I am blogging from my new laptop! I love it so very much! It's sleek, and silver and has a ten key (which, turns out, was a huge selling point for me) and it's very, very cool. I love it. Geek Squad at Best Buy named it "Roxy's Laptop" when I left it for them to update last night, and I haven't figured out how to change the name and actually give it a real name. I name objects all the time. My bike, for example, is named Suzette, she's French! And pink. I named her as such because she was a gift from my Dad's neighbor, Yvette, so I just kinda changed it up. My first car I ever had was a 1986 Reliant K. He was Karl Marx. Karl for short, he was also Jewish, so we didn't go out on Jewish holidays....that didn't work so well when I tried to not go to school on those days due to my car's religious beliefs. After Karl, I had Pam the Pontiac, that I wrecked in an accident after having for a month, and after that I stopped naming my cars after I read that it was bad luck somewhere.
I'm not quite sure what I want to name my laptop. Not Sylar, since Jim and I decided that it was going to be the name of our next cat, Spock is a little...I dunno, on the nose for a computer...it has to be something ZQ related, he is already adorning my desktop, gazing at me with those big, beautiful brown eyes...oh, I know! Gabriel. Perfect! After Gabriel Gray, Sylar's real name, for those of you who don't know. My computer is silver, which is gray-ish, heh. Most excellent. Now if only I can figure out how access that feature.....
I chose today's pic because that is the look Sylar sports for all of season 3, which I believe I am now going to re-watch on my new laptop..heh, I heart Hulu!
Hah! I thought for sure you'd name it somethign ZQ-related - I was guessing Sylar - because I thought I'd remembered you saying you were going to get a cat and name it Gabriel Grey - but I guess I remembered that wrong! You could name it Grayson - that was the last name of Spock's Mom!
ReplyDeletehahaha, that's awesome. I was going to name the next cat Gabriel Gray, but Jim put the kibosh on that...since I already have a cat named Ryan. So, my cats would be Ryan and Gabriel...which I think would be rad, but people already confuse my Ryan with a kid...so, when I say things like, "Ryan woke me up this morning by biting my toes..." you know, it would just compound the confusion.
ReplyDeleteI say, add to the confusion! It's more fun that way! I love it when pets have people names - cause let's face it, pets are people!
ReplyDeleteAll my cats have people names. It would take too long to explain them: Percy [Parsifal], Chloe, Emma, Fiona, and Sky.
ReplyDeleteI have a client whose grey cat is named Gandalf [they are big fans of Lord of the Rings]. So I think it'd be a hoot if you got a grey cat and said, "but we have to name him Gabriel; he's grey." [And if it turned out to be a female, Gabrielle]. But Grayson is also a great name!
I had a bike named Cassandra, a 10-speed named Ella, a pearly green Bel-Air Chevrolet named Jennifer Juniper, a Toyota MR-2 called Miss Tertwo, and I still haven't decided on a name for my Deep Blue Subaru [I'm leaning toward Twilight, tho' it has no connexion with the books] or Magic Hour, because that deep, deep blue time of day is my favourite.
Anyway, as a pet parent, I say things like, "Fiona! stop picking on Chloe!" or "Sky! Leave the printer alone!" or "See you later! Be excellent to one another!"
I could be talking to my kids, and in fact, I am
BTW, I never named the Mazda 323 I lovingly drove for 8 years. I loved that car. And what happened? Not one but TWO accidents ... neither my fault. In one I was rear-ended almost onto the tracks in the path of an oncoming train, and in the second, my poor little Mazda was totalled [a postal jeep driver passed out at the wheel and front-ended me, backing me into a hydrant or lightpole or some such]. Oh, how I loved that nameless little car, so fun to drive.
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