Raining vs. Pouring

[mrissa]

In the category of unexpected-but-not:

My grandparents have some very old, very dear friends. (Old in both senses, I'm afraid: long-term and elderly.) These people are close enough that my mom calls the male half of them Father. (She calls her own dad Dad, Daddy, Pop, or Pops, so nobody's toes are stepped on by this.)

Well, Carl ("Father") is very sick. Very, very sick. He's had some strokes. He's not doing real well. Joy (the female half) and their son John have asked my mom to come to see him and help them make decisions. She's coming up tonight and will be staying overnight with us while she sees Carl and helps them out as much as she can. Whatever that means when she gets here.

A few years back, my mom told me that we had been lucky so far to be able to keep all our many old people for as long as we had. She was right. I guess probability comes back and bites your butt sooner or later.

Comments

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Is there any way I can help?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I don't think so, unless you have psychic mopping ability and can clean my kitchen remotely. Do you have that? Because that would be neat. I mean, as superpowers go, it'd be kind of lame, but still better than nothing.

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

No. No. According to my friend, Monte, my superhero name is The ProcrastinaTOR with the ability to make anyone think two or three times before they do anything. Especially effective if there are several other (more fun/interesting) things they could be doing at the time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My printable superhero names are the Non Sequitess and (this one goes pretty well with yours) the Great ComplicaTOR. (I lobbied for Complicatrix when my ex-boyfriend gave me this name, but so far he remains firm on this point. He maintains that everything with me is a good three to a hundred times more complicated than it would be with anyone else. Which may be true, but it's also better.

The Great Complicatrix

[(Anonymous)]

I'd let you be the Great Complicatrix. I don't think it has as good a ring to it, but if you really wanted to be The Great Complicatrix, feel free.

-scott

Re: The Great Complicatrix

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

...and that would be the ex-boyfriend in question. He was firm on this point before, but I hadn't brought it up in awhile, and apparently that was long enough.

(Also, Scott, you seemed to like doing the TOR noise particularly loud, if I recall correctly.)

Re: The Great Complicatrix

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds

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It <b>sounds<b\> better my way:

The Great ComplicaTOR.
The Great Complicatrix....

Also, "The Great Complicatrix" sounds like you should be standing there in skin-tight leather, holding a whip. And that's not what this Superhero name (of yours) is all about.

Re: The Great Complicatrix

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's NOT?

[zellandyne.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.