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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Next Week's Poll -- Name Nominations Please

In light of this post, I need to get another fake name. Auntie Nettie is good for the blogosphere, but for those times when I need to make fake reservations and/or get published, I'll need something new.

Therefore, I'm open to suggestions. Comments are welcomed. Names will be "googled" and checked on wikis for availability, lest we have another incident where Wanda or her sisters might come after us.

Five names will be selected for next week's poll.

You have until Noonish Eastern Daylight Time on Wednesday, March 26 to weigh in.

Ready?

Set?


POST!

13 comments:

Kristin.... said...

I liked Tia Juanita, but guess that isn't going to fly?

Anonymous said...

To get your porn name you're supposed to combine the name of your first pet with the name of the street you grew up on. That could work for a fake name, no?

Auntie Nettie said...

I knew the Porn name suggestion would come up. However, aside from goldfish that were named after me and my siblings, we did not have pets. (The two rabbits we had for a long weekend do not count, as they lived in the garage and only lasted a short time before Mom's allergies shipped them off to the 4-H girls.)The idea of a fake name is that it doesn't include your actual name.

As for the street you grew up on, the first house that we lived in was in Utah on the western grid system, and 700 West (or whatever it was) isn't exactly a usuable name, you know?

Lewiston Hewitt sounds like a WASPy dude. I'll consider it though until I get other suggestions.

testmonkey said...
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Auntie Nettie said...

@testmonkey WHOOPS. This got through before I could edit it. The link to the site would have been fine. We all could have filled it in with our choice.

NO REAL NAMES PEOPLE! Even in cookies or hyperlinks.

Please.

Auntie Nettie said...

Yes. I am paranoid much.

See early entries.

Kristin.... said...

Try some sort of Dr. Seuss variation?

testmonkey said...

Terribly sorry, oh paranoid one. How's about this?

Flax Hill Gardener said...

Have I told you about the drag queen that I have to work with on New Year's each year? Her name is Flotilla DeBarge and she scares the bejeezus out of me. And with good reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotilla_DeBarge

Anonymous said...

Juno Maxfielderson

Anonymous said...

How's about...
Gard O'Debooks or...
Anita Buktoread or...
I is Card Cat Alogue's lova.

Oh man, this is a fun game.

testmonkey said...

Ashford Smalls

Son of Shoosh

Eat or Wear!

Pickles McGee

Pickles McStew

Pickles O'Koob

Auntie Nettie said...

@test monkey -- What's up with the pickles? Wife's cravings getting to you? In a pickle to suggest a name?