I can easily predict how people are going to react and what will be the final result that it is very frustrating

Yeah, I have this, too, Sophia, and it can be really annoying. I call it being overly empathetic.

It never occurred to me to change my name when I got married and it always sort of surprises me when a woman of my generation or younger does. I understand that it's complicated for some people.

On the mosquito app, they are very theoretical and many say they don't work, but it seems to help me. At a price of free it is worth a shot.

When I first married in 1973 changing your name was just what one did. When I married in 1984 and 1990 it was a matter of keeping my previous husband's name or rolling back to a name I hadn't used since 1972 and that seemed silly. I have to confess that becoming Laura Holt held a certain appeal too. (Remington Steele reference)

I've always figured it would depend very much on what the other person's last name was! But there's less of an expectation with the gays to change it, and more options like combining names.

I had to get up at 4am and put on clothes and go next door and ask the people to shut the fuck up. Grrr. Took me a while to get back to sleep—should've just stayed awake and taken a nap later

But there's less of an expectation with the gays to change it, 

Oh, yeah, I can understand that.

I woke up at six this morning, watched a little TV, and then I went back to sleep until eleven! Don't know where that came from.

Then I had a most unpleasant trip Outside, a mistake I don't plan on making again today.

Did a big run this morning, and although the weather was cool and I only had one glass of wine last night, it was hard, argh. So tired. I need protein but we're tailgating at the game in 2 hours so it's pointless to eat breakfast now.

Soon I should start filling creampuffs. I think I have too much filling for the number of puffs, woe. Maybe I'll make another batch tonight to fill for the folks in the office tomorrow.

Don't go Outside! That's where the sun is and it is a VERY HOT SUN today!

I woke up early to work from home for about an hour (in exchange for an extra vacation day this year), and then cleaned the kids' bathroom (ew) and vacuumed all the cobwebs out of the corners of windows, and now I'm wondering if we have anything I could make for lunch.

Really do not want to get out of bed and there's a cat on me. So.

Did not change my name when I got married. I debated the pros and cons but in the end inertia won as it so often does. Has only been in ccasipnally inconvenient. Probably helps that mylasname and DHlastname are both essentially S-squiggle-ff when handwritten.

The plan for kids was, of course, to make them hyphenates and give them long unusual first names as well as Hebrew names and nicknames. As is the custom.

One hour for a whole day is not a bad deal!

I will have to disturb the cat if I want to eat, alas.

I changed my name - combination of getting married really young (so no professional history with my old name) and wanting to trade in a constantly misspelled/mispronounced name for a nice simple easy one.

Reader, they misspell this one too.