On the baking soda, I mix the baking soda with my dollop of shampoo, and leave it in there while I shave. I have really hard water too, and it negates the effects of that as well. Vinegar works wonders too, though there is the smell issue, I only use that once a month. If interested in the vinegar, you would use a spray bottle, soak your hair, rinse and shampoo as normal.
Why yes, I have hair issues.
Ah! German!
Library is Bibliothek, IIRC, and Geschichte is history.
TagFree, I think Anya is a very pretty name. My friend V’s sister named her second daughter that, and I think it’s the kind of name that a little girl can carry quite easily and won’t outgrow once she’s an adult.
The full name may be a difficult mouthful and I have a feeling it will be mangled to no end. Speaking as someone who’s grown up spelling both her first and last names constantly, an unusual name is sometimes a ginormous annoyance (and I’m not even going to get into the routine mispronounciation of my name by telemarketers).
How did five new items suddenly appear on my to-do list with a deadline of 5pm today? Dammit.
nola, me three on Anya. I like Erich as well. I don’t see a problem with the middle name James either. I once knew a family where there were eight boys. Seven of them had the middle name Joseph while number eight had Joseph as his first name. None of them became serial killers.
Another busy day at the office but at least it’s Wednesday. Can we rename Wednesday? I think it sounds more like Wendsday anyway. What say you?
Feel better vibes going out to those who are under the weather.
beebs, by all means bring back the Mumper Map. All newbies must report their location under penalty of squid. I have spoken.
I found an old high school friend on Facebook last night. She and her husband moved back to town fairly recently. Kinda cool.
Just got home and it’s about naptime. And, actually, I’m hoping that my nap will be continually interrupted by people calling to place orders for tomorrow. It’s getting kind of grim around here. I need much, much more business.
I think I want to grow a hanging basket of petunias this year. I went poking around the interwebs and I’ve settled on a multiflora type. Now to see if de sto’s have them. I’ll get them when I go tomato & pepper shoppin’. (I don’t eat raw tomatoes, but boy howdy can I grow 'em!)
Nola, I agree with taxi about people trying to pronounce Anyanka. I first read it as Annika, which is a lot easier to say (and can also be Anya). Or you could go with the solution Art Teacher Sister has for her kid: he will come out, shake everyone’s hand and say “Hi, I’m ____ _____ (Lastname).”
LLess, I love the name Anya, but Anyanka does have potential for some playground teasing. (I love Jeanette too. Brandalynne, though, made me :dubious: a bit.)
If I do have children, I’d insist they be given a Korean middle name. And something sensible but meaningful for their first name. Like Alice, which comes from the Greek and means “truth.” Plus I love Alice in Wonderland. I also like the name Elaine, but don’t like the connection it has with Elaine of Astolat. Susan is a nice name too, and I do like the allusion to the Narnia character (I love Gaiman’s short story concerning her). Plus my mom’s nickname is Sue.
I’ve never thought about boy names, for some reason.
I like to honor heritage via middle names, too. I was not given a middle name (a hex on my parents!), and I have felt the lack (ok, so I’m not up at night about it, but still). I also like family names as middle names.
I tend to think of boy names more, so go figure. I love the name Dwight, mostly because I knew a Dwight growing up and he was a great guy. I like Nathaniel, Simon, Nigel, Neville, Colin, Robert, John, Douglas, among others. Notice these are mostly Anglo-Saxon. Sorry, can’t help it.
For girls, it’s trickier–the name needs to be adult enough to not cripple her later in life, but also shouldn’t be able to be a stripper’s name. (the male version of stripper’s name, IMO, is anything made up by the parents, as in Jamalyk or Treval or ones that sound like he should have his own fishing show: Bubba, Royal, Duke, Earl, Travis, Cole etc). Names that started out nice, but ended up being white trash names (IMO): Amber, Brittany, Tiffany–ok, that one was never nice, --anyway, see the book Freakonomics for more detail, not that the authors are some kind of final arbiters on names. They claim that “Robert” is a black name, for example–I’ve yet to meet a black man named Robert, but I don’t get out much; I have yet to admit as a pt any black male named Robert, but I probably have and didn’t realize. My point is that it doesn’t seem to me to be a hugely popular black name (whatever a black name may be). So, some of the stripper names may not strike you as being that either.
