Amen, amen itera/ Amen, amen, blah, blah, blah (Hay Sir Asne, hay)

[thanate]

House has been appraised (now we wait and see if the number turns out to be high enough for optimal circumstances) and I've sat through my 15 minutes of extremely minimal dental work. The last time I had dental sealant put in was upwards of two decades ago, and I find that I remember the taste quite clearly.

Now I can sit around and stare at the walls with only the baby to distract me, instead of doing so in shorter intervals and feeling bad that I'm not house cleaning.

Arlington Cemetery is apparently up to about a five month wait on funerals, so we're looking to hear back from them in early October about scheduling that, and to find out if my father can be buried in the same plot with his parents, or if he'll end up wherever they house cremation urns.

I'm once again out of needs to look respectable for the forseeable next few months, and am considering dying bits of hair blue. I'm not sure which ones, and I'd need cooperation from the rest of the family anyway (to avoid mixing baby & weird chemicals) but it's another thing to contemplate.

My brother is planning to fly out for a week or so at the beginning of June to help sort some of the lifetime accumulations of stuff. If anyone has recommendations on good ways to go about finding appreciative homes for vintage SF paperbacks and a huge run of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, this is a thing we're all still staring a bit blankly at.

I've lost ten pounds since getting out of the hospital, which was all in the first week and a half; I am now officially Very Tired of not being a shape that fits into any of the jeans I own. Anyone have specific post-pregnancy exercises they recommend? (I mean, besides getting up earlier in the morning to go walking before it gets stupidly hot out...) I hate gym & exercise-for-the-sake-of-exercise plan sort of things with a passion, but now is not a useful time to want to take up rock climbing again. The reputed magic of breast feeding & not worrying about it doesn't seem to be working out on a schedule I'm happy with. I want to make new clothes with a normal-sized waist, darnit. (yes, clothing is my primary motivation here)

I find it terribly unfair that I have a baby who's perfectly happy to be ignored for eight or nine hours at a stretch overnight and yet I'm still awake on and off for half of that. The joys of processing mental/emotional overload through insomnia, coupled with dawn-sensitivity for a few months around the solstice. Whee.

Baby also seems to be working up to another round of pinkeye, poor thing, though fortunately it doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest.

It occurs to me to wonder what it does for mental and speech development when one's main vocal role model spends at least as much time singing as talking. I find myself doing rather a lot of this (mostly doggerel and just noodling, but also real songs) when I run out of things to say; unlike her father, the Megatherium seems to be a fan. A lot of her vocalizations are also getting to be longer notes; I'm not sure if this is related or not. I'm interested to see what she'll do when surrounded by singing people, but need to find a venue for that. (So far she's only had me & my mother doing a silly vocal warm-up, which she attempted to join in.) Flavor of the week seems to be Orientes Partibus for some reason.

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[cheshiretiffy.livejournal.com]

It's becoming more difficult to find a place for books.

I also despise excercise without some other productive purpose and am only getting to it now, five years after the fact. I've gotten to the point where I've said "Screw it. I can't go do what I want, so I'll jump around in my office to youtube videos." I still love Zuzka's (http://zuzkalight.com/) workouts. They're short and hard as hell but effective. And she gives a breakdown of the excercises beforehand so you're not surprised as you go, which I really like. Since I've let myself get so weak, I usually watch one excercise preview, pause and do it, then the next, etc.

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

I've started doing leg raises and stretches while nursing side-lying, mostly to stay awake but there might be eventual health benefits. I bought 2 pairs of jeans post partum, which are now too big but better than my before jeans which are laughable. They are not attractive, but they aren't maternity clothes either which makes me feel more normal. Walks are common here since that is a pretty reliable way to get a nap even if the carriers are hot. i got a mei tai which is a little cooler than my wrap. I'm still 10ish pounds from prebaby, and in a different configuration, so I don't know when/if my old clothes will fit again. Lucky for me I'm not particularly attached to any of my clothes, though buying replacements does not appeal.

[ivy]

Re: blue, you could try Special Effects... their Blue Velvet is what I used when I was blue, and it's relatively harmless chemicals as chemicals go. (All vegetable dye, etc.) It lasted longer than the six weeks I was told it would, but it does wash out very dramatically in the shower and will get your bathroom spattery blue pretty much the whole time you are using it.

Re: vintage SF paperbacks, Paperback Swap? You would have to do so much mailing... but you'd get books back in return.

I hope you get some rest soon. [rueful grin]

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I actually have dye bottle I'm ok with (though it looks like Special Effects has a dark green which might be worth a try...) My dithering is more because I have a picture of what I want to do in my head and I'm not sure if it'll actually work in real life. We'll see.

I'd heard that about paperback swap before, and did mention it to my mother. I feel like I probably know someone who knows a dealer who sells that kind of thing at cons, too. That one seems to have got back-burnered for the moment, though.