Thanks for the mouse name suggestions. So far I'm leaning towards Pepper and Brock. Darrett's joking suggestion that I name one of them Death flashed me back to high school and I thought this little tidbit of my past would make for an interesting entry especially since my life has been less than interesting lately.

Back in high school, my nickname was "Death." I was one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. War ended up being my roommate for four years in college and she was my maid of honor at my wedding. The last I heard from Famine she was engaged and spending a lot of time in Germany, her fiance's home country. Pestilence fell off the map a couple of years after high school.

Currently the closest thing I have to a nickname is variations of my given name: Jennifer, Jenny, Jenn. Most people who know me call me Jenn. I don't tell people to call me that, the shortening of my name just seems to naturally happen over time. Very few people call me Jenny, but these people are or were closer to me than most. I internally cringe when someone I've just met asks if they can call me Jenny because for me that version of my name is more intimate and affectionate simply out of my own personal history. (Matt seems to be the exception since he calls me Jennifer.)