Mom had picked out four girl names long before she married. She wanted to name her four girls Karen Kay, Kelly Jane, Kimberly Elizabeth and Kathy Lynn. She did end up having four children – but only two girls. I received the first name. My mom and dad both have names that start with G and their eldest two have names that start with K. Third born was an S and I thought we should keep the pattern going – two G’s, two K’s and so my baby sister would have to have a name that started with S. Instead of Kelly Jane we named her Shelly Jane. She said she was happy of that as she doesn’t care for the name Kelly.
There
were a few reasons that I decided to use alias names in my blog rather than actual
names. You can read about it in my very
first post found here. After I started my blog I changed my sister’s name from
Shelly to Kayla because I remembered she hadn’t liked the name Kelly. Mostly I used a middle name, one that rhymed
or started with the same first letter.
But not all of them rhyme or are similar in any way. There’s usually a method to my madness – but not
always.
One of my brothers was born on St. Patrick’s Day and a nurse at the hospital told mom that she should name him either Michael Patrick or Patrick Michael. In my first COQ (Book of Complete Questions) post, I mentioned him –initially calling him by his real name but then I would use his alias and tried to correct the error. I found it easier to continue calling him Patrick as that is what my fingers have been typing.
Steven had a blog in which he referred to himself as Cody which I changed to Corey in my blog. But now he has another blog in which he uses his given name. You can find his old blog here and his current one here. Anyway since he started using his actual name, I did too.
Steven and I share a lot in common aside blogging. Don’t see either Patrick or Kayla posting their thoughts to a blog. My sister-in-law Sunny should blog. My niece Ellen did blog. I don’t know if she still does. I would guess not as she has little ones at home . . .
Though I use the middle names (or forms of the middle names) for my youngest two sons, my oldest does not have the middle name Biff. He used to have an email with the fill handle of Buffguy. Calling him Buff seemed weird, but I had heard the nickname Biff before and so changed it to that.
I
have a nephew named Gary though I started out calling him Garret. His brother I dubbed as BJ – meaning Bill
Junior. But Gary is the one who takes
after his father in personality. In real life the one that I dubbed as BJ was
named after my mom but spells his name with a J rather than a G (see here). I had originally called my mom “June” as it is the
month of her birthday – but in recent
posts I have assigned the names Gary and Gerrie to my parents as that is what
their real names are. For the most part
I continue to use the aliases, but sometimes I have interchanged the names – especially with
Jaime and Jenna or Richard and Roland.
