Saturday, March 21, 2009

Who is this Anastasia?

The name of this blog originated when I started it back on AOL. When AOL decided to yank our blogs (and then pictures) away from us, I tried to salvage what I could and just transferred it here, per their instructions. I didn't even bother to change the name.
During my earliest months of doing Weight Watchers, I was very involved in a couple of the diet message boards on AOL. We would post about our losses and gains, triumphs and disasters. We'd post our weekly weight loss or gain. And our weights. For this reason, I had a special screenname to use with the message boards. I didn't want to somehow run into someone I knew in real life, and have them know how much I weighed! So, the screen name I used was one I got from the television show, Will and Grace. When wanting to be incognito, Karen would assume the name Anastasia Beaverhausen. I always thought that was funny. So, using that name, and then writing a journal about weight loss, well, you see where this is going.
Maybe one day I'll change the name of my journal. But for now, you finally know how it got it's name!

5 comments:

  1. I love finding out how people came up with screen names and blog names.
    Happy spring! :-)

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  2. thanks Lin; I always wondered about the name of your journal; now I know :)

    hope you have a good week ahead

    betty

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  3. Well, I guess I did wonder. Thanks for explaining! (very creative, I like it!)

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  4. Lin, you look great in your photo. How much weight did you lose on weight watchers? Which one did you follow too -- I hear there are two plans now to choose from. Please convince me to try this. I need to soooooo badly!

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  5. I immediately thought of Karen when I saw Anastasia. :) Funny!

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