A year ago today...

I was in the hospital. I was technically in labour, as I'd been induced the night before, but the contractions were still seven or eight minutes apart and strong but not very much so. They were going to break my water soon, and then we'd see if I wanted an epidural. and possibly monitor Baby to see how he was doing.

Well, as it turned out, breaking the water sped everything into high gear - it took an hour to get from one to three centemeters, and just two more hours for me to be at ten, and desperate to push (normally, it's supposed to take an hour to dilate two centemeters, not two hours to dilate seven).

And at 11:45 am, Jonathon was born and in my arms and he had practically no eyelashes and these weird fingernails and the softest skin and oh, was he huge!

So when he woke me at 4 this morning, I couldn't go back to sleep. I just wanted to hold him and kiss him and adore him, but he wanted to go back into his crib with his favorite lovey, a little blue dog-blanket-thing named EGGY! and so I let him and so I am here, typing and rereading my birth story post from last year.

When he wakes up in an hour and a half or so, there will be cake.

And completely separate from my last post in theme...

Anyone in South Florida (sff_corgi?) want to see Farenheit 9/11 in three weeks? We could be completely outlandish and possibly inapropriate and see both it and a re-see of PoA in the same day, but I'd be just as contented to just see the Moore, and save PoA for another time.

Dick Cheney should probably be impeached. ( If you haven't seen the news reports about the Halliburton contracts... )

In what universe is this not as bad as lying about private sexual conduct?

Things I just found in my FictionAlley Tote while cleaning it out for the first time since Nimbus...

1. My note to praetorianguard from the middle of our presentation saying "Skip corporate!"

2. Her note to me saying "Louder."

3. The room key, from my sister.

4. Breakfast and/or Dinner Buffet discount coupons, good through July 20, 2003.

5. A Pumpkin Pie Pen

6. A magazine article about iPods with a scribbled note saying "Wishing & hoping".

7. A note from the hotel saying that the cardboard Hut had arrived


You know, I should probably clean my bags out more than once a year, but it wouldn't be half as fun that way.

In poa_nyc news, jlh is currently in posession of the Soopersekrit Surprize from ArtBox Cards. Wheeeeeee!

: counts minutes until return of melissa_tlc and then to my flight to NYC. We get in around 11am tomorrow, and will call lissinthecity then, but otherwise have to see family tomorrow. As of Friday at Noon, it's all fandom, all the time. Squeeeee.

Also, I have purchased a pink skirt to wear on Saturday. So I will be PinkSparkly. Whee!

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Our page of pics + narration from epicyclical and tromboneborges about the NYC premiere is now up here. Enjoy, and feel free to discuss the pics & the report here!

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Look! Dan's recording a new album *just* for The Bad Place! (warning - images are not tiny)

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