BrownEyedGirl, you have a
beautiful name....ilse anne! that's fabulous!
well, my first name is monica (i like these name threads...they are informative)....mom wanted to name me something uncommon back in the glory days of "heather" and "brittany" and "jennifer", etc....which is crazy since she was going to name my sister
sarah leah...not sarah LEE, but sarah leAH. my parents "rolleyes".....she ended up being tamara (pronounced tam-uh-ruh...not tam-are-uh or tam-air-uh) jane. we call her "tammy"....yet she finds that "trailor park-esque," so she has all her friends know her by tamara.
growing up when i would have something with my initials on it, ppl would be like, "oh, is your name melissa? no? ok, melanie! no? uh, margaret? you sure it's not melissa??" geez, ppl. LOL and it sucked b/c just when i was finally starting to like my name, the whole lewinsky drama came about. i still like my name, but oy. i've only known 3 other monicas in my life....one is one of my pledge sisters.
that was a lil extry on bid day, being sisters with another monica!