Birchbox April 2013

[FormosaHoney]

Originally Posted by kawaiimeows /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Yay! Great to hear! Maybe by then I will have saved up enough points and money to buy it myself 

 

 
Yeah, wait for you 25% off code!!

 

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by FormosaHoney /img/forum/go_quote.gif

 

 
Oh that just cracked me up!  I don't mean to be insensitive but that last sentence is the cutest grumble I've ever heard!

 

 

 

My name's Grace.  I was know by my Chinese name until 10, then we moved to New York.  Our folk's English friends back in Taiwan named myself and 2 other sisters.  

Amongst the combination of names were Hope, Chastity and Blessing...  I am so so grateful they went with Mary, Grace and Faith.  

I worked as a cocktail waitress in Jekyll and Hyde NYC and I wore a lab coat, stethescope and carried a rack of beakers filled with shots - sex on the beach, fuzzy navel and they called me Tie-One-On (Taiwan-On) because I was from Taiwan.

 

 

 

My old boss emigrated from China and they let him pick his own name.  He chose "Eagle".  His brother picked the name George. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by wildsp187 /img/forum/go_quote.gif


My old boss emigrated from China and they let him pick his own name.  He chose "Eagle".  His brother picked the name George. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Oh and while I'm at it.. My high school sweetheart, his family was from Vietnam.  His dad has a name that starts with Q so they wanted to name his sons something that started with Q.  He has an older brother so they named him "Quincy" after Quincy Jones.  They couldn't find another name that started with Q for my ex so they went through the dictionary and picked Quarry.  Like "rock" or "prey".. I guess I am full of "names" stories.  At least it is keeping us occupied.. although I bet people are going to think something major happened with all the unread responses they'll suddenly have in this thread! 

SORRY (but not too much.. this is fun for me!)

 

[meaganola]

LOL your poor mother!!  These are the reasons I didn't name my daughters something "normal".. They are going to be the "it's AHN-drea not AN-drea" girls.. hahaha.. Just can't win /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

The ironic thing was that she *did* pick unusual-for-the-times names. She and her sisters were Betty, Linda, Sue (middle name: Ellen), and Mary Ann, and they're all baby boomers who went to school with dozens of girls with the same names, so she gave our names a *lot* of thought. She just had weird luck.

 

[audiophilekate]

Originally Posted by jkwynn /img/forum/go_quote.gif


As a Kimberly from the 70's I totally feel ya. I rarely had less than 2 Kimberly (so one of us could be kim) - and in 3rd grade there was another Kim M., so I couldn't even be that!  And I married a Jason, also one of the most common 70's names.  So when we were thinking of names, we couldn't agree. I wanted something unique, he didn't want anything 'weird' - we settled on Dylan for the oldest.  Then, after he was born, I went to have his pics made I heard another mom yelling at her kid "Dylan! Stop it!" and just about broke down right there in the photo studio, lol.

Throughout preschool, I wanted to change my name to Kimberly (because of the pink Power Ranger).  I had no idea how to spell Kimberly, so it never really went any further than that.

 

[Jamie P]

Originally Posted by FormosaHoney /img/forum/go_quote.gif

 

 
Oh that just cracked me up!  I don't mean to be insensitive but that last sentence is the cutest grumble I've ever heard!

 

 

 

My name's Grace.  I was know by my Chinese name until 10, then we moved to New York.  Our folk's English friends back in Taiwan named myself and 2 other sisters.  

Amongst the combination of names were Hope, Chastity and Blessing...  I am so so grateful they went with Mary, Grace and Faith.  

I worked as a cocktail waitress in Jekyll and Hyde NYC and I wore a lab coat, stethescope and carried a rack of beakers filled with shots - sex on the beach, fuzzy navel and they called me Tie-One-On (Taiwan-On) because I was from Taiwan.

 

 

 
Ooo I have only been to NYC once (and only for a couple of days) but I had dinner there! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I have pictures of me at 18 outside... and a shotglass in my kitchen from there. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[meaganola]

Wait did I read that right?  That kindergartner was getting suspended??

Well, I don't remember exactly when that happened. They were in the same schools until 11th grade. Mon continued to get calls from the school even after the bro transferred to another district (he was bullied, and that was his only way out of the constant threats).

