nicknames

nicknames are a funny thing. and i think we have the best ones in my family. they usually start out as an insult (usually made up by baylor). here is a list of my family's nicknames:

dad- rad
mom- glom
me- cheech, peech, cheechin, and on special occasions, chubby cheech
olivia- plivian, chivian
porter- smeej
baylor- b-bob, chay
cooper- (his are my favorites) ploppin, lint and the blonde

the inspiration for this post came from a text i just got from my dad who i am waiting to get on skype with and he said "i'm waiting for crunchy..." the rest has no part in the story. BUT for those of you who don't know "crunchy" is one of my best friends AND my boyfriends brother, his name is actually carson. and i was just thinking that the evolution of his nickname is by far the best and i think the longest lasting. it started about 3 years ago when he broke his foot and was on crutches and we called him crutchy. we were going through a phase where we were calling everyone with their names starting with ch (hence chiv and cheech.. another evolved nickname story for another day) so it was charson then char-char then then between those and crutchy, crunchy somehow stuck. and my whole family, (including my dad) calls him crunchy. or just crunch.

if you have made it this far, you may be wondering why you wasted time reading this post. and what the point of if was. well, i will tell you. there is no point. just more of my rambling and telling you random things about my family and my life that i find to be humorous.

chubby cheech

i got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. holy ouch! i think the worst part was hearing them break my teeth out... well. that was the worst part until i looked in the mirror this morning. my face looks like it gained 50 pounds overnight!! and i can't open my mouth all the way... and that bothers me for some reason. you may ask why my title is "chubby cheech" well, here at the stevens' residence, i am known as "cheech" i know it sounds nothing like mia but here's how it came along. our family went through a phase where we said everything starting with a ch. so i was "chia" then it was shortened to "chi-chi" then to "ch-ch" then just down to the ch sound. then it somehow moved up to cheech. and it just kind of stuck. anyways.... i had a baby face my 9th and 10th grade years as in, chubby baby face. so my family refers to that time as "chubby cheech". now that my face is all swollen from said wisdom teeth extraction, they are calling me chubby cheech again. lovely.

sidenote: look at what i got yesterday!:)