lunch dreads

the only thing i'm looking forward to about lunch today is that it's at dragonfly. what i'm not looking forward to is listening to talk about babies and kiddies and how it's so wonderful to have babies and kiddies and how cute they are and how fun they are and how life has more meaning when you have babies and kiddies. i'm going to lunch with two former coworkers--one who has one daughter and is expecting her second next month, and the other who has two boys and just a few months ago had boy/girl twins to top it off. the former is in her very late 30s/early 40s and thinks her babies are miracles, and the latter emails me and everyone else in her address book a million pics of the babies at least one every other week. look, here they are on the floor, now here they are on the couch, here they are in their cribs, here they are in the yard...you get the idea. she's also been known to put a child on the phone when i call over there, so that i can have an awkward conversation with a kid who has no idea who i am. like i said, the only good thing about lunch is dragonfly. there's always tv and movies to fall back on, and maybe some gossip about people we all know. god, i sound like a bitch. it's not that i don't like kids, it's just that there's more to life than kids, and some women seem to forget that after giving birth. who knows, maybe i would have been one of those women. doubt it!