What's in a name?

[Lulu54]

Your screen/usernames often leave me wondering - just like those vanity car license plates that spell out cryptic messages. So I would like to know more about your screen name - is there a story behind it that you would like to share?

My name - Lulu - isn't what I started out with.  A couple months into this when I realized I would be sticking around here, I thought everyone else has a *fun* name, why shouldn't I do the same?

We have a dear friend who has a habit of calling all of us women friends *Lulu* when we gather to play cards.   Alzheimers runs in his family and he often says knowing all of us by one name now will be helpful later on.    He uses it as a term of endearment part of the time and as a curse other times.  :-)

I also think of this MiSerable disease as one lulu of a hand to be dealt.  

Just plain *Lulu* was already taken so I put my birthyear behind the name - hence Lulu54.

So in a nutshell, that's the story behind my username.  

What's your story?

[ANonnyMouse73]

Mine was chosen because I'm very protective of my real life privacy and thus wanted something that suited my need for anonymity online.  And I like mice.

I've had this username on various forums for quite a few years now and am known as "Nonny" by so many internet friends now that I almost answer to it in real life. LOL

[jenandherboys]

The first part of mine is from my first name-Jenny(not Jennifer, though).  The second part comes from being the only female in my house full of "boys"-including my DH, and 3 sons(11 years old and 5 year old twins). Thus, jenandherboys!

May not be terribly cryptic or mysterious, but very descriptive! BTW, love hearing all the explainations-often wondered where some of these came from!  Great thread!!  ; )

Be well!

Jen

[Willowwoman777]

I have been through so much in my life - an abusive husband, then a wonderful husband who died of a stroke at 46, and my present husband who is very ill, and so on and so on, yet like the willow tree, somehow I'm still here and going fairly strong...like a willow tree, I bend but don't break.

[Lulu54]

Oh Bob what a reality check -  and here I thought the CO stood for cowboy! Just kidding.  I hate having to come up with a screen name when I register at a site.

Doug - being a Beatles fan (from '64) I have to say that 1964 was an exceptionally good year.

Drsdon'thelp - that is a ridiculous number of doctors.... maybe #16 will have a clue.

[COBOB]

Obvious and not too inventive  CO - Colorado   Bob -  My name.

[jdcatt]

jd are my initials and catt because I love cats and two t's because we have two cats. :-)