Oh, you know, the eternal struggle of balancing books that we bring to shelf editions that we're not going to bring to books on the radar.

I know.

Right.

Oh.

Send help.

Please stop touching your hair.

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It truly helps us connect with other book lovers. Hey, Hannah. Hey, Tina. How's your day so far? Very good. Thank you. Wow. You switched it up. So now I'm like, oh, oh, I don't know. I have to respond. Day so far is good. I feel like we have a relatively low-key weekend coming up, which is nice. It's sandwiched in between two very busy weekends. So I'm looking forward

to having a little bit of downtime. Of course, I say downtime. And Jonathan has ordered trees

for our backyard that should be delivered today.

So I guess we'll be planting trees this weekend.

Yeah.

So how about you?

What's your plans for this weekend?

It is my son is turning four this weekend. Oh, yeah.

So we're actually going to do his event party. It's going to be super low key next

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