You’ve heard of “Name That Tune“?
How about “Name That Tree“?!
A dear friend shared with me yesterday that every year they get a real Christmas tree. They have the family tradition of naming the tree. One year it was Bruce the Spruce, another year Ralph. This year their tree’s name is Leviathan. (I asked her to repeat the name like three times over the phone). Yes, Leviathan. You know, the Greek fabled sea monster! (He’s the green freaky guy in the picture.) Do you think there’s much Adultitis in their household this holiday season? It’s hard to be a stressed-out mess when you look over at Leviathan in the corner, showing off his sparkling lights. She shared that her and her kids were lying under the tree the other night having fun recalling all of the different trees who had come and gone over the years.
Our living room was adorned with a plastic tree growing up, so I never took part in such a tradition. We did name our beater cars in high school, though (I miss you Blue Blare!). And, as many Apple users will relate to, Jason and I name all of our computers. We have more Macs than Jason has shoes. (No joke!)
Naming things that really shouldn’t have names is such a fun way to Escape Adulthood. It brings a little unexpected fun into the day.
What typically nameless things have you christened? (Keep it clean!)
[tags] Name That Tune, Christmas trees, Leviathan, Escape Adulthood [/tags]
I used to work at Starbucks. And we named the espresso machines “Vera” and “Mo” because they’re verismo machines. We also named the ice bins, the urns for iced tea and iced coffee and various other things around the store. Most people thought I was nuts. But it was always so much more fun to refer to everything by their new names than their techical ones.
I named my Debit card Debbie. Not very creative but it works and I get a kick out of everyone wondering who Debbie is when im searching through my wallet. I also did the traditional naming of the car. My Jetta’s name is Judy. This is because I was walking to the car one day while it was parked in St. Jude’s parking lot, singing “Hey Jude” and it just made sense. Everyone in my life knows my car’s name and always refers to it as Judy. Its always “Where’s Judy parked?” I love it!
Becky,
Great job making work more fun… I love it!
I also love it when you are having so much fun that others think you are nuts. It’s then that you know you are onto something.
Amanda,
What fun! Debbie AND Judy… two fabulous friends. Let’s face it, life would be much more difficult without them.
Keep having fun in the new year, you two!
We named our Venus fly trap Henry, after a TV character. He died.
The plant, not the character.
Just a quick correction…Leviathan is the sea monster from the Hebrew (the Old Testament in Job chapter 41) not Greek.
Maybe I should name my tree Behemoth. It’s plastic and doesn’t live in the water like Leviathan…although it doesn’t have a tail like a cedar tree…that’s weird for a tree to have a tail like another tree…I digress (Job 40:15-24)
Wait a minute…the kids were laying under Leviathan? Is that safe?!
I’ve always named cars based on the letters in the license plates. We’ve had Debby, Body Parts and others. With one of our cars, we had to renew the license plate, and so the car got renamed based on the new plates: Esther became Pickwick.
great job naming sea dragon Leviathan.
in my eerie days in high schoool we used to ride in a old ford while attending festive and field accassions. the monstor febled up a hill while shaking hence the name shaker.when parents donations bought a new ISUZU bus that shined far behond our division we named it Medussa, , , ,.as the shcool headboy i could announce, “The soccar team will use shaker while the basketball team will use ‘Medussa'”.