Harriet??

Good morning! Nothing exciting has happened today, but I wanted to share another story from yesterday. For those of you who don't know, I recently purchased a new car! Hurray! Thus, dear Bertha, my sweet, aging minivan went back to live at my parents house. If you don't know Bertha, you are missing out. She is pretty much the seventh member of my family and the day she leaves us will be quite sad. However, Bertha was not always Bertha. In high school, after countless nights of driving around town in the minivan, my crazy friends officially named her and this is how she has been referred to since.

Now, having a new vehicle, people (namely my father) have been asking me, "What's her name? Have you named her yet?! Maybe it could be this...or this..." Well, I have not. In fact, I have been avoiding giving her name, as I truly believe the name will come to the car (if that makes any sense), which brings me to yesterday. I was driving along and...BOOM!!! It came to me - HARRIET. I'm laughing as I type that because the name seems a little ridiculous, but if you've seen my car it's a small, dark gray, SUV. I like to think of it as sophisticated, under-stated, reliable and cute. In many ways, I feel the name Harriet embodies all of those characteristics. Then again, the name Harriet (if you have friends like mine...cough cough MACK) leads to nicknames like Harry, and that definitely does not seem appropriate for my new car. Thoughts? Opinions? Back to the drawing-board?