What's in a name?

A visit to my doctor brought up the discussion of birth control among other things. There were different options and I needed to pick one or the possibility of us ending up with an accident was not going to be all that much of a surprise. Apparently, even though we've had problems before, it doesn't necessarily mean that the status quo has prevailed.

Anyway, that caused us to discuss names seeing that the last time we needed names, it created some amount of strife and since we only really decided on Jordan's name when she was 2 days old, it wasn't too early to start tossing ideas around.

So the following conversation ensued...
Me: I like the name Olivia. It's pretty and we can call her Ollie for short.
Packrat: No. I worked with someone called Ollie and he was obnoxious.
Me: But if we named No 3 Olivia, we'd have J(ordan), O(livia) and E(van). We'd have JOE Tan.
Even though it was dark and Packrat was driving, I could feel him roll his eyes in exasperation.
Packrat: We should name No. 3 Newt so that we could get J(ordan)E(van)N(ewt) Tan. JEN Tan.
Me: NO! Newts are amphibians wiggly creatures that give me the heebie jeebies.
Packrat: Hey, long time ago, humans used to ONLY drink water that newts lived in.
Me: I don't care how useful they were. No child of ours will be named after a reptile. Anyway, you have far too much useless information stored in that brain of yours. What about Nicole, Nicholas (though I really don't like Nicholas)?
Packrat: Newt Tan... (testing it out and pissing me off) Sounds good.
Me: ...Mutter mutter...

So even though No. 3 is not really a formulated thought yet, we're already fighting about the name. Apparently all the Prolactin in my body is making me broody still. But thankfully, I have 2 very real reality checks that make me broody but not broody enough to throw all caution to the wind. One of who sank his five teeth into me earlier on today.

I think the conversation we should be having rather than fight over the name of an imaginary child is what type of birth control will suit our needs. But that's just boring.

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