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Viva Espana! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3706414.stm

Link from collie13.

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Dave's dad had to go in for an impromptu heart catheterization this morning based upon an abnormal EKG reading he had yesterday. They found a collapsed artery and placed a stent in it. He appears to be fine now, but we're all still a little worried--he is not a good candidate for open heart surgery, but it looks as if he won't have to have it, which is good news.

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Disney was fun.

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I'm getting a cold and I'm tired. Ellie's sick too, which apparently is a reason for her to stay up and whine for most of the night. Plus it's storming. I'm feeling decidedly nappish.

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More later.

Slugfest

Beast Boy has been buying entirely too many pet slugs.*

The first one ate the microwave, Raven's cape, and all the food in the house before Beast Boy trapped it in Robin's sock. He tried to put the second on Robin's cape, but the cape was much too strong for the slug to eat.

Each of the first two slugs had 100 babies so now there are 200 baby slugs in the house!

Now, Beast Boy has also had a couple of Captain Morgans and Cokes, due to a rough day (all the slugs, maybe?) and so he's lying on the sofa. He did take a break, however, to buy four more slugs; obviously, the ethanol has seriously impaired his judgment.

Raven has caught one of the slugs in her room.** She's pissy because it just ate her force field.

I, Starfire, am recording this for posterity so that if/when the slugs eat us all alive, someone will have heard of our plight. My green super-vision allows me to see them well, so I'm hitting as many with fireballs as I can, per Robin's instructions, but there are just too damn many of them.

To further complicate things, the baby living with us just ate my lipstick and is handing it to Beast Boy saying, "Daddy. Wook. Mouf. Mine." Even though I tried to put her on the potty, she just peed on the floor. More mess to clean up. Maybe the slugs will drink it.

Robin is harassing Beast Boy about his penchant for slugs. Oh, wait, he's turning to me now.

"Um, Starfire?" Robin says.

"Yes?"

"The slug's on the baby's head."

"Well, you'll have to get it off. I can't hit the baby in the head with a fireball."

Beast Boy's on the phone with his mom now. The baby's eating Doritos and trying to put lipstick on me. Robin's playing with a styrofoam container, and I'm...well, I don't know what I'm doing--but in a minute, I'm sure I'll be required to hit a few slugs with my fireball power.

All in a day's work.



*The slugs are NPCs.

**Raven is also an NPC.

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Dave's dad is still feeling the same shortness-of-breath symptoms after the catheterization/stent insertion, and so Dave is going to go down and spend the weekend with his parents.

I feel helpless, wondering if this is the endgame, and if so, how best to support everyone through it. I just don't know. All I can do is keep doing what I'm doing, taking care of the kids and the house as best I can.

It doesn't feel like much.

I'm afraid that these health issues with my father-in-law may affect my AC plans. That's...so selfish, so shitty that I hesitate to write it. But it is on my mind. I've been looking forward to this particular weekend in Philly for a long time--wanted to go ever since I heard about it, back in October.

But this other is bigger emotionally than that, so much that I can't really wrap my mind around it.

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Daniel just said, "I want to be cool. Am I a cool kid?"

I said, "Well, yeah, you're a really cool kid. But the important thing is to just be yourself, not worry so much if that's cool or not."

Daniel said, "But if I were even cooler, everyone in the world would want me."

(yeah, he used the subjunctive. *grin*)

That's the part we all struggle with, isn't it? How to be even cooler so everyone, anyone, will want us. *wry grin*. I wish I were immune, but I'm not.

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My last poll post was an attempt to figure out what to keep public and what to make private. My journal feels whiny and boring even to me lately, and I'm looking for ways to be more interesting, entertaining. *grins* Cooler. Okay, maybe I should just be myself...or maybe I should hide more things behind the 'Private' setting, or, at the very least, an lj cut. That's the part I just haven't figured out yet. What to hide, what to reveal. If it matters.