Post by darling7879 on Oct 21, 2019 21:41:52 GMT -8
Note, I am not sure what day, but I am pretty sure that Karen wrote about this in her diary in 1979. I am just not sure exactly what she may have wrote but this is what I remember happening. In early 1979, Karen and I started thinking about naming children. I can't remember what started the conversation (maybe Valentine's Day or possibly Karen's birthday March 2nd or such), but anyway... Of course Karen and I talked about naming kids and of course Adrian IV (my name is Adrian 'Ace' Clair Downing, III) for a boy and Karen Junior for a girl but Karen asked what my sister's name was and I said Robin Lynn, and Karen said that was kind of ominous because her brother's name was Richard Lynn, and Karen thought that two Karens running around would get confusing so Karen Lynn was out. And Karen was not going to name her daughter Junior despite me saying at least six times that Junior would be a good tomboy type name. We thought of Roberta Lynn, but we didn't really like Roberta as a name. Rhonda Lynn? Rikki Lynn? Rita Lynn? Rachel Lynn? Racquel Lynn? We couldn't really think of a good girl's name that began with R. Adriana, Adrienne, Claire, Clara, nope (yes, even girls don't sound good with variations of my name). Olivia? Dionne? Wendy (a cousin that Karen stayed with)? Edna and Agnes just sounded too old. Elizabeth and Mary were common like Karen. Faith, Hope, Joy, and Chastity Lynn? Nope. My mother's maiden name was Lee Ellen Bardo. Bridget was out too. Karen made a rule that the name had to have three things in it related to things like family, names, and stuff Karen loved. And after about six pages of cross out names on a green steno pad, Karen asked again about my mother's name, Lee Ellen. Karen liked the name Christie because of Christie Lee Brinkley (Billy Joel's band worked on Karen's solo album) and also Kristy McNichol (Christina Ann McNichol, which Ann and Lee were 'signs' as well) was on the 1978 Christmas special. So Karen thought of spelling it Kristi instead of Kristy or Christy or Christie because Karen realized that many girl's names ended in y and ending in i was a bit different and distinctive. Plus Kris Kringle with the K's (Kris boy, Kristi girl) and Christmas because Karen loved Christmas and Karen was also a "tea totaller" at the time as well, so ti (tea) hit the spot too. And so Kristi Lynn for a girl after at least 6 to 8 hours of Karen thinking hard about it. Karen needed three things for the name and Kristi had more than three (Roberta was about the closest with two things, Burt Bacharach and beginning with R). We were both surprised that smoke hadn't come out of Karen's ears that day so I checked her ears with a flashlight just to be sure. No smoke or flames, and the flashlight didn't shine through to the other side so all was good. Seriously. Well, the real reason for me checking her ears and her checking my ears is because there had apparently been kids with ear mites in the area, so we checked just to make sure that we didn't have any ear mites (I like the smoke and see through story better though because I actually did say that to her while I was checking her ears). I then said, "If we could name them any name we wanted, then what?" After thinking for about ten seconds, I said Fuzz Nuts for a second boy and Karen said Gitchy Goo for a second girl in honor of our naming Gainad, Methuselah's brother (Karen and I were Enoch and Edna, Methuselah's mom and dad, in a past life apparently, supposedly Methuselah was the name that Enoch's dad, Yared [Jared], was going to use for Enoch's brother, but Enoch did not have a brother) and Gitchy Goo because Karen liked playing gitvhy goo with babaies and making them laugh. Yes, we were joking about the second names which was why it didn't take us long at all for the second names to come about.