The Occasional Solipsist

I don't even know if that title does my news justice. Maybe 'The Motherfucker of all news!' or 'You have never read news until you've read this!'. Hmm, that last one's pretty good. Of course, my news is only really monumental and awesome and earthshattering and worldchanging to me and mine, but you are on my site so what the hell did you expect? Important updates on your life?

So in case you can't figure out what the hell I'm talking about from the photo, here's the deal. After what turned out to only be a fairly short time of trying, Superwife and I are now expecting our first child. I say short now that the fun part is over, because the fun part IS over - sorry if a family member is making a pinched up 'EWWW' face right now. haha.

Anyway, the fun isn't completely over. Now we get to spend time getting ready for our new family member; fixing up the basement so we can move my office down there, and then setting up the nursery in my old office; laying in supplies (clothes, diapers, food, all manner of things that will look so incongruous in both my house and in my life until I get used to them); scouring the credits of every movie and tv show we watch in the chance we'll come across a name that we hadn't thought of that would be even better than the ones we have already picked out.

And yes, we've picked out names, but we're not necessarily naming the baby yet. We have names picked for either a girl or a boy, but we are going to have to wait to meet him/her to see what fits. And I do have a temporary name for the baby, but that one is for Superwife and the baby's ears only.

I wish that I could convey to anyone that hasn't yet seen the positive results of a pregnancy test they were waiting for just how strong a feeling the situation evokes. As I turned the thing over so Superwife and I could see the window that would help us plan the rest of our lives, I realized that as much as the universe shouldn't want for any progeny of mine to be unleashed on the world, at least one was on the way. Talk about being overwhelmed and unprepared. If it happens to you, even if you are hoping for the result we got, you can't be prepared for it. And if I felt like that at this early part of the game, just wait until the big day.

I am loving this part of my life. We have talked about doing this for as many years as we have been together, but we were never sure enough of our financial situation to go ahead with it. But I guess the reason we finally decided to try for a baby was that we could wait all our lives for the right time, I think. And I am so stoked that we are doing this.

So if I start exposing the baby-to-be to Star Trek now, think she/he'll come out a fan?

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