s what the sign said and I found that to be a relevant part of this story.

For us this blog is an online diary of our time as a freshly married couple that moved halfway across the country for a medical residency. We arrived here with two pups and an empty house. Which was a total game changer. No one was mowing the lawn for us or buying our air filters anymore so we had to figure things out.

My goal is for us to always be totally us, which includes writing about Lyle Lovett, dead snakes, and dog pee. Sometimes it also means posting about home projects, which have admittedly gotten fewer and farther between because I’ve gotten oldish and tiredish.

Sometimes it just means posting a picture of a pretty room that I like and saying “ooh, lookie” – after twenty of you have done the exact same thing with the exact same photo on your blog this week after you too saw Reese Witherspoon’s house in Elle Decor.

I guess all of this rambling is to say that us mostly lady-bloggers out there that choose to sit down and write about our lives, homes, dogs, and thoughts on Britney Spears (am I the only one who finds her a scary on  X Factor?) are exposed to the same television, magazines, etc. and are even about the same age so we have similar pop culture references in our vocab which cannot be ignored. Which means sometimes our blogs can all run together and be pretty similar. Just ask Jenny about it all here. Her recent post about saving the blogs was pretty timely for me.

Her blog is probably one of the most original and entertaining ones out there. Her posts make me blush, and sometimes even a little ashamed that I’m even reading, but all make me laugh my arse off. SEE! I cannot even use bad words like she does. She’s so street. I am so playground…

Regardless she makes some great points that we should all take to heart. I know that I will.

But in the end, if this blogging stuff is your hobby and you love it – don’t kill yourself to be something you aren’t. Even if what you are is pretty similar to a lot of other people out there. Push yourself to be original when you can, and when you can’t remember that you’re among friends.

So the secret is out, we aren’t really all that original. At all.

We’re just two twenty somethings that have become thirty somethings and also like to paint, sell pillows, and play with our dogs instead of kids. Sometimes that is entertaining, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes it’s original and sometimes it isn’t. We all listened to Widespread in college and still felt cool, now we all blog and are just as cool for it.

But if you’re ever in doubt of yourself I suggest the following:

So that’s my answer to the question of uniqueness my friends. We’re unique, just like everyone else.  Two or three of you asked, the other four of you who read were probably already aware.

Despite this fact we will try are best to keep it real and not too redundant so that you can keep reading.  However, if you do stop – have no fear that Lucy will still pee on rugs, Chad will still kill snake intruders, and I will still find someone to tell all about it.


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