journaling: enabled

My wife just flipped me off. We were talking about ‘finger talking’ as my mother puts it and she thought of the Larry the Cable Guy joke about the typist who has Tourette’s.
So as many of you know, liz4jc4ever and I are expecting our first child next month. Wow … ‘next’ month. Less than 6 weeks. I’m looking forward to it though. I’ve even started ‘practicing’ holding our cats… okay, I did that before too, but I’m enjoying it more now because I’m picturing myself several weeks from now holding a creation that’s part Liz and part me and all about love. I’m sure I won’t be ready for it. I’ve been told nobody is. But I’m not sure I can think of anything I’ve looked forward to more.
We don’t know gender yet. I think Thumper will be a girl. Liz thinks Thumper will be a boy. Hopefully one of us will be right! The cats won’t know what to make of her. Hopefully she won’t abuse them too badly when she starts moving around (of course the cats should be smart enough to get out of reach on their condo).
I guess you could say I’m ‘quietly expectant’, since I don’t really say much about it and contemplate my impending fatherhood (not ‘doom’ as some have put it). I enjoy feeling the movements (and seeing them for that matter). We recorded a video of the belly the other night. If I can compress it without loosing too much quality, I might post it online for friends’ viewing (if Liz consents of course … it is her tummy after all).
This weekend is our first baby shower. It sounds like I will get to go golfing with the father-in-law while the wife parties. I’ve never been golfing. She’s never been the center of attention at a baby shower. Firsts for both of us I guess. It’s also likely the last time we’ll be more than an hour from home until July. We’re not inclined to travel far in the last few weeks.
I’ve been thinking I need to host another geek’s night sometime in the near future. I’ll post again if we decide to go ahead with that. For now, goodnight.