I'm going to be a Dad!

Lets be honest... the world probably doesn't need any more Electrofreaks. But it looks like that is about to change...

Yes, it's true. My girlfriend Lynn is pregnant and we're going to be raising a child together. As crazy as it sounds, I'm going to be a father!

The baby isn't due until October or so, so there's plenty of time to prepare, to get my last taste of the college party life before I have to start playing the responsible Dad.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm 24, employed full time at a major alarm service company. I started dating Lynn last April, and I've been living with her in an apartment since May. It's a pretty decent sized apartment (a duplex really) so we'll probably at least begin raising the baby here. We have a roommate that is planning on moving out before the baby is born.

It's not going to be easy but we're more or less ready to take this on.

 

Well I work with my girlfriend Lynn, so we both have the same medical insurance and such, so we'll be pretty well covered for the birth and the shots and all that good stuff. As for marriage, well, as committed as Lynn and I are to one another, we don't believe in marriage, at least not after 1 year of being together. There's a lot of reasons behind it, but it's a mutual choice.

I am considering an oath of commitment or some such, more for the sake of our families than each other. She knows I'm committed to her and her to me; and while our families are both pretty progressive, it might satisfy a few of the more traditionalist holdouts like our grandparents.

We're currently trying to figure out good baby names. We don't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl yet so we're just working on names. She wants something that isn't too modern-trendy like Michaela or Connor, and has a couple nickname options like Liliana, so a girl could go by "Lily", "Lil", or "Anna". We also both like Tristan for a boy name, but obviously it's missing those nickname options.

I also don't know if a boy or a girl would be more exciting... at this point both of us seem pretty content with either!

 

My gf laughed hysterically when she read that, and said that we can't name our child Arathorn because he'll probably end up gay as a result, thus making it unlikely for him to have a child to name Aragorn.

Hey, I'm just saying what she did!

 

Lol, well I'll see if the names grow on her any Chuk.

 

Lol, her response was to ask me to say that she'd rather name a child Strider than Aragorn.

My girlfriend is a pretty cool chick, she likes to play video games (she's a 70 rogue and numerous 30-somethings in WoW, if only I could get her to play EVE), and pretty well versed in many things nerdy. Don't let her cute looks fool you.

I hope to god our baby gets her looks and not mine.



EDIT - Eh, she's got brown hair now. This is a more accurate picture of my beauty in her present state: