Answer to poll question #2

For those of you that voted Abby on ‘Which sister sometimes goes by the nickname Nugget”….ding ding ding ding!!!! You voted correctly :)

The McGuire Sisters Tutorial: How to get an awesome nickname

Rule 1: You have to have cool friends

Rule 2: In order to have cool friends, you have to be cool

(Apparently The McGuire Sisters learned how to follow the first rule. The second is still a work in progress :P)

I didn’t follow the rules either but somehow my best college guy friend nicknamed me Nugget, it stuck.

It started as McNugget. No, not the ones from McDonalds. That’s gross. And generally are followed by heart attacks, clogged arteries and overall bad health #healthtipoftheday

His name is Seth. We were both on our college club tennis team. It was an unlikely friendship. Seth being a go with the flow, “peace, dude”, art student with long hair and me being…well…me. Let’s just call it Type A. I had to have a plan for everything, be on time or early for things, rarely skipped class, everyone had to get along, etc.

Over the two years we were on the team together, our friendship grew. We frequented a local restaurant and would sit for hours at a time talking about life, religion, relationships and I’m sure MANY other topics. We certainly did not always agree, and that was ok.

He was like a brother, but we never got mad at each other. It was like the unspoken rule of ‘agree to disagree’.

I think I credit Seth for bringing me out of my shell a bit. People don’t always agree or get along. I don’t always have to go to class (this one may not have been the best one…ha), and don’t write people off because they are different than you. And it’s all ok.

To sum it up: everyone is special in their own way (as mom would say), and anyone can have a cool nickname regardless of their placement on the Cool Scale determined by society which is absolutely ridiculous and should generally be ignored.

Happy December!

Abby