It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . For those new to our series, this is where we all stop in every Sunday to report seven (more or less is fine) Good Things that happened to you (or that you read or saw or experienced or . . . well, you get the picture) this week.<\/p>\n
Well, it was kind of a weird week, wasn’t it? But we’re here to focus on the good, and that seems like a very good idea right now. So:<\/p>\n
1* Since I live in MA, Monday was a state holiday (Patriot’s Day<\/strong><\/a> – they’ve got a couple of these weird Revolutionary War-related holidays<\/strong><\/a> that no one else celebrates up here). So I had a 3-day weekend, which is always a good thing. <\/p>\n 3* STATE TAX REFUND!<\/p>\n 4* I’m actually writing this on Thursday night, because this Saturday and Sunday the husband and I are househunting in Ithaca. Which is where all the refund money is going to go. But I’m already getting excited about the cost-of-living differential between Cambridge and Ithaca. We’re looking at renting 3-bedroom houses for less than we’re paying for a 2-bedroom apartment here. Ooh, I might have a yard again! Or at least a porch…<\/p>\n 6* Jarrett J. Krosoczka<\/strong><\/a> told everyone to bookmark us<\/strong><\/a> on his blog, and called us (I quote) “kind of like the Inside the Actors Studio of kid lit blogs.” How cool is that? Wicked awesome cool, that’s how cool. Thanks, Jarrett!<\/p>\n 7* And Sara Lewis Holmes<\/strong><\/a> said in a comment to our John Green interview<\/strong><\/a> that our blog name should be a verb, as in (I quote again): “How was the interview?” “Oh, dude, I totally imped it! It rocked!” How cool is that? Insanely, ridiculously, off-da-hook cool, dude. Thanks, Sara!<\/p>\n I’m going to do a blanket, all-encompassing statement here: In light of the sad week the country’s had and in light of Roger Sutton’s thought-provoking post<\/strong><\/a> on blogs\/reviewing and in light of the impressive work Colleen Mondor<\/a><\/strong> has put into this summer’s upcoming Summer Blog Blast Tour (a week-long series of interviews with YA authors that will be occurring) and in light of my own singularly craptacular<\/font><\/big> week (simply having to do with the frustrations involved with spending your days with very young children who are often, by nature, far from rational* and are guided by instant gratification, thus bringing about many headaches for the caretakers involved, and who excel at tantrums; these are hardnesses which every other parent of wee ones undergoes, so I’m not trying to throw a pity party here) and in light of the fact that two friends of mine are dealing with cancer (breast cancer and brain cancer, of all the things), I’m going to say that I’m happy to be alive and healthy<\/font><\/em> and happy that my family members are, too<\/font><\/em>; I’m happy to have an opportunity to write about books online<\/font><\/em> for whomever might care to read and happy to talk about said books with other book-lovers<\/font><\/em>; I’m grateful for comments like Roger’s<\/font><\/em> that get us thinking and talking and arguing; and I’m thrilled to be involved with the Summer Blog Blast Tour, as Eisha and I will be chatting with some really great YA authors<\/font><\/em> (though we know interviews aren’t for everyone). <\/p>\n Now who’s going to give me the award for the Longest, Most Insufferable Run-on Sentence Ever?<\/p>\n Two more quick things: <\/p>\n Secondly (not book-related in the slightest), I was thrilled to discover there are two new Sam Phillips tunes at her site<\/a><\/strong>. Now, I visit her site all the time . . . . She could not. have. a. bigger. fan. So, uh, I felt really dim-witted to find out these tunes have been there for a while, and I didn’t realize it. That doesn’t diminish my joy in finding them, though. “Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us” — now, there’s a masterful creation (and before Sam brings it to the world in early ’08, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant — of all people — will be covering it on an upcoming CD. What a duo. Boggles the mind, it does) . . . <\/p>\n {I needed to read that after the week I had in which I found myself wishing away the days, due to my particularly fussy (for some reason) children. My 18-mo. old has a new stomp-on-the-floor-guess-why-I’m-screaming dance. Calgon . . .} <\/p>\n * “A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson We’re done with our lists (or “list,” in my case). How ’bout you all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s time for another installment of 7-Imp’s 7 Kicks . . . 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2* FEDERAL TAX REFUND!<\/p>\n5* My sis-in-law sent another mess of baby nephew pics, including this one. This is more or less exactly what my earliest memories of my little brother look like.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>First, I stumbled upon this last night at the web site for Macmillan Books<\/a><\/strong> (in the U.K.): Emily Gravett’s<\/a><\/strong> next book, Monkey and Me<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, will apparently be released in the U.K. in June of this year. I am so in love with her book from last year, Wolves<\/em> (discussed here<\/a><\/strong> by me and Eisha), that I’m really looking forward to this and wonder when it will make its way across The Pond. <\/p>\n
Anonymous postcard submitted to Frank Warren, founder and curator of the PostSecret<\/a><\/strong> project<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n
\n(Oh, and “There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.” — Emerson)<\/p>\n