Well my name is Angela Nicole Sain. I have kind of a heartwarming story of how I got my name. Let’s go back to 1987! My mother already had a son but she really wanted a little girl. She tried for a long time without any luck. That is when she starting going to doctors to try harder. Since she was an older woman, 36, the doctors told my mother, after all the money she spent, that she could not have anymore children. My mom was heartbroken after hearing the news. My parents decided to take a trip to Virginia in October 1997. In December 1997, my mother starting getting sick and gaining weight. She got a surprise when she found out she was pregnant, with me of course! She was so excited she started buying everything for a girl, not knowing the sex for sure because I had my legs crossed. I was always the first one on the carpet cris-cross applesauce in school, now I know why! Well I popped out July 17, 1988 and my mom named me Angela so she could call me Angel because she said I was her miracle baby! Go ahead and say it….AWWWW!!!
That was sweet and all but my parents didn’t put good enough thought to my middle name. I know your thinking, Nicole is a good name. Well think of it this way, Angela N….here it comes…Sain! So now you laugh….Angela NSain…haha. I love my parents but dang they could have bared me the embarrassment. I got picked on so much in school for this and I hated it. I got used to it after a while but I promised myself I would think very very hard before naming my child because I do not want him or her to get picked on like I did.
Another name I hated being called in school was Angelica. I grew up in the rug rats days so everyone called me Angelica and I would get so mad. I would come home complaining about it and my mom would just tell me to ignore it. Well I be if it didn’t work. I ignored being called that and people then stopped calling me Angelica.
I went by Angel in elementary school then Angela in middle and high school. My family still calls me Angel but I like everyone else to call me Angela because it’s more grownup. Ever since I came to college, my new name has became Ang. I like it because it is short and sweet. I don’t really care what my friends call me but I don’t really like being called Angie unless a little kid calls me that because they can’t say Angela.
