January 21, 2087
My full name is Norah Lillian Kittredge. My last name comes from my daddy because that's his last name, and that's just how it gets passed down. I don't think that's very fair because it means my mum's last name is all alone and stuff, and I really like my mum's last name too so I wish I had both. Kittredge is okay, though. I like writing it even though it's kind of long, because I make the 'g' all curly with the little loop thing. See? I like writing that. My middle name is Lillian because that's my grandma's name. My mum's mum, I mean. She's French and she lives in France and I go to visit her sometimes except I don't call her Lillian, I just call her gran because who calls there gran by their first name? Not me, that's who. I think Lillian is my favorite of all my names because I like all the 'l's and I like my grandma too so it's all good. My first name is Norah, but everybody knows that. It has some kind of meaning in French too, I think, except I forget what it is. I don't really know why my parents decided to name me that, but I think it's because they just thought it sounded nice. I'm the oldest so it wasn't like they had already used a whole bunch of names and had to settle on one they didn't like as much for me. That wouldn't really be the case, anyways, because I'm the only girl in my family so I wouldn't be competing for names with my brothers anyways.

I like my middle name and my last name is pretty good, but I don't really like 'Norah' as much. Since everybody knows you by your first name, wouldn't it make more sense if you got to pick it out yourself? Then you could be sure that it suited you and stuff. I guess I don't really know what people would call you until you picked one, but somebody much smarter and grown up than me could probably figure that out, right? Right. If I could pick a name I think it would be the name of a flower because I like those, and maybe another middle name that has something to do with sparkles or animals because I really like those and they make me smile and stuff. It'd be really cool if your own name made you smile because then you could be happy all the time! Probably. Marigold is really lucky to have a flower name. Sometimes I think we should swap because she said she likes my name. The one thing I like about my first name is that it has an 'h' at the end, so I think it's kind of special. Not as special as a flower name but that's okay.

I guess something I don't like that much about my name is that I haven't got any nicknames at all. That's sad, I think. My brother's name is Sebastian but I call him Sebby because Sebastian is much too long, but me and my other brother Marcel only have two syllables so we don't really have nicknames. I wonder if there's a rule for nicknames and syllables, because if there is then I think I need to write to the people in charge because that isn't very fair. When he was a baby, my littlest brother (that's Marcel) used to call me 'Nowah' because he couldn't make an 'r' sound. He doesn't do that anymore but I kind of wish he did because it's the closest I've ever had to a nickname. Don't tell anybody I said that, though, because it sounds pretty baby-ish and I'm not a baby anymore.