Vance42

Congrats, wish I had done the same.  Have fun. for me the learning never stops with this hobby.
 
I never thought I'd have to become a
pseudo electrician (all the electrical knowledge)  pseudo astrophysicst (sunspots you know) pseudo mathematician (ideal angle for the sloper is, know how do I calculate they hypotenuse again?) pseudo audiologist ( omg was that dit-dah or dah-dit need to check why I can't hear it) pseudo botanist (now honey we can't plant that tree, it won't grow fast enough to give me the height I need for the dipole, or the venerable I think this antenna needs this leaf, so it looks more like a potted plant) pseudo camo expert (paint it this shade, it hides with the sky better).

Short of profanity, you can do just about anything you want. Many people use their call sign with a custom suffix, as noted above.

If my son is expecting to hear from me, I just get on the radio and call him by name. "Hey Nick, are you there?"

On the repeater, you might get a response from the wrong Nick. So, appending call signs work great, since it ID's a specific group of licensed stations. So I would say something like "<call sign> mobile 2, this is <call sign> mobile 1, do you copy?*

Call sign w identifier. "(callsign) wifey this is (callsign) mobile 1 are you there?'. Mobile 1 and wifey can be substituted for whatever that suits your fancy. So call sign & individual identifer.