Has your name ever been on the Most Popular Baby Names List? So you may just understand that almost-itchy feeling associated with having your name spoken aloud in class only to hear three or four others respond?
When I was born and Mom was suffering post-c-section delusion (in the years before c-sections were choices or popular or even safe) Dad managed to win at name choice - and chose a name Mom didn't even like. She secretly embraced the idea that she would one day call me by my middle name (the one she had chosen) like all of her family has done since, well, ever...her dreams were dashed when apparently I thrived despite personal use of a name so familiar to most of the neighbourhood children's birth certificates. [In all fairness the extremely unique name they had chosen for me - Treva- was blasted out of their universe of choice when the neighbour gave birth to a son 3 weeks before me and named him Trevor. There couldn't be a Treva AND a Trevor in the same class...mind you, eight Jennifers is just fine...So my sister ended up with Treva.]
And so for me: Jennifer it is.
There are definite advantages...I can always find a nameplate or a plasticy lead-filled mug from China with my name on it - properly spelled even! (Although my Dad wouldn't be so agreeably sure because he tends to spell my name with two "f"s and one"n" - Jeniffer - which is precisely why I have chosen to share the latter seemingly sad but truly, uniquely-funny-in-an idiosynchratic-manner type of tale. This is the basis for my Blog Name Two "F"s One "N").
This is a new and exciting venture for me. I nearly snorted milk from my nose (an uneasy feeling for any of you whom have not experienced this I-think-I'm-drowning sort of event) when my husband suggested blogs as an "outlet for my writing" but alas, after much consideration, here I am.
And so...what happens next?
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