April 17, 2009
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No work today. The sun was sunny. The wind wasn’t ferocious for once. Shaun and I spent the afternoon walking along the lake shore path. We bought a bag of Duros from a street vendor and crunched on spicy bites of love. I almost forgot how a person can get lost in walk and conversation if the weather is cooperative; we were out for nearly 4 hours.
Currently, a pot of homemade wheat Mac ‘n’ Cheese bakes in the oven. A massive bunch of kale waits for water to boil. Lilly Allen plays on the stereo.
I love weekends. I really do.
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What are you looking forward to this weekend?Also: what are your thoughts on the name Ezra Manning? How about Suraya? Esne? So far, Ezra has been the leading contender, but we want to make sure that we keep an open mind, should anything else be appealing. And the other two recent thoughts were also appealing.
Comments (11)
Ezra sounds pretty cool. I dunno how I feel about suraya…and Esne makes me think of the half human half vampire baby from twilight. The baby was esme. But I think Ezra would be cool on a girl.
Oh I can smash on some Duros. They have a few different flavors at the local convenience shop. Not as good as fresh made but totally munchable.Ezra is a very appealing name. I never would have thought of it. Suraya is also good. I like the way Ezra Suraya sounds together. Here’s to another beauty of a day for you tomorrow. Hope there is time and good weather for you all to get out again.
I will have to try these Duros, sounds tasty. Also sounds like your weekend is off to the best of starts. Last weekend we rode north on the bike trail that fallows the beach starting at the Santa Monica pier. It was windy but warm and beautiful. Hardly had to pedal at all on the way back due to the wind at our backs. : ) Maybe this weekend we’ll try south!One of my favorite NPR names is Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson. (I assume it’s spelled different but sounds the similar to Suraya?) After she says it I have to repeat it in my head for a least an hour. I think it’s pretty and you could get cute nick-names out of it. I agree with your friend above that it would make a lovely middle name. Do you have a middle name that runs in your family? Esne I like just as much. Does the s sound like a z in that? I also dig Ezra, but I guess I was slightly more smitten by the ones I’d never heard before. But, Ezra has always struck me as a great name, and I’ve often admired it. Conclusion: I’m no help here; you have good taste. Have fun choosing!
@TheSecretLifeOfPandas - Oh my god! Esne is OUT, then. THANKS YOU FOR TELLING ME! You know how much I loathe Twilight.
@Ally - HA! Shaun likes the Suraya name, but spelled differently, in X-Men. When he told me about the name I said, “HEY! Like Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson!!” I too enjoy her correspondence, although they’ve been playing her week-long series on heroin abuse in Afghanistan RIGHT when I wake up in the mornings here. Serious morning downer. The name is spelled a thousand different ways because it is derived from Arabic, so the alphabet combos are mutable. The name is a derivative of a word that describes the Pleiades, which is a cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus. As for family names: isn’t everyone’s grandma named Mary or Sylvia?
Lol! Girl I got your back!Because you know it would go down like this. “Hi what’s your name?”"Esne.”"Oh my gosh like the character from twilight?”"Um. No. My name is spelled with an N.”"Oh my gosh that’s so cute your mom must’ve really loved twilight!”Then all of a sudden your would come out of nowhere and beat someone up and then where would we be?Lol.
Mainly looking forward *to* the weekend. Which it is now, late on a Saturday, and I can finally read a few blogs. Oh and, of course, looking forward to Sunday morning’s #pancaketweetup. Social media and food, a great combination.
Weekends are good. This time of year, mine don’t start until 5 on Saturdays, but sometimes I can wiggle out an hour early, like today. Beautiful weather today and Jay and I met up with several friends at a park nearby for a grilling smorgasbord. While there we saw a ghetto ice cream truck (absolutely no pictures or markings on the side of the truck and kind of depressing music coming out of it. Seriously, it didn’t even say “ice cream” on the side of it.) The only thing I saw kids going away with were soft serve vanilla cones. The most exotic thing it had were sprinkles. We also were treated to a show of about 15 guys on dirt bikes and 4-wheelers that decided that the park’s road was a show place for doing wheelies. Just a little taste of Baltimore culture. I have to say Ezra surprises me. It’s a nice enough name, but I think of it as a male name and it’s so, well, biblical. I wasn’t sure how to pronounce Suraya until Ally mentioned Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, who I also think is an awesome reporter. Have it ever struck you how depressed she sounds when doing her sign-off though? “Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR News, Kabul.” I always think she’s going off to drink her sorrows away in some seedy afghanistan bar after filing her reports. I guess that would be tough though, with the whole Muslim no alcohol thing. I think they should drag that woman out of there, give her a big fat journalism award, and send her on vacation before she does herself in. Am I digressing? Suraya is a nice name, if a bit of a mouthful. And for that reason she’d probably be called Suri for short and then she’d have the Cruise to compete with. Still, I like it. You could call her Raya for short instead. This is already long and you’ve ruled out Esne, so I’ll leave that alone. Remember though, you’ll never please everyone with the name you pick, so go with what feels right to you.
@photobee22 - Poor Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson. I agree. She needs an award and a raise and a massage. I’m crap at Bible things. Is Ezra a Bible name? The name Ezra is a Hebrew word (and unisex name–weirdly, the only Ezra’s that I’ve ever met in real life have been girls) that means “helper,” which I like. I don’t want this little citizen to just suck air in this world—she needs to help make it better. I started to like the name from Ezra Pound, the poet credited with bringing post modernism to literature. Although I hope she would never choose to support a fascist regime, face charges of treason, and be released on an insanity plea. That would be bad…My grandparent’s like the name Eleni. I like this one, too. Musical and fun. It’s the Greek name for Ms. Helen of Troy. And I’d like to think this Fetus will have an ego big enough to make her legendary, if she so chooses to be.
@chicagoartgirl23 - I like Eleni. It sounds kind of elfish. Is it pronounced like Elena (but with an eee sound at the end, of course)? Beautiful and strong. Yeah, Ezra was back in the old testament. He has a whole Book that he’s supposed to have wrote, ya know, Book of Ezra. I don’t know much about bible stories, despite being a confirmed Catholic, but he seems to be associated with scholars, so that’s cool.
I have to chime in here, Ezra reminded me of something. I was working on my family tree last week and have wonderous names that begin with Ez. Sadly I have no girl children and never probably will, becuse I would probably use really old names. I will share them with you, I’m not assuming that you would choose to use them, but they are still interesting and used in New Orleans/New Iberia in the 1820′s: Marie Ezilda, Marie Pouponne Elodie, Ezelle Cesaire, Estelle Euzilde - (all names given to four of my fourth-great aunts by my fourth-great grandmother who evidently had a thing for ‘z’ (her name was Marie Rose Zoe – I think I read she went by Zoe, also her maternal grandmother was Anne Marie Franciose Zoe Genevieve and her paternal grandmother was Zoe Clemiene.)I’m glad you are having a nice pregnancy!