Email address advice needed please! →[More:]OK so for the past five years I've used the same personal email address. It's the name of my husband's company with a number added, @comcast. Within the next month we won't be using Comcast and I want to change my address to a gmail account.

I want to use my own name, more or less, and keep it simple, and keep this address hopefully for a very long time.

So .. firstname.lastname is not available. It's also not available with several of the single and double-digit letters I tried. When I add in my middle name, as in firstnamemiddlename.lastname, with a single digit letter, that IS available. But I hesitate to use my full name in an email address .. somehow I feel like when I add in the middle name, it's too much personal information.

I don't like the _ underscore for some reason.

I'd prefer not to use my last name first.

Is it better for some reason to use a dot between my first and last names? Does that cut down on spam or is there some reason I should do this? I probably could come up with firstname.lastname with a double digit number on the end if I keep trying. But somehow that looks, I don't know, kinda cheap to me.

As I said, I'd like to keep this as my primary email for a long time .. does anyone have a suggestion or any advice?

Thanks a lot!