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Let's do something fun! Everybody on allnurses.com has a very interesting and unique username. What is the back story of your username? Mine is just like it states, "Life's a Journey!"
My former user name was AreWeThereYet. When I first joined allnurses, my main topic of interest was the distance learning program I was working my way through. It seemed all of us posters on this subject had this journey in common and this goal at the time - graduating from the program. Thus the name AreWeThereYet. At some point I had trouble logging into my account and thought that if I changed user names and login info it would help (which it didn't - though I finally got the problem straightened out with the help of allnurses tech folks). That's how I ended up with Grapenut. I happened to be eating some wonderfully sweet grapes as I was working on this and I'm not very good at thinking up user names.
My family likes Star Trek. My kids and I used to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. Anyway, one of our favorite alien species was the Ferengi. The name "Moogie" is an affectionate nickname given to Ferengi females, usually mothers or wives, but most Trekkers associate it with Quark and Rom's mother, Ishka, who was the first Ferengi feminist and the Grand Nagus' lover (later his wife).
Luckily I married a Star Trek fanatic. My husband knows my username and thinks it's funny when I call him the Grand Nagus, but he really likes the Klingons more than the Ferengi.
I worked for GM for 21 years. I had always aspired to finish college (I was pre-med in 1986 for 1 year, but it didn't work out with my family--long story), but I stayed with GM until my son was in high school because the hours and wages were predictable and he was my priority. I finally quit GM in 1998, but didn't end up back in college until 2001, and finally graduated in 2007 after changing majors twice.
When I joined allnurses, I couldn't think of anything too creative right away but needed something quickly, hence GM2RN.
FluffyEwe
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Mine is FluffyEwe, inspired by a sweatshirt I saw many years ago. It had a picture of a sheep, with the words, "Ewe's not fat, Ewe's fluffy"