Archive for 2006

Purrrrrl’s name was originally Pearl, but her loud motor and key use of it caused us to change the spelling of her name. She also has a lot of energy, which tends to annoy Sosta and Mitad. And, she can steal anything. When she was a kitten, we even caught her trying to steal pieces of chicken that weighed bigger than her!

Mitad means half price in Spanish (where the accent is on the 2nd syllable and the d is silent). We adopoted her on Cinco de Mayo, 2001 during the animal shelter’s half-price adopt-a-thon. We moved the accent and place it on the i to pronounce it ‘MEE ta’ instead of ‘mee TAAH.’. The d is silent in both the her name and in the word.
Intrepido means fearless. Very little scares her.
She has earned many nick names. The most telling of which is ‘MY Way Mitad’.

Sosta (long o sound) means ‘stopover’ in Italian. She used to stop over at Lori’s apartment every night at 8:30.
Themis is the patron goddess of Zeta Tau Alpha and she is the goddess of law and justice. As a big sister to Mitad, that name is quite fitting. When it comes down to it, Sosta is boss!

Lori’s name is taken from her father’s. He was Larry Dean Salter.
Thus, she became Lori Deana.
(so, it’s dEEEna and not de-ANNA)

Officially:

Lori Deana Salter Luza

Some Others:

Lori Deana Luza

Lori Salter Luza

Lori Deana Salter-Luza

Lori Salter-Luza

Deana Luza

Lori Salter

     
Emil is named after his two grandfathers: Emil Fojtik and Vincent Luza.

Lori & Emil finally have a new blog!

We hope that this makes web updates easier so that we will be willing to do them more often!