Here's my name question at the moment: The not-hippocampus side of the family uses a nickname for me, different from what the rest of the family calls me, but this is a significant number of people and it is a real name, not a joke name. I always use that name with them, announcing myself on the phone, signing my xmas cards -- it is my name when one of them is in the room (my parents and sisters will use it then).
My niece, who regularly uses my other name, (the one hippocampus uses), had a baby this year and named the wee girl my other name.
I'd love to think she named her after her favorite aunt (ME ME ME) but I think they just liked the name (and I won't be sad if that is true). No one else in the family has ever mentioned this, but I am curious what happens when we are all in the same room together -- will the not-hippo-side start using my other name so the baby can have the L name?
My family used Big K and Little K for that type of situation. It works for a dozen+ years before you have to figure something else out.
My brother-in-law and I have almost the same name (he's Jesse), which mostly just means both of us look up when someone says "Hey Jess" at a family gathering.
My sister-in-law and I have the same first name and both use our husbands' last name (our husbands are brothers). Her middle initial is the first letter of my maiden name. I have gotten calls from bill collectors for her, and of course bill collectors always think you're lying.
My old boss has a very unusual (married) last name, but a very common first name, so she does have the same exact name as her sister-in-law and they are both nurses.
No one else in the family has ever mentioned this, but I am curious what happens when we are all in the same room together -- will the not-hippo-side start using my other name so the baby can have the L name?
My grandmother had a niece named after her, and they just called them Big and Little [Name] if it was ever relevant. So that's fun!
I hate to say it because I do miss my family, but I am so not stressed about Christmas this year. Most of the gifts I usually buy for people and have to wrap have been shipped directly to their recipients from the website they were purchased from.
Yeah, honestly, I've been asking myself if I'm okay being by myself at Christmas this year, and I think I am? It's nice not having the burden of coordinating gifts as much and traveling cross-country. My gifts largely have been shipped to my parents' house and my mom will wrap them for me (for which I have apologized and said thank you). I'm planning to stay in my pajamas, eat what I want to eat, watch what I want to watch, and sleep like it's my job.
My family used Big K and Little K for that type of situation. It works for a dozen+ years before you have to figure something else out.
My family had Big Bill & Little Bill, Big Chris & Little Chris, Big Mike & Little Mike.
For further confusion, Little Bill was known to his friends as Jim, but known to the USArmy and USNavy as James.
Little Mike is now 52 years old. Little Chris is now 46 years old.
My father's second (and now third, long story) wife has the same first name as my mom, one spelled with an -i, one spelled with an -ie. When I was a kid they worked at the same place (an elementary school) so when I 'd call to talk to my mom, they'd say, "J LastName the teacher's aide?" and I'd go, "No, J LastName the Noon Duty."
My father's older brother was called by his middle name by our family, by his first name by his wife and by his last name by the rest of her family. My father - who had an odd name - was called "Jim" when he was in the Air Force and by a number of other people and by his initials by some of his co-worker/friends. Me? I go by my middle name - a family name which is also a man's name, so phone calls at work usually involve spending some time explaining that yes, that's my name - and spelling it - and yes, I'm a woman, so now can we get to why you called.
