Wednesday evening

The other night when the power was out, we sat in the livingroom and "did questions". You know, hypothetical questions like "If you had to choose between being smart and ugly or pretty but dumb, which would you choose?" and similar. Conversation starters like these are somewhat special to us, because in a way, it's because of them that we're together. We were really just a tad bit more than friends but it wasn't going anywhere in a real life sense when I sent him one of those questionnaires, and he sent it back, and then suddenly, we started getting fairly serious and now we're married, all because I initiated all those important questions in life such as "Croutons or bacon bits?" and "Do you make fun of people?"

Anyway, that's not the point of this story. Oh, no, the point of this story is even more irrelevant. The question we got stuck on (we have a little red book with questions now) was something like this. "If you suddenly had three daughters, what would you name them?" We've discussed this matter before and never got anywhere with it. And, as we're not in the market for kidlets yet, we always just pushed the matter aside to deal with when the time comes. It's a reasonable outlook, really. But, since we were bored and most of the questions were either incredibly stupid or we already knew the answers to, we decided to really come up with some possibilities. We argued over names for half an hour, and at the end of that time, we had only agreed on one name as being a contender. (Note that we weren't trying to set these names in stone, we were just trying to come up with three that we could possibly consider, or even pretend to consider.) I won't say which name it is because.. well, we're probably going to be contrary about names when the time comes and no one will know til it's born. Unless we change our mind about that, too.

I'm just not sure what happened to us. I have a pretty unusual name, and he has a very common (in Sweden) one. Typically, people with unusual names have kids with common names and vice versa. This is so not the case with us. I like semi-gender-neutral and/or uncommon and/or modern names. Morgan, Madison, Regan, Chastyn (couldn't name a kid this anyway, it's my niece's sister's name, but I still like it), Casey and Corey. He gets freaked out at any name that he perceives as belonging to both girls and boys (which sucks because my original girl's name was Sydney Chance. He won't even discuss Sydney and just laughed at the Chance bit.. well, that was negotiable anyway.) He likes ultra-feminine traditional names. Then you add in the bilingual aspect of the name (I do NOT want my kid to endure a lifetime of mispronounciation from M's family, or mine, depending on the origin of the name.. yes, that's personal bitterness speaking. And not about the Swedes in my life not saying my name right, but a few of my relatives and a couple of high school teachers, that sort of thing.) And then there's also the weirdness of our last name with the G and J both being Y sounds. (Yay-er, if you were ever wondering.. man, do restaraunt greeters have a bitch of a time with that one.)

Of course, we do still have plenty of time to decide on names, so I know that I don't have to get stressed over it until I'm actually pregnant. Or even considering getting that way. I'm just not sure nine years would be long enough for us to agree on this, much less nine months. :)

Wednesday night

(Couldn't post this last night because LiveJournal seemed to be down, so it's a tad bit late.)

We spent a considerable amount of time and money at the grocery store today. I suggested to my mother over the weekend that the power outage was sponsored by Kroger. She added that the local birthing center probably also contributed. ;) They were pretty busy for a Wednesday afternoon.. I guess that's what happens when people get power back and have to replace spoiled necessities. Our stuff was mostly okay, but we had to throw out some frozen convenience foods. (Fish sticks, fries, pizzas, that sort of thing.) I wonder if we lost those items as a commentary on our diet. The chicken breasts were fine. *ponder* And also, I'm sure everyone is ready for me to move past the power outage now. :)

Magnus was supposed to start work on Tuesday but instead, we've had the week to spend together. He was supposed to get an email on Sunday and call his boss on Monday to talk about the email, and then start the next day. Of course, we couldn't check mail on Sunday, and when he talked to the boss, things were really stressed at the office due to the storm so if he came in, no one would really have time to get started on training and such anyway. The power was still out at that point over parts of Lexington.. possibly it still is, I don't know. It's not on all over the place here. Okay, right, I had moved on from our electricity status. The point I'm attempting to make it to is that he will now start on Monday. He's pretty excited. He said in his journal that the job was the best thing that happened to him since we got married, for one thing, and since he's still inordinately happily married, I think that's a pretty good sign that things are going smoothly.

Oh! I just figured out what's wrong with Emma. Emma as in, Ross and Rachel's baby on Friends. Ever since she was born last season, there's been a feeling of wrongness to her name that I couldn't quite put my finger on. It just hit me tonight what's wrong with the name. It's much too close to Emily, who is Ross's ex-wife. You don't name your kid that closely after an ex, even if you're not officially dating/married to the other parent. It's too creepy. Magnus also says that the Rachel character wouldn't name a kid something as old-fashioned as Emma, either. Perhaps he's right. In any case, it's just wrong. But it's still a cute name.. if not for that particular kid. And speaking of Emma, why haven't they shown Ben meeting his new sister? That's pretty weird.

And my new hair dryer is ionizing. I was sure that this would be just a marketing thing, but my hair today seems to be smoother and shinier, so I'm definitely thinking there might be something to it, although I'll give it a few days before I say for sure. I've sold my chick on the idea already, though. *grin* And also, I finally have my good mouse back! I have a tablet, and while I liked being able to use the pen to draw and stuff (see my kissy icon) I really don't like the mouse, and I hate keeping it on the tablet. I don't like using mouse pads at all. Anyway, Magnus got a new mouse, and so I can use mine again, and it works just fine to have them both connected at once. Yay me!

Apparently I'm feeling wordy tonight, but I'm going to restrain myself from writing any more and head off to bed soon. G'night!