Making the transition Let’s conduct a little bit of a survey, shall we? But you will need background information first. The other day, Quinn and I were at Brick Oven eating lunch. Obviously, I had the pasta bar with the homemade black pepper fettuccinne. Anyway, we got discussing, as we often do, the changing of my last name. I’m very excited to become Devry DelHoyo because I love the alliteration of it all and think it sounds very cool. But I was telling him, that it will be the switching of the signature that is going to be incredibly hard. So we sat at Brick Oven and he made me practice signing my soon-to-be new name many times. I have this problem that for the last 27+ years of my life, I have signed Devry Arnett and the y and the A are basically melded together in my signature. See picture below.
Anywho, it is practically impossible for me to just move from a y/D combination. About 8 times out of 10, I go automatically into a y/A combination. I told Quinn that I should just pick a symbol and have that be my signature (thanks Steph for the idea!). So how hard was it for all you married ladies out there to change your signature? And Dana, I would especially love to hear your thoughts on it, since pretty much after 5+ years of marriage I’m pretty sure you still sign Dana Arnett and not Dana Brijs. Oops! Did I just out you to your husband!?!?
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I must confess some trouble/lamentation in the switch over. Not that I'm not happy to be a Mayberry. But I had this great sloppy double t that just made me happy to sign my name.
Why not have the best of both worlds and sign as Devry A DelHoyo?
Such petty signature complaints! Now if someone could please explain to me how to convince my wife to stop signing her name with a little flower above her name, THAT would be something...
ld,
That would be a great solution. The only thing is, that I am extremely partial to my middle name Gale so I plan on keeping that and dropping the Arnett. It really is a dilemma.
Dev,
I too was attached to my middle name and dropped Arnett and kept Joy. But I guess I only legally dropped Arnett as my signature is pretty much the same. I did try for about six months but there was no flow to it and it always ended up looking like my old signature. Why fight a classic? Lucky for me my signature isn't legible. But I must thank-you for the delightful conversation I had last night with Ryan about this subject. It was a night of true confessions. I confessed I'd never changed my signature and he confessed that he already knew that but had chosen to remain silent about the fact.
Take on an old saying…you can take the Arnett out of the signature, but you can never take the A.S.S. out of the Arnett.
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Truer words were never spoken.
One must exercise a great deal of commitment and at least a smidgen of sacrifce on this particular issue. I've come up with an Allen I'm pleased with, but not without a conscious effort to forgo my n/R flow,
Devry DelArnettyo. I bring it to your attention that you don't have to legally change your name at all, and had you become engaged to someone with your same last name there wouldn't be a problem. Another option would be to completely change all of your names, after all Lacy Lee, who was named after her famous uncle Jeffrey Lee, changed her name to something hideous. How about Gale DelOise DelHoyo? Or, better yet, since Lee is officially available...how about Devry Lee DelHoyo? It has a certain ring to it. Or just Lee DelHoyo. Or maybe just DelHoyo like the soccer stars in Brazil. No here it is...DevHoyo. Problem solved and your welcome.
Thanks Jeff. I really don't know what I would do without you.
So, it's settled then. DevHoyo
Back to the little pink candy thing, here are some color foil wrapped sites, quite charming really:
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/choconet1/index.html
Foilwrappedchocolates.com.
http://www.plumparty.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Session_ID=bd4b3ace81cc32b0956c4ad1c0426189&Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=Chocolate
Have you thought of doing football ones in honor of Quinn and pretty pink foil lips for you? Or even the little chocolate froggies are good too. Just a thought....
and as far as your name change signature dilemma just make sure you have only your initials printed on your checks (i.e. DG DelHoya) that way when your identity is stolen the sorry gadianton robbers won't know how to sign your first name, thus alerting police and merchants to the crime. Speaking from experience of course. Oh, and don't leave your purse unattended in your car. And don't carry your social security card, either. BE YE NOT SO STUPID.
This is Aunt Candy
Candy, the wrapped footballs is genius. I think I will definitely have to through those in the mix.
Once my dear wife, left her father's car unlocked at the Mesa Temple to take a photo. It was 8 am. She was gone for just 5 minutes. The car was stolen along with her purse, id, tithing money (cash), etc. By 1 pm the car was recovered. All the money was spent, the car was painted with spray paint all over and totally trashed. When the police called us, we went to identify the car and stolen items. They had a suspect in the police car. As we were looking in Pam's fathers car trunk, Chad (who was about 8 at the time) came up to get my attention. I told him to quit bothering us we were busy. He persisted, then finally told the cop the suspect got out of his car and started running down the street. This had nothing to do with name changes other than to take your aunt's advice. Go get em' DevHoyo.
Devry,
Not to minimalize the signing, which I know is very important, but I do hope you realize that you have a much bigger problem. For the rest of your life NO ONE will be able to pronounce your name! So what I think you should be practicing is how to get people to pronounce it! :)
Case in point....the other night I was at a ward dinner and met the VP of Fox Television. Miles and I were standing there and said "oh, you must know George Deloyo (the way we pronounce it with no H). He said, "oh you mean George DelHoyo" totally emphasizing the H! It was hilarious. He knew it was our last name and was correcting us on how to pronounce it! So good luck with that!
Also, signing it is hard. I have always disliked writing capital D's. Ah well.
Heather DelHoyo
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