Why am I called MT?

Why am I called MT? Actually it's my kids and their friends who call me MT. It stands for Mother Theresa. I have this way of being a care taker so it was a pretty natural fit. I've been called it a lot in my life. That and the obvious... it's my name and I am a mom.

So what's in a name? Growing up my family used to call me TC for Top Cat. Not really sure how that came about. I can't for the life of me figure out how I related to the cartoon character of a cat who hung out in garbage cans. Maybe it was a premonition because my initials did become TC when I married and my co-workers in high tech always called me TC or just T. My first work IM name was Tester T.

So I went from TC, to TR, to TC again. Then TB or just T. The T is probably laziness on my part. Who wants to type Theresa all the time? Nobody can ever spell it anyway.

Most people are sticklers for making people spell their names correctly. Not me. When I give my name to someone who's writing it down, I just go with what they repeat back to me. I don't bother correcting them. It's fun to see how many different ways my name comes across in junk mail.

Thanks to the government my original middle name got replaced with my maiden name. I never could get it straightened out with all the places that mattered so when I remarried I changed my name legally to reflect it. Years later I still can't get everyone on the same page. I guess it's due to my apathy about spelling my name so I'll just go ahead and chock it up to Karmic Kismet.