So Blake and I didn’t do anything for New Year’s Eve, partly because I can’t drink, but also because we’re really really broke and couldn’t afford to feed anyone should we invite people over. He played Star Wars, I fucked around on Pinterest, boggling at some of the stuff people were pinning.

I’m not really sure how we got on the topic, but sometime around 10pm Blake, Madison and I started throwing names around for a Regretsy-inspired site about the stupid stuff we find on Pinterest and jokingly, I threw out “Chagrinterest”. Blake was like, “that’s actually pretty good” and Madison was like, “I don’t get it”, so I read the definition of the word “chagrin” to her:

cha·grin [shuh-grin] noun, verb

noun
1. a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.

verb (used with object)

2. to vex by disappointment or humiliation: The rejection of hisproposal chagrined him deeply.

After that she was like, “omg that’s perfect” so after that I went to my domain registrar (NOT GODADDY!) just to see if “Chagrinterest.com” was available, it was, and in less than 48 hours we had a domain, domain e-mail addresses, a website and 16 blog posts. Welcome to…

We don’t plan for it to be a very big site. Not like Regretsy. Just a place to post all of the random, crazy shit we find posted on Pinterest so it doesn’t clog up my site and so others can participate. Blake wants to write posts, as does Jax, so that”s our “staff” at the moment…except we do have someone to introduce. A new partner for this project who hasn’t worked with us previously. Her name is Martha Stupid and she is FABULOUS! Behold!

For more information on the magnanimous Martha Stupid, please see her intro post on Chagrinterest!

So that’s what we did to ring in 2012. We’re having a lot of fun with it and we hope you might too. :o)