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Okay, so, I finally narrowed it down to 20 names for a duck/chicken should this whole thing actually pan out. These names are separated by gender, but like, they’re birds. They don’t know the difference, so it doesn’t really matter whether the name is feminine or masculine. For the record, it wouldn’t matter for a human with me either. I fully intend to name my future daughter Ezra.

But, the names are (and some background?):

1. Maia (I actually have a cousin with this name, but you know, whatever. I really like it because I have this weird obsession with Maori culture and I read somewhere that the name Maia means “brave warrior” in Maori and I just felt a connection with it.) 2. Valentina 3. Margo (Like Margo Roth Spiegelman or Margo Song Covey? I don’t know?) 4. Wren (My grandpa’s favorite bird.) 5. Thyme (I met a girl with this name while I was in college, she was incredibly sweet and I absolutely fell in love with her name) 6. Cartier (Season two of Project Runway Junior?) 7. Mabry (A girl at my best friend’s church?) 8. Tula (When I was a little kid, my dad used to jokingly call me Tallulah Jenkins, but I couldn’t say Tallulah, I said Tula) 9. Lemon 10. Zinnia (My favorite flower)  

1. Wallace (As in Wallace Hartley, the violin player on the RMS Titanic. I don’t know.) 2. Barrett (I had a teacher in high school who’s son was called Barrett) 3. Hawley (A family name) 4. Barker 5. Caillou (That bratty child from Caillou the show on channel 9?) 6. Oskar 7. Ferdinand 8. Rennin (Pretty sure this is some kind of scientific thing that has to do with cows, but I’m not a scientist so it doesn’t bother me.) 9. Alfredo (Alternative for Alfred because ever since I read Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, I can’t stand the name Alfred by itself.) 10. Campbell (Richard Campbell Gansey III?)

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Is it weird to name a duck/chicken after another bird? Like, for instance, naming a chicken Wren? I feel like Wren is enough of a people name that no one would really be like ??? or maybe they wouldn’t anyway? I’m probably overthinking everything as per usual.

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Honestly, like, all I do these days is sit around and try to come up with names for ducks and chickens. And like, tbh I’m very okay with it.

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My grandma thinks that every cute boy that looks at me has a crush on me. I keep trying to tell her that my doctor is married but she’s just not having it.

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So, at Thanksgiving, I jokingly* wrote down on my Christmas list that I want a duckling (or like, seven?) and my aunt and uncle were like, “seriously? we can do that.” But, like, I don’t know if they were actually serious and I’m trying not to get my hopes up.

*I wasn’t joking

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I have a stress rash from stress because I’m stressed. Stop asking. You’re stressing me out.

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Having a smart dog is a blessing and a curse. I mean, I taught Samwell how to say “I love you”, but he taught himself how to say “no”.

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My hobbies include: sleeping in too late by accident, talking to my dog (Samwell, after Samwell Tarly from GoT) like he's a person and not a dog, and watching power hour cleaning videos on YouTube (but not actually cleaning)

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I was supposed to get a kitten a couple months ago and I was brainstorming names with my grandma, and I suggested the name “Fern”, but I have a speech impediment and my grandma is kind of hard of hearing and from all the way across the room, I heard her scream, “SPERM?!”

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Yesterday my best friend and I were watching a Christmas movie and at the end she tried to say “and they lived happily ever after” but all that came out was “merrily ever ever” and I’m still laughing