We're going on 3 days sans Internet access at the house, which is a stone drag. Today I really needed to get some editing work sent back to the project manager. First I hung out at a coffeehouse/cafe, but the neighborhood it was in seems to discourage you from spending any time there by limiting parking practically everywhere to 2 hours, so now I'm at the public library. It's actually really nice here, peaceful and private (how shocking for a library!), and I'm getting more used to the laptop, maybe I could get into this...
The Margaret Cho show last week was brilliant, per usual. The main thing I remember is her saying that you should never let anyone take a picture of your vagina (a la Britney and Paris)---"it steals your soul." Yay! But just good and crass and honest and hilarious and real, good good times. Thanks, Lisa!
(A bit of an update... I've been here for 3 hours now. About 45 minutes ago, I asked one of the workers to please keep an eye on my laptop while I visited the ladies'... Her response was wildly unpleasant and trucker-like in its sound, even though she'd been restocking shelves right in front of me for about 20 minutes at that point. I told her to forget it, and she was like no, it's OK. There's been nobody around here all day, I just thought she could kind of pay attention out of the corner of her eye if anyone started rooting through my crap. Anyway, my point is, it's a good half an hour since I went to the toity, and she's still within eye shot. Thanks for your help, cranky library lady!)
Well, I see that I haven't updated this in over a year. Delightful. I've used LJ occasionally, mostly just to grouse, but I've really never liked it, I mostly used it as a way to connect with a couple of friends that seem to use it a lot. But I'm hearing rumblings that they're going to start charging for it, which I cannot abide, and I continue to have this feeling that I really want to blog, even if it's for no one's entertainment but my own...
Maybe I just need to contract with myself to do this for 10 minutes a day, no matter what? Maybe just a couple of times a week to start with, and see where it goes? I feel like life is flying by and that I'm going to lose track of what happened when and what I was feeling about it, and I really don't want that to happen. Do these thoughts necessarily have to be in a public forum? Of course not, but this seems to be the easiest way to rifle through them at a a later date, and I also really dig the idea of bringing in info about books and movies and whatever else I'm interested in at the time. So, let's give it a go, shall we?
First off, the big thing that I haven't spent all that much time reflecting on (because I've been too busy reading up on how to deal with it and prepare for it) is that I'm pregnant, due at the end of August. I'm still shocked and amazed, really. Took us about a year of not trying not to be, and then suddenly I find we're almost halfway to welcoming our daughter to the planet. I'm really excited about becoming a mother, particularly and primarily because I'm doing it with someone who's going to be an incredible father. It's been a really emotional time---all good ones, just a lot of them. The pregnancy has been pretty uneventful thus far, but the big event is not all that far off. There's still a lot of preparing to do, but it's all being done with love and anticipation. I don't know, I can't get all my feelings about this organized just yet, so maybe that's something I can focus on trying to do in the next few weeks. Not that it matters if I do or not, time just keeps on coming...
Work remains sort of a sticking point. The cake decorating job has been fun but has also involved a fair amount of disappointment, none of which is really worth getting into because it's almost over anyway, because, in combination with the pregnancy, it's wearing me out really quickly, and it's just really not all that worth it, at least not for what it's turned out to be. I've met a few cool people and learned a little bit, and I still think there's a lot of potential in the field for me, whether I continue at some point to try to do it professionally or just enjoy it as a hobby. The plan from now is to try to freelance edit again, at least for the first couple of years with the kiddo, although maybe to get something going part-time or independently, who knows. I also keep having niggling thoughts about moving to the Philly area, we'll be going up there twice this year for Katy's wedding, so we'll have to see if Tom falls in love with it and then make decisions from there. I'm fine either way, there are pluses and minuses to either scenario, but sometimes a change of scenery and culture is really appealing. Maybe I just need a vacation...
More immediately, I got a total surprise invite from Lisa to see Margaret Cho tonight, for free even! So yay! Also going to see Eddie Izzard in a couple of months, I'm already giddy for that. Such an interest in comedy, is there a way to channel that into something??
Anyway, here are the books I've read/am reading, and the most recent ultrasound images of the little one.
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