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11/03/2005: "Name Change"

I'm so psyched. I'm not exactly going to change my name, but I'm going to add to it. My mother didn't give me a middle name. Half the people she knew called her by her first name, half called her by her middle name and it was always confusing. She found the same to be true with my two older brothers, so by the time I came along, she decided for simplicity's sake to only give me one name.

In high school I tried to adopt a middle name but it was fairly complicated--or perhaps it wasn't that complicated but it seemed that way to me at sixteen. So, I dropped it.

Then, I was emailing with some buddies the other day about names and it occurred to me that there was certainly nothing stopping me now to adopting a middle name. So, I plan to welcome 2006 with my new name. I'm going to give myself a couple of weeks to mull it over and then do it.

It's not as if I expect anyone to call me by this name, but I'll have it. I mentioned it to my mom and she was cool with it and I think it's totally awesome I get to name myself--not a child or a pet, but me.

BTW, at sixteen I wanted to be Jennifer Anastasia (you know, the surviving Romanov princess--not that I aspired to grandeur or anything :laugh. Lots of water's passed under my bridge since then. I'm not a Jennifer Anastasia. But it'll be fun to work on.

The Girl, after her initial surprise, thinks it's interesting. My husband just looked at me and shook his head, laughing. He thinks I'm kind of nutty and I could tell he thought it was just one more incident of me...well, being me. But, exactly who that is remains to be determined....

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