— SMS is apparently the only middle school in Stoneybrook which I’m gonna just take as early instalment weirdness. Because Stoneybrook Day School, Stoneybrook Academy, and Kelsey. Or I guess it also could be informed by Stacey having a totally different frame of reference for what constitutes a tiny town. The way she talks about Stoneybrook, it's like she's moved to Dungatar (the town in The Dressmaker, which I'm reading rn and was the first tiny town I thought of). Stoneybrook is not Dungatar.
— Janine FREAKING OUT over the Baby-Sitters Agency, awww <3
— If Stoneybrook is as small as Stacey's narration makes me imagine, the Agency should flop immediately because parents would already know (or know of) Liz and Michelle. Or, at the very least, Kristy and MA would know who they are if they're in the grade immediately above. I guess this is just Stacey's NYC frame of reference at work again? Stoneybrook sounds like a decent-sized town to me.
— I tried the milky-way-bars-in-the-freezer thing once. It sucked :( from memory, they were that horrible combination of way too hard, becoming way too chewy. Though I've since learned that what we call milky ways aren't the same thing what the USA calls milky ways, so maybe it works better with a USA milky way. Feel free to test this and report back! :D
— I love this:
"I have two more thoughts," Kristy went on. She was speaking hesitantly, and I noticed Claudia glance at her sharply.
CLAUDIA’S RADAR FOR KRISTY GOING TOO FAR HAS A LIFETIME OF FINE TUNING LMAO <3
— I said this somewhere up the page, but the point where I feel worst for Kristy in this book is when she's all “why didn’t WE think of balloons?” Something about the helplessness of it gets me even more than when she cries.
— Aww Charlie taking DM to watch cheerleader practice. And he learns the cheers and performs them at home! <3
— MA's really specific skill of nailing The Little Engine That Could made me grin really hard.
— Stacey buys a dinosaur pin for her beret <3 that strikes me as more of a Claudia move than a Stacey one, but that's cool. I love BSC fashion.
— “You’re liars! And… and dirty businesswomen!” is such a winner insult.
— Stacey's cheer has never ever managed to leave my brain. Rah rah rah! Sis boom bah! Something... something... the Baby-Sitters Club! Hooray!
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— SMS is apparently the only middle school in Stoneybrook which I’m gonna just take as early instalment weirdness. Because Stoneybrook Day School, Stoneybrook Academy, and Kelsey. Or I guess it also could be informed by Stacey having a totally different frame of reference for what constitutes a tiny town. The way she talks about Stoneybrook, it's like she's moved to Dungatar (the town in The Dressmaker, which I'm reading rn and was the first tiny town I thought of). Stoneybrook is not Dungatar.
— Janine FREAKING OUT over the Baby-Sitters Agency, awww <3
— If Stoneybrook is as small as Stacey's narration makes me imagine, the Agency should flop immediately because parents would already know (or know of) Liz and Michelle. Or, at the very least, Kristy and MA would know who they are if they're in the grade immediately above. I guess this is just Stacey's NYC frame of reference at work again? Stoneybrook sounds like a decent-sized town to me.
— I tried the milky-way-bars-in-the-freezer thing once. It sucked :( from memory, they were that horrible combination of way too hard, becoming way too chewy. Though I've since learned that what we call milky ways aren't the same thing what the USA calls milky ways, so maybe it works better with a USA milky way. Feel free to test this and report back! :D
— I love this:
"I have two more thoughts," Kristy went on.
She was speaking hesitantly, and I noticed Claudia glance at her sharply.
CLAUDIA’S RADAR FOR KRISTY GOING TOO FAR HAS A LIFETIME OF FINE TUNING LMAO <3
— I said this somewhere up the page, but the point where I feel worst for Kristy in this book is when she's all “why didn’t WE think of balloons?” Something about the helplessness of it gets me even more than when she cries.
— Aww Charlie taking DM to watch cheerleader practice. And he learns the cheers and performs them at home! <3
— MA's really specific skill of nailing The Little Engine That Could made me grin really hard.
— Stacey buys a dinosaur pin for her beret <3 that strikes me as more of a Claudia move than a Stacey one, but that's cool. I love BSC fashion.
— “You’re liars! And… and dirty businesswomen!” is such a winner insult.
— Stacey's cheer has never ever managed to leave my brain. Rah rah rah! Sis boom bah! Something... something... the Baby-Sitters Club! Hooray!