 

[Jamie P]

On the name subject... I didn't want my son to have a common name... but nothing too hard either so we chose Corbin. I love it... but people have to ask me to repeat it 100 times and act like it's the strangest name ever. Blah. I'm Jamie and my husband is Brian. Boring! LOL I dated someone named Lendil before... that's an odd name! LOL

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by Jamie P /img/forum/go_quote.gif

On the name subject... I didn't want my son to have a common name... but nothing too hard either so we chose Corbin. I love it... but people have to ask me to repeat it 100 times and act like it's the strangest name ever. Blah. I'm Jamie and my husband is Brian. Boring! LOL I dated someone named Lendil before... that's an odd name! LOL

Yeah that is an odd name... very first thing I (and probably a lot of people) thought of was Lentil Soup!

 

[Jamie P]

It was a family name... he was Lendil Jr. Seriously man, you wanted to give your kid your name when it was Lendil!?

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by meaganola /img/forum/go_quote.gif

The ironic thing was that she *did* pick unusual-for-the-times names. She and her sisters were Betty, Linda, Sue (middle name: Ellen), and Mary Ann, and they're all baby boomers who went to school with dozens of girls with the same names, so she gave our names a *lot* of thought. She just had weird luck.

If tons of "Adamari"s and "Amberly"s pop up in the US all of a sudden I will be very very surprised.. and upset.. after I get over the fact that I'm a trend setter of course.. muahahaha.. *fingers crossed this doesn't happen*

 

[beautynewbie]

My box shipped! Weight is 0.5140 /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[jesemiaud]

Originally Posted by Jamie P /img/forum/go_quote.gif

On the name subject... I didn't want my son to have a common name... but nothing too hard either so we chose Corbin. I love it... but people have to ask me to repeat it 100 times and act like it's the strangest name ever. Blah. I'm Jamie and my husband is Brian. Boring! LOL I dated someone named Lendil before... that's an odd name! LOL

I dated a Lindell too! 

 

[beautymadn3ss]

Originally Posted by wildsp187 /img/forum/go_quote.gif

HAHA!! I insisted on "Jessa" like from girls.  My mom called me Jesse when I was younger.  I put it with an "e" because that is how she spelled it on a stuffed rabbit I had.  Once I realized that is a "boys name" I wouldn't let anyone call me that anymore.  Not even with an "i".. haha.  People mostly just call me "Jess" now.. which I am fine with.  Especially since I am in love with "The New Girl" and everything Zooey.

lmao you just mentioned two of my favorite shows XD

 

[Jamie P]

Originally Posted by jesemiaud /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I dated a Lindell too! 

I think Lindell sounds more sophisticated than Lendil. Hahaha

 

[beautymadn3ss]

Quote: Originally Posted by JessP /img/forum/go_quote.gif

Nice to meet you, too! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> Such beautiful and unique family names. And as a fellow Jessica, I totally understand - I remember in grade school there were always like 4 Jessica's in my classes and it drove me bonkers. At one point, I told my parents that I was going to go by "Jessi with an i" only. I guess that was the most-creative way I could think to stray from such a common name lol. 
lmao growing up I never had a problem with other girls named Gabriela in my class, until I got to high school and there was another Gabriela in my class and my classmates started calling me by my last name...I made it a point that the other girl was called by her last name and I was still called Gabi and so it was! Success!!! XD 

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by Jamie P /img/forum/go_quote.gif

I think Lindell sounds more sophisticated than Lendil. Hahaha

I literally LOL'ed at work.. It's all about the order of the "i" and the "e".. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

My friends called me JP in high school! To make me feel like a special snowflake my mom called me "Jes" - one s- which I still go by but I don't correct people. "Um excuse me, I only use one s. please take the other back"

Oh my goodness! That would be awful and I'd be salty, too! Sheesh lol. Too funny about the Jess P thing - that's what I was always called in high school and beyond so it's kind of stuck. Though I did get called "JP Money" when I worked at House of Blues in Chicago.. That was always a fun nickname /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[wildsp187]

Originally Posted by beautymadn3ss /img/forum/go_quote.gif

lmao you just mentioned two of my favorite shows XD

Great minds think alike!

 

[Meahlea]

My name. Is Meaghan. Spelled that way because my mother is a contrary soul and both my grandmothers were named Margaret. And wanted me to be named Margaret. So she picked the most awful weird derivative she could find.

Also no clicky truck for me (on topic lol)