7.29.2009

namings

most popular names for babies in 2008:




most popular names for babies in 1888:



i hope minnie makes a comeback.
or at least, fuck madison, right?

also, this is alyssum:


whenever anyone asks where my names comes from, i answer as honestly as the information that my mother has provided me - the television, little house on the prairie, to be exact. turns out it's really from this purple flower. when i looked up michael's name, the website asked me -

"who is like God?"

apparently "michael" is the leader of heaven's armies and thusly considered the patron saint of soldiers.

mmhmm, just as as i suspected - an angel