Blossoming

I came across this link  http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/   on Mental Floss, and being as I loved the Lord of The Rings trilogy, and I love Hobbits (because they’re nice & they read) I thought, hey this might be fun.  So what you do is you enter your name and it spits out what your Hobbit name would be.  This is my Hobbit name: 

Orangeblossom Bracegirdle of Nobottom

Of course, it’s hilarious!  Especially the Bracegirdle part! 

But I loved the Orangeblossom part…….Orange blossoms are Florida’s state flower, land of sun and warmth….orange blossoms are also delicate and fragrant.  But I was especially pleased by the Orangeblossom part of my Hobbit name, and this is why:

In Glamour magazine, there is a column entitled “Jake:  A Man’s Opinion”.  This column has appeared in the magazine since forever.  ”Jake” is a pseudonym under which different men over the years have written, providing women with their takes on relationships, dating, observations of women, etc….The “Jake” that I’ve been reading for the past few years had a girlfriend whom he talked about in the most glowing terms.  And to protect her anonymity, he called her “Orange Blossoms”.  I could just picture this woman in my mind, quiet, determined, independent, intelligent, in love with her Jake.  He named her Orange Blossoms because he adored her scent.  So Jake would sometimes write about his life with Orange Blossoms, how he was grateful for her, how much he loved her, all that nice fuzzy stuff.  Then one day, Jake announced that Orange Blossoms had broken off with him.  He continued to write the column, but would inject some comment every once in a while about how much he missed this woman.  It was really quite sad, reading it.  I’m not sure how long, but maybe a year or so later, Orange Blossoms came back into Jake’s life, they reconciled and are now getting married. 

The point of this whole thing is to say that whenever I would read Jake’s column, and he would talk about Orange Blossoms, I would think to myself how wonderful it would be to have a man so enraptured and in love with me that he would give me a name related to how much he loved my scent.  So when I saw that my Hobbit name contained Orangeblossom, I was tickled pink…..or orange in this case!  It was a hopeful little sign to my soul, letting me know that maybe one day, I will find myself in that special kind of nurturing relationship, where it’s all mutual:  respect, cherishment (is that a word?), passion, affection, love, support.  The kind of relationship that moves the other person to call me by a special name, attributed only to me…..like Fair Chantal, or something like that. 

As long as it’s not Onion Bunion……

Have fun checking out what your Hobbit name would be, and if you want, come back here to share it.  

Love, Chantal xoxoox