Sunday, October 19, 2008
Say My Name!
So I am at my uncles church and I am greeting people and they keep asking me "What's your name?" and that kind of throws me off balance and I have to think for a while before I know what to say. The reason being is .. well .. I have lots of names I guess. My real name is Jose Carlos Perez Jr. But people call me different names. My friends for the most part call me Joe. My family Calls me either Jose or JC. Since I work with my aunt and she calls me JC my bosses and co workers, who are also my friends, call me JC. But if we go back some when I was in the Marines I was called Cpl Perez. And that was pernouned differntly at times, either with a hispanic pernounciation or a anglo pernounciation. Then they gave it a more affectionate twist and changed called me P-Rez. Then there were my buddies in the marines and a group were we called ourselves the crazy 8's, where my club name was Damion Luv. That was funny cause I was still a virgin way until I got out of the marines and no girl ever asked for my name when we went out dancing ^.^ . So I have no peculiarities when it comes to what people want to call me, as long as it is not negative. Even shar knows me and calls me Joe however she has said that I don't seem like a Joe. So I guess I have to practice saying my own name so that when people ask me I don't freeze up like that. Having thought about it I think my answer will be "My friends call me Joe." ^.^
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Totally with you on this one, lol. I go by so many too! It gets confusing. Rebecca Marie Rutledge was my "birth name". Then when I got married my last name changed to Carroll but a lot of people simply remember me by my maiden name and get confused.
Most of my family call me Rebecca or Becky. Although my siblings seem to just call me B or sis... or "bitch" but that is a whole other story between my sis and I. Her son, my nephew calls me Becky but he has a slight lisp so it sounds adorable when he says it.
What I am called also differs when I am with different circles of friends. At the bar, Seven's, I am Becca; with the group who is going to be attending the "adult's only" Halloween party on Saturday I am Rebecca or Reba.
Here at home I'm not even one person! Michelle, my best gal pal friend (who is pretty much like the sister I should of had) calls me Becky. (she is over a lot so she goes here, lol) My husband generally refers to me as B or B Bear. Lastly, to my babies, I am mommy.
Hmm... I originally never really intended for that last one to become mine, like ever, but I think its probably my favorite.
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