But I like The Mom Nerd. For one thing, it doesn’t suffer from being to broad — it’s descriptive of you personally (I think of nerd as very much a compliment), and I think it goes well with your header and “branding” (whatever that means).

I’m trying to finagle a professional banner — in the meantime, Dick was kind enough to mock this one up for me.

Anyway, yes, the whiny thing was part of not liking it (that was why I was always explaining the What About Bob? reference).

It’s funny. I love when people come up to me and say “Are you What About Mom?” but I hate having to introduce myself as “What About Mom?” I think I enjoy the first because it just means someone recognizes me at all, not because of the WAM name.

That and my reply to Sylwia kind of made it sound like I’m too concerned what other people think, but I think that’s just because when I’m writing or what-have-you, I’m not thinking of the title; it’s only when I’m introduced or in public (on or off-line) that I have to think/say the title.

And What About Mom? — It’s actually a little hard for me to give it up, almost like killing off someone, I feel nostalgic, etc, but I hated that it was so narrowly restrictive in focus and also, ironically, too broad, as if I were trying to talk about all moms, which I’m not.

So anyway. At least now I probably don’t have to write a coherent post about the name change, since I’ve rambled here long enough!

Oh, and on the links, the whataboutmomblog.com links should still work, that domain just points to this one. I am not up on the techie side, and I prefer to keep it that way.

I didn’t like the name What About Mom? It sounded whiny. I can say that now, right?

Boy, you’re going to have a lot of work to do with changing links!!

Looking forward to the new header!

Also, Seagull Fountain IS supposed to sound like a place name in Utah, though I was aiming more for a rural town like Lake Woebegone or a named-house-type thing like Green Gables rather than a “subdivision.” It is not the name of any real town, village, or subdivision in Utah or anywhere else that I’m aware of, so I’m also hoping for a metaphoric shading of it. (And it’s a play on the name of the town we do live in, which is rural rather than suburban).

I liked some aspects of “What About Mom?” but not that I didn’t own the actual whataboutmom.com domain (that wasn’t for sale, mine was “whataboutmomblog.com”), and I grew to hate having to tell people that mine was yet another blog with the name “mom” in it. Did you know someone has a blog/twitter handle of “Relevant Mom”? I ask you. WHAT is that? (Not that there’s anything wrong with having “mom” in your title, I was just really, really tired of it, and of defensively saying “It’s a play on the Bill Murray movie, you know?”

And, unfortunately, GroundhogDay.com was taken, which was the other title I really, really liked.

(Plus Dick assures me I could always change it back if I want. We’ll keep the whataboutmomblog.com domain for now.)