Creeva’s World 2.0

Every time it seems we are done and all the announce­ments that Xie is preg­nant pass through the cracks, another one comes up.  This time around it’s a local com­mu­nity band that I play with and an announce­ment is being put out in their reg­u­lar newslet­ter.  I put in all the rel­e­vant info and of course I men­tioned parentphobia.com to get all the lat­est and gory details.

With this I do real­ize that I haven’t made the announce­ment to all my aunts and uncles yet ( and I have more then two).   I’m sure there is other rel­e­vant peo­ple that haven’t been informed.   I know some of my ex-co-workers fol­low my blog or via twit­ter or some such social net­work device so they are at least pas­sively in the loop.  I’ve announced on a forum with all the ex–Star Wars Galax­ies play­ers I used to play with.   Most of my closer friends should fol­low the same route as my ex-co-workers.   My cur­rent co-workers, well some know, some don’t — I haven’t been shout­ing it from on top of the roof tops.  I don’t want to be that guy.

The guy that will pull out a baby pic­ture every five min­utes.   The guy that tells you about every lit­tle burp their baby made the night before.  The guy that com­plains all day about the baby throw­ing up on him the night before.  I’m not that guy — at least not ver­bally.   I’m sure over the time I will be blog­ging about all of these things and more, but that’s dif­fer­ent.  I’m broad­cast­ing the infor­ma­tion, but the peo­ple don’t have to tune and lis­ten.  They can pas­sively parse the infor­ma­tion they receive by going to my blog or Xie’s blog or par­ent pho­bia or any social net­works I cross­post to.   Get­ting infor­ma­tion about me is easy.   Why should I scream some­thing uncom­fort­ably down someone’s throat.

If I’m asked about some­thing related to the preg­nancy or the baby after­ward I’m sure I’ll have a lot to say.   I just don’t want to be the one to bring it up first out­side of the imme­di­ate fam­ily.   I hope all of you read­ing appre­ci­ate that I’m doing it this way.