So most of you, hopefully, fingers crossed know my name is SaUndra. For some reason there is a mystery surrounding my name. There is this amazing short term and long term memory confusion.
What am I talking about...well..I tell people my name is Sondra...10 seconds later I hear, “oh hey, Sandra…” (short term confusion). People this is not okay, it is NOT interchangeable. If your name is Dan can I call you Don? You would correct me, right? This would not be the same name, right?
And then there are those who have met me, understood my name, and referred to me by the correct name before, call me Shauna (long term memory confusion). What!? Seriously, I am not making this up, my boss left me a post-it once addressed to Shauna, the RS President who called me to my calling, while playing a get to know you game, when someone didn't know my name, got really excited and said, I know, I know, that's Shauna, (all I could think was, great, now a room of 100 girls will remember my name is Shauna) a guy I have known for a couple of years now called me Shauna a couple of days ago. Growing up we would get pencils every year from our grandparents with our names on them, every year mine said Sandra Lamb. Bless my Grandpa Lamb's heart he never did call me Saundra.
As a side note, my mom told that she wanted to name me Shauna, but my dad did not like it, so they chose Saundra. My dad, being the jokester that he is calls me Scoundra, Sandra…whatever your name is He’s a teaser, that one!
Shaunna is a great name, Sandra is a great name...unfortunately for me, neither is my name! Besides, what is so wrong with Saundra!!!
