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post #461 of 475
12/6/07 at 4:49am
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Originally Posted by klg47 View Post
Um, that would be me that is obsessed, not Mags. She's not the one who considered renaming her newborn Edward. Oops, did I say that out loud? : (OK, I didn't REALLY consider renaming him.)
Yeah, that's right. My only excuse is that I had two hours of sleep last night and next week is finals week and I had one 5-8 page paper due yesterday (Wednesday - 20th Century American Short Stories), one 5-8 page paper due today (Thursday - American Literary Realism and Naturalism), one 8-10 page paper due by Friday (Victorian Lit) and one 2-3 page paper and one 10-12 page paper both due by Monday (both for the same class: Contemporary American Lit).

Plus a written final (passage identification and an essay) in my Victorian Lit class Monday afternoon.

Plus, I've submitted an abstract and paper to the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research and I'm prepping the same abstract and paper for submission to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research which could result in presenting my paper at the conferences and possibly publication in the conferences' proceedings. (This is also the same paper I'm submitting as my writing sample with my grad school applications so it has to be perfect!)

On top of all that I'm taking the GRE on Saturday (and I'm in the process of applying to grad schools) and I'm nervous about that. (I took a practice one, and scored in the 89th percentile in the English portion and the 11th percentile in the Math portion )

Plus there's the new baby and Connor and Christmas is coming and so it's no wonder I got my names crossed (and had to change my "My Mood" from Exhausted to Stressed)

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post #462 of 475
12/6/07 at 4:55am
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Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy View Post
I took a practice one, and scored in the 89th percentile in the English portion and the 11th percentile in the Math portion
Too bad you can't take it in teams! My verbal score was about 150 points lower than my math score, I think.
post #463 of 475
12/6/07 at 5:27am
My best friend names her kids after characters in literature. And none of the names she uses are standard names. She and (especially) her DH are fans of fantasy novels, so you know where that's going... In fact when they announced they had their baby, the bishopric member actually said something to the effect of, "I'll hate to hear what name they'll come up for that one!" Actually at a baby shower I just threw for her, one of the games we played was a match game-- you needed to match the 20 names I listed to the book they appeard in. Of course my friend got the most right of everyone, but she had a 4 point advantage right off the bat! (She also won the "guess which candy bar I melted in the diaper" game, because all she did during her pregnancy was sit around eating candy bars and reading books ) I bet you guys would have rocked at that game.

Anyway, I'm tired of being sick, and having my kids sick. They started getting sick before Thanksgiving and they're still sick. Lacy woke up this morning with her face almost completely encrusted in snot and both girls have this terrible cough. On Monday I woke up with a double ear infection and in excruciating pain (btw, garlic ear oil is so incredibly soothing on ear pain, so go out and get some to have on hand for your kids just in case-- it is truly amazing). I'm just so SICK of being SICK!!! Last night DH and our elder's quarum president gave me a blessing. I know I'm almost over this, but I wish I knew that the kids were as well! Lacy went to bed last night at 7 and slept in this morning until nearly 11, and still went to bed perfectly tonight at 8, so I know she still has a little ways to go. We've already missed two Sundays and I really don't want to miss another one.

And on top of it all, I just weaned Lacy and now I'm feeling so guilty for weaning her right before she got so sick! But I don't want to start nursing her again (she would gladly accept) because I am sooooo done nursing her. And I'm really worried about my poor little nephew. He's 2 months old, and he has a cough that sounds kinda bad, and most of his siblings are or have been sick. My sister went through the RSV in the ICU thing with her 3rd child, and I really would hate to see them have to go through it again, especially right now when they don't have insurance coverage (they just moved here and get insurance in 90 days). I worry so much about babies and RSV! It's horrible.
post #464 of 475
12/6/07 at 10:26am
We too named a child after a name in a book: I first read the name Deirdre in Anne Rice's The Witching Hour in high school, fell in love with the name, and knew I wanted to name a daughter Deirdre ever since. What a bunch of geeks we are
post #465 of 475
12/6/07 at 1:31pm
Yes NCD!!! I loved that name too, but it just ends up being like number 4 or 5 on our girls name list since DH and I have to agree. However, I almost talked him into Asher. :
post #466 of 475
12/6/07 at 2:00pm
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Originally Posted by DucetteMama21842 View Post
However, I almost talked him into Asher. :
Rowan is another pretty name from those novels.

