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Jessi
Mar 7, 2006 12:16:27 GMT -5
Post by sparklymouse on Mar 7, 2006 12:16:27 GMT -5
Man, that Secret Language book was boring. There's nothing like reading about someone learning how to do something as visual as sign language.
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Amalia
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Jessi
Mar 7, 2006 22:30:34 GMT -5
Post by Amalia on Mar 7, 2006 22:30:34 GMT -5
Yeah. Wasn't that her first book? I guess it started the tone for the rest of her's.
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macca
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Jessi
Mar 8, 2006 2:10:53 GMT -5
Post by macca on Mar 8, 2006 2:10:53 GMT -5
As I re-read them, I had to skip Jessi's Secret Language. I remember how bored I was reading that one as a kid. Ugh.
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Jessi
Mar 8, 2006 17:01:16 GMT -5
Post by hitzpink on Mar 8, 2006 17:01:16 GMT -5
Ooh, and she looks absolutely hideous on the cover of Jessi's Secret Language.
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Jessi
Mar 8, 2006 21:39:34 GMT -5
Post by booboobrewer on Mar 8, 2006 21:39:34 GMT -5
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macca
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Jessi
Mar 9, 2006 5:15:28 GMT -5
Post by macca on Mar 9, 2006 5:15:28 GMT -5
^ Ha! Oh man, that pic is CLASSIC.
Jessi looks terrible on the cover of Jessi and the Superbrat, too.
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Jessi
Mar 9, 2006 22:33:28 GMT -5
Post by sparklymouse on Mar 9, 2006 22:33:28 GMT -5
Jessi looked like crap for the first half of the series. She had really weird bangs and always had her mouth partway open like she couldn't breathe out her nose.
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Amalia
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Jessi
Mar 10, 2006 3:06:47 GMT -5
Post by Amalia on Mar 10, 2006 3:06:47 GMT -5
I agree with all of the aboves about Jessi's pictures essentially looking weird.
I just read Jessi Ramsey, Pet Sitter. Would anybody in real life really entrust the care of all of those pets to an 11-year old? The answer might be yes, but, to me, it's like jeez loueez.
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Jessi
Mar 11, 2006 19:02:02 GMT -5
Post by sparklymouse on Mar 11, 2006 19:02:02 GMT -5
Do people really think "Oh, my hamster's sick. Better take it to the vet."? Maybe I'm cruel but I don't know anyone who would bother to bring their rodent to the doctor. I hope Jessi did it just because it would look bad to have one of the pets die. But if those people were so into their animals then how could they not know that the thing was pregnant? Yeah, this book was dumb. The only good parts were that there was no ballet and Jessi and Mal's hamster names were cute. I totally didn't get "Frodo" until after I saw Lord of the Rings.
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macca
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Jessi
Mar 11, 2006 20:26:00 GMT -5
Post by macca on Mar 11, 2006 20:26:00 GMT -5
Hmmm, I don't know if people take hamsters to the vet, never had one. But I guess if you were watching it for someone else, you wouldn't want it to die or something without being able to say you did everything possible to prevent it. After all, if the owners loved the thing enough to pay someone to take care of it while they went away, they're likely to be that obsessive pet-owner type.
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Jessi
Mar 21, 2006 9:00:38 GMT -5
Post by aln1982 on Mar 21, 2006 9:00:38 GMT -5
Hmmm, I don't know if people take hamsters to the vet, never had one. But I guess if you were watching it for someone else, you wouldn't want it to die or something without being able to say you did everything possible to prevent it. After all, if the owners loved the thing enough to pay someone to take care of it while they went away, they're likely to be that obsessive pet-owner type. I would have taken it if I was responsible for it. The Mancusis did seem to be the obsessive type about thier pets - treating them like thier kids - which also makes it weird that they didn't know the hamster was pregnant. Or maybe it is hard to tell? I have no clue about rodents except that I don't like them. I would have been screaming and hiding with Mary Anne. The book wasn't too bad but just the idea of caring for all of those pets (canned dog food and pet hair in the house - yuck!) grossed me out. |
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Jessi
Mar 21, 2006 22:15:05 GMT -5
Post by macca on Mar 21, 2006 22:15:05 GMT -5
I haven't read the Pet Sitter book in ages. Did the Mancusis have mice? I will never understand people who have pet mice. I don't like hamsters/ginea pigs etc, but mice are the WORST. Yucky. My sister has two pet rats and I don't find them particularly endearing. Each to their own, though. However I have two cats and am used to plenty of hair around the place  so that side of things doesn't gross me out too much. I remember reading Dawn's Wicked Stepsister and finding it kind of gross that Mary Anne's bed was full of cat hair. I wouldn't want to sleep in that. |
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Jessi
Mar 22, 2006 1:26:03 GMT -5
Post by jen on Mar 22, 2006 1:26:03 GMT -5
I haven't read this in ages, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have mice. I think the hamsters were their only rodent-y pets.
I agree with aln1982 - I'd have taken any pet to the vet if it was looking sick, if I was caring for it for someone else. And if it were my own hamster, I'd probably take him/her as well.
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macca
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Jessi
Mar 22, 2006 6:54:15 GMT -5
Post by macca on Mar 22, 2006 6:54:15 GMT -5
So would I, but then, I wouldn't have a pet hamster in the first place ;D
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Jessi
Mar 23, 2006 4:34:17 GMT -5
Post by jen on Mar 23, 2006 4:34:17 GMT -5
Well, yes, that's true too  |
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so that side of things doesn't gross me out too much. I remember reading Dawn's Wicked Stepsister and finding it kind of gross that Mary Anne's bed was full of cat hair. I wouldn't want to sleep in that.
