The Name Game

So I'm completely unoriginal. I'm stealing this idea from Marisa who was inspired by Pam (Congrats again) who is having a baby and thinking of baby names. Phew...glad I got all that out! I wanted to know what my name meant and found this really cool website. http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp. I've always known my name means "princess" because that's what my dad always used to call me and I LOVED it! But I wanted to learn more. Also, having a husband with a very unique name, I wanted to see what I could find out about him. Then, of course, there's my babies from another mama...by pups. The website I found actually looks at your full name and uses numerology as well. Since I have only been Sarah Diaz for .02% of my life so far, I thought I'd look at both my maiden and married names.

Sarah Marie Thompson

What your first name means:
Muslim: Female: Variant of Sara: Pure. Happy.
Hebrew: Female: Princess. In the Bible, Sarah was the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. Her name was originally Sarai (quarrelsome), but God commanded that her name be changed to Sarah before the birth of her son.
Biblical: Female: Lady; princess; princess of the multitude

Sarah is the #23 most common female first name
0.508% of females in the US are named sarah.
Around 622300 US females are named sarah!

Number: 6: The characteristics of #6 are: Responsibility, protection, nurturing, community, balance, sympathy.

Inner Dream Number: 4: An Inner Dream number of 4 means: You dream of being a very solid citizen that people can depend upon. You strive for organization and predictable order. You want to be recognized as a person with a plan and the discipline to make that plan work like clockwork.

Sarah Marie Diaz

Number: 7: The characteristics of #7 are: Analysis, understanding, knowledge, awareness, studious, meditating.

Inner Dream Number: 7: An Inner Dream number of 7 means: You dream of having the opportunity to read, study, and shut yourself off from worldly distractions. You can see yourself as a teacher, mystic, or ecclesiastic, spending your life in the pursuit of knowledge and learning.

Deo Daniel Diaz, Junior

The meaning of the name Deo is Godlike
The origin of the name Deo is Greek

Deo is a very rare male first name
Very few male first names in the US are deo.
Be proud of your unique first name!

Number: 7: The characteristics of #7 are: Analysis, understanding, knowledge, awareness, studious, meditating.

Inner Dream Number: 7: An Inner Dream number of 7 means: You dream of having the opportunity to read, study, and shut yourself off from worldly distractions. You can see yourself as a teacher, mystic, or ecclesiastic, spending your life in the pursuit of knowledge and learning.

Hannah Thompson (she had my last name before Deo and I were married)

What your first name means:
Hebrew: Female: Favour or grace. God has favoured me. Mother of the prophet Samuel in the Old Testament.
English: Female: Favor; grace. Biblical mother of the prophet Samuel.
Biblical: Female: Gracious; merciful; one who gives.

Hannah is the #367 most common female first name.
0.045% of females in the US are named hannah.
Around 55125 US females are named hannah!

Number: 4: The characteristics of #4 are: A foundation, order, service, struggle against limits, steady growth.

Inner Dream Number: 8: An Inner Dream number of 8 means: You dream of success in the business or political world, of power and control of large material endeavors. You crave authority and recognition of executive skills. Your secret self may have very strong desire to become an entrepreneur.

Toby Diaz

Shakespearean: Male: 'Twelfth Night', also called 'What You Will' Sir Toby Belch, uncle of Olivia.
Hebrew: Male: Diminutive of Tobias: The Lord is good.
English: Male: Abbreviation of the Hebrew name Tobiah meaning 'Jah is good.'.

Toby is the #483 most common male first name.
0.019% of males in the US are named toby.
Around 23275 US males are named toby!

Number: 3: The characteristics of #3 are: Expression, verbalization, socialization, the arts, the joy of living.

Inner Dream Number: 5: An Inner Dream number of 5 means: You dream of being totally free and unrestrained by responsibility. You see yourself conversing and mingling with the natives in many nations, living for adventure and life experiences. You imagine what you might accomplished.

Camera Klutz No More..for now

As you can see...I returned from Ohio, camera in hand!!!

The Truth About Cats and Dogs

Perception is reality. Deo and I were sharing dinner one evening with some friends. We were having a thrilling discussion on which character from a movie best represents who we think we are. After hearing some really good comparisons I jokingly said, "I think I'm Janeane Garofalo from The Truth About Cats and Dogs." After hearing a couple of snickers someone said, "I can TOTALLY see that!" I guess when I'm going for a completely ironic comparison, I should pick someone a little more less like me. Maybe I should have said Uma Thurman instead and that would have evoked more laughter!

