chillow

Alix will be my first friend to become a mother, and I couldn't be happier about it. She and her husband Nick rock(they're both geologists but no pun intended!) Their happiness is awe-inspiring. During a long, serious relationship talk a while back I told Alix that so many people our age are in relationships that take so much effort and energy, and are often just plain hard. She didn't really understand, in the best way possible. She said that with Nick, it's always been easy, quite struggle-free. And after being together for six years now, since falling in love on grad school rock climbing trips, she still looks at him and her heart jumps at how gorgeous and wonderful he is. Now that's love to aspire to!

And a funny little story involving me and my psychic abilities, which I haven't attempted to hone since giving up on aura-reading back in middle school when it only served to make me dizzy.

In an e-mail announcement Alix sent to friends back in October, she wrote:

"And by the way, for those of you that know Lauren, you know that she has got a rather keen intuition about things, sometimes to the point of being a bit scary. Well, just another example of that was that on the very day that we got pregnant, without even knowing that we were trying, I received an e-mail from Lauren that ended with:

p.s. hey, are you pregnant!? Just had a sudden instinct that perhaps you are....;)

Now, of course, it was another two weeks before we knew for sure, but I knew that was a good sign. I still think that is just hilarious. Now I am just waiting for Lauren to tell us whether it is a boy or a girl!"

Well, Alix, I think it's going to be a girl...

// posted by newly @ 9:48 AM