My Almost Blog Title.....

A humorous aside into what almost became my blog title....

My friend and I were brainstorming a title for my overseas adventure blog, and we were getting quite frustrated....each one we came up with was taken. After almost an hour of frustration, FINALLY we came up with a good one and it was AVAILABLE!!!! whoo hoooo!
So, I plugged in JEAN's EXPAT LIFE. love it!  

until..... we saw how it appeared online....  jeansexpatlife...... yikes! not bad for a porn site! not!!!!

So the search continued..... and thus my lovely life abroad was born!

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