pet peeves

So over on the Self Portrait Challenge at Flickr this months theme is "pet peeves".

One of mine is people mispronouncing my name. My name is Leia. Lee-ah (or lee-uh if you live in the south like I do). Although I will not correct you if you pronounce it Lay-ah. I have foreign friends that pronounce it that way and it doesn't bother me. However, if you call me Lisa or Leeann or Lela or anything else I will correct you because THAT IS NOT MY NAME!

My sister calls me Speia but that's just her. She's trying to get Conner to call me ling-ling (why, I don't know) but that ain't gonna happen.

A funny story about the Lay-ah pronounciation. When I was in 5th or 6th grade we had a substitute one day for class. He was the brother of one of my classmates and he was really (to my young mind) cute. He had blonde hair, and he wore a pink tie. I don't know why that stands out in my memory, but it does. Anyway he was calling the roll and he pronounced my name as Lay-ah. Apparently we were not Star Wars fans because I had never heard it that way before and since he was really cute I just raised my hand and blushed every time he looked at me for the rest of the day.

If you've read this far then thank you. I tend to wander around in my thought process and blabber on. I apologize. If you want to stop here I totally understand. If not, please read on.

Another funny (or disturbing) story about my name.

I have a guy friend whose ex-wife did not like me AT ALL. Seriously. She left him 3 seperate times for some guy she met on the internet...3 seperate times. Each time resulted in her getting pregnant. The last time she had got pregnant she had a girl and the day she was born I was at his mom's house and he came up and said "Well, you've got a name sake" and I said "what are you talking about?". He said "She named the baby after you" and I was thinking ok, she just likes that name and was spelling it LEAH.

no.

she spelled it LEIA. Why would you name your baby after somebody you don't even like? That totally blows my mind. And to make it worse she call her Lee-Lee. Ugh. I was named so it would be hard to give me a nickname.

Well, I guess you can put a nickname on anybody.

oh geez....updates

This is only the second month of the new year and it has not gotten off to a good start. I thought this was going to be my year (since I'm 35 now...gasp!) but so far it has turned out to be disaster. I do not like confrontation but so far I've gotten into a very heated argument with a co-worker and then another one less than a week later with a friend. I don't know what's wrong with me! It's like somebody who doesn't care to offend has taken control of my body and totally thrown discretion out the window.

Oh well.

We've had a skunk that decided to crawl under our house last Sunday and wow did it stink! We've opened windows, burned candles, bought spearmint oil (it worked good) to spread around but nothing is taking the choking, nasty smell away! so today my brother-in-law came down to put moth balls under the house to run the skunk off and found it DEAD under the kitchen area of the house. Somebody got to it before us. Woo! But the house still smells and our clothes still smell. Suck.

I definitely do need a new job however. I am surrounded by negativity, gossip, and jealousy all day and it's starting to rub off on me. How can I do God's will in a situation like this? It is not condusive to a good Christian walk. But maybe I'm just weak and easily swayed; apathetic and lazy.

I don't want to be that way!

I want to be in God's will and doing His work. The only question is, how?