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missroseroseMy friend Monica apparently had her baby on Friday night. Fairly short labor (only a couple of hours), but the flipside of that was that by the time she got to the hospital, she was too far along for drugs. So she got to deliver the old-fashioned way, screaming and all. Oy. (To quote her, "I don't think I swore a whole lot. I was too busy being in pain.")
I'd been working on a blanket as a sort of baby shower present (said shower was supposed to be on Saturday but had to be canceled for obvious reasons), and when I heard the news from a mutual friend this afternoon I went home and finished it. I'm sorry I forgot to get pictures, it ended up looking really nice. It wasn't supposed to be as cute as it ended up being, but it was pretty nonetheless. Monica and I found this lavender-colored satiny flannel stuff on the clearance rack at JoAnn's with little ladybugs and flowers and butterflies embroidered on it (it wasn't as cutesy as it sounds, honest!) and I got some purple polar fleece that matched it perfectly for the other side. Then, while I was getting the batting, I got the idea to make it a button quilt; a dress that my grandmother and I had made years earlier used little lavender heart-shaped buttons that seemed perfect for it. I found some of those, and got some regular round white buttons to go with. I thought I was done then, but as we were passing the ribbon display on the way to the checkout stand, it occurred to me that it would look great with little purple bows underneath the buttons. So by the time I got done planning, it ended up being a lot cuter than it was supposed to be.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures before I took it over to her, but I'm sure I can get some later on. It's not like she can take it back to the store, after all. =)
Anyway, Brian and I went to visit Monica and the newborn Shaylin in the hospital, which was a little nerve-wracking to me - I'm rather Picardian in my uncomfortability around children, especially of the smaller sort. However, she wasn't too bad - after a bit of crying when we first came in, she settled down. I'd say she looked cute, but I guess she looked like most newborns look to me. Certainly not the ugliest baby I'd ever seen, though I've never been one to think of larval humans as "cute". Not since I was a teenager, anyway.
Monica seemed pretty blissfully unaffected by the fact that she'd just given birth. I was worried she'd be all caught up in the whole cutesy-poo thing that so many parents fall into, but she's always been a pretty down to earth person and that hasn't seemed to have changed at all. I probably won't see a whole lot of her over the next few years, but that's more or less how parenthood goes. And fortunately I'm starting to make a few other female friends...something that I've often had trouble with. Not a lot of women my age seem to be prepared to deal (or are interested in dealing) with a very-intelligent-and-opinionated-sometimes-sarcastic-and-abrasive member of their gender. I guess we don't really have a whole lot in common...
As for how my life is going...it's going, I guess. My audition for King Island Christmas is coming up in a week, and I'm trying to find out if I need to have a monologue or anything prepped in addition to the song that I'm going to sing. Past that, I don't really know what to think. I'm a little nervous, either that I won't get a part or that I will get a part but then I'll have to put in all that work. I still think it'd be worth it, even though I know there'll be that night or two or three when I go "I'm never doing this again." But either way, we'll see - if I do get a part in the chorus (or, god forbid, a solo) in either this or Hair I'll have most of my free time taken up for a good few months, and if I don't, I can go with Plan B - getting a second job at JoAnn's or something to save money for my next few semesters of college.
I suppose we'll see in a week...
I'd been working on a blanket as a sort of baby shower present (said shower was supposed to be on Saturday but had to be canceled for obvious reasons), and when I heard the news from a mutual friend this afternoon I went home and finished it. I'm sorry I forgot to get pictures, it ended up looking really nice. It wasn't supposed to be as cute as it ended up being, but it was pretty nonetheless. Monica and I found this lavender-colored satiny flannel stuff on the clearance rack at JoAnn's with little ladybugs and flowers and butterflies embroidered on it (it wasn't as cutesy as it sounds, honest!) and I got some purple polar fleece that matched it perfectly for the other side. Then, while I was getting the batting, I got the idea to make it a button quilt; a dress that my grandmother and I had made years earlier used little lavender heart-shaped buttons that seemed perfect for it. I found some of those, and got some regular round white buttons to go with. I thought I was done then, but as we were passing the ribbon display on the way to the checkout stand, it occurred to me that it would look great with little purple bows underneath the buttons. So by the time I got done planning, it ended up being a lot cuter than it was supposed to be.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures before I took it over to her, but I'm sure I can get some later on. It's not like she can take it back to the store, after all. =)
Anyway, Brian and I went to visit Monica and the newborn Shaylin in the hospital, which was a little nerve-wracking to me - I'm rather Picardian in my uncomfortability around children, especially of the smaller sort. However, she wasn't too bad - after a bit of crying when we first came in, she settled down. I'd say she looked cute, but I guess she looked like most newborns look to me. Certainly not the ugliest baby I'd ever seen, though I've never been one to think of larval humans as "cute". Not since I was a teenager, anyway.
Monica seemed pretty blissfully unaffected by the fact that she'd just given birth. I was worried she'd be all caught up in the whole cutesy-poo thing that so many parents fall into, but she's always been a pretty down to earth person and that hasn't seemed to have changed at all. I probably won't see a whole lot of her over the next few years, but that's more or less how parenthood goes. And fortunately I'm starting to make a few other female friends...something that I've often had trouble with. Not a lot of women my age seem to be prepared to deal (or are interested in dealing) with a very-intelligent-and-opinionated-sometimes-sarcastic-and-abrasive member of their gender. I guess we don't really have a whole lot in common...
As for how my life is going...it's going, I guess. My audition for King Island Christmas is coming up in a week, and I'm trying to find out if I need to have a monologue or anything prepped in addition to the song that I'm going to sing. Past that, I don't really know what to think. I'm a little nervous, either that I won't get a part or that I will get a part but then I'll have to put in all that work. I still think it'd be worth it, even though I know there'll be that night or two or three when I go "I'm never doing this again." But either way, we'll see - if I do get a part in the chorus (or, god forbid, a solo) in either this or Hair I'll have most of my free time taken up for a good few months, and if I don't, I can go with Plan B - getting a second job at JoAnn's or something to save money for my next few semesters of college.
I suppose we'll see in a week...
