Lola's name
So where the story of where Lola got her name from is pretty short and sweet. Krystal picked it out of a baby book along with 50 or so other names. Eric got a shot at filtering which probably got us down to 20-25 names. Now at this point they were just candidates, we sort of progressively add more names to the list as we come up with them, the candidate list was at least 15-20 strong at any given time. But it was time to choose, and what better way than to let Raina decide!! Raina was quick to rule out names like Isabella by saying "She can't be my sister, she is already in the 5 year old room" - which in the end was fine, our strategy all along was to pick a name not frequented often. So after outright eliminating some, Raina chose her favorite - Lola.
One other name we seriously thought about for a bit was Kara. But the deck was somewhat stacked against it from the start. First of all, the middle name that Krystal suggested to go with it was Lee (although her prefered spelling was Leigh, but it didn't seem right for some reason). It sounded nice and all . . . well too nice in fact. And then Eric chimed in in song "Nobody doesn't like Kara Lee!!!" (side note: astonishingly enough, both Krystal and Eric lived 25 years in this world convinced that the slogan was "Nobody does it like Sara Lee". And then to our horror, one day we were watching TV and they wrote the slogan up on the screen. We both looked at each other in shock and confusion - and we honestly pondered whether they had changed it at some point) Anyway, the name Kara was immediately scarred with its implicit association with bread. Furthermore, Eric came up with the name whilst playing and obsessing over the board game "Battlestar Gallactica" The inspiration was "Kara is a nice name" not a "Hey lets name our kid after that Kara Thrace character" - but none the less it was further tainted once Eric realized that thats the honest story of where the name came from. Then to make matters worse Kara and Lee being together has some even more disturbing meanings in the Gallactica world as Lee is yet another character who happened to be romantically involved with Kara. AH! So we axed it!
One other name we seriously thought about for a bit was Kara. But the deck was somewhat stacked against it from the start. First of all, the middle name that Krystal suggested to go with it was Lee (although her prefered spelling was Leigh, but it didn't seem right for some reason). It sounded nice and all . . . well too nice in fact. And then Eric chimed in in song "Nobody doesn't like Kara Lee!!!" (side note: astonishingly enough, both Krystal and Eric lived 25 years in this world convinced that the slogan was "Nobody does it like Sara Lee". And then to our horror, one day we were watching TV and they wrote the slogan up on the screen. We both looked at each other in shock and confusion - and we honestly pondered whether they had changed it at some point) Anyway, the name Kara was immediately scarred with its implicit association with bread. Furthermore, Eric came up with the name whilst playing and obsessing over the board game "Battlestar Gallactica" The inspiration was "Kara is a nice name" not a "Hey lets name our kid after that Kara Thrace character" - but none the less it was further tainted once Eric realized that thats the honest story of where the name came from. Then to make matters worse Kara and Lee being together has some even more disturbing meanings in the Gallactica world as Lee is yet another character who happened to be romantically involved with Kara. AH! So we axed it!
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