Why did you pick your screen name?

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  • emath
    emath Member Posts: 92
    edited September 2008

    mine is "e" for the first letter of Ellen (first name) and "math" for first 4 of last name. Have always used this no matter what I do!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    See, this is why I wanted to ask-RIV, I always thought yours had something to do with rivers.  ha ha.  Shows how wrong I was! 

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  • RIV54
    RIV54 Member Posts: 359
    edited September 2008

    Thanks, Deb, rivers would have been more creative. LOL

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2008

    bumping on up!  Seeing some new names! 

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  • OG56
    OG56 Member Posts: 897
    edited September 2008

    Well mine was because that is what my Dr. called me, even though I live on Long Island in NY now. I love the names, sometimes they make me laugh outloud, especially onebadboob!

    I am not very computer savy, how do you add an avatar?

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited September 2008

    OmahaGirl, Here are some simple (I hope) directions for adding or changing an avitar.

    1. click on my home.

    2. click on edit my profile at the top of the page.

    3. click on browse to find avitar

    4. select the picture on your computer that you want to use and click on open - the link will appear in the avitar box.

    5. go to the bottom of the page and click on save.

    Sheila

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  • tawyna1
    tawyna1 Member Posts: 273
    edited October 2008

    hi

    i chose my screen name cause it is my name.  tawyna i do not know why i put a 1 there.Smile

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  • dreamwriter
    dreamwriter Member Posts: 3,255
    edited October 2008

    I already told you my story so I will not repeat it.

    However, someone read the second part about my avatar and actually adopted one in my name.  So she followed up on what my family failed to do.  Husband is still ticked..... but Tongue out to them.

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  • lolmarsha
    lolmarsha Member Posts: 107
    edited October 2008
       Hi Ya'll! My screen name is  laught out loud, plus my frist name. Just a reminder to laught out loud every day. Somes time harder between the tears. Laughing
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  • threegirlsmom
    threegirlsmom Member Posts: 56
    edited October 2008
    Hey everybody..this is a fun thread!  My name is threegirlsmom...for obvious reasons, I have three girls and they are what is keeping me going through all this mess...maybe the prettiest mess I have ever seen?!Kiss
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  • pinoideae
    pinoideae Member Posts: 1,271
    edited October 2008

    I was sitting here trying to pick a screen name. It was summer, my favourite time of year....the rest is history.

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  • cmb35
    cmb35 Member Posts: 1,106
    edited October 2008

    I don't remember ever seeing this thread before. My screen name is my initials and the 35 is because my life changed dramatically immediately after my 35th birthday. My mother died quite suddenly 3 weeks after my birthday, and then my husband informed me he "wasn't happy" and was moving out 6 weeks after that. Quite a bit of upheaval to say the least, but for some reason, it's meaningful to me because I feel like I went through a lot, but survived it, and am a stronger person for it.

    And thank goodness! Because clearly I had some more crap coming down the pike! LOL

    As a friend of mine once said, "do you ever feel like Eeyore?", meaning, do I ever feel like there is just a dark cloud following me around. I could have used that as a screen name, but I don't like the "Ee" in the beginning! Plus, I don't want to attract any more bad luck.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2008

    Yay!  Good to see this thread revived!!!!  

    CMB-what's happening?  Everything okay?  Amen to the "no bad luck" thing. 

    Summer-I totally thought it was your real name! 

    ThreegirlsMom-Cute avatar....I'm bumping my avatar question up so you can explain yourself!!!  Wink Be sure to look for it! 

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  • Lucy47
    Lucy47 Member Posts: 183
    edited October 2008

    Mine isn't very interesting either....but it is what it is : my name and the age I was diagnosed

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  • TorchSong
    TorchSong Member Posts: 348
    edited October 2008

    I love music of all kinds, but I was gong through a kd lang phase at one point, and she sings a lot of "torch song" type music (think Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Diana Krall, Peggy Lee...), especially on her "Drag" CD (which I had just acquired), and it seemed like a good screen name at the time...Plus it gives me a great nickname--Torch!

    And yes, I am a red-head...for the moment, anyway, until the FEC/T kicks in. Wink

     My avatar, however, is simply a picture I took on vacation this summer--I love the colours and the sense of freedom with the flowers blowing in the wind...

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  • hollyann
    hollyann Member Posts: 2,992
    edited October 2008

    Well, my screen name is my daughter's name.....She is the reason I keep going.......It's her picture too....Isn't she a cutie?...hehe....Hugs....Lucy

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  • leaf
    leaf Member Posts: 8,188
    edited November 2008

    I picked my screen name because I love to day hike and see the sunlight filtered through leaves, though I haven't been able to do that for several years.  Also, one of my favorite movies in elementary school was the Disney movie  (Our Mr. Sun?) about how they didn't quite understand how leaves turned sunlight into energy. I still think photosynthesis is magical.

