My dad added his middle name legally

My birth certificate doesn't have a middle name, but it is on my SS card and drivers license.

My parents didn't give me one at birth as my maiden name was pretty long to begin with. After I turned 17 I told my mom that I wanted a middle name for my 18th birthday. She could talk to anyone but me about it. On my 18th, she presented me with framed piece of paper that had my first and middle in beautiful calligraphy and "on the occasion of your 18th birthday" under it. And just now I realized it is not hung up in my house, which is unusual. Will need to go find it. Anyway, I'm not sure if she did anything legally to make it official but no one has ever questioned me about it.

My signature is basically a couple squiggles ending in a big loop. The loop is supposed to be "Jr."

I'm toying with the idea of dying a patch of my hair some fun color (maybe bright blue) when I retire. Kind of a symbol that I don't have to care anymore.

If my hair would hurry up and get gray I will have fun colors. I have a friend with white hair who has so much fun with it.

My white hair absorbs it differently, so I end up with strands of bright fuchsia mixed in with the burgundy.

Is your class about happiness, shrift?

Yes, it's based on the book.

So many customers at the bakery literally just scrawl a vague line when they're signing receipts. And the people who write a legible name are mostly women, and mostly over 50. Just anecdotally.

Nice. Let me know what you think.

When I first added blue, my stylist thought she wouldn't bleach, just let the grey show the blue and the brown nsm and have interesting depth and shading. Did not work out, couldn't see any blue at all. I'm not sure if the grey didn't take the dye or is just distributed in a way that makes it hard to see, but bleaching worked much better. I do still want to play with chalk.

Tim's signature is just a T and a scrawl. I used to have a nice signature, but when I sign at a point-of-sale credit card dealie, I just do an S and a scrawl, because fuck it.

Do you do paper receipts, Amy? My digital signature is even less legible than pen and ink.

We do use paper receipts! We don't even have a pin pad for debit cards -- everything runs as a credit. No chip reader either. And I almost laughed at the woman who wanted to pay with her iPhone the other day.

My digital signature is a nightmare, too, although I try to sign it the way I normally sign -- it's just the screen or the pen thingie that's hard to get used to, I guess.

My signature is probably completely forgeable -- it's very round and very legible, but I don't think I could change it now.

My hair went white, rather than gray, and it tends to grab color and hold it. A friend, who went gray and has her hair colored blonde, has a problem that the gray resists it. ymmv