Titles and towns

The title of the blog.


I have gotten a few questions of where I cam up with the name for this site.  The title of this blog, Chadville, comes from a saying that I tend to say a good amount: "That's a sad day in Chadville"  It's used when something negative happens like I am supposed to hang out with someone and they have to cancel or I have a bad day.  I will also say "It was a pretty good day in Chadville" when good things happen too.  I will also add "town" to the end of some some friends names like "How's it going in Courtneytown?" for an example.  I guess it's a chadism.  I have other random saying that I tend to say, I will probably mention them as they come up in life.  Because of growing up in a lot of different places I tend to say things funny.  I don't have a distinct accent, but over the years it has become more of a southern accent I guess? Which brings us up to our next topic...

Where is my Hometown?


This is a question I have been debating a lot lately.  I was born in Buffalo, NY.  I lived there till I was maybe 3 or 4 years old.  From New York my family moved to Cookeville, TN (pretty much the only city between Nashville and Knoxville, and from what I can remember a  real shithole) and I lived there till the end of 5th grade.  After Tennessee  we moved to Hamilton, OH (about 20 minutes north of Cincinnati) where we lived till my senior year of high school.  After Ohio we moved to Louisville, KY... where I have been ever since.  After living in Louisville about 2 and a half years my parents, and at the time my sister too, moved back to Ohio.  I stayed in Louisville.

I don't feel I can claim Buffalo as my hometown because I honestly do not have any memories of living there, I do still have a good amount of family there.  I would never claim Cookeville as my hometown because I have no ties to that place.  I don't talk to any of the people I grew up around, not that they were bad people... we just lost touch over the years.  I lived in Ohio for around six years.  My parents still live there and I am still in contact with a handful of friend that I grew up around.  I have been in Louisville for all of my adult life, as of writing this blog I have lived here 12 years.  Only family I have here is my sister, but I have TONS of friends that might as well be family.  I guess at this point in my life I would claim Ohio as my hometown and Louisville as my current place of resident.  In a few years when I am more settled down and hopefully live in a house and not an apartment I will probably claim Louisville as my hometown.