our daily blog today
is from goldie
i can't wait to hear how
we all picked ours~~
What's in a name?
by Goldie
We were all given a name chosen by someone else when we were born. We had no say in it, and love it or hate, it is yours. Mine is Heidi.
Our online name is different. We got to make the choice as to what our name would be. My email, myspace and blogging name are all GOLDIE. Because of my affection to golden retriever's? No. I have never had one. I have a wonderful, beautiful Black Lab who I would throw myself, if need be, under a bus for. (I am hoping that won't be anytime soon!)
Years ago a little old man would call our office and ask questions about his account. Just checking if we had the correct address, beneficiary, etc. Nothing ever changed, so there was no need. It didn't take me long to figure out he was lonely and wanted to chat. This went on for about a year.
One day he said to me that I reminded him of his dog. Huh? I wasn't' sure if I should be insulted or not.
Then he said the nicest thing that I think I ever heard. He said that I was like his golden retriever, GOLDIE-she listened patiently while he rambled, never judged or interrupted and made him feel like what he said mattered.
Insulted? No, he paid me the highest compliment I had ever received.
A week later I got my first email account. When the tech asked what name I wanted to use- you guessed it- GOLDIE@..
That same day I found out the little old gentleman had passed away.
I have used that moniker ever since for everything online.
So how did you choose your online name? Is it your own, a made up one, your location? What is the story to your 'identity'?
285 comments:
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That makes my day complete!!!
;-)
Mek
I am battered and bruised, but heck it was worth it!
Congrats on 100...
:O)
Sorry Mek
Congrats on 200!!!!!
cpgem - too funny with your check list.. sorry about your knee..
Mary - i haven't checked the weather - that is something I need to do - I got so carried away with the marching!!
Reception was okay tonight - not as WONDERFUL as last week - she made Meatballs and had pork and beans - (who makes those things to be eaten together) - anyway - the meatballs were good -
LMAO@the march and Carol's checklist!
LOL@MEK-yeah who puts those 2 things together!?
LMAO@those Aunt and Grandma names
I was almost named "Sean Timothy"! My Dad came up with the name!
thanks Carol!:) "HE" did respond once via email and AGREED to do it! I am still bothered by it, but letting it go! Speaks volumes about HIS character-not mine! LOL
(and the fact that ANT,and Sam Harris both had to prepare to be on the cruise and yes..You heard it here(shhh)Ant called KellyW and Sam Harris called another person working on the video;)amazing! LOL
oops Turtle! SORRY! I meant maureen! I need sleep! It's been an overwhelming day! LOL
Carol: LMAO at your check list. You forgot your knee pads? I thought that was what the Kotex were for.
Congrats MEK...you are truly back!!!
Cpgem - your blog about Mary Poppins - I triple LOVE that movie!!
AND - I know what you mean about having to sit next to someone that does not realize that they smell.
There is a lady in our scrapbook group that smells ALL the time - and it's NOT a good smell - and she is in upper management - I want to throw up whenever she is around........it's very sad!!
Joey: That video was great and you did a good job. Thanks for sharing it with us.
sacbarb
The kotex was just in case I got kneed in my "private part" I wanted it be cushioned for protection!
These owls are nuts, they will run,jump,smack,push while they march.
All types of protection is needed!
I need my "private part" ask
iteach she knows how important it is....
:O)
Joey, I absolutely loved that video!
Thank you!
MEK- Put one of those stick-ups under her chair.
Carol- you are so naughty, I love it.
joey
I would have been bothered by it as well, you stressed several times that is was quite important!
We of course, move on...However It is something that is not easily forgotten. He should have answered you!
Carol: Glad your private parts were protected then. These marches get vicious.
Joey The video was great!
Carol I'm still laughing at your check list. You forgot your knee pads but thank goodness you remembered the Kotex. We all have our priorities. LOL
CAROL...what else other then the marches do you need those knee pads for??? bwahahahaha :O
I am off to try and get my last minute stuff done for the morning. I WILL fly in tomorrow night!
