The Sisterhood of Susan's/Sue's

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited August 2011

    I don't have a second name as my mother was upset with hers - Gertrude. Yet, my brother, born 12 years later was given 2 names.

    Hey suemed - what year? we might almost be twins :)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    Gertrude.  Now that's a name that will probably never make a comeback. :) ....that and Bertha!  

    I love the name Genevieve!  I have a french friend who named her daughter that and they call her Gigi.  Too cute.

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited August 2011

    Susan,

    I strongly suspect her first name is Gertrude but she goes by Joan. I was always upset I didn't have a second name and used to invent them - Amanda was my most favoured one for some reason.

    Sue

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited August 2011

    Hey susieq - Born in 1953. Am I one day older than you?

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  • suzieq60
    suzieq60 Member Posts: 6,059
    edited August 2011

    I'm 1952, so I'm 1 day short of a year older :) Not looking forward to turning 59 this year - it's been all downhill since 55. My problem is I don't feel that old - certainly not in the head.

    Sue

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  • suegeyer
    suegeyer Member Posts: 14
    edited August 2011

    Another Susan checking in here!!!!  I go by Sue, my family calls me Susie except when they get mad at me, then it is Susan Louise!!!!  LOL  I will be 60 this November!  I also have a daughter in law named Susan!!!!

    Sue in Florida

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    Woot, woot!! The Sisterhood gets resurrected! 

    Welcome Susan Louise! Tongue out 

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  • suebak
    suebak Member Posts: 199
    edited August 2011

    I am a Susan also.  Always called Susan growing up, moved to Delaware County when I was 30 years old and everyone out here calls me Sue. I was born in 1963. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2011

    suebak ~ so do you prefer Susan or Sue?

    I don't "mind" if people call me Sue...but I do have more of a preference for Susan, 

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  • suebak
    suebak Member Posts: 199
    edited September 2011

    It doesn't really matter to me what people call me.  I am used to both now.  In the office, I refer to myself as Sue.  It is funny, now that we have facebook, all my chlldhood friends address me as Susan and newer friends as Sue.

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited September 2011

    How would you describe yourselves?  I'm curious to know if names influence personalities. 

    I'm a retired CPA, quiet, not good at parties, hard-headed (my childhood nickname was "hammer head"), and fairly open-minded.

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  • suemed8749
    suemed8749 Member Posts: 1,151
    edited September 2011

    OK, enjoyful, I am in my 34th year as an English teacher ( grades 7-12), so I have to be patient, also fairly quiet at parties, love to read, I think I have a good sense of humor, also fairly open-minded. I was a wild child in my 20's!

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited September 2011

    I was never a wild child!  Perish the thought!  Hahahha

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  • SuebeeBC
    SuebeeBC Member Posts: 1,256
    edited October 2011

    Well lookie lookie - my friend Susan started a Susan thread!!!! :)

    Yeah Im a Susan and go by that, or Sue, or SueBee, or Suzy Q, or Suze (my favorite but no one calls me that anymore) or Sarah Jane (my moms nickname for me???).

    Im also a Libra - Oct 17!

    I just have to say "WE ROCK!" :

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

    How did I miss this thread!  Susan Marie here.  I went by Sue for a while in junior high and high school.  My best friend from High School is also named Susan, so we were called "The Sues".  Grandma called me Suzie Q and I hated it, until high school and I liked the song!

     My family ALWAYS called me Susan.  I can usually tell if someone knows me from high school if they say "Sue, is that you?"....I was born in 1964.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

    And the Susan thread is once again revived!!! Tongue out

    I'm so glad you found it SueBee!! Suze is my favorite too...only my dad called me that. And Happy Birthday coming up! What is this 29 or 30? ;)

    Hi Susan Marie..you are from Seattle, right?  I think I sat next to you at the Red Robin meeting almost a year ago! Are you coming to the one on the 24th?  I had a best friend named Sue too. :)

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  • SuebeeBC
    SuebeeBC Member Posts: 1,256
    edited October 2011

    Susan I know a lot of people will say 29....or its the 14th anniversary of my 29th year or whatever - but dang, I'm discovering I get BETTER with each year so I never wanna go back to my 20's!!! Wink

    I would introduce myself as Suze but then I would get 'HUH?"....I get that with Sue too.  Why is that?  Do I mumble or something?  Maybe I should just start trying again....I really do like it much better than Sue.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

    Many times when I've answered the phone "Hi, this is Susan"... I'll get "Hi Suzy".  Huh!?  I must mumble too!!

