What does your Username mean?

[Surfacing]

Hi Mamas, I am coming here late (or so it seems after so many of you are established here!) and wanted to do some more Getting To Know You stuff, so I can get to know you.

How did you determine your Usernames? What do they mean?

I dont even know how to pronounce some, like Juise?

[LittleBirdy]

My husband has called me Bird since we were dating... it actually sounds really weird when he calls me Kasey. His whole family calls me Bird too, and my little niece and nephew call me Aunt Bird. I wanted to just be Bird but of course that was taken and at first I didn't really like LittleBirdy cause I am more AverageSizedBirdy than little But now I'm used to it.

[Surfacing]

Originally Posted by LittleBirdy

my little niece and nephew call me Aunt Bird.

Oh yeah , this gives you Eccentric Old Woman Rights in the far future.

[Nala]

Mine is from the lion king, I was picking out my name and I can never think of a good one so I asked for family input and my step daughter suggested Nala which is her favorite lion king character and also the name she picks out for all her stuffed animals, dolls, etc.

[Lizzardbits]

Lizardbits was a childhood nickname my brother gave me during a fight. He was trying to make fun of my middle name Lizbet, but I liked it and it stuck. I add extra Zs depending on different websites and different email addys. Plus I really really like reptiles.

[veesmimi]

My daughter's name is Veronica, nickname V, and when she was about 18months she started calling me Mimi, instead of Mama...

Originally Posted by Lizzardbits

Lizardbits was a childhood nickname my brother gave me during a fight. He was trying to make fun of my middle name Lizbet, but I liked it and it stuck. I add extra Zs depending on different websites and different email addys. Plus I really really like reptiles.

Oh good! I need reptile, actually amphibian advice. A girl at work wants to give her 3 turtles to my kids. Do you think that's risky?

[othersomethings]

mine has a long story behind it, involving my sister at age 5, a story of the three bears, some friends I met as a teenager, 10 years of internet morphing and now it's my across-the-board online name, including my website. (in my sig.)

[not now]

It's what I say constantly at work when people try to bring up stupid things and I'm trying to keep my patients from dying.

[Lizzardbits]

Originally Posted by veesmimi

Oh good! I need reptile, actually amphibian advice. A girl at work wants to give her 3 turtles to my kids. Do you think that's risky?

Turtles (who are reptiles) can make great fairly low maintenence pets. My best advice before adopting any pet is read up thouroughly on the specific species, to make sure you can adiquately house, feed and care for them when/if they get sick, i.e. small animal vet within nearby driving distance. Some species are strictly fresh veggies, others may need insect/larvae to supplement their diet. Also, like with any pet, fur feathered or scaled, make sure that hands get washed thouroughly after handling.

Shelly, Sheldon, and Michelle would be happy with you, and would live long happy turtley lives!

[LittleBirdy]

Originally Posted by Surfacing

Oh yeah , this gives you Eccentric Old Woman Rights in the far future.

[*KaiMom*]

Originally Posted by LittleBirdy

My husband has called me Bird since we were dating... it actually sounds really weird when he calls me Kasey. His whole family calls me Bird too, and my little niece and nephew call me Aunt Bird. I wanted to just be Bird but of course that was taken and at first I didn't really like LittleBirdy cause I am more AverageSizedBirdy than little But now I'm used to it.

My ds1 step mom's name is Bird...her actual name. So it isn't an odd name to me anymore.

Originally Posted by veesmimi

My daughter's name is Veronica, nickname V, and when she was about 18months she started calling me Mimi, instead of Mama...

DS2 calls me mimi instead of mom. I think it came from when he would ask for milk that was my name LOL. So it has stuch ever since.

AFM-ds1's first name is Kai which also means ocean in Hawaiian. So I'm Ocean mom. It's also my liceanse plates on my car.

[Surfacing]

These are great, Mamas!.

Othersomethings, your username reminds me of the phrase "something or another". Did that figure in there somewhere?

Kai - beautiful

Not now -

Et moi? Surfacing is the title of a book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. A woman (following childhood trauma of her father's drowning, a failed marriage, and abortion) is struggling not to be a victim of her past, and trying to regain her strength. She literally becomes part of the earth and re-emerges strengthened. The details are different, but essentially, this is me.

