So I was born what I thought (and still do mostly) not so many years ago. Blah blah blah - in a hospital, something like 9:30am which was entirely misleading as I am one to sleep all day if allowed. My mom and dad had a name picked out, and since my name is on the surface pretty average - i guess the way it all turned out seems a bit odd.
Some people have great stories about how they got their name. "My great great great uncle's brothers cousin was saved by a mysterious woman after a freak horse and buggy accident. They fell in love and were married and I was named after her."
Okay - whatever.
Here's the real deal on how I got my name. My mom was - get this - obsessed with soap operas (not to be stereotypical, because if i were a stay at home mom, you bet i would be tuning into Guiding Light every Tuesday at 10am.....what?). And so there was this character on there, yes, on Guiding Light, that was some evil German woman named Andrea. So my mom decided to name me after an evil character on a daytime soap opera. She told me she liked the way they pronounced it. So let's all say it together (don't worry - you aren't the first to get it wrong):
Anne-Drey-Uh.
Just to make sure you know just how unemotional the naming of me was - my middle name is Nicole - yup. You guessed it Guiding Light fans, from the infamous Nikki and Victor couple.
So after a few years out of the womb, no one ever said my name right. So I was constantly correcting people (well of course, once i could talk). So my mom just decided one day when i was in first or second grade that we would "henceforth spell my name with an accent over the e."
Okay so let's try it again.
Andr(okay imagine the e with a little accent on top of it)a.
This just goes to show how the accent over the e was and has been helpful since so many computers programs let you put unique characters on the page. Then when they do - you send something to someone and they get gibberish because the character didn't get translated correctly.
When i moved in elementary school, I debated just going by my middle name. I figured that might be easier. But i couldn't imagine being called Nicole. What i really wanted to be named was Page (yes, like mother like daughter - from Knots Landing, that young little vixon Nicholette Sheradan... funny that her real name was more like Nicole...guess she wanted to be somebody else too!). But either way - I did nothing and when we moved, i continued the tradition of correcting people on my name.
So - to make everything easier, everyone just calls me Dre.
"What was that?"
"Oh, yes, that's right - haha you are so funny and i've never heard that joke before! So clever!"
"Like Dr. Dre?"
No - I'm the OTHER dre.
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