A little bit of a catch up

Well, the IUD insertion was successful - though a bit painful. Never really thought about feeling pain in my cervix before, could have lived without that, but the pain has pretty much recemented in my mind that I never ever want to go through the experience of giving birth. Not that it really needed recementing. It wasn't even that the pain was terrible, it wasn't that bad, it was more that the pain extended for days on end with only short breaks starting on the second day and growing steadily longer from there on out. I still feel a few twinges now, but most of the pain has gone. The first time that the painkillers kicked in and I wasn't feeling near as much pain I got so paranoid worrying that it had come out, but thankfully that fear is slowly easing away.

On the job front, I had an interview at Motherhood Maternity on Friday and it went really well. Between the interviewer speaking as though I already had the job (as well as seeming to almost be training me more than giving the interview) and the fact that they just had 3 women go out on maternity leave, I have a very good feeling about this. I won't definitively state that I have it until I've put through all that lovely paperwork that proves I'm allowed to work in the United States, but I feel more hopeful than I have about any of the places I've applied to so far.

On Saturday I went to my future cousin-in-law's bridal shower... well, one of them, at least. Apparently this was her third since she has such a large family. It was a lot of fun, lot of great food, and I even came home with presents (which I was not expecting). Speaking of showers, I was considering having an un-baby shower to celebrate my new (if technically temporary) infertility. I have no idea how to go about planning such a thing though. The only thing I have come up with yet are ideas that seem in poor taste - such as a baby shaped cake and pin the coathanger on the fetus. As amusing as such thoughts are in the abstract (when there are no actual children involved) I think that would go a bit too far in playing into the stereotype of babyhating cf. I may ocassionally indulge in a dead baby joke, but there's that and then there's that step beyond that, and I don't think I want to go there. I know that at traditional baby showers there are usually a number of games, sometimes trying to guess how big the expectant mother in or other sorts of things like that, but I can't think of any sort of opposites for those. I suppose that I'll have to search the internet a bit and see if I can dig anything up, but I have a feeling that it will be on the rare side.

On craft related notes, I tried my hand at handpainting yarn and the results are gorgeous. If we get some sun today I'll take some pictures, but it looks very cloudy at the moment and I can't seem to get any good shots in the house. I'm so very very close to finishing my star blanket, just one more row to go, but by this point the rows are so long it seems to move so slowly. I feel like I have a bundle of UFO's all just that tiny bit away from being finished, so there will probably be a FO post up and coming really soon.