Hey - NICOLE!!! I'm in DENVER!!!! Well, the airport and for another 30 minutes or so - but I'm Muppet waving in your direction and getting some mighty odd looks.

That reminds me. If I ever have disposable cash again, I really want Muppet DVD's. I need me some Gonzo and Animal.

Oh, ita -- The Boy wanted me to thank you for the shoe link yesterday.

Oh, and I did my push-ups on my toes instead of my knees!

Which sort of rocked.

They weren't very deep, and I dropped a knee on our holds between sets, but they were on my damn toes.

Oh, and I did my push-ups on my toes instead of my knees!

Does this mean that Trudy will be able to kill people with her little toe soon in addition to ita being able to kill people with her pinky? Awesome.

Related to killing: A professor has just asked one of those questions that would require me to prove a negative for every civil law country in the world. Kill. Me. Now.

Teppy, I'm glad he liked them. He was totally the first person I thought of when I got over the "Oooh! I totally can't wear those." reaction.

Does this mean that Trudy will be able to kill people with her little toe soon in addition to ita being able to kill people with her pinky? Awesome.

I am far far far from ita's killing ability.

But I do enjoy kicking.

A lot.

Its like, one day, all my testosterone showed up...

(Actually, I think Cass goosed it with the race cars)

She was Winters and he was Neufeld, so now they're Winterfeld.

I don't even know these people, and yet I will never forgive them for missing out on the opportunity to be the Neuters.

Ex-Mr. Jen and I thought briefly about combining our names, but nothing really appealed: Koseich? Teiski? Keich? (The latter of which, given the way his last name was pronounced, would have sounded like an anti-Semitic slur.) Um, no thanks.

So I just took his name, because like JZ no one has EVER been able to spell or pronounce my strange, multisyllabic pseudo-Polish last name, and I thought it would be easier to take a shorter, unisyllabic pseudo-German name. I learned quickly that fewer syllables != ease of pronounciation, and I spent just as much time spelling out a shorter name. Plus I kept thinking everyone was talking about my mother-in-law when they referred to me as Mrs. HisLastName. So I gave up and took back my maiden name long before we divorced.

Now I'm just holding out for a guy named Smith.

applies more to Stephie than Teppy (in the semantic extension sense, and certainly can be used in search of the same qualities). In my head it's derived more from the spelling than the sound, but similar enough.

Well, sort of. For me, the sound isn't so much the issue as the fact that it's a diminutive that is appropriate for a child. My bro was Kenny as a child, now he's Ken. No one would ever think to call him Kenny unless he introduced himself as such.

What's in a name? I didn't change mine for my first marriage, due to politics and professional requirements. I don't think I'd change mine for my next marriage (provided that happens), either. I don't much like my father (where my last name comes from), but I've spent 32 years with this name. It's kinda mine.

(Or, you know, What Tep Said.)

And I went to my full first name my senior year of high school - before that, I was "Juli". Which just looks fucking odd to me now, and the only people who get to call me that are family. No one but no one gets to call me "Jules".

In other news, so much ~ma to your mom, Hil.