So! I am, in a very tentative sense, dating a boy. Who knows if I still will be by the next time I check this post? I sure don't! But, despite the whole damn thing being up in the air all the time, last night he was very sweet and allowed me to play the "let's name B/G twins" game with him. Unfortunately, and as I suspected, he finds my taste in names totally pretentious and unworkable, but we did come up with a fairly decent list. Decent though it may be, it's still paltry, especially the boys, and I feel like there are more names out there that we didn't discuss where we might find some common ground. I know he probably doesn't want to play this game again for a while yet, but if the time ever comes, I'd like to be prepared.
One of the major stumbling blocks is his surname. I won't write it, and I'll erase this in a minute, but it's the Spanish word for cow except with a B. Few names sound good with it.
GirlsWe basically agreed on:
Irene,
Claudia,
Cecilia,
Hortensia (his step-grandmother's name, she's called "Tensia"),
IsidoraMaybes:
Mary,
Helen,
Fernanda,
Jane,
Joy (
Mary,
Jane,
Joy are honoring)
He didn't like:
Pandora,
Eudora,
Solveig,
Zephyra,
Sigrid, Galilea, Galatea,
ThomasinaI didn't like (but could maybe like):
Constance,
Lucia,
Lucy
BoysWe basically agreed on:
Walter,
Ivan,
IsidroMaybes:
Henry,
Peter,
August "Auggie," Hugh/Hughes (family name for both),
John,
Fernando,
Otis,
Stanley, probably not
Gustavo and
Johannes but I might talk him over
He didn't like: frigging anything I threw out, but
Claudio, Pandolfo,
Rodolfo, Inferno, Ivanhoe,
Blair,
Francis,
Balthazar,
Wolfgang,
Ludwig,
Leopold,
Phineas,
Franz,
Dmitry,
Valerio,
Zimri,
Robert,
Leonard,
Carlos,
Hubert,
Abraham, Cygnus,
FelixI didn't like:
Jorge,
Emmett (he might have been joking about those)
Anyway, I feel like I didn't have a good repertoire of names to throw out to him because I haven't been thinking about names as much. So, please, hit me! I'm pretty meh on both
Walter and
Ivan. He insisted that
Isidore was a girl's name, which is incorrect, but suggested
Isidro himself.
Gustavo and
Valerio were originally his suggestions, but he was a buttface and took them back.
Oh, I have a new cousin.
Oliver Philip joins
George Wilson,
Estelle Josephine "
Stella," and
Natasha Grace.
Philip is his granddad.
This message was edited 9/13/2012, 1:52 PM