Thursday Thirteen #2...13 Things about my name/s

Am posting this Wednesday night as I have to be up and out early tomorrow morning and not sure when I'll get home!



In setting up this blog I tried hard to ensure that I was relatively anonymous, and pretty much had that blown out of the water the first time someone from RL posted a comment, when they outed me... so... my name is Vikki, and I'm a blogger...

Thirteen Things ABOUT MY NAME/S...
One: Miss Frou Frou is my tap dancing name, given to me by a work colleague cause he used to laugh ever time I came to work moaning and groaning and often limping having kicked myself in the heel with my tap shoe as an Absolute Beginner at Miss Lou Lou's Tap Dancing Academy

Two: My real name is Vicki, but someone years ago, used to regularly send me a telex (I told you it was years ago) with my name miss spelt to VIKKI... and something about the way it looked appealed to me, so I started to use it.

Three: My mother hated the way I spelt my name insisting that my name was spelt Vicki, until we were organising wills etc. and I discovered that she too changed the spelling of her name when she was 18 - she should be a Loris but she spells it Lauris after a book character.

Four: I've been told by a numerologist that I should revert back to my original spelling if I want to have a successful relationship. What does it say about me that I'd rather have my name spelt the way I want than a man!

Five: At work, in my department there are two Vicki's. The head of the department started referring to me as Vikki 2K from the beginning, and it has now spread across the organisation and is occasionally shortened to V2K.

Six: A former work colleague, who jokingly referred to me as Victoria repeatedly, when I protested, started calling me Queensland instead (Victoria is a state in Australia, as is Queensland - get it!). Mind you, this is the same man, that called Romy, 'where for art thou' - certainly confusing visitors by regularly bursting into the office saying 'Queensland, where is where for art thou?' - to which I'd calmly reply - 'at the bank'

Seven: Boomerang Boy rarely called me by name, to the point that I used to often feel I could have been anyone to him. He used to say that saying my name out loud made him feel funny, but couldn't explain why. I stopped using his name in retaliation and he didn't notice....

Eight: So I notice when men freely use my name, it makes me trust them... when maybe sometimes I shouldn't...

Nine: Having a name starting with V often means you get picked last. And thinking about hosting a party with a theme come as something that starts with the first letter of your name can be restrictive: - vase, violin, vamp, vixen, vampire - and always some wag who suggests you come as a vibrat0r.

Ten: It's surprising the way people can miss spell my name - I've had Viki, Vickie, Vicky and my personal favourite when you spell it and say it's a double K - Vickkie - they're just hedging their bets.

Eleven: And people have trouble pronouncing it too... kids kind of lisp it out ... giving it a 'w' sound .... wicki... my cousin used to call me wicki or wicks and then his dad started calling me wickers. And a workmate used to call me 'picki' - completely unable to pronounce the 'v' regardless of coaching.

Twelve: My mother wanted to call me Melissa, cause she liked it. At the time, 1961, it wasn't a particularly popular name, but became much more popular later, one of my closest friends is a Melissa as is my god-sister. My Dad wanted to call me Gwenda or Judith, after old girlfriends.

Thirteen: So were did Vicki come from? I was named after the lawn mower...arguing over a girls name almost up to my birth, my Dad was mowing the lawn and said to my Mum, what do you think of Vicki? She liked it, and I'm thankful, but even more thankful that the lawnmower was a Victa and not a Black and Decker!

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