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Birthday party over, Kidzilla has been packed off home with a birthday haul of books, school supplies and apples (we were at the orchard again today) and a ball of nervous for her first day of school in the morning. She'll be fine. :)

It was a good weekend with them, not too crazy, didn't feel overscheduled, there were lots of hang out and snuggle and play times.

cell23 and I chatted about it a bit last night, and we both agree it's a lot more... I don't know, relaxed is not the right word, nor is "easier" but whatever the word I'm fishing for is, it's really nice having our own space for them to run around and be themselves in. Course it's just nice having our own space, full stop. It occurred to me recently that it's been probably more than five years since I truly shared a living space with someone and felt like I had an equal claim to it rather than just feeling like all I had a right to was my room. I mean, there was the spot at the Perry for a bit, but that never really felt mine either even though I wasn't sharing it with anyone. But yeah, it's pretty nice so far. Course, it's only been a week and I may well find some reason to stab him in his sleep soon, which reminds me, I still owe him some profound swatting for a zinger he aimed at

chirping_monkey and me earlier today... oy. It was funny, no lie, but he needs to be smacked into at least next tuesday for it.

Tomorrow feels very much back to life back to reality and I'm trying not to dread it as such. There's a trip to sephora to look forward to at least, so it's certainly not all gloom doom and work.

Something

cell23 pointed out yesterday has been making me kinda consider starting to jack out from the interbutts for a while again. Goodness knows I have a shitton of better things to do besides stare into the pixels, and these days I actually am starting to get back the desire to do them. Amazing what you want to do when you're not a ball of anxiety, eh?

Goose out.

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Did Kidzilla seem excited about the books [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] got her? I was a consultant on some of that stack, so I MUST KNOW if I actually helped. :)

She did indeed! The only slight misfire was Half Magic but that's only cause I gave her a copy last year and have one of my own here, lol so she's covered in the Edward Eager department.

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Oh well, that one was actually lynx's idea. :) I'm hope she enjoys them! Reader's Advisory is seriously one of my favorite parts of my job.

She had a lot of Magic Treehouse books already so I got her a high-numbered (37 (in a row?)) one on the hopes she didn't have it yet. And I was afeared she already had the Tales of the Odyssey but she didn't. I also got her a Choose Your Own Adventure book, an Encyclopedia Brown book and a book called "You Wouldn't Want To be At The Boston Tea Party" (to which she asked "why not?" and I had to hold my tongue not to say "it's just a bunch of scared white folks screaming about immigrants and death panels"). Sadly the bookstore did not have A Wrinkle In Time

And yes,

bottledgoose you DO owe him a Grand Beating of the Highest Calibre for that one. I'm just glad I somehow was out of the splash radius for that one.

Oh, that "You wouldn't want. . ." series is AWESOME and really popular at the library.

Oh so you heard the "receptacles for my penis" comment then. Thanks for reminding me. >:)

Aw, happy birthday for the little'un.

And Belly Dancing if you're De-Interbutting!

...receptacles for my penis?? Beat him!

I did. This is why I have a three foot purple cane named Mace Windu in the closet. XD

... good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read this. (not my computer or desk, and I would have felt really bad about the mess)