Lauren Lamonica

After an hour on the phone with my web hosting company retrieving a lost password and cleaning up thousands of rows of spam comments, I’m revisiting my blog. I’ve been experiencing many life changes and will do a better job of documenting them…

I just updated my Facebook relationship status this past week. I went from “not having a status” to “single”. While I’ve always thought not having a status was safer and more appropriate, I think I made the right decision. So far the negatives (ads saying “29 and alone again?”) have been out-weighed by the congratulatory and “I hear you’re single” messages, which are a reminder that I don’t have to date this guy.

Facebook is a valid virtual community and an honest reflection of my life and friends. I use it to plan parties and camping trips, network for business reasons, see photos of friends who no longer live near me, and keep in touch in general. Therefore, letting people know I’m single on Facebook is just honest. If I get into another relationship, updating that status won’t be a question, a debate, or an offense.

Oh Craig Newmark , you are my muse, my beautiful chubby cupid. Do you remember that time we ate pancakes together for that Bay to Breakers brunch at your girl’s house? I do. And there are some things I haven’t told you. For one, you’ve gotten me every apartment I’ve found in San Francisco. Second, you’ve helped me find a job at least twice and have been responsible for numerous interviews. Finally, your personals section is probably the best source of online dating I’ve ever seen. While I’m currently in a relationship, seeing random posts like this reminds me that are many, many fish in the sea. Thank you for the jobs, the housing/apartments, and for everything behind the "you must be 18" warning. I love you!

OK, so maybe you’ve noticed that the site is partially in Italian. It’s because I stole a theme from someone Italian. Also, the RSS feed doesn’t work, there are no real posts, contacts, or cool photos. I’ll get that taken care of soon.

I am proud of myself, however, for: 1) getting the crystaltech guy to help me install wordpress as a content management system (thanks, dude), 2) installing and modifying a theme, and 3) setting up flickr to assist in photo-blogging from my iphone, which was previously incapable of sending email. I did this all in about 5 hours.

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback. It will get better, I promise. ; )

My first wp blog photo

Originally uploaded by lauren.lamonica

What a pain to set up. Done!

My thoughts go out to my good friends, who never mock me. Bring on the comments.