What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Is there anyone else out there who is less that satisfied with there name? I'm sure there has to be others just like me. My name is Katie. Which as you guessed for a child born in the eighties I was always one of many Katie's in each grade throughout Elementary School. So to decifer us the first initial of our last name was tacked one. I couldn't even be known as bland old Katie instead I was Katie J.I think the only punishment worse than being named Katie would to have been to to be named Jenny. I swear there were at least four Jenny's in each of my classes and the average of Katie's normally was three. What made things worse was the fact that my name is just Katie, not Katherine or Kate or Kathleen. My mom apparently never thought I would grow older than five when she named me. I am nearly twentyone and my name fits someone with pigtails and no front teeth. Luckily my middle name is Christine, named after my grandma. If not for that I would be lost in annonimity with all the other Katie Anns, Katie Lynns and Katie Maries. Plus with a last name like Jakus I didn't have to worry about being one of many of that. It doesn't help to hit the other end of the spectrum to have a unique name. I don't know if I would want to curse a child with that either but then again these days every child seems to have one. Ever read the birth announcements? It can be quite a laugh. You wonder if people say the names outloud before they signed the birth certificate. PLEASE people consider the years of trauma you can cause your child before you name your child. If I would have been a boy I would have been named Christopher Robin. Can you imagine what a hellish life that would have been? No matter how great the song "House on Pooh Corner" was that is no reason to name your son anything with the middle name Robin.

On a funny note, Jeremy's step dad's name is Keri Darling. Here is this tough yet handsome man who has to introduce himself as that.