Hello! Today is my birfday, ’tis true. But this announcement is not about MY birfday. It’s about another Birfday that is soon-to-be. For, you see…
That’s not a jelly bean…
Yes, it’s true! A small handful of you are already aware of this, but Carrie caught the preggers! Sometime around Halloween she will release our wee beb into the world. It’s terrifically exciting! HAPPY BIRFDAY TO ME!
So, some brief info: mum and baby both seem to be having a completely normal pregnancy. We won’t learn the gender for another 5-6 weeks. And we won’t reveal the baby’s name until AFTER it is borned.
But here is my pledge to you: none of my online places (this blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.) are going to transform into thousands-of-baby-photos-and-non-stop-updates-about-baby places. ThisisChris.com will continue to be my pop-culture reserve (though updates might happen even LESS frequently), and I am probably going to almost completely abandon Facebook (I still get on there for Fools Play and my work, so I’ll still check messages and notifications and invites) because, frankly, I now have more important things to do with my time than dink around on Facebook.
If you ARE interested in baby updates, let me know. I might start up a second blog or something if demand is high enough.
As is expected, Rory is already a hit with the members of Fools Play Improv, particularly the Maroon Fool, who spent pretty much all of Sunday’s practice filming her:
Suki isn’t quite as fond of the little thing going crazy all over the house. Although last night Suki did sniff Rory’s butt, so that’s a good step in the right direction.
Hello, everyone! Today is my favorite holiday of them all, Halloween!
This was my first Halloween in which I actually owned my own sewing machine, so I went for a much more ambitious sewing project than usual. After looking around the internets for a few minutes trying to find a good template or instructional video, I figured out how to sew the head of my costume. Here is my costume for Hween 2012!
Super Mario Mushroom coming out of a Question Block
Just by happenstance the cardboard box I chose to be the Question Block ended up being 16″ × 16″ and the original Super Mario sprite for the Question Block just happens to be 16 pixels × 16 pixels. So I just made a one-inch grid on the backs of a big piece of orange and a big piece of black paper, and cut out all the shapes for the question mark and shadows. Easy-peasy!
Continuing with the same Super Mario theme, here are my punkins for Hween 2012:
The Big Boo punkin is so shy when you’re looking at him!
But when you look away, Big Boo punkin is gonna getchoo!
I was not, of course, the only person to have a costume. On Saturday night Fools Play had its annual Halloween Show, and the whole cast was all costumed-up:
Lookit all dem Fools!
And, finally, here is Baman Piderman’s Halloween episode, “Ghost Night!” Enjoy!
Sunday was a Pancake Party! It was also a fundraiser for KSUB, a Seattle University radio station that lets its DJs play literally anything they want. So: good cause.
I took crappy cell phone photos! And then I put them into Instagram. And now I put them here:
