3.) What’s in YOUR name? What does it mean? Why was it given to you? etc..
I’m Kathy.
A derivative of Katherine and named after my Grandma. I hate derivatives. I hate that my name can’t mean something all by itself and that instead I have to steal Katherine’s meaning and make it mine. Why should Katherine have to share her meaning with all the Kats and Kathys and Katies of the world?
Katherine means “pure” by the way.
Pure.
Free of any invasive, dirty, unwanted elements.
I suppose the meaning of Kathy would more accurately be a derivative of “pure”…maybe purely. As in “purely super intelligent”…or “purely incredible”….or “purely almost perfect but noooot quite there because to call yourself perfect would be superficial and borderline narcissistic”…
When I was five my family called me Wilbur. Like the pig. Because I was hungry and ate every last one of them under the table. They may or may not have oinked in unison whenever I asked for more. I don’t want to talk about it.
I WAS GROWING!
When I was nine I preferred to be called “Katherine” because I thought it was more mature and refined and rich sounding. Perhaps deep inside I knew I was just a derivative of pure and I longed for the real deal.
When I was fourteen my oldest sister had a baby and my own Mother nicknamed me Aunty KaKa. It stuck. And if you don’t already know than let me just inform you that kaka means poop. Which is really not very pure at all. They may as well call me “Aunty IMpurity”. I mean THAT’S what a slap in the face it is. A disgrace.
When I was twenty my husband started calling me Kat. It caught on and has taken some of the blow from Aunty PoopPoop which I’m grateful for. Which is why I married him.
In blogland I go by Mama Kat. Because I’m a mama and I’m Kat and it just felt right putting the two together and quite frankly any improvement on Aunty PoopPoop is welcome at this point….although “Aunty Impurity Is Losin’ It” DOES have a ring to it.
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The Prompts:
1.) Time for your tangent…what is your latest complaint?
2.) If you could have given yourself a snapshot five years ago of what your life is like now, what would the picture be of and how do you think you would have felt about it?
3.) What’s in YOUR name? What does it mean? Why was it given to you? etc..
4.) Write a letter to the first person who ever broke your heart.
5.) Welcome to the most shocking rose ceremony in writing prompt history. Please award roses to the ten people (or items) in your life that you’d like to continue pursuing a relationship with.
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This is my first time participating and it was great fun. Got the brain working a little bit, I think I went off on a bit of a tangent but I usually do!
Love the idea of this writers workshop I look forward to next weeks!
Sparky
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I will not call you Kat or Kathy or Mama Kat or maybe Cynthia. I don’t know. But I will just call you.
Oh and the other day in the trip around the blogosphere I came across someone with the name *Mama Kat* and I was all like IMPOSTOR! You are not Mama Kat. There is only one Mama Kat and she is awesome and you are not. That’s right, I got your back.
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I did not want the word ‘not’ in that above. There is something wrong with me. Sorry.
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January 14th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
LOL at your original comment’s mistake :-) It’s funny when you read it out loud.
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You were so cute!! I’m a Katherine too ya know ;) We are purely fantastic! LOL
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I never went through name changes. My sister, on the other hand, went through many names. (Different spellings too) I remember kids calling the house looking for (BLANKETY BLANK) and my mom was all “WHO?” Sister forgot to tell mom that she changed her name.
Call me what ya want….I’ll probably answer to it.
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I love the name Katherine. It was one of my top 3 for my daughter (our last name starts with K, so she could be Katherine of Katie later – I had it all planned out lol) When I was 9, I insisted everyone call me Ronnie (Veronica) from the Archie/Jughead series. I like my name enough. It’s certainly better then Karma, which was the original choice.
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The whole Aunty Kaka thing is SOOO not right. Do they all still call you that??
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