Mini Blog

I've had lots of questions about where I came up with "Pootenblagen". So, here's the story. It's longish, so I'm abridging for the sake of the mountain of laundry I should be folding but am not...

Part 1 - When I was in elementary school, my brother gave me the nickname Pooter. And it stuck in a major way. My dad usually only calls me Poots, my soccer jersey in high school said PL, which was an abbreviation for Pooter Louise - a variation on Pooter that my dad came up with, my nickname is used far more frequently than my real name.

Part 2 - My family is German. We are by no means a German-speaking family, but have several favorite German terms we use. One of which is, guten-tag(en), which essentially means good day, hello, it's just a pleasant greeting in German.

Part 3 - So, Guten-tagen (pronounced goo ten toggin) = Pootenblagen (pronounced poo ten bloggin)

Ta-da!