i have a rather unusual middle name. it's a family name, and when i was in school and we talked about names and where they came from, i always loved the fact that my name had a history to it (which, by the way, has influenced me towards using family names when it comes time for me to decide on names ... and i will definitely Butalbital cmpd - be passing on my middle name ... but i digress ...)

anyway, another point of fun for apap butalbital caffeine with my middle name was in grade 8 when my friends and i decided to come up with 'secret names' for each other, which consisted of simply butalbital cmpd our middle names backwards. i was delighted to discover that my middle name is a palindrome! such fun.

anyway, Butalbital cmpd, over the years, i've done very light research on the meaning of my middle name. there isn't a lot on it, and imagine my apap butalbital caffeine disappointment when a search on google actually turned butalbital cmpd other people with my middle name! really ruins that unique-ness one feels.

so at one point, i read somewhere online that it was British, Butalbital cmpd, and meant 'pineapple' - which resulted in my father calling me the names of every fruit and vegetable in the book for a while. i remember the day he called me his little kumquat. :-)

but i digress again. a book came across my desk today that prompted me to look up my middle name again. it's the 'new age baby name book: the comprehensive guide to traditional and non-traditional names ... from cultures around the world.' and lo and behold, there it is.

anona

latin: "yearly crops." earth name appropriate for a girl born under one of the earth signs: capricorn, taurus, or virgo.

well, i'm a leo, which is a fire sign, but aside from that, i find this rather interesting. yet another tidbit to add to the story of the name.