beyond jennifer and jason
Today at lunch, a co-worker divulged to me that she is pregnant. Exciting news. We got to talking about baby names and I found myself deliberately not mentioning my favorites, as these are the names that I have picked out for my children (though offspring in my future is certainly not a definite).
It was as if I didn't want her to steal these names.
Listen, I've been reading baby name books since I was 10 or 11 years old. I mean, I really dug them. Between baby name books, Childcraft, and the encyclopedia, I didn't have much free time to read anything else, save Judy Blume's entire catalog.
Anyhow.
I don't really want to tell anyone my names, in fact, lest they bestow these gems upon their children and drive them up to the top of the popularity list and one day, my kids will have to endure having three or four similarly-named classmates, as I did.
I just really didn't like being Jennifer D. throughout elementary school.
And apparently, I have way too much time on my hands.
4 comments:
It is not lost on me that this is crazy. KM has already emailed me saying as much.
oh, i already know my future children's names too. at least half of the name (i'm willing give future partner a say in the other half of the name). and they are family-ish names, so i am not too worried about other people stealing them, except for my cousins, which is kind of ok.
I was always going to name my son Atticus. But then Jake Gayllenhaal and his beard Kirsten Dunst had to go and name their dog that name.
OMG, P'chop. I am emailing you right now.
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