katlaughing, as I've said before, is a logical, in some people's minds, extension of a contraction (katlaf) of my real name, kat'leen lafrance; if I wanted to get fancy it is de la france, but that would've mucked it up to katdelaughing, which I guess could have been changed around to delaughingkat, but, oh hell, now I am thinking of changing it all to Amergin's name for me, which I quite like, Katdarling! Then there are all those other possibilities, my 4, almost 5 year old grand-nephew calls me Aunt Kitty, my 2.5 yr grandsons call me Gramma KitKat...muddles the mind, never know what to sign!