Naomi Novik ([info]naominovik) wrote,
2011-05-03 14:43:00
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Happy birthday to me!

For my birthday I got a massage, some flowers, a bunch of delicious tea, and a bedbug infestation, so that tea and massage came in really handy. *facepalm*

So first we had to pack ALL THE BOOKS:



There has since been intensive anti-bedbug action, before which I packed up the baby and decamped to my office one block away. I have never gotten around to putting curtains on the west-facing windows. Guess who melts down if she doesn't have a quiet dark room to hang out in before bedtime?



So after one harrowing bedtime I sprang into action. I now have truly awesome curtains for my office:



(Trash bags, duct tape, and velcro. Oh and they are tastefully tied back with those little garbage twist-ties.)

Poor baby is completely confused anyway as she has gone from closet in my mom's house (for Passover/Easter celebration) to her own bedroom to OUR bedroom (since the bedbug was found in her room) to the office and now is back in our bedroom. Oh, and last night she woke up wailing at 10pm with what seems to have been a night terror.

Five minutes ago my editor called and asked me to write an intro letter for tomorrow (for a special promo edition of His Majesty's Dragon that will be given away at RWA and San Diego Comic-Con).

*crawls under bed*

*except no because there might be a BEDBUG there*
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[info]marthawells

May 3 2011, 19:00:27 UTC 1 year ago

Happy birthday! And yikes on the bedbugs! I hope they're all gone now.

[info]kassrachel

May 3 2011, 19:01:12 UTC 1 year ago

bedbugs omg!!!!! I am so sorry!

but happy (belated) birthday -- I hope the coming year is truly wonderful to you!

[info]celli

May 3 2011, 19:01:24 UTC 1 year ago

I have ALL the sympathy for you, having endured this once myself. *scratches in memory* I'm glad you had a decamping place, and I hope the little #$&^ers are exterminated soon!

[info]eglantine_br

May 3 2011, 19:01:53 UTC 1 year ago

Curtains are cool. I never would have thought of that. Sort of...industrial chic, (Hee.)

[info]donaithnen

May 3 2011, 19:06:24 UTC 1 year ago

Yay! Happy birthday! :)

Boo! Bedbugs! :(

[info]kirby_crow

May 3 2011, 19:09:30 UTC 1 year ago

bedbugs

The #1 reason I leave my clothes in the luggage when I travel. Even the cleanest hotels have them. :-/ Oh, and don't use the coffee makers. Don't ask.

[info]naominovik

May 3 2011, 21:24:29 UTC 1 year ago

wow, I will never use a coffeemaker in a hotel again, just the vaguest hint is enough to fill me with horror.

PS also! DON'T USE THE LUGGAGE RACKS! Apparently those are VERY commonly infested. D: D: D:

[info]kirby_crow

1 year ago

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[info]idemandjustice

May 3 2011, 19:36:05 UTC 1 year ago

Happy Birthday! And congrats on your little one. She looks about the same age as my 14 week old.

[info]giddygeek

May 3 2011, 19:51:31 UTC 1 year ago

...festive! *grins*

But happy birthday to you, and may that be the only bedbug spotted! Unless the rest of them come bearing excellent gifts you've always desired, and also a surefire cure for night terrors, anyway. Good luck, and good sleep! <3<3<3

[info]foxfyre

May 3 2011, 19:51:46 UTC 1 year ago

Oh no, what an ordeal -- doubly so with baby in tow. I'm so sorry. But on the up side: Happy Birthday?

Sorry, that's all I've got. *facepalm*

Get another massage when it's all over.

[info]toliver

May 3 2011, 19:58:37 UTC 1 year ago

You must be in New York! Happy birthday! I hope you get rid of all the bedbugs.

