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Happy Sunday, everyone! Those are coffee bean cupcakes that I’m cyber-giving to Eisha today, because Monday is her birthday! I got her blessing to take over today’s post and celebrate it one day early with our kicker-friends. She graciously agreed to type her kicks in the comments later, like everyone else, so that I CAN EMBARRASS HER on her birthday. Mwahaha. You know we do this every year, and I don’t know about Eisha, but I actually find it challenging each year to find new and creative ways to humiliate her. So . . .<\/p>\n
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At the bottom of the post is one of her baby pictures I could. not. resist. I mean, look at her. Punkin head. <\/p>\n So, even though I’m going to devote this post to Eisha and forego my own kicks this week, I hope you all will leave your kicks. Please do. We enjoy reading them weekly. And you can also help me wish Eisha a very happy birthday! <\/p>\n Here are my wishes. I’m yelling this and cheering seven different ways: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EISHA!<\/font><\/p>\n . . . I hope your birthday is very fun. Thank you for being the one friend I can say the craziest things in the world to, including trying out my favorite new swear words on you, and you won’t think I’m truly<\/em> batty or truly sick. At least if you do, you don’t say so outloud. Thanks for being that friend who laughs at the same goofy-ass nonsense I laugh at. Thanks for listening, thanks for giving me personal book recommendations all the time, thanks for being my new-music link, and thanks for being my friend for EIGHTEEN YEARS now. Yes, eighteen. I said, eighteen<\/em>. Really. One-eight. <\/p>\n And if you hate me for sharing these pics, you can get me back next May. Gulp. <\/p>\n I hope you indulge yourself today and do any and everything that makes you feel truly blissful. Woo! Wait. I mean, tomorrow. Well, both. Aw, just celebrate all week<\/em>. <\/p>\n Okay, about kicks for any new folks: 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks is our weekly meeting ground for taking some time to reflect on Seven(ish) Exceptionally Fabulous, Beautiful, Interesting, Hilarious, or Otherwise Positive Noteworthy Things from the past week, whether book-related or not, that happened to you. <\/p>\n What are YOUR<\/font> kicks this week? And, again . . . Happy Sunday, everyone! Those are coffee bean cupcakes that I’m cyber-giving to Eisha today, because Monday is her birthday! I got her blessing to take over today’s post and celebrate it one day early with our kicker-friends. She graciously agreed to type her kicks in the comments later, like everyone else, so that I CAN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seven-good-things-before-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/emadhatter2.jpg\")
. . . This year I enlisted the help of her mother—oh, yes I did<\/em>—who doesn’t live far from me. That Janice. She’s a sneaky one, my partner-in-crime. She scrounged up some photos of Eisha, and I chose these two. This one here is fitting: See? She’s all decked out as the Mad Hatter for a dance recital in which she participated in high school. <\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/eishababy.jpg\")
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