I Speak With the Tongue of a Thousand White-Hot Lies!

Today in Excellent Problems to Have:

ALL the ebooks I had on hold through the library came in and downloaded today.

TWO WEEKS to read them. TWO WEEKS.

Tags:i can do this, read all the books!, seldnei's life

So the boy has a cross bite, and we’ve known for, like, seven years that he was going to have to have some major orthodontia–and now the day has come.*

Stage one is the spacing device thing that will adjust his bite. He got that today. My baby whose extremely clear enunciation has been A Thing since he was two now has a lisp and sounds perpetually nasal. (I imagine some of this will go away as he gets used to the thing.)

But even better? Mr Seldnei and I get to use this wacky little pick device thing to adjust the spacer every morning and evening! Scott showed me how to do it today. It was weird and tricky and when Scott was done he asked Z if it hurt–nope, nope, just pressure between his eyebrows right above his nose.

And I had the horrified realization that WE ARE MOVING THE BONES OF HIS HEAD AROUND AND I AM HAVING A MINOR FREAKOUT.

The boy is fine.

“Can I give you a hug?” I asked.

“Sure. Why?”

“I need to comfort you.”

“I’m fine, Mom. It doesn’t hurt.”

“I know. But comforting you will make me feel better. It’s a weird mom thing.”

“Oh. Okay. You want some snuggle time?”

(He then patiently answered all my questions–the pressure goes away almost immediately; one tooth kind of aches but not terribly–without the usual eye rolling I get when I’m being too mom-like. And then we started in being goofy and yelling about TWENTY ONE PLAYS OF ‘WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT’ so all is well.)

*it’s started affecting his adult teeth and causing him pain.

Tags:the joys of mothering a zweeble, seriously we're rearranging his skull this is some frankenstienian shit right here, seldnei's life

I’ve been aggressively self-caring for the past few weeks. I’ve pruned Facebook and Twitter, I’ve been rationing my news intake, doing yoga and flossing, brain-dumping when needed. About the only bad thing I’ve done is caffeine and sugar in the evening, so I suppose that’s next to address. That and walking more.

I think it’s starting to work? Maybe? I mean, I only just finished pruning Twitter, so I guess we’ll see in a few days whether my brain and anxiety are a little more zen.

Tags:seldnei's life, anxiety, my brain sometimes

Okay, all this rain would be a lot easier to deal with if it didn’t wreak havoc on my sinuses.

Tags:seldnei's life, seldnei lives in the goddamned swamp

I used to be super freaked out by the idea of getting sick, and I think there are two reasons for this:

1. When the boy was 2, we all caught swine flu. He and the husband went down with it within 6 hours of each other, and mine held off until they were both recovering, but there was a *lot* of vomiting and a *lot* of laundry. Then later that same year, the boy got salmonella. That was scary as hell.

2. For quite a long time, I was our only income and I had no paid sick leave, so me getting too sick to go to work was A Problem. I’ve worked through some seriously nasty colds.

Lately, though, I worry a lot less when the boyo starts sniffling and I hear something is going around. And I think it’s partly having been through a number of kid-illnesses now, but also I think it’s finally sinking in to my lizard-brain that I have paid sick leave and a boss who would prefer it if we didn’t come in when we’re ill.

(Also possibly the fact that I managed to work myself into bronchitis last year, but I honestly thought that was allergies until the cough wouldn’t go away.)

Also, EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE PAID TIME OFF I DON’T CARE IF THEY WORK PART TIME OR ARE HOURLY OR WHATEVER THE FUCK.

Tags:seldnei's life, anxiety, some triggers are not permanent, i realized my 'worry' was more like force of habit than actual worry, and then of course i worried i would worry more because why not?, my brain sometimes

One of the great joys of motherhood is making my son roll his eyes at me.

Today we were discussing how old we would both be during the next big eclipse. I said he’d have to lead me outside with my walker, and I’d regale my grandkids with stories of how when I was a girl, we sacrificed people to the volcano to bring the sun back during an eclipse!

Which then evolved into my decision to convince my eventual grandchildren that I’m 4,000 years old and dated Billy Shakespeare for three months. (“Your grandpa wasn’t fond of Billy, called him a silver tongued devil!” Because if I’m 4,000 years old, so is Mr Seldnei.)

Tags:the joys of mothering a zweeble, seldnei amuses herself, seldnei's life

So my parents and I went to see “The Dark Tower” today (my mom liked it, I … did not).

The order of previews was

1. Manly Soldier With PTSD and All the Attendant Cliches Prestige Movie

2. Kingsmen 2

3. Manly Firemen Prestige Movie Starring Dude from Manly Soldier With PTSD Movie and All the Cliches the Manly Soldier Movie Didn’t Cover

4. Polyamorous D/s Creator of Wonder Woman Biopic

And, like … someone did that on purpose, right?

Tags:seldnei's life, things that make me laugh like a loon

“Why would this invasive mega-fish thrive?”

My hypothesis: since it’s *invasive,* it has no natural predators in its new environment, and apparently it is FUCKING HUGE, so.

Tags:the hell are we watching mr seldnei?, seldnei has had it with basically everything and this poor terrible river monster tv show is gonna bear the brunt, seldnei's life

CAPTAIN MARVEL WILL BE A “PERIOD PIECE SET IN THE 1990s” BE RIGHT BACK HAVING A MOMENTARY BREAKDOWN IT’S ALL GOOD.

(This is almost as good as the main kid in Ready Player One wishing he’d grown up in the 80s.)

(And I think when I was actually living in the 90s I would not have thought of a movie set in the 60s as a “period piece,” so this may just be my own connotations, but still. FLANNEL AND NIRVANA /=/ BUSTLES AND BEETHOVEN.)

And all you youngsters need to get off my lawn, too! (Pets her 263$363637383&,!4738 hairless cats.)

Tags:seldnei is old, and is feeling it today, seldnei's life

Okay! You feel flat and ick and blah and very ‘what the fuck is the point?’ today. And that is actually kind of not shocking at all because …

1. Vacation next week, BUT FIRST! You have ALL THE WORK so you meet the deadlines that hit during vacation PLUS two meetings AND an all-day conference on Friday! That you are 70-85% running! WHO DECIDED YOU WERE AN ADULT NOBODY CONSULTED YOU ON THIS MATTER WHAAT? Not to mention random other junk.

2. Mr Seldnei is still in Ohio. Now with possible bonus pink eye!

3. Just … sad. Grief sucks and does not end.

4. The boyo is still at the grandparents’, which is cool and all, but you miss him.

5. What the fuck, backache? Really?

6. The news is alternately scary and pissing you off. Twitter currently is an anxiety attack in app form.

7. Stuff I’m not going to mention on the internet, nothing super terrible, but I have to consider doing a few things that make me uncomfortable for my greater good.

8. The novella’s finished, aside from proofreading and posting. The end of a story always feels weird.

9. HORMONES WHY?

So it all makes sense. You’re not weird or a jerk or anything else. My darling Self, you are *tired.* of course you are; look at that list.

You can do all this, and you know it. Just play some music, eat a pretzel today (it’s therapy day, so we get a stuffed pretzel!), talk it all out with C. tonight, and come home and watch some Glee.

Tags:motivation, seldnei's life