Robin Sedai

You have my permission to skip the following  I know I'm going on a bit, just wanted to let it out.

SO. Argentina won the World Cup last night!!! This makes me incredibly happy. Their 2014 loss against Germany was the first match I ever watched (I must have been seven or eight?) and it got me hooked on football. I've supported Argentina ever since then (though I do have a soft spot for Mexico.) To see them finally win it is a dream come true.

Also, what a match. You couldn't have asked for a better final. Things going fairly smoothly until 80 minutes in, them BOOM France equalizes, tension skyrockets, and I spend the rest of the match scared out of my goddamn mind.

Messi scores a brace, Mbappé a hat-trick (appropriate) Di María comes through like the legend he is. And Emi Martínez!! The guy is clearly unhinged, but still my hero

More than nine hours later and I still feel emotionally drained. Just... what a beautiful storyline, for Messi and for Argentina.

In other news, my father and both my siblings have a cold. (Technically I have it too, but my symptoms are much weaker than theirs.) The house has been blissfully quiet these last few days