Sarah's Bachelorette Weekend

The Bachelorette Girls outside of Biddies

So a few weekends ago I traveled to Columbus, OH for my best friend's (whom I'm the matron of honor for in her wedding) bachelorette weekend. It started off with her Bridal Shower at Biddies Coach House, which is this cute little tea house that had real old "biddies" serving tea and bite sized sandwiches. I got to meet a lot of Sarah's family and friends that I have never met before which was nice. Her family is super warm and welcoming and made me feel like I was at home. We only played one game, which I think may have upset some people that there were no toilet paper brides. Prior to the shower, I called the soon-to-be-husband, Derek, and asked him a series of questions that Sarah had to guess his answer to. To give an example of how it went, I asked Derek, "If Sarah was a color, what color would she be?" Each table of guests had to give their answer to give Sarah some hints as to what Derek may have said, and then Sarah had to choose. Most of the tables said Sarah would be blue, which I completely agree with. Sarah thought Derek would say green. Well, Derek actually said, "pink, because she's a girl." He's very insightful! It was a cute game that brought a lot of laughs and I have to give credit to my sister-in-law who did this for me at my shower and is where I got the idea from.

The Bride-To-Be and myself

After her shower, we headed back to the hotel and got ready for our dance class. But not just any dance class...an exotic dance class! Ten of us girls all learned the ins and outs of exotic movements, how to give a lap dance, and event worked on the pole for a bit (think Carmen Electra Strip-Aerobics). Everyone was a bit nervous at first, but it was a great ice-breaker as most of us didn't know each other. It ended up being a good bonding experience and so much fun! If you ever get the chance to do this, please do! And its a GREAT workout. We were all SO sore the next day! Two highlights of the 90 minute class: 1) When the teacher (who was a former stripper) told us, "That's what it looks like when my 8 year old daughter climbs the pole." and 2) When Emily climbed all the way to the top of the pole after our teacher told us we wouldn't be able to with pants on. YA!

Sarah being very shy!

Emily showing our teacher how to climb the pole

The day ended with VIP at BOMA (Bar of Modern Art) which was actually an old church converted to a dance club. Raised a Catholic, I felt very guilty drinking our screw drivers in there, but it didn't really stop me! Overall, the weekend was a blast! Her law-school friends are awesome and I can't wait to see them all again in May for the wedding. I've been friends with Sarah since pre-school; I love her, am so happy for her and Derek, and am so happy to be a part of their wedding!

Camera Klutz

Let me start from the beginning...which was way before our wedding. Deo and I had really wanted to purchase a cool new camera for our wedding and honeymoon. So after research and looking online, we decided to go with this really cook Sony touch screen. After about a few weeks, we took the camera to a UA football game. During the game, I got so excited during a touchdown that I dropped the camera and it fell all the way underneath the stands. The camera appeared to be fine but then when we tried to turn it on, it would turn on but the scope would not extend. At this point, it was only a couple months before our wedding. I thought it would take too long to send it in to get fixed but we really needed a camera. So we though that we would purchase another camera while trying to get the other one fixed, and then return the new one when the other one came back (I know, very dishonest and it ended up biting us the butt anyways...can we say karma?). Anyways, so we bought a new one. I brought the new camera with me to Vegas when some work buddies decided to plan a quick girls/bachelorette weekend. Long story short, I ended up dropping my purse in a the Luxor and loosing the new camera! It pretty much ruined my night as as I tried to frantically find it for the rest of the trip (called club, asked bouncers, asked people in the club). It sucked! So not only did we loose the option of returned the camera, we didn't have a good camera for the wedding or our honeymoon. Anyways, Deo finally got around to sending in the broken camera and they fixed it in like 3 weeks for free and we just got it back yesterday...working just like new. I'm so excited to have our camera back and there was even some fun pictures saved on it from the football game when I broke it. Oh, and I forgot to mention that in the mean time, I had also dropped the office's brand new camera and broke the cover to the batteries. I'm such a camera klutz and need to be extra careful as I take the fixed camera to Ohio next weekend from my best friend's bridal shower and bachelorette party. Part of me can't believe Deo is even letting me take it!!!