Day 3: What’s in a name….

(I always seem to be a day late and a dollar short… )

Day 1 – Write some basic things about yourself
Day 2 – 10 likes & dislikes
Day 3 – The meaning behind your Open Diary name
Day 4 – Your day, in great detail
Day 5 – Five places you want to visit and why
Day 6 – What band/musician is most important to you?
Day 7 – Do you read? What are your favorite book?
Day 8 – Pet Peeves
Day 9 – If you could live off of one food and beverage for the rest of your days, what would they be?
Day 10 – Post a picture of your desktop
Day 11 – What is your favorite quote?
Day 12 – Your current relationship, if single discuss how single life is
Day 13 – Three confessions of your choice
Day 14 – Things you want to say to an ex
Day 15 – A photo of someone you fancy at the moment
Day 16 – If the world were to end tomorrow, what would you do with your remaining time on earth?
Day 17 – What do you want to be when you get older?
Day 18 – Name the tv show(s) you have become addicted to
Day 19 – The best thing to happen to you this week
Day 20 – Your definition of love
Day 21 – What kind of person attracts you?
Day 22 – A picture of what you wore today
Day 23 – A letter to someone. Anyone
Day 24 – Would you rather date someone plain with an amazing personality or someone beautiful with a plain personality?
Day 25 – Seven things that cross your mind a lot
Day 26 – How you hope your future will be like
Day 27 – A picture of your handwriting
Day 28 – Do you wish for anything at 11:11? If so, what do you wish for?
Day 29 – Picture of yourself
Day 30 – Anything you want to post

Story behind the name…

Diary Name: I love lilacs. “Under the Lilac Tree” sounded so poetic and a place that seemed natural to want to be and write.
Location: Being a fan of just about everything Pooh, this seemed like a no-brainer.
Pen name: I have caught grief about this one on more than on occasion. Here’s the scoop…When I was in high school, the mother of one of my close friends was very influencial upon me. She was a woman with a tenacious faith. She had the sweetest spirit. She also had breast cancer and lost her battle in the fall of my senior year. Her name was Carol, but everyone called her Daisy.

When I was a freshman in college I took a writing course. We were encouraged to use a pen name so that we could exchange papers and anonymously write critiques for each other. I took Daisy as my first name. At the time I had been dating a young man whose last name everyone sort of assumed I would someday take as my own, Marty. Funny thing was I couldn’t see myself taking that last name because it’s my brother’s name. So any time someone would say Tina Marty, I would look for my sister Julie since that was what I grew up hearing my mother call out, “Tina, Marty, Julie, come for dinner” or whatever…So, I decided to put my middle name with it and daisymarie was born.

Little did I know that there is a pretty prolific porn star with the same name. I didn’t find that out until several years after using daisymarie and I liked it so much I decided she would have to change her name. “)