Anna came up with this title for me when the blog was launched, which would have been very early in the summer.  Anna came up with it, but I was the one that liked it and chose to implement it.  At the time, I used the title because it made me feel really good, because it was a statement of identity, of purpose.  Young, blonde, beautiful.  I was proud of the first two and wanted to be the third.  Every time I came to the blog, I could look at the screen and feel really good just looking at it (not to mention Anna had made a killer graphic out of an illustration some girl had done of the both of us...I looked all serious and snobby but honestly, really hot).  Then - history lesson - Anna's domain disappeared a while back, and a couple weeks ago, the image was gone.  Just gone.  Vanished.  It hadn't been backed up so I had to make another one, and that's when I told most of you about the blog.

And now I realized that I kept the title, too.  Why?  Probably because, yeah, it's super personal and I love that description of myself, but I think it's not necessarily just for me.  Most of the people reading this are beautiful and probably young, too.  It's about giving some credit to yourself.  It's about allowing yourself to be proud of who you are, allowing yourself to say - and believe - some nice things about yourself.  I know that among many of you that I know personally there seems to be a culture of self-deprecation.  The title of this blog is at once a statement of identity for me, an appeal to self-love for us all, and a statement of denial - forever- of virulent self-deprecation.  It's a statement of the very real truth that you are only what you say you are, nothing more, nothing less.

So thank you for reading, and I hope that my insights give you something, whether it's inspiration, ideas, or simple amusement.  <3