This one is supposed to be a little lighter than the first 2.
Ever had a nickname? I have had many over the years, and I have quite a few that are floating around currently.
My friend's two children have come up with two of my current nicknames. I am now called Splenda instead of Linda by them. The younger child after calling me this for several months, asked me why they called me a name that meant salt! I had to explain to him then that splenda is a sweetener, and they were really calling me sweet and he didn't even know it.
They have also recently started calling me PLL, which I love and actually stands for pretzel leg Linda. This is due to my always stating that I feel like my legs are like pretzels, or all twisted and brittle when I first get up in the morning.
I also am called Timewarp Tina, which is why I named this blog site after that. If you have spent any length of time with me, you know what this means. I can go to get gas in my car and come back over an hour later. I can make a quick run to the grocery store which takes 2 hours (I am not kidding). Phone calls can last 2 hours. Getting coffee can be a 2 hour affair. There have been countless times I have gone into ONE store at the mall, and then look at my watch, or my friend looks at theirs, and we find we have been in one section for an hour or two.
Finally, I call myself the mad texter. Again, if you are close to me, you will understand that as well. I average 12 texts per day. One month my sister and I shared 360 texts alone. Texting is a way to send random thoughts right away, or arrange meetings, etc, in a matter of minutes, so that I am not on the phone for 2 hours (see above). I also love to receive random or strange texts as well. In fact, I don't know what I am going to do when texting and driving (yes I am one of those) or texting and walking is illegal. My friends will never hear from me again!
This is meant to make you think of all the nicknames people call you in an endearing manner, such as toothpick arms (yep, I am called that as well), even if they do not seem all that flattering.
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I had a whole comment written out and tried to post it and then it disappeared, so I think I'm going to call it a night (or early morning) and try it again some other time. Sometimes I hate technology (all my personalities do).
ReplyDeleteI think you know most of my multiple personalities so to speak. They are more variations of my name more so than nicknames. Everyone from work and YAM calls me Joanna, to my family and the NIU crowd I'm Asia and you have to say "how do I introduce you today"? Some of my friends from PwC call me JoJo and there some people who used to call me Jo. But as for actual nicknames? The only one I could think off the top of my head was Mrs. McNally. That's what my dad used to call me years ago, because I used to get lost all the time. I'm a little better know, and having the navigation system helps. My sister has a Polish nickname for me, "mloda", it roughly translates into "young" or "young one". Obviously it doesn't make any sense, since I'm older than she is. To be honest, I don't even remember how it started, so I'll have to ask her when I get a chance.
ReplyDeleteYes it is pretty funny when I want to ask "Who are you talking about?" when someone refers to Joanna.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I worry that I'm going to call Linda, my boss, and leave her a voice mail that says: "Hi Linda, this is Asia". She would think I'd lost my mind. Well, actually she knows me well enough to know that I'm half way there already.
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