Introductions All Around!

Hello Christopher, I'm Nero.

Actually, your name probably isn't Christopher. And mine is Loki-- but I thought displaying my geekiness as the first line of this new blog would be a fantastic way to say a little something about myself, without saying a damn thing about myself. Though belatedly, if you don't get the reference, all might be lost.

But nevermind that.

If you're here, then you probably already know the big news-- I'm incubating a symbiotic lifeform that likes to shove its feel into this one nerve, had me barfing for weeks and is (we hope) going to be making our lives hellish come this September. That's right, I'm pregnant.

As of writing this first entry, I've been cooking Stormageddon (we don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet, but it's decidedly a Dark Overlord) for 17 weeks and 4 days. It's been a roller-coaster 17 weeks and 4 days, filled with hyperemesis, worry, more worry and some unfortunate health troubles (aside from the hyperemesis) that have gotten more pronounced with baby-carrying. Overall, it's been worth it. I'd very likely do this all over again (don't you dare remind me I said this when I start going on about how I'm adopting next time unless you're being kicked from the inside, too), go through all the trouble and the pain and the worry-- and whatever's still on its way to bother me in the coming weeks, months and years to comes.

To tell you a little bit about myself and my family, we've got to get a few depressing things out of the way first. This isn't my first pregnancy. I had the misfortune to become unwillingly pregnant when I was 13, and ended up miscarrying the baby. Years later, after a happy and eventful year of marriage to my (amazing) husband, Robby, we lost our daughter Dahlia Rose. It took its toll on me, and still does. There isn't a day of this adventure that goes by where I'm not checking for quicksand or poison darts to suddenly spring out of the woodwork and tear me back down again. But I'm fighting to stay positive and think of the good things that have happened, how far Stormageddon and I have gotten so far and how much I love this little growing, kicking thing.

Now, to the happy! First and foremost, I'm a geek. So is my husband, so is our flatmate and her boyfriend (who doesn't live here, but is over often). I come from a background where I wasn't aware of the geek world (past Star Trek) until I was 12. From there on out, it was all table-top RPG's, LARPing and cosplaying. In fact, Anime Expo is partially to thank for my meeting Robby. All of it's still a big part of our lives-- my baby shower is going to be Doctor Who themed. And if this little one ends up being a girl? Her name will be River.

Though I do hope that she'll never kill The Doctor.

We have pets, about which there will undoubtedly be posts later. To be brief, my youngest furkid is Leannansidhe (or just Lea, because only one person I know can say her full name properly). Our oldest is Pandora's Ransom, or just 'Pan'. She's an uppity old lady who sleeps on bananas. Then there's Harley, our ferrety middle-child. Our flatmate, Woosh, has an adorably shy cat named Trouble Too who doesn't live up to her name at all.

My brain is starting to fizzle out (I keep thinking about food, and now I want something delicious and bread-like), so I'm going to wrap this up here for now. I hope that you'll all enjoy reading this blog and that my adventures in this pregnancy and raising this little one will be both helpful... and amusing.

Cheers,

Loki