Thing 2

        I have no prior experience with blogging.  When I lived abroad, I considered doing a blog for friends and family at home.  I never ended up actually doing one though.  Instead, I just emailed and posted pictures on facebook.  I have never really read blogs regularly.  I have occasionally stumbled onto blogs on the internet.  

My posting name is just my actual name.  I don’t consider myself to be overly creative, so my name seemed like the easiest thing to do.  The same thought was used in naming my blog.  “Emily’s 23 Things” seemed like the most straight forward thing I could title my blog.  Since I didn’t know much about this project, I didn’t think of anything more creative since I wasn’t really sure what I would be doing.  I’m a pretty private person and the thought of someone I might actually encounter reading this blog is not something I am looking forward to happening.  I’m sure that will inevitably happen as part of this project, but I can’t say that it is something I am eager to have happen.  

So far, I have been surprised with how easy it was to create this blog.  Had I known how easy it was before, I probably would have done one when I was in Spain.  I haven’t really had any problems thus far.  I had a small problem when I was trying to get my avatar to post, but that was because I didn’t read the directions very well.  Once I reread them, the problem was fixed and my avatar posted.  

I don’t really know that my avatar reflects my personality.  She doesn’t really look like me.  I got tired of looking through the hairstyles and settled on the one I chose.  She has on a blue shirt.  Blue is my favorite color and one I wear often.  Beyond that, I don’t really see any similarities in us.  I tried to make the avatar look like me.  I guess I don’t really have a good reason for doing so.  I just thought that since I had used my name (I hadn’t realized it was an option not to until I had already done thing 1) I would go ahead and make my avatar resemble me at least somewhat.  Like I said earlier, I’m not very creative, so I didn’t want to create one that looked completely different from me.  It was easiest to try to make her look like me, so that’s what I did.  I got tired of going through the clothing and hairstyles fairly quickly so what I settled on may not have been the best choice, but it is similar enough to me.  The background I chose was the beach (though I’m not sure that the background actually posted to my blog).  I chose this background because I love to travel and the beach is one of my favorite places to go.