What's in a Name?: A Ramble from MEMT

I'm kind of having an identity crisis. When I was little, I thought that when a girl got married, her name magically changed. I remember once seeing a book with my mom's maiden name in the front cover. It looked so weird, to think that my mom wasn't always a McFarland. McFarland was her last name on everything, and it seemed like it always had been. I knew of course that wasn't the case, but that's why I thought that one day you had your maiden name, and after the nuptials--tada! You have a new last name and everything is changed for you!

Not so.

I'm still a McFarland on pretty much everything. My library card, my driver's license, my bank account, email...

The long process of changing is annoying, but at least there's no deadline. But that's not the most annoying part! The worst is when people ask what my name is!

I stutter and look stupid as I pause and go through a million things in my head. If I'm buying something, I feel weird not using my maiden name because it's whats on my card, and I don't want them to think I'm stealing someone's card. If it's someone I'm meeting in our new neighborhood, I give Thornton as my last name, because eventually that's what my name will be and they'll know me as that longer. But I still have a hard time with that because my name isn't officially changed yet. Legally, I'm still Megan McFarland. Sometimes I know it's pertinent to give my new one, but they might not recognize who I am because they've heard of me with my old name. Then I'm always mumbling about how I just got married, and how I haven't changed my name yet legally, and it's weird.

If that paragraph was confusing, don't worry. I don't get it either. The point is that I'm confused. So I just choose to ramble on and try to make sense of this second last name nonsense. BTW, I'm adding his last name to mine. I'm not hyphenating, I'm just going to have four names. So my name will be really long. Maybe this is stupid. I don't know.

-Megan

My Novel has a title, and I am soaking wet.

Despues este escribiendo, tengo un exam del Espanol.

Estoy lluviosa. Muy lluvios, y no tengo un paragua. Soy triste.

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You're probably wondering how NaNoWriMo is going. Well I'm at 9536 and I have a title.

"The Morning Comes Early."

I don't know exactly what it means, or why it fits my novel, but it somehow does.

I'm in desperate need for character names. Like seriously, anything. Leave your suggestions below.

Now I'm going to battle the sea that's falling down all around us. Wish me luck. My umbrella broke. :(

-Megan

Fruit Heights Sisters! (And the much promised name list!)

Some of my favorite names for boys:

Lysander, Atticus, Julian, Chance, Quincey, Matthias, Thayer, Terrence, Parley, Vincent, Fredrick, Lewis.

Some of my favorite names for girls:

Evangeline, Circe, Harper, Hazel, Emerson, Soliel, Jonelle, Sage, Gracely, Lydia, Fern, Penelope, Ingrid, Adelaide, Jatie, Feliciy, Irena, Emmeline

I know, I have a fetish with names. I'm not pregnant, nor do I plan to have this many children. But I like listing names. And just because I like a name doesn't mean I'm going to give it to a future child.

This post is for my Fruit Heights girls! We we talking about this last night, and I couldn't remember my list, so I told them that I would post a blog about it. I love those girls! I miss it when we used to all be down the street from each other, but we're still so close, even though our lives are taking us all on completely different roads. I miss them, but it was so awesome to be able to hang out with them last night.

-Meg