Thanks for all the well wishes!!
Love you all!
Maureen Maybe that's why Carol "forgot" them. Bwahahahahaha!
iteach
naughty but nice :O)
mo
I am a part of nest! This should tell you all you need to know
However if you need some help:
Use your imagination....
just_lin
We all need kotex, priorities people!
cpgem - the rude people blog --
Tina- I would NOT want your job during a natural disaster!!
people amaze me most of the time!! I think with all the technology we have today, people have forgotten how to respect and treat one another..
LOL at all the HO names!!
mek
Carry the small bath and body spray around with you, it works for me...
spray, spray, spray...smell...Ahhhh
Yippee - 222!!
okay - I'm going to turn off the computer and try to get a good night's sleep..
It's great to be back - i have missed you all....
Hope everyone has an Excellent Wednesday!! :-)
cp - LOL - can you imagine spraying someone??!! too funny - for the longest time, I could NOT remember her name and called her "smelly woman"!!! GAG!!!
nite mek
You were surely missed!
off to bed for me as well...
hope everyone has a good nite...
see ya all tomorrow...
nite!
Good night Carol, I'm going to sleep too.
Good night Carol, MEK, Iteach. Sweet dreams to you all. Just don't dream about any Sweet Custard! LOL
just caught up~ Great blog, Goldie~ sorry about your break-in~ that's nasty~
now...where did I come up with my name? Well....Tina is my favorite girls name and I've always wanted to live in Utah.....I still hope to move there one day~
iteach~ did you ever explain where you got your name???? btw...you should have mail on Thursday....do you have school on thurs? :D
Glad y'all liked the video! Y'all just jogged my memory about a "smelly story"! LOL
I was on the Greyhound once(UGH..to begin with..haha)close quarters..not much air! LOL
This man next to me(thank God it was an aisle over and not directly beside me) smelled to HIGH HEAVEN! YUCK! OMG....I was heading back up to my Aunt's house here from SC! I had my laptop backpack with me, and inside I had some orange air freshener..or mango or something fruity! haha...I had used it in the hotel I stayed in with honey! haha
I reached in and grabbed it and made it known that I was spraying to cover up the funk! LMAO
I was not too sly about it! I wanted them to KNOW they smelled! LOL
Goodnite y'all! I'm pooped!
Thanks for noticing my attempts on the other blog to reach him when the emails didn't work CAROL! I appreciate it!
Mek I think my last post needed a few more y'alls! OMG LOL
I must stop that:(
Oh and I meant to help the image in your mind's eye by saying it was this small travel size in an orange/silver can from Bath and Body Works!-probably about 3 inches:);)
Hoey~ only 3 inches~ I'm so sorry man~ :)~
I've been away so long (spending every day working and running over to hold my beautiful little grandson) and I have so much catching up to do. I read all of today's comments, though. What a great topic, Goldie! It was such fun to read the origins of your names and learn a little more about all of you. Mine is pretty boring - I'm Canadian and I'm a girl (ok - haven't been a girl for many years, but in my MIND ....)! Oh yeah, JustLin - that "study"? Freakin' hysterical!!!
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY HAVE MISSED IT ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE, THIS IS REALLY FUNNY!
UCLA Study
A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.
For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with duct tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his forehead while he is on fire.
No further studies are expected.
Hey!
Hi MEK glad you're back! YAY!
Goldie I am so sorry your work had been violated, that is horrible.
I have to share a little tear-jerker moment I had today at work.
This elderly gentleman (83 years old) came in to have his ears flushed out. He had a hat on that said WWII Veteran.
I asked him about it, since my grandfather was killed in WWII. He told me he had been in the Phillipines.
We chatted for a while, my grandfather was killed in the Phillipines.
He showed me the different medals he had affixed on his hat, telling me the meaning of each.
