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This post fascinates me.

Really as someone with a fairly "common" name that I dislike (it was more popular in the 80s when I was born than it is now) I take solice in the fact there is a story that goes with my name. I was named after a song by the Velvet Underground, which was considered "cool" when I then went to college.

The family name I should have had was Angelina....a blessing in disguise really after Angelina Jolie became famous.

Also, if I may chime in on the side of naming one's child more unusual first names? I think that we are not considering how first names fit with surnames. Every Leviatress or Kashawna I have met has had a very simple last name like White or James. Really, if you were picking out baby names would Annie White or Susan James sound super exciting to you? So when you have a more classic last name, I feel the first name needs to have more flare to it, to make it balanced.

My aunt's given name was Jane Smith....she proceeded to change the spelling of Jane just to save herself from bordom. I am also threatening that if I have twin girls they are being called Mercy and Justice, no if ands or buts about it :)

cmelton13 - me too with the Aspbergers. I am okay with people labling me a Debbie Downer, it's their choice to not understand someone's handicap. If someone tries to force me into a conversation, I try to politely decline, go to the bathroom, get a drink, whatever. If someone will not let it go and is making a scene, I leave. However, usually someone will step in and explain that the happy hostess needs to knock it off, or the person I am with will pull the main offenders aside and explain my disorder.

So yeah, if you get the message from your guest (especially if he or she is a plus one, or an obligatory invite) that they are just fine not talking, leave them alone.

I really hate modern art, the office I work in is covered with it and daily I want to scream. I cannot imagine living with it by choice....but then again, If I had access to some of the greatest art in the world, I might feel differently.

Hey Lanni, I have seen your room before (on craftster, I think) back when the Star Trek poster was Twilight. Loved it then, love it now. I think you turned a small space into a very workable space and I love the magnetic wall in the closet with the polaroids.

Say what you want, I want a TV in my footboard!

"it certainly reads like an ad, but if that's not the case then i stand corrected."

Wow, that is a condescending little snark.

"if that's the case"? The AUTHOR just said it was NOT an ad. So either, you are saying that she is lying (which is a horrid thing to do since you have no proof other than your opinion of what a post SHOULD sound like versus what an ad SHOULD sound like) or that she does not know if she wrote an ad or not (and that is simply a bizzare conclusion.)

It's fine to play grammar police, but do not use it as a plan B when your attack on the author's integrity falls flat on its face.

I live in a studio, and painted most of it a baby blue called Weathered Glass. When it came time to do some accent walls, I chose January Frost and Northern Star, mostly because of their names and how they fit with my Easteren Seaboard in the Winter theme I had going on.....the closet is painted Winter's Night also.

That being said, I decided to section off my bedroom with a pink color and I found an amazing rosey-pink-orange. However it is called Two-Lips and I HATE the name so much the paint chip is just taped on the wall because I cannot bring myself to buy it.

I have loud sex neighbors, luckily, neighbor girl got an STD and now cannot have sex so much.

Now, before you think I am cruel, I only know she has an STD because she and her boytoy had SEVERAL loud fights because he refused to tell the her the name of the "skank" he had cheated on her with. (And where neighbor girl persumed he caught the STD). It is very hard to look at this woman in the elevator without thinking about her vajayjay.

So, word for the apartment dwellers, think long and hard if you want to scream "Because I f***ing have HPV you S$%&!" at 1 AM, because chances are you just announced it to your neighbors as well.

I am currently rocking a 7 month house guest who was just crashing until he found a job...yeah, and it's a 500 sqft studio.

Most I have ever had in the apartment was 10 for a bachelorette weekend.

It's amazing what you can get used to...

@Joan52 - I think you can tell when you live in a tiny pad when you know the square footage down to to the ones column. My baby is 575 sq ft of chaos and I love her.

What I like looking at are those clutter filled places where every item of clutter just *works* perfectly together. And then I think, how come my artsy clutter just looks messy??

Much like actual porn can lead to unrealistic expecations...so too, can design porn.