Yes, I cannot post my real name due to my job but went with the next best thing. Vukicevich is my mom's maiden name and Dmitry is the name my great-grandmother called me as there are only 12 first names in the Slavic/Russian culture and she called all of us by Russian names.
It is amazing that people are so afraid of snakes. It freaks my friends out when I rescue them from the side of the road. I ask them would you rather have snakes or would you rather have rats and the diseases they carry. I guess it goes back to the Bible and the Garden where God put enmity between the snake and man.
Oh, and garder should = garter.
We have slovak roots in our family. Lots of names & food that are difficult if not impossible to pronouce!
my dad's love name for me was mala jabba (which I understand means "little frog"......)