Who I am.

Everyone is always talking about "what nationality they are" and I never know what to say because I have no idea. I just tell people that I am "Appalachian American" (which is a fancy way to say redneck, for all you city people.) I did a little research and pretty much came up with nothing. My dreaded maiden name was Earl, which I did find is English, but I pretty much figured that much. But what is more interesting is what I found out about my first name.

Whenever I have a job that requires me to wear a name tag, it obviously says McKenzie, my first name. I can't tell you the amount of comments I get on it. "Is that your first name?" "That's a boy's name!" "That's only a last name, not a first name" and so many others. And my favorite, whenever I was being announced for sports or anything it was always "Earl McKenzie" Seriously people, who in their right mind names their DAUGHER Earl? Nobody, that's who.

Anyways, so I was looking up what McKenzie actually meant, and this is what I found.

-The name “McKenzie” is of Scottish origin and it means “Son of the Handsome One”. It’s a name commonly given to boys.
-Son of Kenneth" is the Irish version of the name McKenzie.
-The true Scottish version of "McKenzie" means fair one (as in light colored skin), gentle, soft speaking.

Now I know where the comments come from. Well they got the "whitey" part right. I do have naturally light colored skin. As for the gentle and soft speaking, I guess my mom didn't do her research. I'm a bit of a loud mouth :D

But aside from all the weird comments, and that nobody can spell it right to save their life, I really do love my name. I like that it is unique and different. And I like having a name that not very many other people do (that I know of). Thank god my mom didn't give me a boring name like... Taylor. Ugh, Idk what I would do with that name ;)

I guess from that point of view, I turned out to be everything I wasn't supposed to be. Which is kind of like my life. Sometimes I feel like a walking contradiction, but I'm okay with that, because that's just life :)