Monday, October 10, 2011

Life happens

Life happens


Unlike the proverbial shit, which most of the time doesn't just 'happen' but very often is the result of negligence, ignorance or good, old and plain dumbness, life actually does happen. 


At least to me. Or us, rather. 


Not long ago and not very much after the birth of Charlotte Master and I sat down. The topic was family planning and especially whether we should use any contraceptive or not. 
When he asked what I thought and how I felt about it I just shrugged and said I didn't mind either way and that it was up to him to decide. I wished it had been in a "my body is yours"-kind of way, but it wasn't. All the important decisions had already been made and agreed upon earlier. Like that we both wanted at least one other child and that we didn't want them to be four or five years apart. 


So, he made that decision, I didn't go to the doc to get a prescription for the pill, we had sex (not as much as we'd like to, but that's another topic) and, well, I got pregnant. Pretty quickly. Very quickly, actually. Certainly faster than we'd expected.


That was no biggie (side note: It's amazing how much less thrilling the second pregnancy is. Not less important, but less thrilling). 
So we'd have two children not even a year apart, I thought.


But then life happened. Or rather, it had happened a couple of days before I noticed that I was pregnant. I was at the doc, craning my neck to look at the screen of the ultrasound thingy, seeing the usual blurry greyish fogs and black areas. Even I saw the little white dot on the screen. I smiled, the doc smiled, then she looked  grinned and said "oha."
I looked at the screen again to see a second white dot.
Me: "Is that what I think it is?"
Doc: "Yes."
Me: "Oha."
Doc: "They're identical."
Me: "Oha." (wondering how she'd know. I mean, they really were just small white dots.)
Then I shut up and started to get used to the idea that very soon we'd have two babies and a child who's not yet 1 year old. 


Life happens. All you can do is adjust.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Yeah, I did it again!

It's happened again. Saw this corset a while ago and just knew I had to write about it. Now, 63'000 words later I'm glad I came across that website. I think it's a good story. And if it's not, at least it was tons of fun to write it.


I'm still thinking about what story to write to go with the pic of the girl and the snake. 


PS: I'm still wondering what that lizard is doing on the woman wearing the corset.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Snakes, babes and other ideas

Came across this pic today and I just know I got to write a story where I can use it as a cover. That's how it often happens: A pic, a song title or line, a sentence I hear somewhere and a whole story unfolds. If I'm lucky. If not, it's merely part of a story and I'm stuck in the middle. But I got a good feeling about this one. 

Snakebabe by beautisdivine. They got that right.