oh damn! congratulations
― joygoat, Monday, 12 August 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, jg. <3
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
congrats on your preliminary admission to the club*******sucka :)
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
What?????
― Jeff, Monday, August 12, 2013 10:33 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
lol
congrats!!!!
― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ jeff
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
I am still giggling at that.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!
― *tera, Monday, 12 August 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Is it totally bizarro being preggo y/n
― quincie, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
quincie that still isn't spanish
congrats carl
― Charlie Slothrop (wins), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
to my credit, I managed to figure out the "are you pregnant or trying to get pregnant" boxes on the Spanish dental intake form, but only because I know the word "mujeres" from bathroom doors.
― quincie, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
lol. also embarazadas from the subway right?
― Charlie Slothrop (wins), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
ha, you completely overestimate the transportation infrastructure of La Paz, much less La Ventana. I haven't been on a subway in a looooooooonog time
― quincie, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Carl may I suggest to you a baby shower concept to which I was once introduced. You get mostly naked on a table and your girlfriends drape like paper mache on your boobs and belly. The it dries and you have a cast of. . . your boobs and belly. Which maybe you want to hang on the wall as "art," or maybe you want to use as a way to serve chips and two dips.
― quincie, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
to answer your previous question, yeah, it's pretty weird. It's also kind of gross and uncomfortable. But it's also fun in a way that I can't quite articulate. Aside from being nauseated daily, sometimes all day, and finding 95% of all food completely revolting for the first... 20 weeks (I'm 20 weeks 6 days, so I am only now enjoying the part where food is this wonderful life affirming substance that I actually want to smell and put in my mouth and boy it took some restraint not to complain about that on the internet let me tell you) I've had a pretty easy time of it, though, plus we've been trying to do this forEVARRRR so I'm not complaining.
In response to your shower suggestion, no.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
that shower sounds o_O
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think that such things should be limited to pregnant women. I think birthday parties, retirement parties, housewarmings should all involve nude body-mold making and subsequent chip and dip service.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah but you really need the 8- or 9-month preggo belly if you want to do the chips plus two dips thing. My cast would be like a tray (for cheese, I guess?) and then like a cup that fits a handful of chips and a cup that fits like 1 cup of dip. Good preggo belly can do a whole bag of Tostitos.
― quincie, Monday, 12 August 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
Plus, y'know, a fair amount of salsa a guac
Woah! Carl, that is SO awesome!!! Congrats!
― "Max's Original Starship" Vol. 3 (sunny successor), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
omg! congrraaaaatttssss!!!
― kinder, Monday, 12 August 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Is it really hard not to tell anyone? I would want to blab to everyone. I expect.
can we all chip in and get you a BUN IN THIS OVEN tshirt
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Such wonderful news!!! So happy for you both!
― Jaq, Monday, 12 August 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you all! It is making me feel all warm and fuzzy. Or maybe that's hormones.
kinder, we told our parents at around 10 weeks, and IRL pals when I got to the second trimester* so it wasn't a total secret. Like I said we've been trying for awhile and I miscarried a little more than a year ago so I just didn't want to talk about it on the internet and then have something happen. Just a surfeit of caution, really. I did have to be mindful of not posting things that might give obvious hints, though, like that I ate nothing but baked potatoes for three days or that I puked in the street while waiting for the bus in front of Trader Joe's.
*me not drinking was too unusual to go unremarked, so we kind of had to come out with it. I went to lunch with a friend one Saturday and ordered a Sprite and she was like "YOU'RE PREGNANT!!!!!" because I didn't order beer.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
aw congratulations!!
― estela, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
xp - gurl, you know it. a friend of mine came over (you know her carl!) and i offered her wine and she turned me down and i was like hold up....yes? and she looked at me and was like YUP and we hugged :)
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
I think every British guy learns at some point or another not to say LOL ARE YOU UP THE DUFF when a lady chooses a non-alcoholic beverageUsually that point is far far too late though
― kinder, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
hahah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I feel v sheltered as this is not a thing that I've ever a) noticed or b) been clued in enough to ask
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
this is a friend i've known (and drank wine with) for almost 20 years. she has never turned down a glass of wine ime.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
that is to say that it was a fun friendship moment, not like some dillweed at the grocery store asking if she's expecting.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
OMG CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARL CONGRATULATIONS!
― horseshoe, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
The not drinking thing is an instant giveaway for most people I know, so much so that at a recent wedding a friend kept her pint glass full of apple juice all night as she wasn't ready to go public yet.
― joygoat, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
omg this is so excitng
yay yay yay your kid is going to be so awesome
― horseshoe, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
jeff are u working on yr dad joeks y/n
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
and will you grow a dadstache
hs thank you!
joygoat is this our mutual friend? She was telling me the lengths she and her husband went to to make it look like she was drinking. My favorite (the the one Jeff wished we had thought of) was ordering a drink anyway and giving it to her husband to drink in addition to his own. Also near beer and secret convos with wait staff.
I mainly just didn't go out much, which worked out well given my general barfiness.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
carlngragathalations!!!
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks crut!
He already has a dadbeard so there's that. I think I'm the primary font of dad jokes in our household much to Jeff's exasperation.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's her, it was kind of funny in a convoluted way especially since me and the wife were told beforehand but nobody else there knew about it. it was pretty convincing.
― joygoat, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
I have some time in between appointments so I just came back to say EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
Good preggo belly can do a whole bag of Tostitos.
in more ways than one, I bet
congrats carl!!!
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
so radical
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
This is two pregnancies due in December I've found out about in the last twelve hours, what a day
― carlos danger zone (mh), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
I kind of hope the kid is born on Christmas day because my mom's birthday is New Year's and mine is on Thanksgiving every seven years and it seems like appropriate winter holiday symmetry. Also this - http://www.werewolves.com/why-the-christmas-myth/
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
also the opportunities to talk up the power of krampus are exponential with this xmas babby
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link