Why Stimey?

Quinn has been interested lately in names and nicknames and first names and last names. His status quo is to call me by my first name, but he says my nickname is "mom," and he knows we all have the same last name. He's very curious about names and their various permutations.

Today I decided to switch it up on him and instead of telling him that my nickname is "mom," I told him that it is "Stimey."

To which he replied: "Slimy? Because you're slimy?" And then he spent the rest of the afternoon calling me Slimy.

I immediately twittered about it and got some responses from some of you curious as to why my nickname is Stimey.

Well, the story of Stimey is also the story of the two years I lived in LA whilst attending USC for graduate school. I made a friend there who became my best friend, and who promptly dumped me when I moved back to northern California to be with Alex. Like seriously dumped. I would email and write letters and he never returned any of my messages. It was a little tragic.

Anywho.

At some point he asked if I had ever had a nickname. I hadn't because there are not many good nicknames you can make out of my first name. He said I needed a nickname and out of nowhere he said, "I will call you Stimey." And that is the story of Stimey. It was a lovely private thing between the two of us when we were friends, but since I was unceremoniously dumped, I decided to take the nickame back. And now it's mine.

And that is the story of Stimey.

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I have to say that being Stimey has been good to me. And over the past month, the internet has been good to Stimey, especially in the form of bestowing giveaway wins upon me. I've been meaning to thank those of you who hosted these giveaways, but keep forgetting. So without further ado:

Thank you to Leticia at Tech Savvy Mama and Scholastic for the 39 Clues Prize Pack.

Thanks you to Christina at A Mommy Story for the Lee jeans. I'm still waiting for mine to arrive, but I'm really excited.

Thank you to Nancy at Ageless Body/Timeless Mom for the super awesome LeapFrog Didj.

And thank you to Jane at This Week for Dinner for my ProFlowers gift card.

See? It pays off to enter lots of giveaways! Thank you all for hosting the giveaways. Each of you made me happier than books, jeans, a Didj, or flowers should.

Updated to add: Kim from Hormone-colored Days just let me know that I won a medical information organizer at MOMformation. This is going to go to good use, let me tell you! Thanks, Kim!