I noticed he had 2 matching angel pins, and I asked him what those meant.
His eyes welled up with tears, and he told me that each angel represented each of his wives who had died. He started crying like a baby.
Of course I lost it then and there, here was a man who had seen the horrors of war, yet was still so affected by losing his wives.
Anyway, thought you all might enjoy that story. What a pleasure to meet someone like that.
OK time for Big Brother!
EastBayJ That was such a sweet story. Thank you for sharing.
Dagnabbit! I left just before the race! I am in the middle of doing laundry. I do most of my house hold chores at night. It's a carry over from working the night shift for 17 years!
Sorry I missed saying goodbye to MEK & Carol.
Canadiangrl~ I love the baby pictures! What a beautiful baby! You must be so proud! I haven't checked your pictures today. I will before I turn in.
Joey~pee-yuuu! I hope the spray did the job!
I was in the city (Lansing) all day today. I meet with my x-coworkers once a month for lunch.We are all retired, so we can take our time talking and catching up. Back to the laundry....
Eastbay~Thanks for sharing, that was touching. You were sweet to let him share his feelings.
JustLynn~LMAO!! I don't ovulate anymore, but my son says I still have my "mommy dearest" moments LOL!!
Okay, how come I am busier during spring break than when I am working! Errands and appointments took up the whole day! Feels great to get things done though!
Goldie...I absolutely loved your story and have been thinking about it all day. How perceptive and compassionate you are/were to figure out that the elderly gentleman just needed to talk. You have a heart of gold or rather goldie! Sorry about what you had to deal with at work today....hope tomorrow is a vastly improved day.
Joey...loved the Rosie birthday video! As someone said on the video..she is pure yellow. And I say so is the video!
Jodi...thanks...if it all works out it is going to be great to finally meet the fabulous Tinka tomorrow. And yup, the camera is already in my purse!
bono...thanks for asking and I did get my piano and I am soooooooo excited to have it. Now if I could only play it!!! No, I do play but am very, very rusty!!!!
EBJ...what a lovely story and what a good person you are!
So the topic today has been extremely enlightening. It has been really cool to see the origin of the names that we have all become so familiar with. I have wondered where CPGEM, Tinkatia and all the others came from. For me, when I first started commenting on that other blog, I used my actual name but didn't feel right about having it out there. So then I went to Canadian Island Girl. But then I started reading posts from the wonderful Canadian Girl and decided it wasn't fair to her, as she was there first, that our names were so close. So went to Vancouver Island Girl. When the system changed over there and we had to sign in...there was some sort of error and I couldn't use Vancouver Island Girl so I shortened that to VIG! And sometimes here in the nest my alter ego The Notorious V.I.G. shows up! Cool!
Goldie: I loved reading your story! I didn't know any of that!
Well, this is going to be pretty old and tired for those who've already read it on Ross's Blog, but...
whabbear is a deliberate misspelling of Wahb, the name of a grizzly bear who lived near Yellowstone Park back in the late 19th century. Wahb was orphaned as a cub, and spend his life alone, asking no quarter and giving none, until old age overtook him and he succumbed to the lure of the "death gulch", which held poisonous vapors and where he lay down and went to sleep for the last time.
Or so Earnest Thompson Seton, the Canadian wildlife writer and co-founder of the Boy Scouts, tells us in "The Biography of a Grizzly", one of my favorite childhood stories.
I always resonated strongly to Wahb's tale, and when I grew up and got involved in the bear (!) community, his seemed a very natural online handle for me to adopt. I just had to transpose the middle two letters because someone else had already snagged "wahbbear".
I highly recommend "Biography of a Grizzly" to all owls with pre-teen children. A very touching story.
Good evening to everyone..new schedule, new popping in time.
MO: Love your novels! ;) Good luck tomorrow. You'll do great. LOL @ Baby in the corner..oh if you only knew!
