I didn't find out the gender until birth so my selected names were in theory. I think all my family knew my choices. They aren't the kind to say negative stuff about your selections. Firstborn was named for his father. I think we both were set on that. Secondborn was named for my nephew who passed a couple months before he was conceived, so I did ask my sister's opinion first because I would never have done it if it would cause her pain.
I didn't get a Victoria, but will toss it out as a suggestion for my theoretical Holt granddaughters. At this point still very theoretical. Neither son seems to be planning this move any time soon.
Yeah, we used the name we'd chosen for the daughter up until the eighth month when I got tired of people picking the name choice apart. I think we ended up with a name we liked even better; a little bit of a twist on a name that was only becoming popular, but not in a huge way. Whereas, if we'd stuck with the original one, there's millions (or it seems like).
eta: we didn't know the sex, we just really wanted a girl. We didn't even have a boy's name picked out!
Matilda is a long, looooong way off from presenting us with grandchildren, but her current name plan when she gets around to it is:
"If I ever have a little girl, I think I want to call her Ozma. Ozma, or Melancholy. Isn't that a beautiful name? It's like a combination of Misery and Clementine."
I'll endorse all of those. Matilda sounds like she's going to end up quite a wordsmith. All in the family.
My daughter said if she ever has children, a girl will be Sloane and a boy will be Zander (or Xander, not sure, it's intended to be a variant of her name).
We picked names that could be boy or girl names but from the start K-Bug's name was the girl choice and CJ's name was the boy choice. Even with a 6.5 year age gap and trying to have baby number 2 that whole time, we never came up with a new girl name. Luckily CJ was a boy and we didn't have to scramble.
I didn't get a middle name when I was born, instead I asked for one for my 18th birthday. Ended up sharing it with K-Bug and it would be nice to see it filter down to the next generation - but I'm not going to be upset if it doesn't.
I am now idly wondering if there's anyone in the US who's named their child Sharknado.
Sharknado J. Smith, of Craptacular Falls. Sounds about right.
The coolest girl's name I ever encountered was an RA at my university named Rebel Holiday. She grew up to be a leetle bit sketchy, but I'll never not love that name.
Wow. I could not be having a shittier day than if I was actually covered in excrement. Seriously. What is UP with this day?
Huge fight with the manager of the pet care company. Apparently my supporting him makes him angry and, the new hiring practice which was put in place because HIS head was exploding, 'just doesn't work for him.' We've been doing it for 2 weeks, during which I have met every one of his needs. He he demanded that we stop immediately, because he said so, or he refuses to do his job.
Massive fight with dog walking client who is tremendously difficult. I wrote a good email for the owner to send to the client. Pet care manager, see above, hits reply all with a snarky remark about cutting her loose. Client explodes.
I can't even.
