July brings us two weeks of Mean Girls Jr. day camp (loving it, but our littlest thespian has been sick and missed two days out of five so far - hopefully next week will be better!), a super-successful week long camp in NYC with NYFA, and last but not least, we're hosting homestays and have one attendee this year for Young Americans performing arts camp. Buckle in!
What I'm reading this week:
LOVED Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner. Finished the book a few days ago, and got my review written earlier this week (not posted at BooksIThinkYouShouldRead yet). Five stars - read it!!
I'm currently trying to dive in on our Adult Battle of the Books books - the battle is August 15 and there are four books. I've started reading Wow, No Thank You:Essays by Samantha Irby, and Lore Olympus, Vo. 1 by Rachel Smythe. Still on the list to know about before August 15 are Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller and Recursion by Blake Crouch. I'm admittedly most excited to read Recursion, and not really into the two I've started so far. Ugh
And because I got all four books in print copies so I can annotate, I'm also reading two on my kindle (because I couldn't get one to boot up right the first time, and they're different enough that, hey, let's read all the books at once!) - Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe, and Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (which I actually have not read any of yet, but I want to, so it's listed and ready to roar)
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Three Good Things:
- I applied for another job with another company, but I either asked for too much money, or I'm just too old, so they rejected me in just a few days. Oh yeah, these are the good things - at least they didn't leave me wondering! And I do love my regular schedule of starting at 6am. I don't think most people have that luxury.
- While I'm so glad my daughter loved her NYC camp, and most likely made a few lifelong friends, I am very happy to have both of my kiddos back under my roof. Have you seen the newest Inside Out 2 movie? Anxiety...that bitch is so real.
- Sick kiddo #2 seems to be on the mend. He has been DEVASTATED to miss part of his camp that was only 10 days long to start, and the performances are next Friday and Saturday. Horrible cough, fever, exhaustion. Ugh. But last night I got all the meds, so now he's cough syruped, ibuprofened, vitamin Ced and Vicksed up. Fingers crossed he can go to camp all five days and two performances this week. We already ordered his Wednesday shirt (on Wednesdays we wear pink), so Ima need his immune system to pull together.
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Oh, I loved Inside Out 2 - it was a very realistic portrayal of anxiety!!
Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Clip not working here but I hope you didn't take on too much dammage - yikes. Hope your sick kiddo recovers soon. #SundaySalon
I've been writing down my good things for about four years now, and I've found, oddly, that some of my best good things are bad things looked at in a different way. If that makes any sense!
I've never done a Battle of the Books, but it sounds like fun. I hope the books turn out to be better than you thought they were going to be. Good luck!
And I hope you will return to Sunday Salon more often.
I hope the sick kiddo feels better soon! It sucks to miss camp.
I love your good things list. I need to get back into this practice.
And a bee's knees sounds really good and refreshing.
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