May 25 2007
Taking Care of Business
I’ve been tagged. Multiple times. I’m going to try to catch up here a little…
In the Spotlight.
Jenny and Jessabean both tagged me for this one, along with a myriad of others who say “if you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged” (not at ALL cliche…). I’ve seen it all over the web lately, and I’ve seen everyone answering DIFFERENT questions, so I wasn’t actually sure what the real questions are. So I went right to the Source, (and asked the horse, she gave me the answer that she endorsed, she’s always on a steady course, talk to Mr. Ed) and apparently there are several questions that I can CHOOSE from! So I guess I’ll answer the ones that I feel like answering!
1. What makes your blog unique? Well, let’s see. I’m a homebirthing, green-eyed, vegetarian, Mormon, world-travelled, “had-four-kids-in-four-years,” poliglottal, mommy-blogging Democrat who lives with her mother-in-law and writes under a Jabberwocky-inspired pen name. I like to think that makes me unique.
2. When did you start blogging? I started blogging two months and two days ago, to be precise. Before that, I had a different blog that I occasionally wrote stupid (and totally unnoticed) posts on from time to time, but I wouldn’t call it “blogging.” Then I became Brillig and I’ve been frantically blogging ever since!
3. What do you hope to accomplish with your blog? Make a million bucks? Take over the world? Hypnotize wild animals? Complete the tower of Babel? Punish all who are literate? You pick.
4. What are your feelings on the “blog popularity” issue? HAHAHAHA. I had to put this one in, because the WHOLE POINT OF THIS WOMAN CREATING THIS MEME WAS TO INCREASE HER BLOG’S POPULARITY. Well done, brilliant Christy. Well done indeed.
And now I will tag-a-roo. Hmmmm, who should my victims be today? I pick:
Whiskeymarie from Never what you think it should be
Jewels from Blonde Canary
Rebecca of Rebecca James
Believer of Believer in Balance
Jennifer from The Verge
Okay. Now to the second one. This one came from Butrfly today.
Where did you get your kids’ names from? (that’s not really the name, but it works…)
1. Fluffy is actually the nickname my little girl has had since she was in utero. I can’t for the life of me remember why her dad started calling her “Fluffy” and then when she was born bald (and remained mostly hairless until she was nearly 2!) it became just a silly name for her! Now her hair is actually quite Fluffy, so it works just fine. Her brothers all call her “Fluffy.” Her REAL name came from when I was working in a bookstore while I was pregnant with her and saw the name on a book and fell instantly in love with it, presented the idea to Hubby, he loved it too, and it was a done deal. What you should know is that she is named (her first and middle name) after who I consider to be the two most controversial women in the Bible. Beautiful names, beautiful together, and my way of saying, “back off–those two women were AMAZING.”
2. “Bubba” is just what we’ve always called him. His real name is his Dad’s middle name, which was Hubby’s grandfather’s first name, which was hubby’s grandfather’s mother’s maiden name. Got it? Basically a no brainer for me. But the name suits my little Bubba perfectly. Bubba’s middle name is my maiden name, which also suits him PERFECTLY.
3. “Scooby” is what Fluffy started calling him right after he was born. Hubby and I had decided not to find out Scooby’s gender before he was born, but for some reason we both firmly believed that he would be a girl. (If he’d been a girl, his name would have been Sophia Catherine. Isn’t that pretty?) Anyway, he was clearly NOT a girl when he was born and it took us TWO WEEKS to come up with a name for him! The name we settled on is so cute and we love it. It’s Biblical without sounding Amish… His middle name is Hubby’s grandma’s maiden name.
4. Lil’ Dude is an obvious nickname for my lil’ dude. I suspect it requires no explanation. As for his real name, he was my only baby born in the hospital and you have to name your kid before you can go home! We had NO idea what to name him. But I was desperate to get out of the hospital (hospitals in general make me feel that way…) so I kind pulled a name out of the air and Hubby liked it (after we’d been quarrelling about EVERY name up to that point), so we hurried and wrote it on the birth certificate app. and off we went! His middle name is yet another family name from Hubby’s side. (There are VERY FEW PEOPLE in my family that I would EVER EVER EVER name a child after, so I’m glad that Hubby had so many great people in his genealogy!)
And now, I tag
Thoroughly Mormon Millie
Braveheart-does-the-Maghreb
Mom O Matic
The Dead Letters
Families are like fudge…mostly sweet with a few nuts
Phew! Two meme’s down! Only about a thousand to go…
But now I wanna know their real names… especially my best friend Fluffy’s.
