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[melt212]

I remember livejournal. That's what I was thinking in Social Network when that guy was blogging about his bad date. It was a long time ago. That kid built an empire. I built a kid. I'm thinking about coming back to Livejournal mostly because I think nobody I know from Real World is here anymore. I remember it feeling good to get stuff off my

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[pete23]

Childrearing is incredibly scary. I think it improves via the existence proof - i.e. by the time you get to about four years old without breaking them, you work out that they're pretty tough.

Entirely agree on the LJ USP these days - the FB thing where everybody knows your name is rubbish. It's also disappointing - I've met basically nobody through FB, whereas I still have quite a few genuine remote friends through LJ.

Take care - and Blame Canada!

[melt212]

I made a couple of "friends" on LJ years ago, but our lives aren't intertwined like the real world friends. There is a difference.

[lapsedmodernist]

I can't watch Freddy Kruger movies, either.

There is a cliche about how having a child is like deciding to send your heart to walk around out in the world, outside the protection of your chest. That's pretty much how I experience it, and I try to be mindful, to balance that feeling in me with already building respect for my three-year-old's (soon to be four) sovereignty, because I think that if people don't keep that in mind from the get-go, they end up like my mother, who even now has such poor boundaries between her body and my body.

[melt212]

Yes, there's another thing to worry about. Smothering! I'm going to have to work hard to keep it in check. Or he'll have to agree to go around in the world in a bubble wrap suit and crash helmet.

[camilleyun]

Wow! Congratulations!

It has been a long time since I read one of you LJ entries. For whatever reason I decided to check in today and here you are. Funny that I have been thinking about the possibility of having a baby since I will be 42 this October. And here you are just having had a baby. I look forward to reading your entries about motherhood.

[dabroots]

I was looking through my list of friends, wondering about a few I hadn't seen here for a long time. Very pleased to see you had something to say some weeks ago. Yes, the thing with a child is great. When my son was born in 1995, my then-wife and I were already drifting apart, and then we had nearly six years of having incredibly intimate relationships with our growing child. If you already haven't, you might like Mary Karr's memoir "Lit" from a couple of years ago, talking about her thing with her own young son.