I wish I had changed my name to keep my maiden name as a middle name, instead of dropping it altogether.
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Nov 30, 2006 11:30:58 am PST #3832 of 10007
Now tagless for your comfort.
Maria - Nov 30, 2006 11:33:41 am PST #3833 of 10007
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
So far I've kept mine. I use his socially, but if/when I get around to changing it legally, my maiden name will become my middle name.
Jesse - Nov 30, 2006 11:34:45 am PST #3834 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This could have been me-spelled differently-had my parents kept my supposed-to-be-a-boy-oh-well-let's-call-her-that-anyway name
Here's how you know I have internet problems: I was thinking "Alayne's not a boy's name!" Oh. Right. That's not your actual last name.
juliana - Nov 30, 2006 11:36:23 am PST #3835 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Here's how you know I have internet problems: I was thinking "Alayne's not a boy's name!" Oh. Right. That's not your actual last name.
Glad I'm not the only one.
Never changed my name, and it's a good thing, too. Never wanted to, so I doubt I'll ever change it at this point.
Daisy Jane - Nov 30, 2006 11:36:55 am PST #3836 of 10007
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
It's my middle name.
Tom Scola - Nov 30, 2006 11:36:57 am PST #3837 of 10007
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You all know that Paige Davis from Trading Spaces is Paige Page, right?
Cashmere - Nov 30, 2006 11:37:08 am PST #3838 of 10007
Now tagless for your comfort.
My sister vows to never change hers again after her marriage lasted less than 7 months. We'll see, though. She's engaged again.
Trudy Booth - Nov 30, 2006 11:39:53 am PST #3839 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I knew a Hope Hope... but she was 80 when she died a decade ago so I think it's pretty much generational on her part.
Jesse - Nov 30, 2006 11:43:23 am PST #3840 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You all know that Paige Davis from Trading Spaces is Paige Page, right?
Did she really change her name? Anyway, then she'd be Mindy Page, and still Paige Davis professionally.
Maria - Nov 30, 2006 11:49:49 am PST #3841 of 10007
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Oy, Cash. I hope this one goes better for her.
Part of keeping my name has to do with the fact that professionally, I have built a reputation and people know me by my maiden name. If I changed, the email address would change, the voicemail greetings would change, and the confusion is not worth the headache. A lot of what I do only is accomplished because I'm a known quantity. Maria DH'sLastName isn't at first glance.
More personally, my last name is part of my identity. It says that I'm Italian, and that's important to me. DH's last name is generic Anglo-Saxon, and I don't mind using it socially, but legally I'd like to keep this link to my heritage.