MEK: Welcome back! Missed you. And you got 200! WTG!!! :)
JOEY: The video was amazing. Thank you for the link. I hope you're doing good tonight..y'all. I know, I don't know quite how to use that, but thought I'd try. ;)
JODI: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. SWAK!
CPGEM: I think TINA is better now, so I can change back to HUGH GRANT!
What could be coming in the mail?? How exciting!
LYNND: No hot tamale..maybe a big burrito though..;)
GOLDIE: Sorry to read about your office. Glad you and everyone else are safe.
SCIRISH: I always thought maybe South Carolina Irish..maybe I should have paid more attention!
SANDIE: Nottie! ;)
SACBARB: {{HUGS}} Your hubby would want you to go.
KGRL: Thank you for the correct pronunciation..I was all over the map with your pretty name. And..congrats on 69ing again!
J/LIN: LOL at the study you shared!
VIG: You'll alway be Auntie Nort to me!
Part the second on it's way...
yay!!! zona is up~
Yay! Tina and Zona are up!
Zona, your migraine sounded like a nightmare! I trust you recovered completely over the weekend?
EBJ: Great, heartwarming post. Thank you.
WHABBEAR: Everything about you is so interesting. I love where your name came from!
TINA: LOL @ 3"..not surprised at all that you caught that!
ITEACH: I read 'put one of those stick ups ON the chair..' almost fell off mine!
IBB: I just love your blog name.
JENNIFER: Even numbers for me too...eventhough I can be ODD..;)
BIRDEE: I've never seen "Hope Floats"--I will now though!
BARB/WA: Congrats on your lunchtime 100!!
TINKA: Loved talking to you too sweet lady!
DIANNE: I hope you are resting and feeling better.
Waving Hi to MARY/MI, CG, BON'O, RGIRL and anyone else my tired ol' eyes missed...
TINA: I shredded it....kidding.
Hey Zona...thanks...you will always be junior to me!
Tina...hope you are over the evil migraine and feeling much better.
WHABBEAR: Yep, it's gone. I hope I never see those 'sparkles' again! TINA told me chewing on p-nuts would help..but it didn't for me.
VIG: Are you all ready for your lunch? You and TINK are going to be adorable together in those pictures! I just can't wait.
TINA: I hope your headache is all better so Hugh can come again...
250
TINA: I KNEW YOU WERE GOING TO DO THAT!!!!! ;)
VIG~ my headache is all gone~ thx~ :)~ Have fun tomorrow~
Zona~ my headache is back....better keep Harrison there for a little while longer~ :)~
AND IF YOU DON'T SEND IT.....I'M COMING TO GET IT!!!!! :D
Thanks, Zona! You're pretty interesting yourself!
Zona~ i just came back and saw it...so i did it~ :)~
Zona: Hugh's coming again...hmmm!
Yes, if it all works out, lunch tomorrow with the sweet and nice Tink will be awesome! Looking forward to it!
IDOL: So glad Owls were posting for that two-hours. I felt like I was watching an SNL parody of Idol.
Just popping into say G'nite and to thank all the friends who sent me emails, messages and comments about the loss of my aunt. She was a way-cool lady who, who after raising her kids, adopted and raised 30 or so Pomeranians and a bevy of birds. She passed on her twin sons' 50th birthday. The one who called me was in Las Vegas on a long-planned birthday weekend with his wife to see psychic John Edward, and received word moments before the show. The story is too long to tell here, but I wish I'd had his story to ponder the day we blogged on the paranormal. Don't know quite what to think about it, but Dave was singled out from the audience for a reading that named his mom, mentioned her being surrounded by Poms but only one remained with her at her passing, info about her husband, etc. More than a little spoooooky!
BarbinWa~~Im with you. I get all excited at the thought of BlogBuddies lunching in 'Oregon'.
p.s. ~~ I think you should move to Walla Walla WA. Then, just like The View, we could have our own "BabaWaWa" :o)
TINA: Are you at work?