That’s so sweet!
We called my brother Bubba growing up…after “Bubba Duck” from Duck Tales.
It stuck until my bro and I changed it to “Bum”. I almost used that for his blog name, but he didn’t need to be introduced until after I *met* you. That would have been a little wierd. So for now he’s That Guy.
hahaa…”Punish all who are literate?” Make me do a dorky laugh. I so wish I could explain it.
What’s wrong with Amish names?
Sounds like you got your hands full.
you’re doing pretty well for only blogging 2 months, you got it goin on!!!
i hear you.
is it possible that the infectious “consider yourself tagged”
disease developed due to one’s true feelings about memes?
just wondering.
i know i know… memes=love
A mormon democrat? You really are a criminal!
(I’m just kidding of course, it is just, well, you know–rare for that combination in these parts!)
you tagged me! thanks!! - even if I don’t particularly like doing the meme in question, I like being tagged because it makes me look more popular -
And I had four kids in 3 1/2 years - so I win!! ha ha (but I did have twins) AND I GOT ALL BOYS!! girls smell - or so my boys tell me (I still wish I had one, though) In any case having four under four (or five) makes you a STAR!!!!
Oh wow… OK, I promise to do this one. I loved your answers. You’re going on my blogroll.
Hi, Thanks for participating! Your answers are not only good they are interesting too.
Of course I want to improve my blog ranking but I actually have many issues with top bloggers thinking that they’re better than the others, which is why I created a meme that everyone was welcome to do, not just the “popular bloggers” - see I have issues, lol.
I love all of the nicknames you have for your children, I do the exact same thing, lol. All of my children had nicknames.
You sound like a fun mom. I’m off to add your link to my blog so I can come back again and read some more.
Have a great day!:)
I do like to read these things about other people (alright since it’s only one question I’ll do it :-).
Very fun to find out more about you. Really only two months? Well done. I don’t know how you have time to breathe let along blog.
thank you for the tag sweetie.
Des,
I know. It’s kinda dumb that I tell the whole story and then not tell you the actual names, huh? I’m not worried about my e-friends, of course, but I don’t like to have the kids’ names just hanging out there on the web for any stranger to see. I don’t know why. I don’t know what a stranger could do with their names…
Butrfly,
I’m SO glad I made you do a dorky laugh!! Hahaha.
Anonymous,
Okay, before anyone freaks out, my husband started giggling like a little girl when I was reading this comment, which of course instantly gave away the fact that he wrote it–and that he thinks he’s very funny! haha.
Ba Doozie,
Well thanks, hon! I am certainly, uh, dedicated to it. It means that I’m, uh, not as dedicated to other things–like feeding my children, for instance. Hey, a girl’s gotta have her priorities, right?
Exskindiver,
Yeah, I think you’re on to something there… I get that not everyone, including myself, is crazy about memes…
Nanette,
Shocking, isn’t it? Hahahaha. The only time it becomes a problem is when Sunday School turns into a Republican National Convention and I want to start throwing chairs… hahaha.
Rebecca,
Yup. YOU WIN!!!! hahaha. And feel free to do any meme, if you’re not fond of this one. I hereby tag you for ANY meme you feel like filling out. Hahaha.
Jennifer,
Wow! Thanks! And I can’t wait to read yours.
Christy,
Hahaha. There I was, kinda baggin’ on ya, and there you are being so sweet. Well, thanks. And I have discovered that I share some of your “issues.” And, honestly, I like the way you went about this Meme. So, um, I feel contrite and penitent, and grateful that you turned out to be such a nice person!
Lady MacLeod,
I look forward to reading your answer! And yeah, breathing is optional–Blogging is essential, right?
Thanks for the tag!
I’m really glad Anonymous turned out to be your hubby, because it sounded really snarky and bratty, and I’m trying to get past feeling irritated when someone tells me I have my hands full.
And now you know all my mental health issues.
I really liked your answers to these.
And your Hubs cracks me up.
We certainly have a lot in common (not that you’re not unique
). So glad I found you!
Very cool. Naming our son was the hardest for us. Every name I suggested hubby knew someone with that name that he didn’t care for so I wound up getting vetoed…then we happened upon a Blake while we were out one night and we agreed that was going to be his name.
Thanks for the tag! I’m sorry I’m so slow on the uptake. I foolishly let breathing and feeding my kids interfere with my blogging and was out of the blogosphere a few days. I’m back and going to attempt my first meme. I really enjoyed your answers. I fear I’m far from that interesting. I don’t even know what poliglottal means!