[info]lonehowler

May 3 2011, 20:13:58 UTC 1 year ago

The best way to kill bedbugs is with heat. Some extermination companies will come in with special heaters that will raise the tempature of the room to about 130 degrees(I could be wrong on the exact temp) wich is below the combustion point of fabrics but us complatly unlivable for bedbugs and their eggs

Oop also when traveling when you return home put all your laundry straight into the drier to kill them before they get a chance to infest your house

[info]disposableninja

May 3 2011, 20:16:19 UTC 1 year ago

Happy Birthday! :D

Hope those bedbugs get taken care of! I must say, the trash bag curtains do provide some odd, almost gothic touch.

Poor baby~

[info]lm_jillybean

May 3 2011, 20:24:16 UTC 1 year ago

First off - brrrrrrreeeeuuughhhhhhhhhh (which is the noise I make when I think about bed bugs), poor you and poor baby!

Second off, that curtain is fierce. You should move into interior design.

[info]versailles_rose

May 3 2011, 20:26:38 UTC 1 year ago

Whoa... those garbage bag 'curtains' look like they belong in Anne Rice's house!

Happy Birthday, Happy Baby!

[info]lobelia321

May 3 2011, 20:32:02 UTC 1 year ago

I am not getting something. You have to pack up your books to stop (chase? bore?) a bedbug? And where do you get those snazzy book boxes? Oh, and the curtains? They are positively baroque. You could market these! Geek chic!!!!

I once heard a radio programme about bed bugs. They are some sort of scourge redux. Aren't they?

[info]naominovik

May 3 2011, 21:26:32 UTC 1 year ago

haha, while you can read EXHAUSTIVELY (not that I have been doing this) on bedbuggers.org, the main reason for packing up is so the exterminators can get to all the cracks and crevices of the bookcases etc where the bedbugs may be hiding. Oh and also bedbugs will happily live INSIDE books which is so horrible I can barely stand to believe it.

[info]mythusmage

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[info]lferion

May 3 2011, 20:38:45 UTC 1 year ago

Happy Birthday anyway!

[info]jaxomsride

May 3 2011, 20:39:12 UTC 1 year ago

The Bed Bug qualifies as one Birthday present you could have done without.
So long as she hadn't been woken by a bed bug!

Hope You Enjoyed yo
ur Birthday in spite of the difficulties!

[info]introducingyael

May 3 2011, 20:53:24 UTC 1 year ago

Baby?! Mazal Tov! Congratulations! Yay!
And a happy birthday to you!

[info]laurashapiro

May 3 2011, 20:57:04 UTC 1 year ago

Aieeee!!!

Gawd, I am SO sorry. D:

[info]elder_bonnie

May 3 2011, 21:09:08 UTC 1 year ago

She is one of the most beautiful babies I've ever seen :)
And happy birthday!

[info]keleri

May 3 2011, 21:30:12 UTC 1 year ago

Happy Birthday! Love the curtains. My tinfoil ones got all bent and awful.

Sorry about the bedbugs, yikes. I would have had a Reddit-style freakout and burned down my own house.

[info]eac

May 3 2011, 21:31:43 UTC 1 year ago

You know, if we're going to have bedbugs again, the least society can do is invent our proper spaceships and flying robots. I was promised robots.

(So sorry about your bedbug problem. Hope your birthday hasn't been completely compromised.)

[info]yorimichi

May 3 2011, 21:46:07 UTC 1 year ago

happie birthday!!

and good luck with the bedbugs situation...eww...XD"

[info]xallanthia

May 3 2011, 21:57:32 UTC 1 year ago

Your little girl is adorable! Sorry about the birthday bedbugs, though.

[info]49thidentity

May 3 2011, 23:34:45 UTC 1 year ago

Eeeeeek, bed bugs! ;_; Hope they clear out of there soon, and I'm glad that everything pre-infestation was great? Also, we totally have the same birthday! Happy birthday, Miss Novik! :D

Oh, and will you be at SDCC along with aforementioned promo edition?

[info]naominovik

May 5 2011, 02:00:46 UTC 1 year ago

prrrrrobably not, as of now -- I would rather not travel while the baby is still so small! we'll see if Del Rey really wants to rope me into going, but so far it doesn't look super important.

and heee, happy (belated) birthday! :D

[info]49thidentity

1 year ago

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