LJ Name Meme

[eyesthatslay]

I've been tagged by julielu, so here goes. :)

Explain your livejournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name. 

Not too exciting, but here goes! I began using eyesthatslay when I first came into the BtVS fandom. I wanted "slay" somewhere in my name to allude to The Slayer, and I wanted something to do with "eyes", as I think they are the windows the soul, and show so much of a person. So I came up with "eyesthatslay". Which is good and all that, but you'd be surprised how many people misspell it as "eyesthatlay" which sounds so lame. (i.e. old indian word for eyes-that-got-tired-and-had-to-rest) :P

I hereby tag everyone on my flist that hasn't done this meme. You can even post here, and tell your name stories...I'd love to hear them! :)

Comments

[bcsmurfettegirl.livejournal.com]

hmm. my names not that intresting to hear bout lol, its just my school, and my pledge name and the fact that i'ma girl ;)
my other lj name was mandyswhore and thats because my friend is named mandy and we have a joke hehe

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I think your username is cute, lol. :)

Thanks for sharing!

[fishsanwitt]

My name is actually my name (or names) fish (my first marriage) san (my second marriage) witt (my maiden name :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered the meaning of your name! Neat! Thanks for sharing. :D

LJ name

[feria73.livejournal.com]

Mine's not that original....Clairol hair coloring that I was using at the time I started LiveJournal Feria73 was that red color I used, but after the first application....they discontinued the color! Then, I had to go to the next lighter ;-)

Re: LJ name

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I love the way you came up with your name! Thanks for sharing. :D

[mermaids-tears.livejournal.com]

I've always been in love with the ocean. Mermaids tears is another name for sea glass.

It starts out as useless, discarded glass. After being battered in the waves for many years, it comes to rest on the sand, all worn, yet beautiful, sparkling as a jewel. I use this as an analogy of my own life, feeling useless and broken before Christ, and as a sparkling jewel after accepting Him as my Savior. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I knew when you changed your user name, that it had to do with sea glass. I think that is beautiful. Thank you for sharing and for the wonderful way you expressed it! God is good indeed! :D

[julielu.livejournal.com]

I figured it was something to do with BtVS, but wanted to know for sure, since I love your LJ name! :D I've seen the error "eyesthatlay" and I must say I crack up whenever I see it, while at the same time, stamping my foot for you and wishing they had gotten it right! Thanks!

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Lol, I do a *facepalm* everytime I see it misspelled. I usually let it go, but sometimes it get misspelled at awards sites, and I just have to pipe up then! :D

[aellwynde.livejournal.com]

Mine is pretty simple... it is a nick name from junior high. No one still calls me Carrot anymore, but it is a happy sort of a memory for me.

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Aww, that is sweet. Thank you for sharing. :)

[sandy-s.livejournal.com]

I love how you got your username...it's so creative! :o)

Hmm...mine's really boring, but I do have a story. When I started writing fanfiction, I wanted to use my first name, but there was already a Sandy who was writing at the time. So, I thought...okay, Sandra. But there was Sandra S., so I decided that I would use a combo...Sandy S. Hence, the lj username, too. :o)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Lol, I'm glad you like it, I've always thought it was kind of dorky! :D

I like your name! It's completely YOU! *huggles*

Thanks for sharing, hon. :)

[heatherrae.livejournal.com]

Mine's boring.

It's just my first and middle names - Heather Rae.

It's been my online nick for as long as I can remember. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

You have a beautiful name! Thank you for sharing. :)

[deyvra.livejournal.com]

The story behind your lj name was cool; I like it! My lj name is the first 2 letters of my first name, the first 2 letters of my middle name, and the first 2 letters of my last name! DE-YV-RA=DEYVRA, ta-da!!

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I like how you did that! Thanks for sharing. :)

[elisi]

you'd be surprised how many people misspell it as "eyesthatlay" which sounds so lame. (i.e. old indian word for eyes-that-got-tired-and-had-to-rest) :P
I never saw it like that - to me it always had Spike-ish connotations. I mean the way he looks at Buffy mid-S6 - his are eyes that lay! *g*

Anyway I've always loved your usename - it's very pretty and clever.

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Lol, yep...his eyes always got Buffy to lay didn't they? Hee. :)

Thank you, hon. :)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

I've always thought it a lovely name and I'm pleased to discover that my musings on it's origin were actually pretty darn close.

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yep, not too much imagination coming up with mine! :D

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

Mine is boring too. The first time I was asked to create a user name, I was stumped as to what to pick. Desperately trying to think of one, I looked on my bookshelves for inspiration and the first book I saw was The Hobbit. So hobbit it was. It could have been Lolita, Faro's Daughter or Dragonflight. But no, hobbit.

Then, when I wanted an LJ account, hobbit was taken. So I added UK on the end (as in hobbit from the UK) and there you go.

Told you - boring!

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I love your name! I think it is perfect for you, as I always imagine you gardening or crafting and Hobbits are known for that. :)

Thank you for sharing.

