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I'm thirteen, and Colin's practically sixteen! Twenty three doesn't seem that young to be married; I mean, that's old enough to have finished a degree and gotten your first job and everything! It's a little young to have kids, maybe, but you must be pretty rich if you have such huge concerts, I'd assume, which means he could be home a lot more than someone just starting out! Um, which isn't to say that love isn't important, because it really is, but it's good to be practical too!

That's like the age difference between Joe and I ::smiles:: He doesn't plan on having kids just yet, their one year anniversary is in December. It's still a little early. We have the money sure, but we're always so busy with the band or our TV show or movies or charity work or promotional work that he wouldn't have much time to raise a baby so I think that's another main reason they're waiting. Being practical is very good.

Yep! Babies are cool too, though! I'd like to have kids, I think! I mean, when I'm much older, I wanna finish school properly first and get a job, but after that! And then Colin would be Uncle Colin, which'd be pretty awesome!

Those are very good goals to have. I'm sure you'll do great with the rest of your schooling and will get a good job when you grow up. And I'm sure Colin would love being an uncle, being an uncle seems like a lot of fun.

Plus he'd be great at taking baby photos! He's gonna be a photojournalist when he finishes school! Like, a proper news one, not the sort that stalks you! I'm gonna be a, well, sort of like a research scientist, but for the Ministry of, of Intelligence? I'm not sure what they call that in other countries! But I'd help solve all sorts of mysteries, like working out new ways to do crime scene forensics, or to fight weapons and stuff! I like puzzles! And helping people! I guess you already know what you're going to do, huh? 'cause you're doing it!

Those are both great career choices, I'm sure the both of you will do great! Well this is what I'm doing for now. I'll always be a musician but I still have a lot of life left ahead of me and a lot of things I'd love to do. I'd kind of like to be President one day or maybe a professional baseball player. My options are still wide open but if I was just musician and actor for the rest of my life, then I'd still be very happy.

You act too? Neat! Aren't you kind of old to start being a professional sportsman, though? I thought they all started as kids! Though I suppose you must be very fit, having to do all those concerts!

Yeah, I act too. Unfortunately yeah, it's not a very likely career for me but I still think it would be awesome. If I wasn't doing this, I wish I would be a professional baseball player. Yeah I am pretty fit I guess, I have to be. Between performing on stage, playing all the sports that I do and managing my diabetes, I stay in shape.

You're diabetic? That's the one that means you have to inject yourself, right?

There's 2 types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. People with Type 1 have to inject themselves with insulin and Type 2 can manage it with medication. I'm Type 1 so I have to give myself insulin, yeah.

Huh! I didn't know that! Is one too little insulin and two too much?

With Type 1, your body doesn't produce any insulin and with Type 2, your body is resistant to the insulin it produces so it can't use it properly.

Having Type 1, I have to constantly monitor my blood glucose levels and make sure they don't get too high or too low.

Does that mean you have to keep taking blood out as well as putting needles in?

Yeah I have to prick my finger to check my blood about 10-13 times a day and give myself insulin all the time. Insulin pumps help me not have to give myself shots each time though.

You must have really sore fingers by the end of the day! What's an insulin pump?

My fingers are really used to it, I've been doing this for the last 5 years. Plus I have a lot of calluses on my hands from playing the guitar and drums. An insulin pump is a device that you wear and gives you your insulin throughout the day without you having to keep giving yourself shots.

You'd think, if they can do that, they'd be automate the blood sugar testing too and, wait, you play guitar and drums? Doesn't the guitar get in -- you don't mean at the same time, do you? Hee! That would pretty cool, though!

You'd think... but that's a little different, I don't have to pay attention to when the pump's giving me insulin so I can keep going about my day but I have to stop every time to check my levels because I need to know what they are so it's not so bad.

I play the guitar, the drums, the piano and I sing. I don't play the guitar and the drums at the same time, no. But I do sing while playing all three instruments.

I wonder if you could play a drum with one foot and a keyboard with another foot while playing the guitar and singing? I mean, not you specifically, just in general! I can't even play one instrument! Well, I could probably play the drums, because all you have to do is hit things in rhythm, most of the time, and I figure I could build up to cymbals and clever things pretty quickly from there!

I don't think it'd be possible to play all of them at once well but you could probably pull off a few really offkey notes. The drums mostly is hitting thugs in rhythm but the hardest thing first to learn is how to have your hands and feet all work independently from each other.

::looks thoughtful, waving hands and tapping a foot as if drumming, then shrugs:: I expect it's a lot harder to do with actual drums than just thinking about it would make it seem!

::watches, bemused and chuckles:: Yeah, it's pretty hard to get a handle on. I started playing the drums when I was very young so I'm quite used to it.

Like my age young, or like baby young? I used to have a pair of toy bongo drums when I was three, because I got real sick and couldn't get out of bed, so I had them to play with! I dunno where they are now; I'd forgotten all about them until just now!

I had my first drum set at like... 4 but it was a toy set. I started really learning when I was around 8 I think. Bongos are fun to play around with, I have a set laying around somewhere.

I'm only five years behind then! Are all your family musical? Do your brothers play everything too?