Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

So. Haven't felt like blogging lately. Guess you've gotten used to that. Not much to say really. One or two things of note I guess but I can't be bothered to write them out now. Well, one important thing. Last time I wrote my dog was called Saskia. I forget. Did I mention I didn't like the name. I'm not fond of it anyway (my apologies to any Saskia's out there) but as a name for a dog I think it's pretty bad. Three syllables. SAS-KI-A. Just doesn't sound right. It's too long. Mum asked a while ago when I raised the possibility of renaming her, "what would we have called her if we'd bought her?" Absolutely irrelevant. We wouldn't have bought her. We wouldn't have bought a dog. Even if we did it wouldn't have been a big dog. Even if we did it wouldn't have been a *****. There is no way we would have picked out this dog. When we got her I nicknamed her Ki after her middle syllable (I called her sister, Sasha, Sa-chan so Saskia became Ki-chan). Since then I've expanded the name. Now her name is Yuki. Snow. It just fits nicely. She is a snow dog and she responds to the Ki sound when I call her so now my dog is called Yuki. YU-KI. Two syllables. The perfect number for a pet name. All of our pets had two syllable names (except the hamsters but I didn't have to call their names in the park now did I).
So my dog is now called Yuki. She has three nicknames based on this new name. Yu. Ki. and Yu-yu.
Some of her other nicknames have included;
Sas
Sask
Kia
Satan's dog
Pudding dog
Pasta dog
Pizza dog
Silky fur
Poo beast
Fart beast
Slobber dog
Princess
Little *****
Yui
Snow cow
I have to admit, I find call calling her Yu and Yui quite comfortable and she responds to the name. Only trouble is when I introduce her Yuki doesn't always come out clearly and sounds more like yugi. Considering I'm 23 years old English and from a considerably English heritage (I say considerably because you never know. No one ever said all of my ancestors were English, just the ones I know about) I can't always speak clearly. It really bugs me. 'L' in particular is tricky. It has a habit of coming out kind of slurred I guess and an 'SL' sound is the worst. I think part of it at least is from when I spent all that time in my teens not talking to people. Guess I need to exercise my jaw muscles more for a start. I guess it also doesn't help that I don't have a regional accent. I kind of made mine up after the whole not talking period, when I tried to say squirrel to myself once and it came out squirl. Another thing that doesn't help when I introduce the dog as Yuki is that most people aren't anime fans like me so they don't get it (I would've said otaku but I don't quite consider myself one yet, I aim to be one day though ). When I introduce her I just say Yuki and if clarification is needed I add it means snow. She's a snow dog and people generally leave it at that. When mum introduces her she adds it means snow in Japanese. I don't tend to bother with that. Most people aren't interested in what language I name my dog. They only ask her name as a courtesy anyway.
Ah, I forgot. I was going to write about a fun dream I had but got sidetracked by the dog. Never mind. Maybe I'll write about it another time.
Bluebiird out.