The holiday was fantastic
My mate and I kept the gifts for each other low key this year since we have to move soon and outfit a nursery, but honestly I think they were better because we had to think so hard instead of just throwing money at the tree.
My husband is the third of four boys, all of whom are married, two with kids, and me and the youngest SIL both expecting. We all live within five miles of each other. We descended on my MIL's house for the feast yesterday, and it was so, so great. My own family is not like his, and I love the whole "house swarming with cousins" vibe.
We're up north by DC, so no snow this early, normally - but we had a freak storm a few weeks ago! We usually get a nasty blizzard the exact week I'm supposed to give birth. Our doula has a four wheel drive car and the hospital is only two minutes away... unless we manage to sell this house and move before Feb...
We've done NO shopping for the baby, because a) I don't think he needs much, and b) we kept thinking we'd be moving soon. But we're going to give up and get a few things in the next week or two. I had my shower, and I have a very dear and generous friend whose MIL buys Too Much Stuff for her baby, and I've been getting all these barely worn (if at all) clothes. He's gonna crash with us for at least the first few months, and feed from me. All in all, we're in good shape... or I'm delusional.
My mate's job moved north of Baltimore, MD, and we're looking to move to the Ellicott City/Columbia area. It feels like moving to the moon - see above about giant extended family living within a few miles. And in this housing market... /whine. Bigger whine - here in NoVa I have a pretty good support structure for how I want to do things. Maryland, at least the part we've been looking, is either totally mainstream or so alternative that I scream and avert my eyes. I need to find a happy medium!
Card carrying dork from day one. I was an early reader, and to this day I have this enormous vocabulary... that I can't pronounce worth a hoot because I learned the words from books, not people! I love science fiction and fantasy novels - especially Heinlein, Asimov, Sheri Tepper, McCaffrey, and secretly, Mercedes Lackey. (Well, not any of her stuff since she hooked up with Larry. Feh.) I love computer games, mainly puzzle/adventure and MMO. Currently playing LOTRO. I played D&D in elementary school, and in grad school I played bridge on Friday nights and Magic: The Gathering on Saturdays. I have a t-shirt that says Han Shot First. Got my first pair of glasses at age six. Got the mental image yet?
As an "adult," I write for the video game industry. Mainly I consult in my specialty (how to write up information for the internet so you don't sound like a corporate tool), but I also do some freelance reporting. And there's the unfinished novel, of course, can't be a writer without one of them in a drawer. However, opening the drawer allows passerby to hear this enormous sucking sound, so I try to keep it closed.
The side effects of my career and my poor socialization are posts that go on too long :P
Have you always been geeky?
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my best friend has a "reading vocabulary" as well. Though I was a very early reader, I don't really have a huge "reading vocabulary" because my mom was a freak who used words like "esoteric" and "alacrity" in daily life. ("Alacrity" got me into big trouble in character once with some LARPers, who insisted that use of the word in public contituted a breach of the masquerade. I didn't see how it possibly could, when my mother had used it every single morning that I had school back to first grade. 
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