New woman in my life

Yes, I have a new woman in my life. My daughter was born yesterday at 1210ish. I was too busy keeping an eye on proceedings to look at the time.

Charlotte Annie Violet is her name. Charlotte as it's my mum's middle name and also the author of my favourite book (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte), Annie because that was my partner's grandmother's middle name and Violet as that was my maternal grandmother's name. I have two middle names, so my child was always going to have the same.

The best friend of my sister in law's husband was the overseeing anesthetist during the cesarean which was nice, as it was good to have a friendly face around. He was great, particularly when I had my new dad 'moment'.

Anyway, it was a wait. Fuck, we got to the hospital at 0645 and weren't called until 1100. I was hungry, had to do a dash to get a salad sarnie from downstairs, and also the car. to get stuff. There was another cesear before us and we were no. 2. On my Flickr site, there are photos of her birth, and one in where she was nice and fresh, which isn't the best shot in the world, but it's up there now.

The rest of yesterday was spent sitting around and meeting the new child. I got to spend about an hour with her when my partner was coming out of surgery, so we had a good chat. She is a good kid, and bound to give me plenty of grief in the coming years. Oh yeah, I am really looking forward to her going out with boys - that's going to be great!

Special shout out to my good mate Phil in Seoul. I appreciate the phone call mate. Meant a lot to me. Good luck with the new job mate, hope you land it, then we can come and visit in China!

Had to have a go at the dudes next door again last night. Hopeless fuckers. How many times do you need to be told don't park somewhere before it finally sinks in? Useless. But as the payout took place this morning after 0100, they now know that I am likely to give them a burst anytime they do it, day, night or even early morning. Time to get onto the body corporate again.

I'm off to do a quick spot of gardening now and then back to the hospital.

Here's the new child:

Nice double chin too!