Hmm. I think Tristan was the name of the hero in one of my old favorite historical novels.  He was a very hot pirate if I remember correctly 

I wonder what happened to that book.....

I love the name Tristan. Are you thinking of the old Celtic/French legend of Tristan and Iseult? They made a movie out of it called Tristan and Isolde a few years back with James Franco. I think the story predates the similar Lancelot and Guinevere romance.

My parents gave me an ordinary name too--Lisa. Kids thought it rhymed with pizza. Fortunately I wasn't too much of a nerd to point out that it didn't. 

ETA: Now the name Tristan reminds me of a very hot Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall.

My name is not so bad, I guess.  I was born in 1961 and my mother had this obsession with Jackie Kennedy, so I was named Jacqueline.  I was fine with that until I met this guy in my teens who I asked his name and he said Jackie, and I asked him how he knew my name but he was talking about his name.  I didn't believe him and made him show me his drivers license!  We dated for a couple months and it was so funny when someone would say Jackie and we would both answer!   

I loved that name when I was a teenager and chose Jacqueline as my confirmation name. As the female form of Jacob, it means 'may God protect'.

I was originally going to call my daughter by her first name, but my country bumpkin relatives had such a hard time with Ashlynn, they were calling her everything from Ashley to Ashton to Adrienne(freaking Adrienne? really??), so within a couple of days, I switched it and started calling her by her middle name, Skye. And NOW people try like hell to call her Skyler. No, no 'Ler, just freaking SKYE.

And my youngest is Alissa, but half my family wants to call her Alisha or Alicia. WTF, people?? It's not that damned hard, seriously! Should have called her by her middle name too, but then we'd have a Skye and a Raine, and people would think we were total hippy dippy, but we're really not.

Lots of great names. I love Skye and Raine and I'm not hippy dippy really. But I like the nickname Ash too.


I was able to influence my nephew's name, which I really like--Austin Nathaniel. (Though I tried to get my brother to consider Austen as an alternative, which definitely didn't go over well).

I love those names! 

Here all names have to be approved by the registry office. If they are too weird, the name itsself or the spelling, you are not allowed to call your kid that. So, not calling your kid like a day, month etc, not like an object... But people are creative enough to get strange names for their kiddos... 

It is the same here in Austria, but the rule is waved for foreigners.  I have a friend that just had a baby who made up the name using a computer program that combined the sounds she and her husband like best, it is a unique name and I am still not sure of how to pronounce it.  Before she could get the birth certificate, she had to get a letter from her embassy saying that it was okay to name the child that in her home country.  I won't be doing that to my son.

I loved that name when I was a teenager and chose Jacqueline as my confirmation name. As the female form of Jacob, it means 'may God protect'.

Lots of great names. I love Skye and Raine and I'm not hippy dippy really. But I like the nickname Ash too.


I was able to influence my nephew's name, which I really like--Austin Nathaniel. (Though I tried to get my brother to consider Austen as an alternative, which definitely didn't go over well).

I'm waiting on my youngest to decide she'd rather go by Raine than Alissa, because Raine is MUCH less common than all the variations of Alissa out there. Alyssa, Elyssa, Elissa, etc. She's nearly 11 now, I'm waiting on her to hit her teen years, lol. We mostly call her Lissa though, so it stands out a tiny bit at least.

I'm really glad we went with Skye for the oldest, because Ashlynn is a LOT more common now than it was 17 years ago. I thought I was being funny, naming her after a p0rn star, and seems like others had the same idea!

One more post about names.

This page has a cool graphic that shows the most popular girl names in each state since the 60s.

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That was cool! I'm not surprised the name Isabella is so popular now. It's a great name and reads (sounds?) good for sexy times too!

That was cool! I'm not surprised the name Isabella is so popular now. It's a great name and reads (sounds?) good for sexy times too!

My daughter chose this as her confirmation name.   

How funny would it be if my son chose Edward?

That was cool! I'm not surprised the name Isabella is so popular now. It's a great name and reads (sounds?) good for sexy times too!

Well, Isabella means "Devoted to God", so it fits, right?

It's one of my pet peeves in fics when they say "Did you know that Isabella means beautiful in Italian?" and i just wish that one time Bella would say "NO, it doesn't! Bella means beautiful, yes, but not Isabella!" 

My daughter's second name is Isabela (with one L). She's 15 so twilight wasn't written yet when we named her...must be fate...you know what else is "fate"? My son was born 10 yrs ago on May 13...you bet i will never forget Rob's bday! 

My maiden last name is common here, like Smith for the US, so my siblings and i have 2 first names to make it easier to identify us and not be confused for people in the police watchlist  My brother was once stopped from going on a plane bec his name matched someone in the hold departure order. His second name "saved" him so they quickly determined he wasn't that person. at least i like my name but it is so "american" not the usual spanish sounding of my generation, hence mispronounciation/misspelling of it is common. That's why i go by my nickname instead. It's still American sounding but would be hard to mispronounce.

My married last name is also very common, hence we gave our kids 2 first names as well to avoid possible legal problems in the future. We call them by their first names. Here, nicknames are the norm. Sometimes it's unrelated to the real name that you get surprised if someone is called by their proper name and wonder, "who?"

I just had my first scare under the new regime. I couldn't find drotuno's sin & innocence anywhere but on ffn and since I don't have calibre...  But just when I was going to pull my hair out because I couldn't find it on that Polish site either, I found drotuno's blog and she posted PDFs there. Phew!

I finally, finally finished up justginger's People Like Us! I hate to say this, but I liked it! It was so, so, so long, but I really liked the journey of Edward and Bella. Believe it or not, if the sequel were complete, I would actually start reading it now. The writing is fair, and the SPaGs are pretty horrible at times, but the story itself is good. I'm curious enough to want to know what happened to these two and their family. I think someone on here rec'd her other story Hope Springs recently and I may give that a go after S&I.

are you okay with PDF?  I have all of her stuff in mobi and epub....

yeah, I'm good. I still read on my old Mac, so PDFs are okay for me. Thanks!

I need an interesting fic to read, I haven't read anything good in a long time....  Anyone know any good rec's ?

I am just re-reading DEFYING GRAVITY by Jenny0719 or you could try TIDES OF FATE by Sparklingtwilight. Both are really good, IMO.