well crap
I made a "yaforreal" Google account and was going to migrate all my internet stuff to using that e-mail. I always make a new password for each account I make though, and not something easy to remember. I wrote it down, but accidentally threw the paper I wrote it on away. My alternate question for recovering the password was another hard to guess password. Excellent way to keep people from hijacking your account, bad news if you threw away your password. So I guess that username switch is out! This may be a sign I was meant to stay with IglooBob after all.
or maybe just a sign that my methodology for this is pretty flawed