VIG: It'll work out. I guess Hugh will be coming back in the morning!
G'night BON'O I am so sorry about your Aunt.
Hi Owls!
Goldie: Fun blog! I've enjoyed reading how everyone chose their user names. Add me to the list of bloggers who thought you had a Golden Retriever. :) I'm sorry your day started off with bad news. I hope your company is able to recover quickly and the police are able to catch the thief.
I chose Amicus, because it means "friend" in Latin.
Mo: Congrats on the new job!
BonO: {{Hugs}} My condolences to you and your family.
DonnaJean: In my not so humble opinion, the best solution for that "Out of Memory" error is to dump Internet Explorer and download Firefox. ;) It's a compatibility problem between IE and whatever script is on line 202 of the website's source code. I honestly don't know how coders keep their sanity, because those type of problems seem to be never-ending with IE. Hopefully, the NBC techs will come up with a fix soon. Hugs and prayers for you and Laurie.
Goodnight everyone!
G'night AMICUS!! Thank you so much for the help this morning, you are so patient and kind!
Zona~ yes....i'm at work....and almost done grading the L/G tests....did you know that Taxidermy means "the art of stuffing"? :)~
TINA: Uh..no..but my mind is sure racing with the double imagery...
Zona: You're very welcome and thanks for the kind words!
Tina: Waving Hi to you too!
Sweet dreams!
amicus~ hi~ :D and goodnight~ :)~
Zona~ I went straight to your BLUE!!! :)~
and your cousin is hilarious...read your email~ :D
TINA: GOOF!!
TINA: Awww man...you got the better one!! ;)
Zona~ LOL~ that's why I put me first.....it's funnier that way~ :)~
pick up your phone in 15 min~ I'll talk dirty~ :)~
2-69~
TINA: Are you warning, threatening or promising??
I put me first...dang...
Good morning Owlettes!!!
JOEY - Luv the Rosie video!!! What a sweet way to tell her Happy Birthday :D
MEK - Glad you got to your destination. Too bad your reception dinner wasn't as great this time. I know you'll enjoy breakfast!!
JENNIFER - I'm proud of you!!! Kudos 2 U for going to the gym again yesterday!!!
TINA - You must still be talking dirty to ZONA!!!
ZONA - ((((HUGS)))) 2 U!!!
BON*BON - Your family is in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.
JUST LIN - Only 5 days? Woo Hoo!!!
Zona~ you tell me....how was it for you?~ :)~
Jodi~ yes...i was talking dirty to zona~ :)~
TINA: I'm on my third cigarette..still recovering.
JODI: Have a god day at work. I hope you feel better! SWAK
275!
Zona~ that's funny....you don't smoke~ Are you sure it's not blue cotton candy? :)~
TINA: I started smoking with you tonight..;)
You'll never know until you try cotton candy for yourself! I do recommend the blue though.
TINA: Did I mention both of my batteries are dead too?
ZONA~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! I can't believe you said that!!!! So when the Mr is away....you bring out the toys? WOW...and two batteries at that!!! :)~ You're a busy little beaver! :D Or did I say that backwards? :)
*****ATTN K-MART SHOPPERS****
I have a feeling that Zona is going to say that the batteries were from her phones. Don't believe her! That's her code name for her toys! :)~
Hi Ho, Hi ho it's off to work I go!!
Wish me luck!
TINA: It was a pleasure to use up my batteries with you.
MO!!! GOOD LUCK!!! You'll do great, I know it! :)
Good Morning!! I see Jodi, Tina, Zona and Mo!!!
OMG - we watched the news last night and I am SOOOOOOOo thankful that we drove!! or we would be sitting in the Dallas/Ft Worth airport with a million other people!!! :-)
AND, my mother has NO patience left - she is SO tired !! This will be a LONG trip home -
I hope everyone has an excellent day!! :-)
285!!!
Tina - congrats on 250!! :-)
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