change my name for a year

I legally changed my name 30 years ago when I was about to enter religious life. That lasted only six months; but the name stuck and is still my legal name to this day!

was my 1-year anniversary of changing my name. At first, I said that I would change it back. That was before I started a company with the name. Now it would be a little weird to go back. That said, I would like to eventually bring my old name back into the fold… perhaps as middle names. And who knows, I might add a name or two on at some point in the future as well…

I finally got around to renewing my passport with my new name. I just didn’t feel like sending in all this paperwork and waiting weeks and weeks. And so I delayed months and months. But then I decided to just expedite for an extra couple bucks and make it all happen. Because I think traveling out of the country is in my near future… but where, I don’t yet know.

Maybe next year I’ll try this one… I do want to have my name legaly changed to what I use now and get rid of my middle name all together for personal reasons. I will do that this year.

Wow, I just read through the entries for this goal and I’m extremely excited. I’ve always kind of wanted a boy’s name, but always thought it was too weird to change it, since I’m not actually transgendered and don’t want to confuse people. I will admit I have a bit of a sentimental attachment for my childhood name, and it’s prevented me from being able to commit to a permanent name change, but I would love to try it out for one year! The idea simply hadn’t occured to me before.

On Monday I will go down to the courthouse and get information on what I actually have to do to get a legal name change. I live in a small Southern city and I imagine there will be pounds of red tape and strange requirements. Once I’ve figured that all out (and the cost) then I’ll decide whether or not I will actually be able to go through with it.

I changed my name to have my partners middle name and she did the same..

The process was easy. www.LegalCPU.com did it for us and it took 60 days.

I went to the Anchorage Alaska Courthouse last week. I got the information on changing my name. Yes, looks like a pain in the ars-but I’m definatley doing it. I have a long histiry of expending years of time completeing goals. From the research I’ve done, I cannot change my name to a number. I wanted to change it to a hexadecimal value: 1101 that will never go through, but “Eleven O One” is acceptable. The experiment will be complete when I hear “Dr. Eleven O One, report to the E.R.”. after that, I’ll change it back.

This project kind of turned into something different compared to what I thought the original spirit of the thing was. Not a bad thing, but I am not really feeling it anymore for myself.

It sometimes made me feel as though I were two people, because while I told everyone in my everyday life as well as my friends online, I didn’t tell my parents. But it was surprisingly easy to get used to answering to a totally different name. And I do mean totally different! And fun. I’ve seriously thought of changing my name legally to the new one, because I like who I am as that person. Which is a little weird, but true.

Another easy one. Ten minutes, ten dollars. I just took these things to the DOL that was again on my way to work:

• The certified copy of my name change order
• My old license
• My old passport (not sure if they needed this or not)

It cost ten dollars, and I waited 5 minutes for them to take my photo and print a temporary drivers license.