She started it.

[susandennis]

letmesaythis asks Suppose you had to give up your name, all of it, and choose a brand new name. What would your new name be and why?

And I'm going with Glory Davidson.

I've always wanted a first name that could be called across a room without a half dozen heads turning around to see if the 'Susan' being paged was them. And now the name is making a bit of a rebirth. Plus there are all the variations. We have 10 people in this department here at work. 1 Susan, 1 Suzanne, 1 Susanna and 1 Suzan. Ridiculous.

Glory would be fine.

Davidson just sounds like it can stand on it's own. It kind of rolls off the tongue nicely and says 'whatever'.

When I was growing up, my name was Susan Schubert. Schubert was just more than most anyone could handle - especially in the South. They couldn't spell it and they couldn't pronounce it. So, when I finally did get married, I grabbed that last name like it was the fucking brass ring. Dennis. Now, there's a nice, easy name.

I had not had the name long enough to discover it's major flaws when I got divorced. I gave changing it a passing thought but changing it the first time was such a hassle. And I couldn't think I a good name to change to and I sure wasn't going back to Schubert. So I just dropped any middle initial and ran with it. (Back in the olden days, all you had to do - in North Carolina anyway - was use the name of your choice for 1 year and provide business proof - like an electric bill - in that name and presto/bingo - it was your legal name.)

Not so good a move, as it turned out. Susan Dennis, while it may look fairly straightforward, is a minefield of issues as far as names go.

"Hi, I'm Susan Dennis."
"Sandy! How very nice to meet you."

"How do you pronounce that? Denise?"
"How do you spell that?"
"No, I mean the Susan part?"

Glory Davidson. And I did check. The domain names of glorydavidson .com/.org/.net - all available.

Like I told letmesaythis, you can call me Glory. Bet you wouldn't have guessed that would be the name I'd pick, now wouldya?