Visiting AW

Today I went to Kent to visit VERY pregnant AW - she only has 7 weeks left! Showing off my new hair I've finally dusted my curler and actually used it. I love having wavy hair and I didn't even complain (as always) that despite spraying on at least half bottle of the hairspray they still uncurled. The weather in London was fantastic - you know, one of these sunny mornings with blue sky and even though it is colder than a couple of last days, I prefer sun over rain - even though you need to wear gloves and scarf. 

This time on Charing Cross I managed to get on the right platform and off I went. 

I bet you recognize it

When I get there, at the station I first saw a huge bump and then AW herself. It is so scary funny how she looks. But I can see that she's already had enough - even though her due date is March 11. She has nesting syndrome which forced her to re-paint baby's room 3 times already. They still don't know the name and my offer of ME choosing one for them was declined. I wonder why? I'm visiting her next week, because she has so few pregnancy photos that we're going to make some photo session. She managed to squeezed me in between hospital visits, pregnancy classes and hairdresser.

Even though she's tired as hell, has terrible deficiency in beauty and make-up products (she had to throw all of her lipsticks and lipglosses away because she couldn't stand the smell!) and pregnancy diabetes (she says that she had all of the pregnancy "things" except two) I can see she's so happy. Both of them are - I saw 3D photos of little Lord W and saw him tongue sticking out and covering his eyes with his hands (apparently 3D photo machine was blinding him with the light and he did not approve) - and this photo is the wallpaper on both AW's and her hubby's mobiles. My first reaction was to laugh, but then I thought - how cute is that? 

On a different note it is actually AMAZING what a modern technology can do. Forget about times when people knew the sex of the baby when it was coming out - now we can see  baby  throughout the pregnancy, know the sex, and even check when it ate lunch, because apparently you can see his stomach being full on the scan!

Visiting AW

AW is 22 weeks pregnant. She is having a boy and has due date on 8 March 2011. It's actually scary to see her so grown-up and mother-to-be. I mean - she is my first and (at least for now) only true and real grown-up girlfriend with husband, nice flat, mortgage and living outside London in Kent - better schools, less city noise and more family-oriented neighbourhood. 

One of the reasons I see her so rarely is the fact that she lives so far away! When Dom-dom was living in South London I still managed to see her in her flat and party with her in Clapham - but I was always (not so) swift tube ride away to get home. On the other hand, to get to AW's place I need to board a train. I have never been on a train in the UK before. I love journeys in a train - because when I was growing up Mother decided not to have a car the fastest way to get to grandparents was to hop on a train. I like it - from the fastest and most fabulous TGV in France to stinky 12-hours journeys in Poland - me like it! 

The reality hit me when I had to stand and wait at King's Cross Station for like 25 minutes for a train. I forgot how long you have to WAIT if you're not getting a tube or hop in a car. Then, of course went on the wrong platform so I had to backtrack... I was sitting next to an old (and very stylish) lady who was getting off on the same station as I did. During the 30-minutes journey I was looking outside the window all the time when she was putting some make-up and retouching what she had put on. She was simply a very nice old lady. And I've finally saw Big Ben and London Eye from the train - after so many walks on the bridges and seeing people on the trains I've finally got my own experience. Of course AW would laugh at me right now considering she had to take this train every day to get to work. 

I honestly still can't believe that AW is pregnant. OK, even SHE still can't believe it! I still remember our long talks that kids are... hmm... disgusting and ugly. Well, yes - they are! Then she told me that she has woken up one day and suddenly she felt an urge to have a kid. Just like that - you don't know when it can hit you! It's actually scary!!! She showed me the scan pictures and I've actually FELT his kicks! That was soooo weird! Plus, she told me LOTS of inside info reserved only for pregnant women. Apparently even a midwife in a hospital told her NOT to tell any childless girlfriends about it, because it may put them off from having a baby. We both condemned such behaviour! AW told me that there were numerous occasions when she was panicking for nothing, because no-one told her that something may happen and it's completely natural. That's why I'm glad she's having this baby boy - she is my guinea pig!

She also helped me to be more positive about all this job thing. She's going to Poland for 10 days, but when she'll come back we'll go through my CV together and maybe figure something out. Still, AB said that now it's the end of the year so firms are not recruiting people - they're waiting for the New Year. Hopefully, it will get easier in January...