Mim’s Blog

That’s a lot of different nicknames.

I like the watermelon!

When I am Lisa, I hate nicknames. “Lease” is my least favorite, yet the most popular. It is two dang syllables, I tell people.

When I am Maggie (renaissance faire and a previous job that already had a Lisa and a Felicia), I love my nicknames. Mags, Peggy, Magzilla (not my very favorite), and the best one – Naggie. I think that started as a typo and stuck. I still call myself Mags when I am talking to myself (more often than I should probably admit).

That is a cute watermelon. I bet it would be fun as a citrus slice: lemon, orange, lime…

Don’t do meme’s so will clog up your comments instead.
Well, my name is a nickname. And I’m always bitter about that. “tina” is short for everything and means nothing.

Since the internet, I’ve been known as Ladydove (or some version of Dove) for quite a while. In my online games I play with family and friends, I always have at least one Ladydove character, but that usually gets shortened to LD. So for a long time I answered to LD.

With Everquest, LD means something else (link dead.. aka no playing, bad stuff) so people don’t tend to throw out the LD nickname often. My ‘main character there’ is Dlandra, so I get called D alot. I’ll even answer to that in real life now. My poor husband even got shortened to J, because his main character starts with a J (although his name is Jon, so at least it makes sense) But I’ve found myself calling him that in real life from time to time….

When naming my kids, I always have an issue about nicknames. Perhaps because I never really got one as a child (at least not one that came from my already short name) My dad called me Sis and Sissy though and I miss that.

So when ever I’m naming or thinking of names for children I have to have some kind of nickname that they will be called… I knew with my oldest I didn’t want her to be a Dee, so I told everyone that she should be called Dea though funny enough it was the younger kids that finally gave her her real nickname, “Nah-nah or Dee-nah-nah” Michael got Mike, that’s easy. Danielle, is Dan, Dan-dan, or dani (though she tells me her real name is Danielle-i-ka) and the new baby will be nicknamed Mari, or Missy or who knows =)

You’ll always be Mim (or Mims) to me =)

I like Mimsical!

I had some awful nicknames in school due to my red hair. I find that I don’t mind having my name shortened to Em but Ems is different, only certain people are allowed to use that version.

My eldest daughter, Meleri (meh-leh-REE, has always been called Meleri-Maloo by me and Splodgy by her Dad. Her sister Rhianwen doesn’t have a single nickname yet, although Shorty is popular.

Other than ‘antsy Nancy’ (very appropriate), my only real nickname was my father calling me ‘Button Nose’!

I’m a Lynda, and always introduce myself as Lynda, but all my close friends and family call me Lyn – and everyone who knows me through my husband calls me Lyn (well, he actually calls me “weenie woman” – don’t ask, even I don’t know why). His family actually didn’t even know my real name was Lynda until they saw the wedding invitations!

Love the watermelon. But I ain’t sharing on the nicknames. Threaten me with the finger monster again if you will, but that’s just the way it’s gonna be.

Chris. That’s it. :)

Mimsicial is good.

I’ve actually meant to ask how you pronounce “Mim.”

I like to use my proper name Rosemary a lot because I know it’s what my mom preferred and it is actually a combination of my two grandmothers Rose and Mary. But, many many people call me Rose. And as of late a lot of the local knitters call me RoseMolly. Nods to Molly Weasley, knitter extraordinaire.

Lovely bag, and, yes, Cookie is a nickname. I’m still not sure if I like it or not, but it may be too late to do anything about it.

I always see your name and think of the Disney’s Sword in the Stone: “The Magnificent, Marvelous, Mad, Madam Mim!”

Being sisters with a Christina, I’ve had no end to various mis pronunciations. So I’ve finally come up with my own and it’s worked out. No one remember a name like Kirstin, Kit is a relatively easy to remember derivative.

i definitely like mimsical, but i may be biased since that’s my nickname! and a friend in college ALWAYS called me mimsilicious.

Mimsical has got to be one of the best nicknames in the whole wide world. Love it!!

I’m keeping most of my nicknames to myself, but for some reason I got known as “Terrence” when I was a junior in high school. “T” was also a common one, and I didn’t mind that one. :)

Oh, I forgot to put that you’ll always be the Famous (or Fabulous) Miriam Felton to me!! ;)

For anyone else like Rosemary wondering how to pronounce it, it’s just like Kit said, the same as “Madame Mim” from the sword and the stone. With a short i sound as it “hit”.

To Teri *smack!* ;)

My nickname is j9 has been for years came about because there were so many of us working at the same place with the same initials. So I started initialing things J9 and it stuck. As a young child whenever my daughter was misbehaving she was known as Madame Mim – even though it has nothing to do with her real name :-)

:) I still like to think of you as Mad Madame Mim! (I would sing you the song, but, ahem…)

98% of people just call me Kim. Family and friends call me Kimmi, but if people that don’t know me that well use it, it really pisses me off. And then there’s Ryan, who has come up with all sorts of obscure random nicknames, many of them Spanish: “La Reina del Mundo,” “Traviesita;” He came up with “Chef Messy” and “Princess Pretty Like Sun.” He’s an odd one, that Ryan.

Miriam is one of my favorite names ever. I’m Terri, not Theresa, so when people try to cll me by Theresa thinking it’s my name, I never answer.