So one of my favorite things about Dooce (my blog inspiration) is her “mastheads” page, where she archives, well, her mastheads. Brilliant. So, being the copycat that I am, I’m following suit. Dooce changes her mastheads every month, but I’m much lazier and decided I’d change it whenever I felt like it. Turns out I get tired of my headers after about 60 days, more or less. Actually I get tired of them much sooner, but by the time I get around to creating and posting a new one, it’s been about 2 months.
Some history: the name la_florecita has its roots in high school. I took Spanish all 4 years of high school. Sophomore year a girl in my class used the name “Flor,” meaning flower. We weren’t required to have Spanish names, so I didn’t bother. I just know that if I chose a Spanish name (Mercedes? Gertrudis?), I’d never remember to answer. In my junior year, my dad got a job in Houston and we moved to Pearland, a suburb south of town. In Spanish class on my first day, my teacher said, “Okay, well, what’s your Spanish name?” And she poised her pen to write it next to my name.
Spanish name?! I need a list!! How will I know if I have the perfect one? What if I choose one and then I see a better one? I said the first thing that came to mind.
“Um, Flor.”
“Flor?”
“Sí, Flor.”
So that was the start. This conversation repeated itself when I became a camp counselor. “Well, what will your camp name be?” Yup, Flor. A few months later, I signed up for my first e-mail account of my very own. My dad had assigned me jmschutz11 when I was in high school on our family aol account and I hated it. How dare he decide my internet identity without consulting me?? Anyway, I planned the Most Perfect E-mail Address ever for my first e-mail account of my very own, which of course wasn’t available, whatever it was. Neither was flor, neither was florecita (little flower), so here I am. la_florecita.Which is why all the photos are of flowers. I’m in love with the macro setting of my digital camera, especially for flowers! And as far as design of the headers, that’s a boundary I think I can live with. The only other rule is that the type is white. Anything else is fair game.
Here they are. (I wish I could make them links to this page only but there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that. Also, I’m not so web-savvy, so it could be that.)
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