Cordelia ,'Chosen'
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.
Yeah, we were supposed (at one point) to get 1-3 inches of snow but instead got NONE. Woo hoo!
GA: I know!!! Do they actually hate women with careers to make them so unable to have relationships? I am so happy that (at least for now) Derek/Meredeth are finally done.
Jessica, according to Social Security, Jessica was 32 in 2006. It was Top 10 between 1976 and 2000; 1 or 2 between 1981 and 1997.
Seriously, folks. Baby names at Social Security. Rocks. [link]
Oooh, vegan Boston Creme like cupcakes - is it Brooklyn because they're vegan?
The Baby Name Voyager is SSN data in pretty format, right? I love that thing!
Yes. SO FUN! Except it crashes my work computer, and it isn't easy to see broken down by year, but only by decade. It's here [link] and her blog is great.
woo! broke the top 100 in the SSN database. Eat it baby center!
My first name was number 483 in 2006. And falling fast.
Strange but true -- until about 1950, the obvious nickname (Fred) was more popular than the full name (Frederick).
I always enjoy flea's cataloging of baby names. I feel like you have so much potential when you chose a baby's name.
We are planning on Francisco for this baby - currently 157, I think. It's weird - here in PR it's like naming your baby Steve or John, but among our friends/family, it's fairly unusual. Still, it's growing on me. Probably will call him Frisco.
Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out
I just had to quote this one:
#4: A breakfast creation in upstate New York called “Stuffed French Toast”. What does “Stuffed French Toast” entail, you naïve non-American might ask? It’s French Toast (which, keep in mind is cooked in butter) stuffed with bacon, eggs and processed cheese (which they proudly call ‘American processed cheese’, I presume, to distinguish it from real cheese which could, after all, be French and/or offer unAmerican nutritional content). But here’s the kicker: on top of your “Stuffed French Toast” cooked in butter, you will find… a square of butter.
I got a Pottery Barn catalog yesterday and was looking at the monograms they have in the pictures. They included Kasey and Casey, and Malaki (!!) (as well as lots of Luke, Sophie, generally popular preppy-type names).