Birchbox April 2013

[lovepink]

My sister in law has an interesting story to her name.  Her parents were debating between Kristin, Elizabeth, Ruth and Anne.  So they named her Kera.

No clicky truck.  Do the box pages load today?  I haven't tried today but yesterday they were 404ing.

 

[BeautyLoverIT]

I just got my shipping email, but my name is Jeannine and I have never had another person in my whole school with the same name as me.  But, my brother and sister got basic names, Anna and Matthew.

 

[meaganola]

Ooh, new item in the shop:  I wonder if they might be sending this out in place of the Cargo.

ETA:  I just got a survey about what sorts of promotions I might be interested in, like free sample packs with purchase, create-your-own sample packs with purchase, free bonus box with purchase, and some other things.  I received this on my annual-subscriber account but not my monthly-subscriber account, so I think they might be thinking about ways to reward annual subscribers specifically.

 

[dressupthedog]

My name is Aimee. I'm named after one of my great grandmothers. I like my name, but I get really tired of people misspelling it all the time. My truck isn't clicky yet either.

 

[tulosai]

Originally Posted by bellatrix42 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
My name is Aimee. I'm named after one of my great grandmothers. I like my name, but I get really tired of people misspelling it all the time.

My truck isn't clicky yet either.

Nooo clicky truck for me yet either.

My name is Katherine.  I go by Kate like a lot of the snobby girls in some of your college classes /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> It is a pretty common name but since my parents back-up was Marina, I don't feel able to complain (sorry if there are any Marinas out there, I just really dislike the name).

 

[jkwynn]

I got one on my monthly sub. too.

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

Ooh, new item in the shop:  I wonder if they might be sending this out in place of the Cargo.

ETA:  I just got a survey about what sorts of promotions I might be interested in, like free sample packs with purchase, create-your-own sample packs with purchase, free bonus box with purchase, and some other things.  I received this on my annual-subscriber account but not my monthly-subscriber account, so I think they might be thinking about ways to reward annual subscribers specifically.

 

[dressupthedog]

If I was a boy, my parents would have named me Joop (pronounced yoop) after a Dutch bicyclist. I'm so glad I was born a girl.

 

[JC327]

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

My name is Annestine.  I was named after two of my Great-grandmothers (Anna and Earnestine).  I HATED it when I was a child, I would anticipate when my grade school teacher would call my name during attendance on the first day of class (there would usually be a pause on their part as they thought for a second how to pronounce my first and last name) and I would tell them to "just call me Anna" before they got it out.  When I asked my husband what he would want to name a kid, he said "Ransom Human-animal" so I think naming is going to be my responsibility ..

Lol, my hubby wants names of game characters for our babies.

 

[MinnieMuffin]

My tracking info updated:  weight is .5370 and it is scheduled to arrive on the 11th. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[Kristen121]

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

My name is Grace after my great grandmother, and I really like it!  It's easy to spell and say, and it's personally meaningful to me.  When I was born it wasn't popular at all - I have only ever met one or two Grace's my age... But now you hear it all the time with little girls!  I think I want to make it my daughter's middle name (if I have one)...  Right now I really like Ella for a first name.  My brother's wife is pregnant right now and I'm crossing my fingers they don't take it!  We're still about a year away from trying to conceive. 

...

Also, I went and checked... I have a tracking number but it's not updated yet!  I'm guessing it will be here Tuesday or Wednesday.  it usually comes fairly quickly!

I love the name Ella. I wanted to name my second DD Ella, but since I already have an Emma I thought they were too similar.

 

[Eva Papoutsi]

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

Twins are a LOT of work... thank God I had my mom who had already gone through it! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  My husband said "I hope it's twins" when we found out I was pregnant.  I was horrified at the thought.. he of course got his way.  I was horrified the entire pregnancy.. worried something was going to go wrong and worrying about all that could happen.  We had to get a bigger house etc.  Thankfully they weren't horrible (colic etc) and get along pretty well.  I actually didn't like being a twin.  People were always comparing us and asking if we felt each others pain.  Our personalities are so different and then having to be tied to that person everywhere I went and share everything.. it was difficult.  We get along MUCH BETTER now that we aren't sharing a bedroom.. which we did.. until we were 22!! I hope my daughters like it more than I did!

