This Name Is Not A Mistake

an old favorite taken by CJC

what's in a word?  what's in name?

we are often asked about the title of this blog.  why shitty?  why not something else?

because something else wouldn't have been right.  shitty fit.  fabulous fit.  together the two words work and express exactly what we acknowledge about our existence on a daily basis.

if i say, " that's shitty, it's shitty, he or she treated me like a piece of shit, i stepped in shit, this taste like shit, i feel like shit..."  you get it, right?

sure, i do have an extensive vocabulary that my mother spent  a lot of money on but sometimes that vocabulary fails.  sometimes i need the descriptor of choice to sound as gritty, as base or as beautiful as the moment may feel.  when i feel like shit,  i feel like shit and no other word will work.

the way i look at it, saying i feel like shit is, by far, better than throwing an adult tantrum.  please remember use of the word adult is relative...

the fabulous part of the title  is never questioned.  never.

i get that.  everyone can imagine living a fabulous life all the time.  nobody wants to settle in the shit  and imagine a shitty life.  i get it.

but the plain truth IS that life IS shitty fabulous.  we don't always get what we want, things can change in an instant, for brief spans of time (when we think we are in control) we loose sight and may believe we have it all or don't have anything at all... there are ups and downs...

our choice of  the shitty fabulous moniker is a way of reminding ourselves, very quickly, that we are blessed.  does that make sense?  every time we fix our mouths to say something is shitty we are  immediately thrust into remembering that if something is shitty about a situation there is also something fabulous about it.

can you accept that?

we are committed to looking for the fabulous when the shitty shows its face.  there is a lot of shitty but the fabulous will always outweigh all of it.

we're frank here.  use of the word shitty is an extension of the frankness... that's all.

we see you shitty and we knock you back with fabulous.  that's what's in this name... a knock out.

want to get into the nitty gritty of the shitty fabulous philosophy click here.

want to hear how we actually arrived at the title for this blog and subsequently the series?  click here and watch this.