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[Opinions] Re: Hilda & Olive
I actually like Hilda. I think it's considered one of the ugly unusable names, but for some reason it doesn't strike me as ugly. I think this may be because Hildi was my favorite designer on Trading Spaces, lolol. You know, the one who covered some poor person's walls in hay? I thought she was a genius. Ha. Anyway, I also know an Icelandic woman named Hildur who is a pretty fascinating person. She's smart as a whip, probably physically the most elegantly beautiful woman I've ever seen, but she's manipulative, vindictive, outright hostile to "the help." Anyway, I can deal with Hilda. I wouldn't use it, but on someone else's kid I wouldn't mind it. I think Hildy would be a cute nickname. I can't say I like Olive, which is weird because I love Oliver. Olive strikes me as overly cutesy in the Drew Barrymore, "I wear sunflowers in my hair and talk like a baby and I'm sooo quirky" school of cutesy. I've known some people who were mundanely "alternative" in a way that irritated me, and they've named their daughters Olive. Tl;dr It's a perfectly fine name and my problems with it stem from my bitchiness. :)
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Aw, I love Drew Barrymore. I don't think she pushes the quirky, I think she's just VERY Californian. The hippie quirkiness is just who she is. ;)
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Well, while I've been to California multiple times, I don't think I really have a handle on the cultural scene. I tend to think of either really rich celebrities, surfers, valley girls, the money oriented people of Orange County, etc. I know these are all stereotypes, though.I do know that among the people I grew up with, California was considered some kind of bohemian utopia. It was the ultimate answer to "Where did you want to live when you grow up?" Answers came with a dreamy sigh. Only the very coolest of people lived in California to us.

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That's interesting, to me. Where I live, it's not utopia, lol. Well, maybe it is if you're super outdoorsy, but it's not THAT different from the rest of the country, in a lot of key ways. I live waaaaayyy up north, though, almost in Oregon. It's different, up here.I have met plenty of people like Drew Barrymore, though. My region has its share of crunchy types, and they have that same super chill, I-want-to-run-naked-in-a-field-of-daisies attitude, lol. Maybe that's why I defend her, it doesn't seem affected, to me.

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Drew BarrymoreI like her, too. And I actually think she has matured surprisingly well.
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Yeah, considering all she's been through, she seems pretty grounded.
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