My name

My first name is Samantha. No one calls me that, though; they call me Sam. Samantha is my name when I am in trouble. Or, Samantha Ann. That makes it worse. First, middle and last is the worst of all. When I was a kid, it probably meant that I was about to get a beating.

My dad chose my first name. He named me after a cat he had when he was a kid, which he described as "dumber than a box of rocks." Yeah. When I complained about this dubious origin, he said that he just named the cat that because he liked the name, and it just happened to turn out dumb. He said the real reason was that he thought it was cool to call a girl "Sam." I guess he was into the boy-name-as-a-girl-name thing. My mom wanted the name "Tabitha". I'm glad that my dad won. I probably would have ended up as a preppy cheerleader or something if I'd been named "Tabitha."

My middle name is Ann. It is my mom's middle name, too. If I ever have a daughter, I plan to make her middle name "Ann" as well, although daughters (or sons, for that matter) are not in my foreseeable future.

My old last name was Drouillard. As strange as it was, I was - am - rather attached to it. Having that last name was a big deal when I was a kid, for a lot of reasons...it would take too long to go into it all in this post. Maybe I'll tell about it in another post, though, because it is kind of cool. Anyway, changing my last name was a lot more of an identity crisis than one might anticipate. I mean, I know people do it every day, but it was still a big deal to me. It was like I was losing a part of myself. I still don't like it much. My new last name is Wolfley. This is a cool name for a guy, but it doesn't sound like a good last name for a girl to me. I sort of wish I'd done the modern thing and kept my maiden name, but I was taught that you are supposed to change your name, and Jordan said that it would have upset him if I didn't change it. Hyphenating would have been ridiculous. Drouillard-Wolfley? That is waaaay too long. My initials spell "SAW" now, which I suppose is better than "SAD". I think it would have been awesome if I married someone whose last name started with an "M". Then my initials would have spelled "SAM." Not that I wish I married someone else or anything; it just would have been cool if his last name were different. But don't tell him that.

I guess I will stop now. Bye.