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Cordelia ended up having four other girls over last night. Two of them came home from school with her. We bought pizza for the three girls we knew we were feeding, and the other two had some, too, when they arrived. Scott picked up a bunch of snacks and a couple of bottles of lemonade on his way home, too. The girls ended up not eating any of the popcorn. That surprised me since it was the one thing Cordelia said she did want. Scott also bought a cherry pie.

The girls watched the first Star Wars movie, A New Hope, because two of them had never seen it. One of the girls who’d never seen it had played games based on it and so knew the story and kept telling the other girl who hadn’t seen it what was going on. They stopped the movie several times to explain things to the girls who hadn’t see it before. They also argued a bit about the whole Han-shot-first thing.

After three of the girls had gone home, we took the fourth girl home. Scott and I dropped Cordelia at home and then did some Ingress to take back a lot of the portals that whoever it was had taken from us. I used a Jarvis virus for the first time. That lets a green player take a blue portal completely intact, just flipping the color of everything. We didn’t get all of the portals at the science and nature center because it was dark. We weren’t willing to go into the woods in the dark. If I’m up to it today, I’ll walk over there, either with Scott or on my own.

Scott will be taking Cordelia and two of her friends to see the Captain America movie this afternoon. Cordelia really, really wanted to see it a second time but wasn’t willing to go with just her father. We had to prod her a little to ask her friends. The one Cordelia would normal ask hasn’t seen any of the previous movies, and Cordelia was certain that the movie wouldn’t make any sense at all without that.

I wrote two or three paragraphs, maybe one hundred words, yesterday. I keep getting hung up on trivialities that aren’t exactly trivialities. Right now, I’m trying to decide what Jadis would call Lucy. I know what she’s calling the other Pevensies, but my mind is going blank when it comes to Lucy.

I want to make some progress on this story today. Tomorrow is the deadline for getting snippets in for the WIP Big Bang if one’s hoping to get matched for art. I’m not convinced that I’m likely to match even if I get this stuff in on time, but I’m using the deadline as a sort of measure of whether or not I should drop out. Then again, if I don’t try to match for art, I won’t be letting anyone down if I fail to complete the story. If I match for art and don’t finish the story, I’d be screwing over the artist. I very much don’t want to do that.

I’m thinking that I’ll try today without the compression pad. I’ve been up for two hours now and haven’t been wearing it, and I don’t think things are any worse for it. Things aren’t quite right, in terms of hard, sore spots, but they generally aren’t even when I wear the pad. I want to see if things are better, worse, or the same without the dratted thing for an extended period. I think that stopping using the pad with its requirement for me to wear a nylon nightgown underneath to avoid itching will help my overheating problem a good bit. I’ll also have more flexibility in terms of what shirts to wear. I’ve been cycling through five very, very loose shirts for months now. I’ve got about a dozen shirts that are just too tight to wear over the compression pad.

I’ve got a ton of comments, PMs, and emails that I want to answer. Somehow, I never manage to get ahead. I have fic comments more than a year old that I haven’t answered. At this point, I’m embarrassed to. I still plan to respond to the comments on my writing brainstorming post, but I’m afraid I keep letting myself get distracted. I apologize for that. Some of you offered help/suggestions that I want to discuss.

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Cordelia says that her current shoes are starting to pinch, and her school is requiring that we get her a pair of shoes that she will only wear for gym (I’m really not pleased about this because there’s a chance she won’t have gym at all next year and because there’s only a month left to the school year. She’ll wear the dedicated shoes twice a week for an hour for a month and maybe not again after that). My thought, at this point, is to get her some summer shoes to wear every day because it’s mostly warm enough for that and to get her gym shoes. We can worry about warmer everyday shoes in the fall (so that she doesn’t outgrow them over the summer).

If her feet have grown, she’ll need new dress shoes, too, because she’ll no longer be able to wear mine. I just hesitate because she’ll only wear dress shoes about half a dozen times in a year.

I wish I had a more definite idea of how much more Cordelia will grow. If she’s going to outgrow these shoes, we want to get the cheapest we can find. My impression is that Scott thinks that buying shoes at Target is still the way to go. I’m not convinced of that at women’s sizes. He actually thinks that DSW is horrifically expensive. If we were buying dress shoes, I’d fight him on that because it’s actually possible to find flats there, and I almost never see them anywhere else.