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My first POLL!
Feb. 27th, 2004 10:20 amI paid for my account a while back because I decided I was having enough fun doing the journal thing to give myself the gift of a few extra pictures and the ability to really monkey with my page, and be able to do polls... I paid for it, uploaded a bunch of icons I had made or had found, and then promptly failed to do another thing except some extra searches. Ah the life of a mom.
I had an idea for my first poll, but I just thought of a better one-
Lately UC5 and I have been discussing having the legal spelling of our son's name changed. You don't need to know it to help out with this, since it's an easy enough yes or no question, but I will allow additional comments in case you do know it and want to say something. I don't put his name in the journal so please don't put it in your comments.
But for background for those who will likely be confused I will briefly sum up:
We call our son by his first middle name. His first name will stay the same and where it is despite the fact that we never use it because the name we call him is a "unique" name and may or may not turn out to be either a hindrance based on some amusing nick names that have popped up that we hadn't thought of, or just people being asshats like they are sometimes. His own grandfather (who is CERTAINLY NOT an asshat, but is being a little stubborn) refuses to call him K and calls him by the first name which can easily be shortened to AL. That was one of the first reasons I ditched it- the first person who called him "big Al" since he is MY SON and I am big, a chill went down my spine as I saw him potentially as a fat teenager sitting in a cafeteria one day trying to peacefully eat his lunch, coke bottle glasses slipping down his nose (except that I will TOTALLY let him get contacts if he wants them) and I don't think I called him A ever again...
So now that we are using the hard to spell middle name, no one seems to be able to spell it. I lived through that one and it's a giant pain in the ass. We've been thinking of simplifying it ever so slightly by dropping ONE LETTER in order to make it more like the more common spelling of his name which IS a fairly common LAST NAME. So here's my thing-
My mom (doesn't it ALWAYS come down to my mom!) seems to think that this change would be YET ANOTHER level of confusion for those who already know him, but the way I look at it, HE'S NOT EVEN THREE for the love of all things statistical... Out of the BAJILLIONS of people he is going to meet in his lifetime, he's met approximately 3%, so I don't think that changing it at this stage of the game is a bad idea AT ALL! Especially since changing it later certainly WOULD BE.
So FINALLY we get to the poll! (SHEESH, took me long enough!)
[Poll #255074]
I had an idea for my first poll, but I just thought of a better one-
Lately UC5 and I have been discussing having the legal spelling of our son's name changed. You don't need to know it to help out with this, since it's an easy enough yes or no question, but I will allow additional comments in case you do know it and want to say something. I don't put his name in the journal so please don't put it in your comments.
But for background for those who will likely be confused I will briefly sum up:
We call our son by his first middle name. His first name will stay the same and where it is despite the fact that we never use it because the name we call him is a "unique" name and may or may not turn out to be either a hindrance based on some amusing nick names that have popped up that we hadn't thought of, or just people being asshats like they are sometimes. His own grandfather (who is CERTAINLY NOT an asshat, but is being a little stubborn) refuses to call him K and calls him by the first name which can easily be shortened to AL. That was one of the first reasons I ditched it- the first person who called him "big Al" since he is MY SON and I am big, a chill went down my spine as I saw him potentially as a fat teenager sitting in a cafeteria one day trying to peacefully eat his lunch, coke bottle glasses slipping down his nose (except that I will TOTALLY let him get contacts if he wants them) and I don't think I called him A ever again...
So now that we are using the hard to spell middle name, no one seems to be able to spell it. I lived through that one and it's a giant pain in the ass. We've been thinking of simplifying it ever so slightly by dropping ONE LETTER in order to make it more like the more common spelling of his name which IS a fairly common LAST NAME. So here's my thing-
My mom (doesn't it ALWAYS come down to my mom!) seems to think that this change would be YET ANOTHER level of confusion for those who already know him, but the way I look at it, HE'S NOT EVEN THREE for the love of all things statistical... Out of the BAJILLIONS of people he is going to meet in his lifetime, he's met approximately 3%, so I don't think that changing it at this stage of the game is a bad idea AT ALL! Especially since changing it later certainly WOULD BE.
So FINALLY we get to the poll! (SHEESH, took me long enough!)
[Poll #255074]
