I met someone today who told me it would be easy to remember my name because he had a sister-in-law whose name was Amy Larson. Great.
I knew my name was going to be extremely vanilla when I married Corbyn, but today, I realized how vanilla. After this comment, I went to Google and did a search for "Amy Larson". 9,470 search results. I wasn't patient enough to look through more than 3 pages, but I wasn't any of the Amy Larson's listed on any of those pages. I did a search under "Amy Guymon" (maiden name)... 47 search results. And several of them were me. I just share my maiden name with some defendant in Montana, but my married name??? Innumerable.
Welcome to the world of ambiguity. Ah, what a nice feeling.
Now, I guess I understand when Corbyn comes up with names like "Rocket" or "Indy" for our baby. He is trying to create a little uniqueness... no one will even need to hear the last name if he calls up and says, "Hi, this is Rocket..." Yeah, you'll only know ONE of those.
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So my name is Amy Larson. I stumbled upon your blog when I looked up Amy Larson on google! When I read the tag line that you met someone who's sister in law is Amy Larson, I wondered if you met Marinda Pope-my sister in law-. Anyway, I read your whole blog and totally related to so much of it! I have two little girls and the whole prego stuff was great. My husband also made jokes through the whole mommy-to-be classes-instead of being supportive. So much of your life sounds similar to mine (I am also LDS), so I loved it. I have a blog-luckylarson - look it up some time, tbough it is not as fun as yours! Thanks for a great break in my cleaning the house schedule!
You can count one more Amy Larson in Cairns, Australia. My boss is Amy Clare Larson :)
This is funny, My name is Amy Larson too! I found this blog when googling my name.
So I was Amy Larsen until I was 20 and now I am Amy Guymon. You were Amy Guymon and now you are Amy Larson. Wild!
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