Oh yeah, I remember that! I also hated it when people were comparing us (like who is prettier or who did better in school). They also used to pinch me to see if my sister felt the pain which was really stupid, but we didn't mind that much... it was us against the world!

After all, our family and friends knew how different we really were and always treated us as such.. that alone made us feel special! But I have to say I really liked it when I went to college and I had my very own friends. It was always too funny when my sister's collegues would see me out in the city and yell "Katerina" and came to talk to me when I had no idea who they were! The opposite happened pretty often too! I have many funny stories to tell!

 

[meaganola]

When my sister-in-law (married to my brother Ryan) was pregnant the first time around, she wanted to name the baby RyAnn Grace if it was a girl.  My mom was *horrified*.  Taking a baby's father's name and changing the spelling/capitalization is very white trash in this area, which my family is on both sides going back several generations, but my mom worked really, *really* hard to get away from that.  I think she pushed for Elizabeth, after her grandmother.  Fortunately, that baby turned out to be a boy, and although my brother did not get his wish to name the kid Angus after his hero Macgyver, he did get a close second wish:  Samuel, after Sam Beckett.  Not the playwright, even though the bro was a huge drama jock in high school**.  The main character from _Quantum Leap_.  

And then when she was pregnant the second time, she was two months along when my mom passed away, so the sil wanted to name the baby Sue in honor of my mom if it was a girl.  My brother and I had the same reaction:  She would reassemble her ashes and come back from the dead to kill you if you name your baby after her.  She *hated* her name.  And then it was another boy, and naming him after Mom would have gone into Johnny Cash territory in a bad way, and he ended up being given a name that I believe coincidentally (I keep forgetting to ask if they knew about this when they named the kidlet) was the exact same name (first, middle, *and* last) as a co-owner of a fairly legendary all-ages club from the '90s in this city.

**  At our high school, theatre people -- aka my circle of friends, although I was in jazz band rather than theatre -- referred to themselves as "drama jocks" because you could letter in drama, and they always won state drama competitions when they went to them.  We probably had the best theatre department in the state.  Our football team was famous for not winning *anything*.  I don't think they so much as scored a single point my freshman year.  

 

[bluemustang]

I'm Becky and feel like *everyone* knows a Becky.. When I call someone I don't speak with too often then I always say my last name too. I worry people will think its the wrong Becky lol With my four kiddos, I made the list of names I loved and then Hubby and I went through and decided. Hahaha

 

[bluemustang]

Oh and I got that Survey too! It is only a monthly sub but I have been with BB for two years now.. Maybe it's for people that have been around a longer amount of time?

 

[JamieRobinson]

Soooo....I caved and resubbed. I couldn't help it. I miss BB!! No clicky truck yet though... As for all this name stuff, please, for the love of goodness, don't name your child Jamie when her Dad's name is James. I am 27 and really tired of getting things from AARP in the mail... :blink:  Seriously though, I have the most uninventive name ever. My dad's James, mom's Susan, so I get Jamie Susan....I guess it could be worse...

My name is Jamie and my dads name was James. Wtg Mom. Lol

 

[SamAsh]

Clicky truck!! Weight is 0.5340 with projected delivery on the 11th!

I'm Samantha and have always felt torn between multiple nicknames (Sammie, Sam, etc.). Different people call me different things and sometimes it's hard to keep track haha.

 

[BlackMagicRose]

No truck for me yet 

 

[Jess Bailey]

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

That's so weird! No way could I do that. Funny weird name story: My mom works for Girl Scouts, and she had a little girl registered in a troop in one of her areas whose name was Pantera Wombledorf. Not even joking. Poor kid. She was doomed from the beginning with the Wombledorf, but then her parents had to name her Pantera. That's just mean! 

Pantera Wombledorf. Was that a character in Harry Potter??

i'm yet another Jessica but have never gone by Jessi/Jesse/Jessie. Only Jess or Jessica. There's another Jessica in my dept at work so she goes by Jess and I'm Jessica but everyone ends up calling me by my last name: Bailey.

 

[MaiteS]

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[CheshireCookie]

Is it...

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