Yeah, naming your kid Phinnaeus doesn't seem to be much different from naming your kid something like Fleance.

Why not just put a red target on his chest, or hang a sign saying "please beat me up and take my lunch money" around his neck?

wheeee!! new eljay friends!! all those who posted their names here have been friended.

Heh. I don't have enough left to dribble.

psh...i know for a fact this isn't true. btw...did you ever sign up for the mommy and baby sign language class? i think that is such a fantastic idea.

if i had a baby i'd be totally paranoid about SIDS too. there's just no rhyme or reason for it. jaedyn hates laying on her stomach. we're having to make her do it so she will learn to roll over and crawl. she'll probably be one of those babies who walks before crawling.

Phinnaeus

Plus it looks like your parents can't spell. Things have gotten to a sad, sad point when clerks etc. have to routinely ask how your name is spelled. Once I said, "How do you think Connie is spelled?" "With a K? With a Y?" "It's short for Constance." "Is that with the K again? Is there a Z in that?"

But he'll be called Finn (or Phinn) which is rakish and cute.

lillian elizabeth is a good name - it even looks good with out capital letters.

The filters for my furnace are confusing me.

going for a walk was much more fun than looking at furnace manuals

One of the best feelings in the world is having a human being utterly limp on your shoulder.

This is true, even for a confirmed NotHavingBabies person. My godson did this to me a couple of times, and it made me very happy.

I like the name Lillian Elizabeth very much, but fear I will be calling her Princess TickyBox for as long as I know her.

Remember the conversation last week about paying shocking amounts of money for clothes? I take back everything I might have said about not *really* being one of those people. However, the terrifying amount of money I spent this weekend gets me fabulous, custom-made-to-my-measurements, Gother than f*ck shoes. With bats on them.

Tiggy, I'm susanw on LJ, and I just friended you.

Plei, do you think she'll demand to be called Lily at some point?

We'll be calling her Lily from the start, though how we spell it is up in the air.

Tiggy, I'm minim_calibre, but as I never check my user info these days, drop a note in my last entry so I remember to friend you back.

Okay, usage question:

"Female" used as a noun. [edit: Specifically when referring to human beings, not any other species.] As in, "It looks like a group of all men, but when you look closer you see that one of them is a female."

It drives me BATSHIT in a way that I can hardly articulate.

Am I crazy? Do other people dislike it/object to it as much as I do? Or even a little?

"is a female"?

Um, no. No and no and no. "Is female", fine. "Is a female", no.