Happy New Year!

[perennialanna]

Not quite here yet, but I am on the point of retiring to bed with something coldish-feverish-achy-and-foul.C is picking up the children straight after breakfast tomorrow, the house is full of food, I can stay in bed for two days, which might just make the difference between a bug I get over fast and one that drags on and on and on for another whole half term.
 
And Happy New Name!

Sillymouse was chosen in a hurry a long time ago, and to be honest I felt rather like an easily confused rodent at the time. But it increasingly failed to fit what was happening and who I was turning out to be, so the time was ripe for a change to something a bit more enduring (perennial, in fact, like the bloody bindweed). After all, the first half of my name is "Vivi", and that means life, enduring life. Anna because the second half of my name is "enne", and I've always taken a slightly slapdash approach to vowels. So that's how my brain works.

Comments

[mme_hardy]

Aha! I had wondered "why am I tracking this user unknown to me?"

Happy New Year for you!

[commodorified]

I saw her over at 's and promptly said "what, how am I not following this person?" And clicked through to do so. AAAAAND here we are. :-)

[perennialanna]

I've been this handle on Twitter for a while, but that has my own actual face attached for ease of recognition.

[commodorified]

Let us be honest, brains are not my strong suit. :-)

[perennialanna]

Yeah, and it's not like you've had anything else going on at all...

[commodorified]

<3 Bear of Very Little Memory, that’s me.

[nineveh_uk]

Enjoy inhabiting your new name! Hope the couple of days of quiet can defeat the bug.

[lilliburlero]

Happy new name!

Commiserations on the bug -- I'm just starting to get over a similar one -- and a swift recovery!

[perennialanna]

It turns out that when I get actual rest and go back to bed properly, rather than the intention of rest punctuated by "MUMMYYYYYYY!" emergencies every fifteen minutes, I recover faster. I think now it's a fairly standard cold but I was utterly worn out.

[coughingbear]

Ooh, just seen the new name - that’s lovely!

[perennialanna]

Thank you!

I changed to Perennial Anna on Twitter a while ago, with the vague thought that now I have an employer I might not want to be immediately googleable (and besides, one day I might want my actual name for freelancing). I've had quite a lot of pseudonyms in quite a lot of places over the years, and this is the one I like best.