Good news: Sarah and Bryan (publicly) won tickets to see “The Producers” next weekend.  Bad news: Bryan has bronchitis and a sinus infection.  We enjoy covering the gamut.

Who and what is your online blogging persona? Is it different from who you really are in life? How? I’ve been asking “who the hell are you” for a while now. Here’s your chance to tell us. Who are you, the blogger, when you blog?

That’s the challenge. Share with us who you are when you blog, and be sure to include a link in the comment form to your blog so we can check out who you “really” are. - Lorelle @ WordPress

I’ve been thinking about that quite a bit lately, so this challenge really spoke to me.  When trying to create a site that screams ME! from the top of every page, you have to know.. concisely, and without wavering.. who ME! is. 

Which is hard for a 26 year-old-newlywed.  There is so much fluidity in my life, so much adaptation, and so much to learn that I hate to say, “AH HA!  THAT, my dear readers, is who I am!”  Because it might be for a day.  Or a week.  Or a post.

I considered begging someone to remake my banner graphic, and I even went to iStock photo to pick out a vector image I liked, but as I pulled the four out that I thought were TOTALLY me.. I realized that maybe they aren’t the Sarah I am now.  They’re the Sarah I was.

They were all curvy.. Lord knows THAT hasn’t gone anywhere.  They were all redheads.. and my box of Herbal Essences still resides proudly on my counter.  But they were all sex kittens.  And that.. well, that I ain’t.  Anymore.  Believe me.. nothing about me feels like a sex kitten anymore.

I think that, when I write, I write as that Sarah.  The one who had the world by the balls and didn’t take shit off of anyone.  The one who flirted her way through life and lucked into situations.  The one who wore her Charlie Brown shirt to work with jeans and tennis shoes and didn’t care.  The 24 year old.

Which sounds really stupid now that I’m 26, cause, dur, it’s only two years.  But they were such a big two years.  I feel older now, more grounded.  I feel calm and content.  I want different things.  I just.. I am different.

So who am I when I write?  I’m BellaSarahLena, my first blog.  I’m the girl who wrote about her many escapades and conquers there, and laughed at them all with Sex & the City nicknames.  I’m also SarahDippity, the Xanga girl who fought her way through newfound love and much, much heartache along the way.  And maybe those two together are who make up The Anvil Tree.  Maybe.

The Anvil Tree is a newlywed who is very much in love.  She surrounds herself with women she adores and genuinely respects.  She is a new stepmother, with much to learn and lots of love to give.  And she is damn good at her job.

She also has some kickin’ curves, and fiery red hair.

Bryan can thank me later.  You know, maybe by taking me to dinner beforehand.  And Bruster’s afterwards.