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Also, we're having contractions. They're forever apart, so we're not in a rush yet. We're going to the hospital tonight. I'll let you know something tomorrow. It's a girl, in case anyone has forgotten.

So, the kid's not here yet. She was due August 29th. My wife says this is fairly common, and she's really only a few days later than average. We have a good doctor, and ninvampiress is doing a spectacular job of doing research, so I'm not worried. I took my vacation too early, though. It's more than half over already. I wanted to start it just before the ( Read more... )

She's taking her own sweet time being born, that's for sure. Victoria is getting antsy. She's a week and two days overdue. I told her to go make an apple tart to take her mind off of things. mmmmm She's good.

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We just watched G.I. Joe. I guess it was alright. It had lots of explosions at least.

So, I'm not sure when I'm taking my vacation. I originally asked for August 27 - September 11, but the fruit of my loins[1] may come on or around September 4th, so I'm not sure when to take vacation. I left a note at work asking if I could start it on the 1st, so maybe that will be fine.

[1] I typed that as "lions" at first try.

In the episode of Malcolm in the Middle I just watched, Reese had been programming his sleep-walking dad to do all sorts of things, and let his mom know so he'd buy her the presents she wanted. That's the kind of kid I want.

me: we should have kids and let the cats raise them
ninvampiress: they'd probably be better off