What's your name?

I kind of hope this post is one of those many "first posts" that people curse for having taken up a blog name they want really really badly. This is exactly what happened to me just now, as I was trying to think up a name for my blog. I don't intend to have a "theme" for my blog, even though I have several popular (maybe even "trendy") hobbies. I want this thing to be about whatever the hell I want it to be about on any given day. I'm reading, or supposed to be reading for my Contemporary Canadian Fiction class, Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. One of the characters keeps a keepsake scrapbook (well several do, actually, the novel being in the Victorian Era and scrapbook-keeping being a common hobby for well-to-do women with nothing to do, kind of like it is now, come to think of it) in which only newspaper articles of murders are kept. Anyway, I don't want my blog to be "themed" in that way, besides the fact that that is totally gruesome and morbid.

I have another hope: that people will try to find a blog with this name and misspell "ceiling", or that I'll stumble upon the incorrectly-spelled blog, waxcieling, and be able to tell the unfortunate blogger thereof that MY blog is the correctly spelled one and he/she is a dummy for not having spell-checked beforehand. Or maybe she/he is simply being ironic and the joke will have been on me. In any case, I wanted this blog, which is (hopefully) going to be about nothing and everything, to have a suitably random but endearing name. Obviously, I got to thinking about Through The Looking Glass and "shoes and ships and sealing wax". As endearing as that song (or poem? Speech? Soliloquy?) is, I don't want my blog name to start with "shoes". I like shoes enough, but I feel as though enough blogs are written by brainless idiots who have unfounded obsessions with shoes that adding one more to the pile would be the straw that broke (etc). Everyone loves Alice in Wonderland, so I wanted to continue in that vein. shipsandsealingwax was already taken as were most derivatives, even ceilingwax, which as we all know is the incorrect homophone of the original "sealing".

So, I guess what I'm trying to say here is that my blog name is outrageously witty and inventive, which is more than I can say for what I hope will be a long and promising blogging career.