[rightkindofme]

I like the book, but I wouldn't have put two and two together and realized that's where your name came from.

My nick is because people spend a lot of time telling me that I'm wrong. Or at least, that's how I feel. I'm too loud. I'm too aggressive. I'm too opinionated. But I'm not. I'm the right kind of me.

[ScarletBegonias]

my dh got me into the grateful dead when i was 13, and i love the story of scarlet begonias. i love the word-pictures, and i like to wear flowers in my hair and bells on my shoes. friends irl have called me scarlet, because the song its me so well, and my prized possession is a huge and gorgeous angel-wing begonia, so Scarlet Begonias was perfect.

when we married, peggy-o was playing. i love the Dead!

but my musical taste is wide and varied, they are just my favorite. my dh is a bass player so he has introduced me to jaco pastorius, charles mingus, stanley clarke, victor wooten, eberhard weber and the like. i also love bob dylan, neil young, p-funk, bob marley (reggae in general actually), tori amos, chili peppers, celtic music (honoring my mostly irish roots), pearl jam, alice in chains and a host of other "modern" music.

[Enchanted Gypsy]

I love the dead too.. I traveled with them for years..

It is the name of our house bus and now the name of our fiber arts business. Originally though, it was the name of a song by Donovan, one of my favorite singer/songwriters...

[lilflower]

lilflower is for The Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux. Her spirituality was to serve God in the little ways. It's a helpful reminder to me that any little good deed or sacrifice does matter. This has become even more true as I've become an attachment parenting mother 82 is my birth year.

"Therese saw herself as "the Little Flower of Jesus" because she was just like the simple wild flowers in forests and fields, unnoticed by the greater population, yet growing and giving glory to God. Therese did not see herself as a brilliant rose or an elegant lily, by simply as a small wild flower. This is how she understood herself before the Lord - simple and hidden, but blooming where God had planted her." http://www.littleflower.org/abouttherese/learn/FAQs.asp

[maranapanda]

Maranapanda.... My dh name is Matt Rana, and I stared calling him Marana ages ago, like 10 years ago. Sometime around then my dear friend set up my first hotmail account for me and decided that it would be called maranapanda. The panda is for my name, Amanda. I thought it was absolutely ridiculous, and planned to change it. She only came up with that name because she knew I would take issue with it, and we like to mess with one another. You should see what she chose as my password, its so over the top. As it turned out, I never changed it, and have kept that name for everything. I got over the cutesy silly rhyming sound. I shall forever more be ... Maranapanda


I love this thread! Thank you so much for starting it! I want to say that I love how all your names have been chosen. I love the personal stories that accompany them. Also, Enchanted Gypsy... I have been following your blog for like 5 years now. I didn't make the connection in your name, or the boots for that matter! Its so great that your here, your like my own personal blog celebrity!

Amanda

[Theoretica]

Theoretica: it's actually more related to music (think Musica Theoretica) than anything else, but it fits well for me because I *am* pretty theoretical. I'm a music buff though, it's my hearts desire!

There was a mama on MDC that told me once I should be "Realistica" instead though, since I'm pretty down to earth and straightforward about stuff

[CeceinMT]

Cece comes from Cecilia, which is what I was supposed to be named, but my mother broke 600 years or so of traditon (without knowing it).
So it became an online screenname in the early 90s, which people shortened to Cece, and then became my blogging name which is CeceinMT, although I am no longer in MT, but ID attending law school. I am going back to MT though, so it will make sense again soon.

[craft_media_hero]

Eh, mine is about hoping we can change the world and maybe even save the planet and our people through returning to meaningful ways of creating objects in our world. Kinda like the arts and crafts movement, only now.

Not the best username, probably very confusing. When I signed up, I had just finished writing this big presentation on contemporary craft media artists (which means materials traditionally used for common place objects), and I guess it was really stuck in my head (these artists are my heroes!). I do believe it, though. I think that if people gave more thought to the objects we use, where they come from, where they're going, etc. that it would have a really positive ripple effect in our world.

I'm not the crafty queen, though! I am an artist, but by no means master of the traditional crafts. Something to shoot for, though.