So, Topher and I were having this discussion. Well, really, it was a debate. (Because, yep, pretty much any sort of discussion with yours truly becomes a debate.)
You see, I have this habit of turning words and names into silly little things. Cup becomes cupper or cuppy. Computer? Puter. Chips are chippies.
Side note: I'll hand over most credit (applause insert here) for amazing nicknames to my college bestie/roomie Am- she's the queen of nicknames. (She even gave Chris his nickname of Topher freshman year and now, it's pretty much all I call him.)
Hokay, so. I make up funny, weird names for people. For example, le Boomer becomes diddly-poo-boom-boom, or smooshy-wooshy-pooshy-bum. Chris becomes Stopher (nothing comes closer to ho-ome!), Chrispy, Smarsh, Topher, Toe, or even hubbsy-diddles.
Ok, I've never called him hubbsy-diddles, but it'd be awesome if I did.
(Back in college, I had a worse nickname for him. It rhymes ends with -ucker and begins with f-. I was such a wallflower, shrinking violet, shy, shy, shy girl.)
What do I get called in our relationship? Mainly Kate. Or sometimes, if Topher is feeling REALLY adventurous, I get Wife.
So, this discussion. Why can't I have a FUN, crazy, name based nickname? I have seventy million for him, and I get NOTHIN.
It's been two months, and still, nothing.
I want a nickname. (Hear me, Mr. Marsh? A name that nicks part of my current name to create a cuter-but-not-always-shorter term of endearment from you to me!)
Do you and the siggey-other have nick names for each other? Are you spaztastic as I am about giving inanimate objects and non-human things weird names?
I mostly call my other half by his initials "KG" - or Keg, kegger, sometimes beer me - hey, the kid's initials are K.E.G. I blame it on his parents :)
ReplyDeleteWe don't have any creative nicknames for eachother, but we definitely call things by weird names..usually over-emphasized abbreviations. Like, papertowels is always "ptowels" but we'd say "peeeeeeeeeeeetowelzzzzz," heh. Hotdogs = hdawgz. Camera = Camraaahh. Yea...weird. Glad we aren't the only ones.
ReplyDeleteOh my God, my husband and his brothers nickname/shorten EVERYTHING. Christmas = Kritz. Football = foot. Hershey (where we grew up) = The Hersh. You get the drift. And yes, we do have nicknames for each other - he calls me Cheeksie and I call him Monkey.
ReplyDeletelol...I totally do the same thing! Remote becomes mote-mote, flip flops are flippies, my kitchenaid is Mixy...and I call the pup by so many names I think she has an identity crisis! I have a ton of nicknames for the Hubster too..one year for christmas I wrote on the tag for each of his gifts (we get each other a bunch of small things) a different name I have for him from a different nickname he has for me. It was pretty humorous.
ReplyDeleteSean has nicknames for EVERYTHING. Including our dogs, and somehow they seem to know all their new names. When I got back from our most recent trip, the dogs had a new nickname. It's sort of hilarious.
ReplyDeleteAre you available for hire to create nicknames for me?! I think Dave is in need of some new specially-created-by-Kate nicknames... :D
ReplyDeletewe both have a ton of weird names for each other. I most often call him sweets, and he calls me wifey pretty regularly. but we make up new names just about daily that never last very long. Its kind of fun.
ReplyDeleteHe calls me Sweets a lot and I call him...by his name. I like to change words and call inanimate objects weird things, but my choice in nicknames is usually awful. I called a girl weasel in college and it stuck for her remaining three years. Poor Weasel.
ReplyDeleteMy husband only calls me "babe"---not Cathy, Cathleya, or any other word. Just babe. I SWEAR he does this because early in our relationship he accidentally called me "Kelly" (his old girlfriend's name). Naturally, I went apeshit.
ReplyDeleteI call him anything but his name---Poodle, Snoodle, Snood, Chingo, Babs, Cheener Weener. None of these names are based in ANY real words, and I also call my dog by the same nicknames. You can't really tell whether I'm talking to my husband or dog---like it matters, anyway.
Yeah, my hubbers calls me "babe" a lot too. Not because he thinks I'm one (I don't think) but because it's easy and one syllable. I want more creativity!!
ReplyDeleteNO! I don't have a cute nickname. And I have a name that is RIPE for nicknames. I call him sweetie but that's about it because he doesn't get one if I don't!
ReplyDeleteWhen we first started dating my husband's young cousin couldn't say his name, Eric, correctly and always called him "Ick". For whatever reason that name stuck for me and now I almost always call him "Icky" or "Ick". People who overhear this are really confused at why I'm calling my husband Icky...but neither of us think anything of it anymore :-)
ReplyDeleteHmm..I don't think we really have set nick names aside from your typical "hon, babe, etc" and we aren't annoying about it.
ReplyDelete& I call our dog Pupper or Puppers ALL the time :) May have to add cupper into my lingo.
this is adorable! my hubby calls me all sorts of cute, lovey-dovey nicknames and I try to call him fun things, too, but I usually fail and come up with random things like Monkey Butt. I'm creative, but not when it comes to nicknames.
ReplyDeleteSeriously? It's scary and I think we share a brain. So many things in common but I had no idea others gave their hubs nicknames like I did.
ReplyDeleteHe goes by nugget, love nugget, golden nugget, kev, kevy wevy, luv, luvy, noodle, poodle, and many more that are super strange.
My dog, Bodie, he goes by bode-man, bodester, bozey, bozo, pickle, booboo, booboo face.
I have no logical explanation for any of them.
we're pretty boring. any nicknames i have for him sound pretty mean, actually.
ReplyDeleteI give things "nicknames" too.. my laptop is my lappy or comper, always. Dogs are ALWAYS puppies (ok not really creative but that's how I do).
ReplyDeleteI call Scot.. honey bunches of oats if I'm feeling silly. He'll call me sexy butt. Or penguin feet. Oh my gosh such dumb names, hah!