All good thoughts and prayers for a quick recovery for the dad of msbelle. Also some ~ma for calm and pleasant travels.

Twin wrestling matches! In Kat's womb! Ouch. I hope the sick is on its last legs. No more sick. Time to get to the glowing and feeling great stuff.

So tired. Does maniacal laughing help?

surgery is done, no complications. he is in recovery. mom sounds worse for the wear though.

I'm glad for your dad, msbelle, and hope your mom recovers soon.

recover-ma for Pa Belle.

But I still was like "CLIVE!!!!" when he presented last night. I didn't even know he was going to be there, so I was surprised.

I had a powerful desire to see him make out with Cate Blanchett when they walked out together. "Just make out with her right now!"

I hope everything goes as smoothly as possible for your father msbelle.

Woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible upset stomach. Still feeling aftereffects of pain this morning. Officially tired of this body.

Get well soon~ma to your dad, msbelle.

I ended up having a pretty productive weekend, what with working up two versions of the F2F logo and organizing the two bookcases in my living room/hallway. The next things for me to do around the house are sort through comics I want to throw out and unpack boxes of magazines (unopened since the move in 2004) so I can do the same with them. It feels odd to be within a weekend's work of having every room in my home except the extra room presentable for company...

Recovery~ma to msbelle's dad--I hope he's up and walking soon!

I cannot have any caffeine today, since I'm donating platelets tonight. Bleah. And gronk. At least I'm only working a half-day today, since I want to fit in a Target run, a workout, picking up my diet food and dropping it off at home, and eating my dinner while there, all before going to Lifesource for the donation at 5:30.

I feel like a sloth since I didn't go for a swim yesterday morning like I was planning to do all week (I ended up getting in only about 11 minutes of an old aerobics video before the Oscars started). Oh, and I got e-mail notice of my electricity bill, and since the rate freeze is now over and the extreme cold of this month (electric heat in my apartment), it went up about 40%! Feh.

My goodness, the foamosity!

Pakistan: 11 dead, 100 injured in kite flying festival

At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colourful kites, officials said today.

The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops yesterday at the conclusion of the two-day Basant festival, said Ruqia Bano, spokeswoman for emergency service in the city of Lahore.

The festival is regularly marred by casualties caused by sharp kite strings or celebratory gunshots fired into the air.

Kite flyers often use strings made of wire or coated with ground glass to try to cross and cut a rival’s string or damage the other kite, often after betting on the outcome.

I cannot have any caffeine today, since I'm donating platelets tonight.

Wait, what? I never heard that. Huh.