R.I.P.

Weird day... Aaron Spelling died. So did Patsy Ramsey (as in Jon Benet's mother).

And all this talk of celebrity deaths inspired me to start building a name cemetery, a place to honor all the names that have been suggestedbut, for one reason or another, will NOT be used.

Names I find absolutely adorable but that have been six-footed by my hubby

Daphne
Camila
Maya
Marguerite (actually, this one I six-footed myself after I heard the way it would sound pronounced by a Brazilian...)
Aida
Margot
Míriam
Marlena
Eva
Skylar (one that I also six-footed because there's no way my in-laws would ever be able to pronounce it)

and, to be fair, names that hubby suggested and that have been six-footed my me:

Laíssa
Cecília
Stella Celeste
Clara
Ana
Paula
Marília
... and many others that I have deleted from my memory for being TOO awful.

Names that others have suggested and that I did not particularly care for:
Sónia ... or Sonja
Sofia
Sidney
Aída (as in the musical)
Chastity (I think they were kidding but I'm not sure...)
Frederica
Bella
Marcisa (a combination of my husband's name and my name)

Names that my husband declared off-limits because of their similarities to certain body parts (some of them you have to speak Portuguese to understand)

Virginia
Regina
Doris
Delores
Nádia (this one I didn't get right away... turns out that to him it sounds too much like nádegas, or buttocks)
Gavina

The most absurd suggestion thus far:

Petunia Pansy

My fave of the day: Liliana

And if he doesn't go for that: Emilia, after my great-grandmother.