henriette (yes, the one that got away; I SEE you, LIZ)

[sab]

The votes are in, with Lauren beating out Henriette by three to win Cat Name Of The Cat.

But it's not a democracy, and she's Henriette. I've been trying names on her all weekend and yesterday we almost liked Meredith (the similarity to Edith intentional) but then Rodney McKay kept confusing me and this cat is many things but not a science geek, and, anyway, Henriette.

LIFE LESSON #45:

You can't name a cat Lauren.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

I feel absurdly vindicated.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I grew up with a lot of Laurens too, though you may be my first Lauren who isn't Jewish (is that right?) and based on the fact that I grew up in a fully Jewish and fairly wealthy suburb of NYC, and most of my friends were Upper West Siders of NYC, my Laurens tended to be the jappy kind. Which is part of my soul and history and several of my Laurens have remained very close friends, but somehow you can't name a cat that eats lizards in the bathtub a jappy name in any seriousness.

Still, all this percolating in Laurenness has brought back a wave of nostalgia for my childhood.

What DO you think of yourself as, when you think of yourself?

Like, my middle name is Sara but I never use it, though I sometimes use the initial S, which in my head and since 1991 of COURSE stands for Sabine. And it's always so alarming to see official paperwork where it's Sara. That's NOT my name!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

How funny-- my middle initial is R (for Rile, my mother's maiden name) and the online name I still often think of myself as is Rebecca. (Another Jewish name. But, you're right, I'm not Jewish.)

I don't think of myself as Lauren, but I do identify with my initials. The L and R of my full name are important to my picture of myself (synesthetically, they are gray-black and dark purple), and most of the names I have thought I would identify with better involve those letters. Every so often I wonder how different I would be if I had grown up with a name I fit into better. I guess that being a somewhat alienated observer is a pretty central part of my, uh, stance on the world? Ha.

[lizlet.livejournal.com]

HENRIETTE IS AN EXCELLENT NAME FOR A CAT AND I STAND BY MY VOTE, EVEN AS YOU TOPPLE DEMOCRACY.

[furies.livejournal.com]

i am wondering how long this will last, given that she TOLD YOU her name was lauren??

i had a dream last night where i was changing my name to annemarie. and i figured it worked well because my middle name is marie anyway, and apparently everyone was calling me annie, so it worked. but then i couldn't figure out what my middle name would be, because i couldn't be annemarie marie.

very strange. especially because i do like my name. then again, i like it when jo calls me annie. hah. WHO KNOWS.

(i woke up on time! but still no call. am feeling a little hurt.)

[pene.livejournal.com]

albeit sometimes Em hears vast vats of fast cats but we're glad that she still doesn't have those vast vats. of fast cats.

hee! I love annemarie for you. AnnieMarie.

lastly Henriette is a great neame for a cat and would have been my vote but I knew it wasn't a democracy. I have a blonde doll named Henrietta with cute clothes and even rollerskates. Joss thinks she's cool.

Also is she a French cousin of Henrietta Pussycat from Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood?

edited with a picture of Anne Marie Chadwick