In deciding to join the 21st century (and my peers) through various means, I chose to create a blog as one of those means. And in choosing a name for my blog, I thought, "What would be just pretentiously creative enough to say 'Look at me! I'm quirky! I have interesting and innovative thoughts I would like to share with cyberspace!'" And in that process it came to me.

Purple Armadillo.

I love armadillos. I think they're hilarious. They have rat's tails. They can curl up into a ball. They look like anteaters sometimes and other times they remild me of dinosaurs.

My love of armadillos began with an episode of Jeff Corwin. He was in Louisiana filming some stuff and was on the hunt for an armadillo. He found one in the wild, and went up to it to catch it- and it BOLTED. He spent about five minutes chasing after this little reptile/mammal thing, and it kept eluding him hilariously. When he did catch it, I thought, "How did this weird little ball run so fast?" It was awesome.

My love continued, but it was a secret love until a conversation I had with a college roommate brought up the subject of armadillos. Upon finding out she hated them, I took steps to bring them up as much as possible, show her photos, and even got a stuffed animal of an armadillo to freak her out sometimes. (This makes me sound like a horrible roommate. I assure you, I was not. At least I hope I wasn't. It was all for fun, Jess, I swear. :) ) But in doing so my love grew a little more each and every day. And continues to do so.

And I like the color purple. The color, not the book. Well, that's okay too but we're talking about the color here.

Hence the name.

Have a wonderful day, internet!