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In the year plus that I've been writing here, I've never been able to give my children pseudonyms. My husband and I named them with such love and care that it's hard for me to bring myself to call them anything but those precious real life names. Yet, I find I'm growing tired of calling them "my son" and "my daughter."
So, this weekend I was playing around with their names, trying to see if I could find some variation that I would be satisfied with, when I realized something that hadn't struck me in all the past five years since we named my daughter: if you combine the right elements of their real life names just the right way, you get the name of a celebrity.
Since I love to play with words, it tickled me to learn this, and I thought I might be satisfied with their pseudonyms if I could pick the name of one my favorite superstars and form their new names from it. I did, of course, consider naming them Clinton and Hillary, after one of my modern idols. However, while that might fit the sex addiction/codependency theme, I did want all you Republicans and Obama voters to be able to unabashedly love on them too.
Instead, I decided to go with one of my classic, old school, literary idols. And so, dear friends of the blogosphere, I am delighted to announce that henceforth, my bloggy progeny will be known as Austen and Janie. May you enjoy their antics as much with pseudonyms as without!
Those of you who know my children's real life names are welcome to e-mail me to find out the real famous person name. Since I didn't notice it in five years, I don't think it's self evident.
Those are lovely names for your wee ones. I have enjoyed your writing about, and am happy you've chosen such excellent names to refer to them here.
I love your pseudos. Very clever! As you know, I wrote of the need to do that for D. I don't know what I am going to use tho!
I have already chosen the blogonyms of my unborn children. Baddie and I regularly engaged in debate about what we'll call them in the real world, but their online names are set in my mind!
At the radio station, one of the DJ's is named Pseu. of course when i first met her, i thought, oh Sue.... but then i saw it written. I loved her even more.
Perfect!
And don't you love wordle? I'm posting my own soon!
I can totally see you with pencil in hand jotting down and moving letters and re-arranging - methodically. I like what ya came up with!
If I ever have kids I'll name them after my classic, old school, literary idols... Seuss & Doctor.
I like the names you chose. Perfect. I'm wondering what kind of pseudo I'd give my boy now. But like you, I love his name so much that it's hard to think of anything else that could be appropriate.