Day 19 - Nicknames you have and why you have them

Well, this is a little easier ...

• LlannaLee - My first and middle name, minus the first syllable of my first name.
  (Variations: WannaWee [so twee] and RrannaRee [if you're turning Japanese ... or trying to imitate the Japanese accent].)
  My Mom started it. 
• PrincessBudderfwy - What my Nana calls me. Since, when I was little, I couldn't pronounce "butterfly."
• Ornery Little Critter - What Pop-pop referred to me as. And he's right.
• Love/My Love - What Michael calls me
• Mom/Mommy - What Bruise and Bucket call me
• Sista [Last Name] - What some of my Young Women still call me. It's SASSY!
• Allanna-Head - What my Jason-Head (Michael's youngest brother) calls me
• Auntie Llanna - What my nieces call me. And I think my nephew'd call me that, too. But he's not a big talker.
• Sister [Last Name] - What I get called at church. When they don't call me by my first name.
• Kiddo - Uncle Steve, Mom, and Jason-Head all call me this at times.
• [Bruise and Bucket]'s Mom - That one is self-explanatory, I should hope.

And this is without counting the strange things that I end up being called.

A classmate in my interpersonal communications class could NEVER figure out my name.
She always called me "Yolanda."
The professor tried that once. ONCE. She received a VERY WITHERING LOOK.
Good thing that I LIKED my professor.

Another gal always called me "Ah-Nah-LEE." ... How she got that from "Allanna" ... well, it's halfway there.

"Blonde Bimbo" ... what I once answered to in my (smallish) High School cafeteria.
I knew that it was a friend calling. And ... well, I was wearing a short skirt that day.

I've been called other people's names - Amanda (a friend. Also the name of my sister-in-law-squared.), Adria (friend from church), Meryl (a friend that I really look nothing like. Except we're both Caucasian), LaDonna (my Black friend), Leilani (friend from High School), and, on occasion, I get called my daughter's name.

Once of my my friends even called me HER own name. But it was before school started. So I think she was still waking up. Or something.

Those are the only ones that really come to mind.