The name game
Mar. 22nd, 2005 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juthwaraI got rearended yesterday. No damage to the car and no damage to me (other than a backache yesterday that's gone away). But I moderately freaked out. I say moderately, because a full freak-out would have involved rushing immediately to the ER to demand they listen to the baby's heartbeat. Instead, I went home, put dinner in the microwave and called the doctor to ask what to do. I even felt a bit guilty because it was 6:30 (those reckless drivers are so inconsiderate for not hitting people between the hours of 8 and 5), but I figured that 5 minutes of my doctor's time was well worth my not being a nervous wreck for the next week. And I talked to the doctor and even managed to hang up before I burst into tears. So I was a model of restraint, really.
According to the doctor, the things to worry about are bruising around my abdomen, vaginal bleeding and the baby not moving. So far, no bruising or bleeding. And Friedeswide has spent most of the day attempting to reenact certain scenes from Aliens, so no worries on the baby movement front. So we're in the clear, although I'm not sure I'll really believe it until my appointment next week when I can hear the heartbeat again.
So at my last appointment, the nurse asked me, "So are you hoping for boy, girl or healthy?" Restraining the urge to sarcastically reply, "Well, I was hoping for a boy with tuberculosis and diabetes," I simply said "Healthy," and then added that I was kind of hoping for girl simply because we're having a devil of a time come up with boy's names.
And we really are. Girls names are so easy. One of us would mention a name, and the other would say, "That's actually already on my list," or "It's not on my list, but I like that." So we could have about 12 girls and have no problem naming them.
But boys names - oy. I like simple classic names like James and Paul.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
longstrider finds them boring. When I finally got sick of him shooting down my choices and demanded he come up with some of his own, he wasn't able to find anything he really liked, just names that he didn't hate. And I heard them and immediately said, "I hate those."
So we need help. What would you name a boy? I'm serious here - give me all the boy names you like, although don't include anything you wouldn't want us to actually use. As a few ground rules, we're trying for short names (because the poor child will have a hyphenated last name, so that will be long enough) and trying to avoid alliteration, i.e., nothing starting with A, B or F. Similarly, the hyphenated last name means we're avoiding first names that sound like last names so the poor child doesn't wind up sounding like a law firm.
On the other hand, none of these rules are hard and fast. Our pick for a girl, Katherine, breaks two rules (we were going for names without a lot of potential nicknames, but I think it's easier to drop that one), so the most important criteria is that we just like it.
So, help us out and save our potential son from being named Anonymous Atkinson-Freeman (which doesn't even really work since it's both alliterative and long). Any suggestions?
According to the doctor, the things to worry about are bruising around my abdomen, vaginal bleeding and the baby not moving. So far, no bruising or bleeding. And Friedeswide has spent most of the day attempting to reenact certain scenes from Aliens, so no worries on the baby movement front. So we're in the clear, although I'm not sure I'll really believe it until my appointment next week when I can hear the heartbeat again.
So at my last appointment, the nurse asked me, "So are you hoping for boy, girl or healthy?" Restraining the urge to sarcastically reply, "Well, I was hoping for a boy with tuberculosis and diabetes," I simply said "Healthy," and then added that I was kind of hoping for girl simply because we're having a devil of a time come up with boy's names.
And we really are. Girls names are so easy. One of us would mention a name, and the other would say, "That's actually already on my list," or "It's not on my list, but I like that." So we could have about 12 girls and have no problem naming them.
But boys names - oy. I like simple classic names like James and Paul.
longstrider finds them boring. When I finally got sick of him shooting down my choices and demanded he come up with some of his own, he wasn't able to find anything he really liked, just names that he didn't hate. And I heard them and immediately said, "I hate those."So we need help. What would you name a boy? I'm serious here - give me all the boy names you like, although don't include anything you wouldn't want us to actually use. As a few ground rules, we're trying for short names (because the poor child will have a hyphenated last name, so that will be long enough) and trying to avoid alliteration, i.e., nothing starting with A, B or F. Similarly, the hyphenated last name means we're avoiding first names that sound like last names so the poor child doesn't wind up sounding like a law firm.
On the other hand, none of these rules are hard and fast. Our pick for a girl, Katherine, breaks two rules (we were going for names without a lot of potential nicknames, but I think it's easier to drop that one), so the most important criteria is that we just like it.
So, help us out and save our potential son from being named Anonymous Atkinson-Freeman (which doesn't even really work since it's both alliterative and long). Any suggestions?
