It's weird seeing headlines like this...

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Uncertainty and despair follow Sharon's departure

I know. Y'all always get sad when I leave, don't you? :)

When I was growing up I never met any other kids with the name Sharon. Once I grew up I would meet other Sharons, but they were always old enough to be my mother.
At some point in my youth I learned that my parents only had the name Paul James picked out because my mom knew she was going to have a boy. Not from an ultrasound, mind you. They didn't do them back then. She just knew. She already had a girl after all. So I was born and mom says to dad, "Well, we can't use the name Paul James" At that point dad said "I've always liked the name Sharon Marie" and thus, I was named. In my 20's I figured it out.
The name Sharon was popular about a generation or so before I was born. Dad is 11 years older than mom, so his generation was one where that name was actually used.
I was also in my 20's when I learned that the origin of the name is a plain over in the middle east.
So when the Israelli leader, Ariel Sharon, started popping up in the news, I was weird to see my name in headlines, but mad sense because he's of the nationality where my name originated.
Headlines like the one above definitely catch my eye. They amuse me too.
K. Time for me to depart from this post. Let the uncertainty and despair follow!!!!!


*edit* The Baby Name Wizard doohicky that everyone was linking to about a year ago or so pretty much shows visually what I just babbled about above.
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
If you put Sharon into it, you find that the rankings on the popularity chart are at 83 in the 30s and quickly jumping up to the 8th most popular in the 40s. It declines from there to 14th in the 50s, 23rd in the 60s, and 63rd in the 70s. Dad was born in '34 and I was born in '70. Looking at the graph, over 2/3 of all the Sharons were born in his lifetime, many of them were within a few years of his age. So it wasn't a weird uncommon name that people can't get right to him. :)

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my mom's name is sharon annette. she was born in '56. my grandma was japanese and didn't really know many american names, but she was a fan of the mickey mouse club and got the name from there. my aunt and uncle are judy and johnnie for the same reason. :)

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That totally fits the name timeline. It was still relatively popular in '56.
So you're at least 1/4 Japanese then? Or are you more? My godson and his sister are both 1/4 Japanese. Their dad, kaldeth is 1/2 Japanese and 1/2 Irish. His 100% Irish dad came home from the military with a Japanese wife. They lived up on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. They had 7 kids and then he had a heart attack, leaving her to raise the kids alone in a foreign country.
It was so weird because kaldeth looks Japanese so I assumed he looked like his mom's side of the family until I saw his parents wedding picture. It's surreal because he looks a lot like his dad, but a Japanese version of him.
He says the two parts of his heritage are at war because he wants to drink a lot like all good Irish, but he has no tolerance because he's oriental. LOL!

Yeah, I must be tired. Babbling off on tangents here...

Oh. The Orlando thing? Spanky lives right there, so if I make it down to Orlando I'll be having dinner with her at some point. So if you're there too we need to coordinate! And if we did that I should probably abandon poor hubby for a few hours rather than subject him to talk of nekkid sexy vampires.

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yep, i'm 1/4 japanese, 3/4 caucasian (mostly of german descent). it's weird to think about because like... if i marry a japanese guy, our kids would be 5/8 japanese. or with a half japanese guy, our kids would be 3/8 japanese. silly fractions. my mom is half, and she looks reeeeally asian. she says she always forgets until she sees herself in pictures smiling really big. her eyes practically disappear. although mine do that too, so i can't really talk. :)

i didn't know spanks was from florida! my sister and i haven't decided yet about the con. i'll let you know when we decide. :)