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The only thing better than the fact that the 10 year old knows all the words to “Aaron Burr, Sir” is when he belts “It’s hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets” in front of his grandmother.

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1. My arms hurt.
2. My husband made me watch ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies,’ which would have been fine except the zombies were kind of boring and the leads were neither Kiera Knightley nor Colin Firth.
3. I had a good day at work, but introvert me is tired.
4. I’m a little wonky because, I think, I want to be writing something new rather than revising.
5. What the hell smells like bleach?
6. Come on, UK, I want some actual numbers on this election!

Tags:as problems go these are not awful, tomorrow i'll start calling reps to yell about actual problems, like fucking health care, seldnei's life

Ten years old is:

–lower voice than 5 years old, but still a high, kid-voice

–you can see the teenager lurking in his limbs, hands, and feet, and also the small child haunting his face around his nose, chin, and mouth

–worries about death and the ever expanding universe; sheer delight at Pokémon dances

–taking part in family jokes and catching innuendo that used to soar over his head

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

The entirety of House Seldnei is sniffling and congested.

I took a sick day today. I felt bad, but probably could have powered through, and then I thought–you know, every time I’ve “powered through” the early stages of crud, it’s just been miserable. And I have a three day weekend, so by taking today off I can have four days to rest and take meds and, hopefully, not end up with bronchitis or something.

So here’s hoping.

Tags:plague, mr seldnei just started sniffling tonight, the boy's been like this since yesterday, but they both feel fine otherwise, oh gross, seldnei's life

1. Working on a Thing I’m doing. (Not that Thing. The Other Thing.)

2. Every Single Day planning (setup, info on charity, general freakout over my project because I MUST BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG because come on, I must be, right?)

3. Sneezing my head off all day, sore throat all night.

Tags:i can totally be sick, i have a long weekend and the only serious plans i have are for ESD, which can be done from my bed with my laptop, but you know i'd rather not be sick is all i'm saying, so here's hoping for allergies, seldnei's life, seldnei is being cryptic on social media

Memorial service is done. I had to read my mom’s speech. I cried. So did the rest of the church.

Actress/Director/Theatre Educator friend from high school was there, and I swear to god as soon as she gets her MFA and gets her ass back to this state we’re gonna get together at one of our houses and have a real chat about education and art and all sorts of stuff like that.

Also found out I nearly died by choking at the age of, like, three from the babysitter I haven’t seen in something like 20 years.

Now Mr Seldnei and I are home and crashed on the couch watching something on Crunchyroll that looks like Miyazaki decided to make a Lovecraft-influenced space opera. The boy is with my parents, with orders to hug Grammie a lot. I’m going to play Pokémon and stop contemplating the inevitability of death and the ongoing march of time.

Tags:seldnei's life, y'all i am tired

This week has been long. There was work stuff (so many projects), the Eldest Niece’s graduation has been looming, sending out the rewrite request, SO MANY END OF THE YEAR THINGS FOR Z*, writing the obituary for our family friend, and helping my Mom write her speech for the funeral tomorrow, which I will be reading as she’s pretty sure she won’t be able to get through it. Oh, and ALL THE NEWS.

The high point of my days has been Sense8 with Mr Seldnei every night.

I mean, things are fine. It will all slow down. But fucking hell, I am *tired.*

*Pool party for meeting his reading goal all 4 quarters, STEM night, art class, the big water play day for the kids who got 0 referrals all year, some sort of random fun thing today, and thank god next week is the last week of school. We’re all ready to kiss 4th grade goodbye.

Tags:seldnei's life, the joys of mothering a zweeble, gifted class ain't no goddamned joke

I get tired of NPR and music periodically, so I’ll check out audiobooks from the library to listen to in my car.  The interesting side effect to this is that I’ll end up reading things in the voice of whatever narrator I’ve been spending the 60 minutes I spend on my daily commute with (that’s total, not one-way). So my novel revisions were partly ‘read’ by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Dante and Aristotle…

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See, I always thought I’d be an adult when I … got married, bought my house, had a kid, had a certain job, blah blah blah.  Every time I did those things, I didn’t really feel like an adult.  Like, I’m a grown woman, I’m 44, I am well aware of my age … but “adulthood” is a whole other thing than being old. No, what makes me feel like an adult is my husband being told he has diabetes.  Or myself…

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My mother and I chaperoned the gifted program annual field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. Last year we drove; this year my mother used her secret fundraising skills to get a sponsor to provide money for buses.

It was fun. I occasionally worry about the boyo because I mostly hear about his missing the BFF, but when time came to break into groups we had this group of four kids who were clearly friends with my kid and wanted to hang with him (and each other), and two more who weren’t part of the group but who seemed friendly. So I know he has people he hangs with at school, and they were all pretty nice.

Now I am tired. But it’s Free Comic Book Day and we want to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2, so here we go.
Tags:mrs seldnei's mom, seldnei's life, the joys of mothering a zweeble