I noticed a few other bloggers had published posts in response to the FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CHALLENGE hosted by Richa the creator of iScriblr and that this week’s topic was MELODY.
Well – how could Melody Finch aka Caramel, not join in with this challenge?
TOPIC FOR TODAY : MELODY
Richa seems to leave it pretty open to bloggers as to how they want to deal with the topic.
I wanted to write about names. What is in a name? I was never happy with my name as a child. I mean it did not make me miserable, but I was rather embarrassed by it. I felt my parents had given me a hippy name. I did not want a hippy name. I wanted to be cool! Hippies were not so cool when I was a child.
Well…in most of my books as a child I wrote a little message identifying them as mine.
Only rather than put my own name, I put the name I had decided I wanted. Mum thought it was hilarious.
Not only did I state the book belonged to me (with the name I had decided I wanted to be called “Sharon”), I also added a little message, which I think I may have intended as a warning to anyone who had plans of stealing my books.
There are still scores of my books at my parent’s home with those three little messages scribbled on the first page.
With regards the name of my blog CRUSHED CARAMEL (Mel short for Melody who is very sweet-natured but has been crushed by certain challenges in recent years and has been rebuilding her life since) – the friend who helped me set up my blog, his idea was to call my site UNCHAINED MELODY. Aren’t you glad I chose CRUSHED CARAMEL instead? On that note…
This post was in response to the FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CHALLENGED
on the topic MELODY!
Nice! I named my youngest daughter Sharon. ❤️
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When I was growing up names like Sharon, Lisa, and Paula were very popular. As a child I wished I had a cooler name.
It doesn’t bother me now. But I used to get really embarrassed.
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Aww.. This is such an honest post! And yes, CRUSHED CARAMEL sounds just right!❤️❤️
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Thanks Richa. It was fun to write about this 🙂
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Me being not very clever has been trying to guess where your blog name came from. Thank you for putting Metcalfe out of my misery.
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When I first started blogging with the site name Crushed Caramel it was foodie bloggers who were looking at my site and who were probably a bit disappointed that there were no recipes to be seen. I still follow loads of the foodie bloggers who were the first bloggers to start looking at my posts.
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I happen to like the name Melody…. for a girl that is, not so much for a boy! 🙂
Unchained Melody sounds pretty cool too – and i love the melody of Unchained Melody. 😉
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Unchained Melody was the first song I fell in love with! I played it over and over!
I don’t mind it now – but I always used to feel my parents had given me a hippy name! But Mel works – there are a lot of “Mel”s. Everyone thinks it is short for Melanie.
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2 out of 5 Spice Girls are called Mel(anie)! 😉 But they can’t hold a Melody! 😀
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Spice girls are not a good connection!
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Sorry… was just using them as an example of many ‘Mel’s 🙂 🙂
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lol – don’t you worry – I have an aversion to most female popstars who go dancing around in sparkly underwear.
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Don’t get me started…. 😉 Such ‘positive’ role models for 10-14 year old girls.
(Putting fist in mouth…gmmgmphhh!)
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… and it is a beautiful song! :-)… especially to turn clay to!
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I have not seen that movie – but I think I know what you mean. I think that is why the song was on the radio so much when I was a little girl.
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Patrick Swayze – Ghost! Did a lot for the pottery industry! 😉
And reignited the Unchained Melody karaoke contests! 🙂
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