Rambles for the New Year

[wolfcaroling]

Well, my most important new year's resolution is to lose more weight. I make this resolution every year, and yet somehow I am at my heaviest yet. i KNOW I CAN lose the weight, I lost 20 pounds one determined summer, and I kept it off for a year. Unfortunately, my subsequent depression and Jonathan's "I don't feel like eating in. Why don't I treat

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[grinning_dagger]

But as I said, I have known two Elizabeths that had no nicknames to speak of. I think it also depends on how easygoing said person is about being called something else. I mean, if Jon had made a stink every time someone called him Jon, he probably wouldn't be called Jon. The same thing with your dad. I mean, look at Michael and Mike. My brother-in-law IS Michael, because he makes a stink if someone calls him anything else. Mike thinks of himself as Michael, but he really doesn't care what people call him, so he ends up as Mike. Plus Michael is a two-sylable name, and gets shortened more often than it doesn't. Maybe Jon shouldn't have given up so easily. I knew a couple Jonathan's in school too who didn't get knicknames. I started calling him Jon because that's what everyone else called him, and by the time I found out that he didn't like it, it was too late and he was and ever would be Jon in my mind. And what about the Tiffanys of the world? I knew so many in school, and their names were only shortened occasionally and by their friends to show affection. The Tiffany at Mike's work feels that three sylables are too much and wants to be called "Tiffy". I can't bring myself to do that, so I continue to call her Tiffany. If she complained about it, I would probably call her what she wanted, but she doesn't so I don't.

So there, I reject your logic, and substitute my own.