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I hate summer! Summer without a car sucks worse than winter without a car, blech. I’m amazed I haven’t been sunburned yet. Chalk that up to actually remembering to put on sunscreen before I leave the house (and, apparently, the sunscreens I bought actually work!).

What we’ve been doing lately: swimming. Well, Rebecca the Fish swims As Much As Possible, and I sit in the shade watching her, glaring at the neighbors, and reading. What else we’ve been doing is reading a lot, playing World of Warcraft, and writing letters. And waiting for Zoe to come home! Rebecca’s Very Very Best Friend, Zoe, has been in Arizona visiting her grandparents, for A WHOLE ENTIRE MONTH and the terrible lonely drama has been… a terrible lonely drama. She’s coming home in a few days, although Becca probably won’t see her until early next week.

I finished The Foundling, and while it wasn’t my favorite of the “kid” books I’ve been reading lately, I did like it and have requested Book 2 from the library. I started The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. I’m only a little into it, but so far I like it a lot and it’s just a lovely lovely book, with beautiful illustrations. It’s just an unusual book. Rebecca and I finished Akiko and the Journey to Toog by Mark Crilley and loved it as much as all the Akiko books. This has been one of our favorites series of books. Now we’ve started reading the Gregor series by Suzanne Collins. I’ve read the first three books, but I guess I’ll stop now, read those to Becca, and continue on together.