So tell me DucetteMama, Asher ... is that a combination of Lasher and Ashlar? Or is it just a shortened version of Lasher?
post #467 of 475
12/6/07 at 2:02pm
Oh don't tell me I remembered it wrong all these years. Lasher sounds familiar. It's the name she writes into dust and the "imaginary" guy she sees...
post #468 of 475
12/6/07 at 3:07pm
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Originally Posted by DucetteMama21842 View Post
Oh don't tell me I remembered it wrong all these years. Lasher sounds familiar. It's the name she writes into dust and the "imaginary" guy she sees...
Lasher
post #469 of 475
12/6/07 at 3:08pm
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Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy View Post
We too named a child after a name in a book: I first read the name Deirdre in Anne Rice's The Witching Hour in high school, fell in love with the name, and knew I wanted to name a daughter Deirdre ever since. What a bunch of geeks we are

we call sammy 'samwise' on a regular basis...it was planned that way :-)

nak
jenni
post #470 of 475
12/6/07 at 3:10pm
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Oh don't tell me I remembered it wrong all these years. Lasher sounds familiar. It's the name she writes into dust and the "imaginary" guy she sees...
Asher is one of the twelve tribes of Israel...
post #471 of 475
12/6/07 at 3:18pm
# 48--new thread up and rolling!
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=805682
post #472 of 475
12/6/07 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by magstphil View Post
and on a more serious note...

i am having the hardest time going to church. the crap going on in my home and marriage are really weighing me down and now i just have no want at all to go to church. as a matter of fact all i feel is this extreme push against me going. i don't feel welcome there.
I never feel welcome at Church either. You have to go for ONLY one reason - God wants you there. When life is hard, at least get to sacrament meeting, and it will fill your soul and give you the strength you need. If we give ourselves any other reason to go to Church then we end up not going because those other reasons sometimes fail us.
post #473 of 475
12/6/07 at 4:28pm
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Originally Posted by klg47 View Post
Well, the intellectual level of LoTR is quite a bit higher than the intellectual level of Twlight! So that's not so bad.



But then I see that you thought of HP names, and I think that is a lot closer in intellectual-ness to Twilight.



Is there a specific reason or problem?
yes HP is about the same as Twilight intellectually except that HP had a lot of twists and turns and back stories. more depth, i guess is what i am trying to say. BUT i have only read Twilight so....


i don't feel welcome because i am different. now that in itself isn't a biggie but they like to point it out and have a good laugh over it "oh we can't talk to Maggie about birth because she is anti-episiotomies. oh she's so ignorant for wanting to tare." blah blah blah and then they do like to poke fun of us and how we live quite often. sure, it's all in goof fun but um, yeah, i don't like it. :
post #474 of 475
12/6/07 at 4:32pm
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Originally Posted by magstphil View Post

i don't feel welcome because i am different. now that in itself isn't a biggie but they like to point it out and have a good laugh over it "oh we can't talk to Maggie about birth because she is anti-episiotomies. oh she's so ignorant for wanting to tare." blah blah blah and then they do like to poke fun of us and how we live quite often. sure, it's all in goof fun but um, yeah, i don't like it. :
Ugh, no -- it's definitely NOT in good fun. It's them trying to make themselves feel better about a) themselves and b) their choices by putting you and yours down. Totally rude, and something I would fight, myself. Starting with "Why do you say those things?" with my best guileless face on.
post #475 of 475
12/6/07 at 5:16pm
When you get to my age you delight in ruffling people's feathers and don't care if you have many friends. I have my husband and a few god AP companions. That's all I need. If no one likes me at church, that's their problem. I'm not the one ruining my kids with CIO and spanking.
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