Perhaps the username pretendingsanity has never quite fit me. I chose it back when this blog started in 2004 (!) when I was in the throes of parenting two little kids 19 months apart. I was 23 at the time. But the truth is that I’ve always been able to hold things together pretty well. My capacity to handle a lot at once has always been higher than most, it’s what makes me great at operations. And while I’ve struggled off and on with depression, my grasp on my sanity has always been firm. But I’ve had this username for so long that at some point the word pretendingsanity just became a meaningless word that I associated as my own. It’ll be weird for it to be gone.
I’ve been searching for quite awhile for the perfect username. My own name was long ago claimed by someone else, so using that hasn’t been possible. But recently Josh suggested I use “Allison Knows Best”, a joke from my time as the COO of Proximity. (And inspired by Gina of Brooklyn 99.) I’m always up to share an opinion and I certainly have a long list of things that I love, so let’s give this a try.
Who knows what’s next? Maybe I’ll get a wild hair and do all of the paperwork to reclaim the last name I was born with. Seems more like me.
Allison DOES know best! It’s the perfect name:)