Awww, that's soooooooo sweet Marky sparky!!!! (I used to know a dude called marky sparky)

Do you really think "S****Q**" is such a weird name...? Well, if you think that's weird, you wouldn't want to hear the rest of the name!!! S****Q** is only my first name!!!

It's not so much that your alternative is weird, hon. It's that you already have a perfectly good name. :-)

It's you that's going to make it synonymous with "artful".

Can I just tell you my full artist name anyway??

You can tell me anything you like, Lady Blossom. ;-)

You can be anyone you want to be. I was just telling you what I thought, that you'll be special by any name.

Thank you malign, that's a really nice thing to say!!!

It also happens to be true, little one.

The only sad thing is that you haven't been told often enough.

Well?

I'm waiting to hear the name!

And, I agree with malign, you are special blossom, whatever your name is.

Thank you guys!!! I feel special now and warm and fuzzy inside!!!!

Did you send it to 'star', too? She's going to feel left out otherwise. :-)

Yes, I feel left out

(How lame, it made me wait 30 seconds to send that :mad:)

Yeah, I sent it when I was sending it to Malign.. did you get it yet??

yeah I got it!

How are you Malign???

Hah, "turnabout is fair play". :-P

How about I promise to write a blog entry for the day?

Hey, Mark, I've always beleived that theirs a lot to a name . I have a Biological name, and 5 AKA names before the age of 3 yrs old. and then theirs the name I last called myself , therefore I was named by Childrens Protective Services.

35 years later, meeting my Biological father, he tells me he is the one who actually named me the name I have now. That sad truth was because back then the parents were commiting welfare fraud by claiming to have more children then they really had, I being their only daughter, became many daughters. Now I think it is a bit funny , in a very messed up way.

So what IS in A NAME?

LOL .

Who am I really?

mscat

Debra Kay Pendley

Cathy J

Or those 5 other AKA ? HUmmm?

Sorry I haven't been on much lately, what with work getting intense. I do really want to talk with you.

For one thing, I have another name-related story: when I lived in Africa, in a French-speaking country, for two years as a kid, I had to learn French and basically couldn't use English in school at all. But I clung onto my belief that a person's name is the one thing about them you can't translate. You owe it to them to try (and it's often difficult) to say it just the way they say it, because that's their identity, and it doesn't change just because they're in a new country. So, when one teacher wrote my name as 'Marck', on a report card, no less, I was quite upset, and went back to make her change it. She had got confused between the French spelling, Marc, and the English one.

So I'm going to ask you to ask yourself and tell me:

What's your name?

And I'll use that from now on.

Because no matter how messed up all of them were, you get to make an adult decision, now, how you want to be known.

Thank you , Mark. My name is Cathy. It has stuck for years . They only time it changed was to Mscat, from my preschool teaching Years. over 20 years of that, and the little ones always called me mscat. Those teaching years are my fondest memories and I was very very good at working with very young children , and special mainstreaming special needs children into my program. I have a degree in ECE & take pride in working all those years with all ages of little children. once directing a infant toddler program, to working with school age kids, however the preschoolers were always my true joy of teaching.

mscat is what I use as my screennames because it is positive to me, and a short name. Brings back the good times, and memories I have as teaching precious little ones .

Cathy, is my adult name , nearly over 40 now, I am known to the rest of the real world as this

Hi Cathy.

That's the name I use most of the time for you.

But my point was to find the name you think of yourself as; I don't much care what the real world calls you. Obviously, those are often the same, but not always.