what's in a name?

Chloe is not an abnormal name, it is the number 9 most popular female baby names in the United States and there is even a clothing brand named Chloe. But, between the nicknames I have and the many incorrect ways to spell and say my name I feel like it can be surprising when someone actually calls me Chloe.

When I was born My grandmother called me Cleo for the first two years of my life.  This of course is followed by many teachers pronouncing my name as CH-lo.  The occasional teacher would just give up and call me by my last name.  The worst pronunciation I've heard was Cho-lo.  But pronunciation is one thing spelling is something entirely different.  I have my name spelled Chole possibly more times than it is spelled correctly.  So that led to many of my friends calling me Cho-lay ( you know who you are :P)

But all I have spoken about so far has been my real name I also have more nicknames than I can count.  As a kid my Dad called me cupcake and now my family calls me "cooie".  In high school a friend couldn't pronounce my name and proceeded to call me cloud.  Now in college my name has taken on so many transformations.  It was of course first Chloe, then Hoe-y (this was a bad joke btw), then one day it was snowing so it turned into snowy, then snowball.  Now sometimes its just ball, sometimes Cloball, sometimes bball, sometimes beebs.  I would like to take my dear friends Saida and Jay for most of those nicknames.

Most recently professor for my LDR 410 class let me know that clo means toilet (or bathroom I can't remember) in german so now my blog can be called the toiletball effect
I really do like the name Chloe don't get me wrong, but it can be a lot more trouble than people expect!

P.s. This blog post is much more random and longer than I expected
p.p.s should I actually swich to tumblr?