    And I completely agree..... each year does get BETTER! I've never been one to lament the milestone birthdays like 30, 40 etc.   Mid 40's is the new mid 60's damnit! ;)

    Ask me again when I turn 60. ;) 

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  • SuebeeBC
    SuebeeBC Member Posts: 1,256
    edited October 2011

    Wah ha ha ha!!!! Remind me- I may have alzheimers by then!

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited October 2011

    Well this thread keeps popping up in the recently active list. And since there are ONLY five recently active items, clearly this is a sign.

    I, too, and a susan. I am not a susie, suzie, sue, or suzanne.... just a susan. There were always hourdes of Susan's in my grade, all the way through college actually. And I never wavered from using my real name. Happily, every one else gave themselves a nick name. I did have an uncle who called me SusanCookie, but that had to do with food preferences. His wife made one helluva cookie and my Mom didn't ever bake.

    *susan* 

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  • SuebeeBC
    SuebeeBC Member Posts: 1,256
    edited October 2011

    Did everyone SING to you growing up?  I always had old guys singing Sweet Sue or Suzy Q or Wakeup Little Susie...Runaround Sue, Crocodile Rock, I could go on and on.....

    Please stop singing to me.  IT.  GETS.  OLD.

    Laughing

    And my favorite nickname was my Aunt who called me Susa-belle.  She is the ONLY one that could call me that.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

    Welcome *susan* !!  It just blows me away how many Susan's there are on here.

    I got the Suzy Q singing and Wakeup Little Susie alot.  Sometimes A Boy Named Sue. I think that was when I was late on getting my upper lip waxed. Tongue out

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  • susan_02143
    susan_02143 Member Posts: 7,209
    edited October 2011

    No one sang to me as a child... at least not susan songs. Guess there is some advantage in growing up in an uptight Yankee family. My mother, who was never known for her voice, would cackled out "Oh what a beautiful morning" on occassion. But like Pavlov's dogs we kids knew this was a good thing and that we might be served pancakes.

    *susan* 

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  • SuebeeBC
    SuebeeBC Member Posts: 1,256
    edited October 2011

    Susan-02143

    I just realized when you said "Yankee" that youre from Somerville!!  I grew up in Dedham!!!  I lived In Arlington, Waltham and Bedford as well - and worked in Burlington - Im there a couple times a year since my family is still all there.

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  • SuebeeBC
    SuebeeBC Member Posts: 1,256
    edited October 2011

    And Susans Garden - you never cease to crack me up!

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  • susanwmcg
    susanwmcg Member Posts: 76
    edited October 2011

    Had to join in! I am a Susan Susan. My chemo nurse kept calling me Sue last week and I told my husband i was not in the mood for it! If I get her next time I will have to set her straight. It is like nails on a chalkboard to me.



    Toodles,

    Susan

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

    Hi Susan Susan :) ... Yes, I hate it when people are presumptuous and shorten your name without asking.  I hope you are able to set her straight next time. :)

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  • Snoopsmom
    Snoopsmom Member Posts: 119
    edited December 2011
    Here's another Susan. Like many of you, I prefer Susan to Sue.....and for Heaven's sake, do NOT call me Susie!! I was born in the '40's, when Susan was a fairly common name. You don't hear it much any more. My grand nieces and nephews call me "Aunt Soup", a name started by the oldest who is now 18 years old.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011

    Hi Susan!  Looks like you just got diagnosed.  Hope you didn't let that spil your holiday. :)

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