Glitter Ninja wrote:
> Don't even ask about my last name. Every part of my name can be
> butchered and after 32 years I'm so tired of it. In my next life I'm
> going to be named Sue Jones, I swear.
>
My mom wanted good Irish names. I can understand why, and she at least
picked names that were spelled correctly somewhere, but it isn't here.
Shawn, Gale, and Meghan. My name wasn't just misspelled. The teacher
would make up some big poster with all our names nicely done. Then my
"h" would be added in at an odd angle. I'd rather leave it wrong than
have it added in like that. One of my bosses just started calling me
"Meg" in notes because he could never remember how to spell it.He just
knew that the normal way was wrong.
And the last name is worse. Noecker. Pronounced neck-er. It does make
it easy to screen out telemarketers. But it was mangled by every
teacher in school. I've worked at my job for 17 years, and I have only
heard my last name attempted twice over the intercom. During the times
we have had more than one Meghan, they simply use my department as the
last name.
I was quite shocked when I went to a horse show, handed out business
cards, and people coould say my name correctly on the first try. Turned
out most of the breeders were Dutch, and my name is German, so it was
close enough for them to know how to pronounce it. It was a pleasant
(and rare) experience.
When it comes to naming kids, I would want to pick something easy for
most people to get right. Leave the cute and odd names to the pets.
They don't care if I say it wrong, spell it weird or what it means.
My nephew's cat is named Chase, because that's his favorite thing to
do.
Kira T Sherman is named after a Star Trek character and the Sherman
tank (she was built like one as a kitten), and her middle name is
Trouble.
Maynard was named after he commercial for Malt-o-Meal. "Good Stuff,
Maynard." He loved people food such as peas, canteloupe, etc even as a
kitten. We started saying that phrase so often, we changed his name.
Jay Jay is more of a combination of things. I've had several special
animals with the letter J in their names. Seus Jay, Jenny Jen, and
Jasper. I also had a favorite horse that I wanted to buy but could not
afford. His name is Jitse. I didn't choose any of those names, so it
just seemed kind of coincidence that the letter J kept coming along.
So, last year, I went to a cat show as a vendor and there was a raflle
for a cat tree that my elderly cat would love. It was the kind of
raffle where you buy a playing card, and hold onto half ot it. I
decided to buy the 10s because J is the 10th letter of the alphabet. I
won the cat tree. I also adopted this jumbo cat. He was 12.5 pounds at
the time, and wasn't even mature yet. He's 16.5 a year later. And he's
not fat. Part Ragdoll, most likely. So, I decided I wanted a name with
a J. Blue Jay sounded cute since he is a blue point, but he ain't a
bird. So, I kept getting back to Jumbo, and settled on Jumbo Jet. JJ
looked a bit plain, so I spell it Jay Jay instead.
OB Food: I'm going to attempt my first batch of fried rice tonight or
tomorrow. I want to make it cheaper than at work, and without the peas
and carrots. Maynard, my elderly cat, died last May, so I don't have
anyone to give them to. It used to be a lot more fun picking apart my
food when I had Maynard to help me eat it.
