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as i begin this post, gd's having another coughing fit. earlier, it got so bad that she was crying, and thought she was literally dying, so i made some frantic phone calls to make sure we'd be able to go to the emergency ward while mr smear tried to help...

... it was hard to get him to go to bed, because he was going through an emotional rollercoaster and needed to be convinced that his mommy would be okay :(

yesterday:

after taking mr smear to school, gd and i did some shopping. i picked him up, we came home to switch backpacks, and then i took him to the comic store on levontin (dying lake) to browse. very cool stuff, hopefully they'll be able to miraculously get hold of some calvin & hobbes for us.

we took the light rail back home, and the rest of the afternoon was pretty chilled.

we finished the day with pretty decent homemade pizza and howl's moving castle. after putting mr smear to bed i installed shadowrun: hong kong, but not remembering much of shadowrun returns i decided to continue my restart of that instead.

today:

i woke up this morning before anyone else, and returned to shadowrun returns while simultaneously fielding birthday phone calls, and that's pretty much my morning up until downtime. mr smear's new friend (!) called him and invited him over, so i walked him over, expecting to drop him off and come home. instead, his friend's mother awkwardly invited me in, and while we talked her husband arrived, and we ended up having a really good time while our kids played :)

it was difficult to get mr smear out of there, both the kids were making it difficult which was cool, and then we came home to the drama.

*sigh*

at least we had a break between the coughing fits and bedtime for mr smear to shower and watch the rest of howl's moving castle.

also cool was that in spite of the yom kippur incident, mr smear's other new friend wants to see him and we've been invited to his family for next friday night.

now i'm just praying that gd will be able to get some sleep and that i'll be able to as well.