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Delia's first loose tooth came out last night. We'd been expecting it to come out at any moment for several days, but it hung on. Last night, after the Spring Sing, we went with Scott's parents to a restaurant. At one point, I asked Delia how the tooth was. She said it was okay. Scott's mother jokingly offered to pull it out and then was floored when Delia said yes. Scott's mother tested the tooth, and it came away easily in her hand. Delia didn't seem to feel anything much at all in the process, so I assume it was just ready.

When we got the tooth home, Scott insisted on putting it in a Ziploc bag before putting it under her pillow. Delia freaked out over that and insisted that he write a note to the Tooth Fairy for her that basically said, "I'm really, really sorry about the bag. My daddy insisted. It's not my fault."

So we left her a note from the Tooth Fairy that said that the bag was fine, that the Tooth Fairy wished more people would do that because they're useful. The Tooth Fairy also left both a dollar coin and the tooth (noting that first teeth are special so that Delia should have the option of keeping it. If she doesn't want it, she can leave it with a later lost tooth, and the Tooth Fairy will take it then).

Delia's up now but is too sleepy to have thought to look under her pillow yet. That's not too surprising, given how late she stayed up last night. She kept getting out of bed and fussing over one thing and another.

ETA: She's found the coin and the note now. She wants to show them off. She is a little puzzled that the Tooth Fairy didn't take her note. I explained that the Tooth Fairy may not have wanted to carry it.

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I rejected a request on BookMooch yesterday. I feel a little bit bad for the moocher but not that much. Her profile states that she's a high school sophomore, and she asked me for a book with explicit male/male stories. When I said no, she told me that her parents were fine with her reading whatever and that she could just walk into a book store and buy it. The latter is true. I have no way of knowing if the former is, and I choose not to risk it. If her parents are okay with it, they can get the book for her. These transactions are publicly recorded. If I sent her the book, anybody who bothered to look could see where it came from and who sent it.

(I do have some sympathy for being a teenager and wanting to read about sex without letting one's parents know, even if they wouldn't disapprove or object. There's a large layer of embarrassment and squick to thinking about sex and one's own parents at the same time, let alone talking to them about what bits of sex interest one or turn one on.)

I've rejected mooch requests before. Once at the request of the moocher who hadn't read the condition notes, once because the moocher had received a bunch of books but hadn't successfully sent a single one in spite of having several pending gives, once because I erroneously thought that I didn't own the book (I sent it when I realized that I did have it). That's four in a bit more than a year, and I think they were all reasonable.

I'm taking a couple of weeks break from mailing out BookMooch stuff, at least until after Delia's birthday. I sent out five books, four of them internationally, on Saturday, and I need a break both for my stress levels (one thing I won't have to worry about in the middle of preparing for Delia's birthday) and my budget.

Of course, the break in shipping means that I'm hesitating to list more books right when I've made the decision to get rid of some things. I seem to have gone off reading romances for a while now, and I've got a large stack of romances taking up space in my bedroom that I don't even want to look at. I'm afraid to get rid of them because they are things that I really *did* want to read and expected to enjoy a lot, but I haven't opened them in months and don't really want to right now. I made myself start one on Sunday (yes, while I was sick). I got halfway into it and realized that, while I liked the characters and enjoyed the style, I didn't want to read a romance. I wanted a the characters and style with the romance as a B or C plotline rather than as the primary story.

I suspect that the Loretta Chase and Laura Kinsale books would get taken fairly rapidly if I did post them. I just hesitate because I might still want to read them some day. My library doesn't own any of them, and I'm not sure how available they are by ILL. Then again, I might never read them, and I am trying to get rid of books that I've had forever and not opened.

::sighs:: I'm also thinking about going through my to-be-read shelf and sorting out the ones that I've started and stalled out on reading. Some of those are good but simply haven't suited my mood at any time when I've looked at the shelf. Some of those have gotten buried under other stuff. Some of them are things I probably won't ever finish and don't care much about. I want to try to finish the things in the first and second categories and get rid of the things in the third category. I'd also like to separate out the manga since it takes a lot less time to finish.

I think I need a separate room for my to-be-read books. Not likely to happen, barring a sudden monetary windfall. I covet a big house (and money to pay people to help me keep it up) because I want a huge, dedicated library, a space for nothing but books and spending time with books.