May. 10th, 2011

randy_byers: (2010-08-15)
I spend Mother's Day weekend at my parents' house in central Oregon. There was a new mother in the house: my niece just gave birth to baby Celine. Celine is around six weeks old, and she still hasn't even learned how to focus her eyes yet. I'm not around babies much, and it was a powerful reminder how much we have to learn to become humans. It was also interesting to me that her inability to control her arms and legs was something that could get her wound up. If her arms and legs started flailing too much, she'd get upset and start crying. They would swaddle her in a blanket to keep her limbs still, and she'd immediately calm down. It's frustrating to have no self-control!

Lots of family news and plans. My sister is moving to Portland to help with the baby. My parents are making progress in their plans to move back to Portland, too, which will happen next year. They're in the process of buying a condo in the Pearl District. Maybe I'll finally hit some of the new brewpubs I've been reading and hearing about when I start visiting them there.

I've been somewhat stressed out in recent weeks, mostly because of work -- not really in any negative sense, but because I have a lot coming at me at the moment. So I've been pretty wound up to begin with, and I got even more wound up last week traveling down memory lane, as I wrote about in recent posts. Then on Friday just before I left for Oregon I was blindsided by the eruption of animosity on one of the fannish lists I hang out on. It wasn't aimed at me but at a friend, and then a couple of other people chimed in in a way that I took as dog-piling. I was utterly furious, and I almost said some things that I certainly would have regretted later. I ground on it all weekend, although by the time I returned to Seattle on Sunday, calmer heads had intervened and smoothed the waters. A typical tempest in a teapot, but on top of everything else it really got me wired.

Yesterday we had an equipment malfunction at work that made the office unbearably hot, so I went home after lunch. I was so exhausted just from feeling wound up that I slept most of the afternoon. It really helped a lot. I also made an appointment to get a massage on Thursday, which will hopefully help me let go some of the built up tension. My right shoulder has been sore for a couple of weeks, partly from sleeping on it wrong and partly from tension. Or maybe I strained a muscle while gardening, I'm not completely sure. Whatever the cause, I'm hoping the massage will be the cure.

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