Dave just
called me and mentioned that Julie is pregnant. What wonderful news! I
know they've been trying on and off for like, I don't know, a year.
It's one of those situations where they want a kid, perhaps not now,
but then again how much longer can they wait? I don't think I'd
appreciate parents a whole lot older than normal. It just means that
they'll die sooner in my childhood, well hopefully not that soon but
who knows?
Pregnancy probably explains Julie's mood swings of the last couple of
months. Of course it doesn't explain the mood swings before then --
that I place the blame on Dave. :-) This will be only the second kid in
the Gamer Group, something about Liberal Intellectuals not wanting kids
for various reasons, though I think it's mostly they don't want kids
cramping their lifestyles. Not that I think that's bad -- you just have
to marry someone who'll stay at home, be willing to stay at home
yourself, hire a nanny, or live with someone's parents.
This all leaves me feeling that I really want to have a family -- the
"wife and house with the picket fence and 2.3 kids" variety. I've
already blown the house by getting one with no yard much less a fence.
Possibly rapidly running out of time for the wife part, especially
since I don't even meet girls. No way would I adopt a kid unless I was
independently wealthy -- being a single parent with a job sounds
impossibly hard, at least impossibly hard for me since lots of people
do it, though usually not by choice.
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There was a discussion on RPG.net's
Tangency forum about mail-order brides, specifically Russian ones
though about half of the conversation can apply to brides from any
foreign country. As with many arguments, people make way too many
assumptions about both sides. The guy who was asking for advice already
knows what he's like and what he can handle (and if he doesn't then
that's a problem all its own). So for me it boils down to possible
problems with the bride, and there were dangers there but it's nowhere
near as bad as assuming the groom also has problems like being a
degenerate white-slavery asshole.
Honestly though, yeah I've thought about it. I look through the
pictures and admittedly I'm attracted by the pretty ones -- c'mon, the
pages only show the pictures and you have to click on a picture to get
any information and it's all a very slow process considering there are
thousands of women. I'm so superficial and then I think that if I'm
this way I should try to look better too and then I remember I'm too
fat and I have to lose weight and not be such a slob and dress better
and work out and I haven't even gotten to the personality part of my
inner argument.
Ok, I'm resolving to lose some weight. I also need to start exercising
again. It's always that it takes too much time is why I stop. Never
because it's too hard, I mean it's only exercising not neurosurgery.
And though I still don't have that much free time I should make the
time somehow. If I'm serious about this there is time in my day. And I
need to look better. It's time I shaved and started replacing my
clothes -- not because the styles are bad but the few clothes I wear I
wear constantly and wear them out (can I write wear one or two more
times in this sentence?). I guess this is my New Years resolutions then.
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