Anyway, I like traditional female names and I dislike the letter J, a lot. So: Elizabeth, Melanie, Sarah, Jane (my personal fav–it’s about the only J name I like, male or female), Laura (not Lauren or Lorin or whatever), Anne, Mary, Millicent, Miriam, Catherine (or with a K), Eleanor (surprise), Elaine, Ellen, Hope, Faith, Holly, Beverly, Beth, Amelia, Diana, Donna and lots others.
Can you all tell I have nothing to do? Am off to take #2 son for a haircut.
Is everybody napping? I was. And now I’m not. According to BWI airport, **FCD ** is on his way. According to Southwest Airlines, he’s still boarding. Who do I believe??
No matter - I’ll be leaving in about 90 minutes to meet him. Yay!
Speaking of middle names, mine is AWFUL. My parents thought it would be a brilliant idea to give me the same middle name as my father, which I suppose is touching and all, but also doomed me to live out my life with the same name as a popular chain of French-Canadian hardware stores.
Could’ve been worse. If I’d been born a boy, I’d have been George-Adrien and still landed with that godawful middle name to go with.
(…notice I haven’t actually said what said awful middle name is… that’s because no one knows my middle name unless they’ve seen my passport, and I plan on keeping it that way thankyouverymuch)
I have a plain ol’ middle name (to go with my difficult first name) but the first name is enough to deal with that I didn’t take my husband’s unpronounceable German last name because I couldn’t deal with two difficult names.
That, and my first name and his last name start with the same sound, but neither starts with the letter most commonly associated with that sound. So a) it’s an even bigger PITA while being b) a bit too cutesy with the alliteration.
All this talk about names. Before I was married, my initals were A.S.N. Now my initials are A.S.S. Everyone gets a kick out of it, especially my husbands. I’m his ass, LOL. He loves pointing it out to people when we I have to initial things. People at work get a kick out of it because the nameplate at work was A. S. S(insert rest of last name here).
Speaking of work, I have to head in there this evening. Working 6-10 and then tomorrow from 8-12. Ick. Hate back to back shifts like this.
My parents didn’t give any of us middle names, although I used my confirmation name for years. After I got married, I stopped using that and used the first letter of my maiden name for my middle initial. It works.
I’ll be leaving in a few minutes for the airport, since I haven’t been to Orlando’s airport since I graduated from boot camp in 1973 - I expect it’s changed… Plus I need to stop along the way to buy some TP - we’re down to one roll and 4 more days to go. That will not work.
4 days till the wedding, 5 days till I’m home. I’m *sooooooooo * tahred!!
Did I mention that my first two initials are I. P.? If I was suddenly single again and met a totally dreamy guy with the last name of Freely, there would be no debate as to whether or not I kept my maiden name. Ain’t no way I’d go through life with the name I. P. Freely.
(…or Standing, or Nightly, or any other name that combines humorously with those initials)
I have decreed that tonight’s dinner shall be grilled trout with yogurt coriander sauce and indian-spiced roasted N.O.T. (assuming The Boy can find the ingredients we need).
My initials are E.T. Go ahead–yeah, yeah–phone home etc. :rolleyes:
I now have to take #2 son to soccer and pick up #1 son from work. Just home from haircut. I cannot seem to convey what I want to these stylists. It’s not a bad cut, it’s just not what I wanted. <sigh> I suppose there are bigger problems in the world; I just can’t imagine any. <double sigh>
I’m home! It really feels like it should be Firday by now. Why isn’t it?
Names are tricky, aren’t they? I have an unusual, 4-letter first name. I like the part where I’m generally the only one with my name in any given large group. It kind of freaks me out that one of the volunteer organizations I belong to has someone else with my first name. That never happens. I think it kinda freaked my name twin out too.
I really like Anya as its own name. Unless there are a lot of people with Slavic names in your area, it seems like Anyanka might be a bit much for most people. I think Erich James is fine, too. He’s unlikely to use his middle name all that much, so it won’t matter that it’s the same as his brother’s first name.
I have a friend who’s two brothers have the same first name (they’re both named after their dad; and no, their name isn’t George). One goes by his first name; the other by his middle name.
Hmmm…was there more? Oh…McUne: I love that you put beebs’s recipe in the blog. And yes, those green beans sound yummy.
