wait... we've been spelling our name...wrong?

since i was thinking about Uncle Stephen last night, i started thinking about something else as well. you see, when we where looking for his birth certificate we also found my grandpa's. and on that we found something none of us knew before that day. our last name was originally spelled:
"Babjak"
now say what?! none of us new this, not even my dad. on my uncles certificate (he was the oldest) it was spelled "Babyak". so know we where just wondering, when did it change? we kept looking through papers and found ones from when my grandpa was in the Army. there the spelling suddenly changed to "Babyak". now talk about a odd discovery right? i'm half Slovakian by the way (my dad's full), and it's not pronounced baby-yak or baby-ak, its bab - yak. most people never say it right. i couldn't count how many times i've told telemarketers that no, nobody named baby-yak lives here. (it's kinda fun to mess with them a bit) in fact, for awhile one of my doctors actually had my last name down as "babybak" that one was funny.

name's are sorta funny things if you think about it, you could be named after someone, you could hate your name, you could get one that nobody can say, or like me, you could accidentally be named 1) the most common girls name for the year you where born and 2) accidentally the same as a girl in a  popular children's book.
you see, my name isn't legally spelled emilie, it's really emily. (i plan on changing that soon) but i've used the ie ending since i was 11.
but the funny part is my middle name, elizabeth. put them together. now, if you've figured out what book that name is from, i applaud you.
for everyone else. its Clifford the Big Red Dog.
they all start off with, "hi, my name's Emily Elizabeth, and this is my dog, Clifford."
now, i couldn't even begin to count the time's i've heard "LIKE CLIFFORD!!!!" when people find out my name. or the amount of time's i've been asked if it was on purpose. (no, it wasn't) but oh well, i like my name, even if i often get confused with a girl who owns a 50 foot red dog.

i actually do have a redish dog, but her name is Faith. and she isn't that big at all =]

random fact:
even though i have a ton of pairs of shoes, i hate actually wearing shoes.
until next time
emilie