Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Surviving Ebulliophobia, What the?

So it has come to our attention that we might need to explain how we came up with our blog title. For those of you who don't know, Ebulliophobia is the fear of bubbles. Now don't worry neither myself or Kylee are actually afraid of bubbles. When we came decided to start a blog we needed a catchy and/or a unique blog title name.
 So we got our creative minds rolling, we tried a lot of things but nothing could come to our mind. We then started about where we live, Rexburg, Idaho. Rexburg Idaho is a small town, well sort of, the signs when you enter the city limits say population of 26,000 give or take a few hundred people. But the nearest "big city" is Idaho Falls and even then it's not that big compared to Boise, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati. But anyways, Rexburg is like a bubble. Also Rexburg is mostly populated with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, so you don't see a lot of smoking or drinking or tattoos or any of that stuff. You see a lot of college students though as BYU-Idaho is located within the city limits. When you go to a big city and see people smoking, drinking, dressing immodestly (to Mormon standards) you get "shocked" back into the world. O yeah, this is what it's like outside of Rexburg. Essentially, you live in a huge bubble in Rexburg.
 With that Kylee and I both are ready to move on and leave Rexburg, Idaho. Thinking that Rexburg is a bubble and that we are ready to leave, we decided to roll with bubbles. From there it was all down hill, we thought what could we do with bubbles as our blog title. We then thought surviving the bubble, but that still wasn't creative. Then I (yes I'm claiming to come up with the idea) thought a fear of bubbles and surviving them. Hence Surviving Ebulliophobia was born. So essentially we're surviving the bubble until we move to a big city or where ever our lives take us. 
 I grew up 15 minutes from a big city (yes I'm a city boy); I'm use to driving a short distance to a big city with professional sports games. (o how I miss going to Reds games and being able to watch them on tv every day.) I miss the city. I have friends out here and they're great, but I miss all my friends back home. I'm not in any way a small town type of guy. I don't like dry weather as it is out here, I actually enjoy the humidity (who admits that?) Although it is nice to drive 20 minutes and you can go hiking in the mountains. So I may or may not be counting down the days until I move to a bigger city than Rexburg. Don't worry I don't actually have a count down going, just a general idea of when I'm moving, sometime in 2014, when I go to graduate school. With that, here's to Surviving Ebulliophobia

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