A New Woman Is In Town...

Her name is officially "MeLissa Rocco." Yep, that's right. MeLissa finally decided that managing two names for a second time in her life (long story short, she wasn't officially adopted by her papa until 1997) was too much effort and submitted her name change to the Social Security Administration today.

She figured it was an excellent early Valentine's Day gift for Mark. :) Unfortunately, now she has to complete the task of changing all their many accounts, utilities, etc. to reflect her new legal name. She thinks the trouble will be worth it since she can forego any further explainations as to why she didn't change her name immediately after she and Mark married. She had her reasons - one of which was dread due to the sheer number of accounts she'll have to update; another was that it was just hard to give up a name she'd only had legally for a few years! And, of course, name recognition in the business world was a concern (though ever so small) - but old-fashioned values finally won and the name change is underway.

Now she just has to figure out when exactly she has time to visit the DMV (which is no small undertaking as those of you in California are well-aware!).