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  • ebann
    ebann Member Posts: 3,026
    edited November 2008

    I picked my screen name because it is my nick name in my family. Everyone does call me Elizabeth. I do not like my name shortened. I got my nick name from my Aunt Jean Day (deceased died of lung cancer). My mothers name is Elizabeth and they did not want to call me little, or jr. So they call me EB Ann  (Eliza Beth Ann) So now I use it in everything cause it is so dear to me. I love my Aunt Jean Day she was a very special lady.

    Blessings; Elizabeth

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  • mybeautifulsister
    mybeautifulsister Member Posts: 142
    edited November 2008

    I was 7 years old when my sister marybeth was born, I was so thrilled to have her and thought she was SO beautiful!!!!    growing up thats  what I always called her "my beautiful sister"  She was like having a new doll to take care of!!!! ! She truly has such inner beauty as well, and I am as thrilled to be her sister 44 years later!!!!! We all kinda forgot about that as we got older until she was Dx in Feb,with IDC and when we got the news I just blurted out NOT "my beautiful sister"!!!!

    great posts

    Deb

    is it me or does anyone notice just how many Debs are on these threads!!!!

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  • FloridaLady
    FloridaLady Member Posts: 2,155
    edited November 2008

    I'm with you Deb..Flalady (Deb)

    I love how you got your name!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2009

    bump-more stories, please

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  • badboob67
    badboob67 Member Posts: 2,780
    edited March 2009

    Wow...can't believe I missed this one.  I'm "badboob" because that's all I could think about when I signed up--that I have a bad boob. That, and the fact that every time I'd look at the bad boob, I'd hear the "COPS" theme in my head but with the words changed to "Bad BOOB, bad BOOB, whutcha gonna do? Whutcha gonna do when they come for you?"

    The "67" is for the year I was born.

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  • fulloflife
    fulloflife Member Posts: 66
    edited March 2009

    What immediately came to mind is what I chose. And I won't change it after my biopsy either. Perceptions of life is what will sustain it or not.

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  • lovinmomma
    lovinmomma Member Posts: 1,879
    edited March 2009

    This is my name on a few boards and it is what I am. Mom to 7 wonderful kids.

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  • tea42
    tea42 Member Posts: 17
    edited March 2009
    I picked my name because I am addicted to ice tea!  Although, lately I've had to go to decaf tea and it's just not the same!!Frown
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  • AussieSheila
    AussieSheila Member Posts: 647
    edited March 2009

    I have a name that is generic in Australia, like an Irish Colleen, a Sheila is just a female aussie of any age. It can be derogatory or complimentary, depending on how and in what context it is used.  As there are so many Sheilas on the forums I visit, I thought that I should differentiate between us all.  Actually, I am English by birth, and immigrated here with my parents in 1950, when I was three.  No Aussie mother would knowingly call a daughter Sheila, that's probably why most Aussies call me Shirley, because they can't imagine anyone with such a name. 

    I must thank one of the other Sheilas on this site (luv2qlt) for her advice on how to put an avatar on our pages. It only took me one go and it was there, WOW! That's a first for me. From one Sheila to another, Thank you so much.

    Sheila.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2009

    Bump! 

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  • mmm5
    mmm5 Member Posts: 1,470
    edited June 2009

    The triple M's are initials and I have a wonderful Family of 5 which is my soul reason for being!

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  • fortunate1
    fortunate1 Member Posts: 644
    edited June 2009

    My life was in turmoil before, and much more so after, the dx of BC. By the time I found the discussion board, I had received incredible support from family and friends, and an education in how bad BC can be. I have friends that have been through it, two more than once, two who have died, and one currently going through a much more difficult treatment than I. I need to always recognize that my glass is HALF FULL. Look at my stats. In the world of this vicious disease, I am a fortunate one. With the support of friends and family, and you all, I am a fortunate one.

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  • Analemma
    Analemma Member Posts: 1,622
    edited June 2009

    My avatar is my name - Analemma.  It shows the position of the sun in the sky if photographed at the same time every day for a year.  So in the summer, at 4 pm, it's still pretty high, but in the winter, at 3 pm, it's pretty low.  I love the astronomy, the way it forms the infinity symbol, and I love the consistency of the patterns of archeoastronomy.  The Analemma explains why the earliest sunset is not at the winter solstice, but almost two weeks before, and the latest dawn is two weeks later.  I know, I'm a geek, but this stuff fascinates me.

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