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

I love your lj name story :). Mines pretty boring. I was feeling bitter on the day I changed from my old lj to this, and I guess I'm a pretty cynical person anyway :p, and I love nature and moss. I have a joke with a friend about putting I <3 moss on a t-shirt, which I must do one day...

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

I like your name, and I have a thing for moss too. Hee.

We <3 moss! :D

[allbottledup.livejournal.com]

My lj name came from two different things. There is a song by one of my favorite bands Korn called "Bottled Up Inside" and also that I'm the type of person that keeps my feelings "allbottledup" until I let them come pouring out all at once. I know I shouldn't do that but it just seems to happen that way. :/

Anyway, I love your lj name and where it derives from. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Thank you! If I took the way you got your name and applied it to me, It would "completely uncorked" Lol. :D

Thank you for sharing, and since you have an LJ, you don't have to keep things bottled up...you can always put your thoughts in your LJ and lock it tight! :)

[bkworm9.livejournal.com]

My name is boring, it was my first-ever AIM screenname. I remember when we made it up (this was when AOL first came out and my sister's friend Sheila was over, helping us figure it out) because I wanted something to do with being a bookworm, except a lot of the names were taken and so they'd offer up suggestions with lots and lots of numbers tacked on the end that didn't mean anything. So finally, I tacked a 9 onto the end of it (I was born on Nov. 9) and it accepted it.

It became my LJ user name because when a friend invited me to LJ, she said she couldn't think me of as anything except "Bkworm9" in the Internet world. So that's what I became.

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I think your user name is cute! I can't imagine using anything but the one I have online either. I've had it for 5 years, and it is part of me now. :)

[bluesdrive.livejournal.com]

I'm horrible at coming up with names, so bluesdrive just came from the Pillow's song "Blues Drive Monster."

I'd only heard the song in Japanese, but looking up the lyrics just now led to a pretty interesting translation of the lyrics. http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/furikuri/bdmonster.htm

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I love your user name. It's so pretty! Thank you for sharing your story. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Slay is a dead giveaway isn't it? Hee.

I like your user name! Thank you for sharing how you came up with it! :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I love that line! "I need a moment with my lady...." *happy sigh* Thank you for sharing how you got your lovely name! :)

[poetlady.livejournal.com]

PoetLady is what a guy I used to date (before my marriage obviously) called me. He always asked to hear my poetry.

It's one of the few nicknames I was ever given and I liked it. We keep in touch through email every few months, he is married and now has triplets.

Maria

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I think you have a lovely and romantic user name, and the story only proves it to be so. :)

Thank you for sharing. :)

[justadancer.livejournal.com]

When I went to create a user name, I didn't want to use my name (because it was too boring) and I couldn't think of anything witty to use. So I went with the simple "just a" and tried out a few different endings before settling on "dancer". It's my little tribute to the thirteen years I spent dancing before I turned all my athletic attention to running. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I think that your user name is so pretty. Thank you for sharing the story behind it!

I only spent 4 years dancing, and it was more than enough! Kudos to you for sticking with it for 13 years. :)

[jerusha]

Oh, that's a good one. I'd always wondered. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Not really an interesting story, but at least I didn't stick my finger in a dictionary or something, lol! :D

[ex-angstchi.livejournal.com]

As per Zarrah's lj:

I took my onscreen name because of the angst from BtVS. I both loved and hated the relationship angst that Joss seemed to get hung on. I realized that I was entertained probably more than I should've been :P

At that time, I identified with the B/A relationship, remembering that time when falling in love and those feelings are "life and death" stuff. There is *nothing* more important that the relationship. Hee. Of course in the real world, you grow up, look back and see just how "dire" it really was and uh, mock yourself. But I remember that time and hence the name. :P

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I've always liked your user name....mostly because I'm grateful you came up with it before your ill-fated (and horribly misguided, I might add) love affair with alpacas. :P

alpacachic. Hee.

[margarita-queen.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that's more interesting than my LJ name!

It's been awhile since weve talked! I hope you're doing well. ^_^

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Lol! Glad you liked it!

I'm doing very well, thank you for asking! I hope you're good too! :D

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I've enjoyed reading the reasons for everyone's LJ name. I've used "electricalumbilical" for most of my online fun, because, believe it or not, it is one name that has never been taken. However, it was too long for LJ, so I had to improvise. "bojojoti" is the first two letters of my husband, myself, son, and daughter's names.

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

Wow! Your first user name is long! Mine is pretty bad too, but easy to break down into the 3 parts. :)

I like how you came up with your name! Plus, I think it's cute too! :)

[annabelle528.livejournal.com]

It's so easy to type your name as eyesthatlay when you're typing quickly! :)

My name story isn't all that exciting. Annabelle is a nickname from high school, and 5/28 is the day Josh and I started dating. :)

[eyesthatslay.livejournal.com]

I always think its so funny how when it is misspelled, its always consistently missing the "S" in slay. Hee. :)

I've always thought your user name was so sweet and feminine. It completely suits you! :)