Gravel - Olga: out of control

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Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-235134-0 Print ISBN: 978-0-06-235132-6

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The artist used Photoshop to create the digital illustrations for this book. 19 20 21 22 23 SCP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FIRST EDITION To Jill Davis, Olgas other mom Contents Welcome to my latest notebook. My name is Olga. I used to be a lonely kid. I used to be a lonely kid.

My only friend was my spider, Rita, who lives under the sink. But since I discovered Meh, my life has changed for the better. I used to think that animals were the only friends I would ever make. I made this bar graph to compare my feelings for humans and animals. Not hard to guess who the winner is! I still think that animals are way cooler than humans. Because of Meh I began to go out and meet interesting humans. Because of Meh I began to go out and meet interesting humans.

She gave a purpose to my life. Life with Meh is chock-full of amazing discoveries, but the latest one is by far the biggest. I opened my fridge yesterday to find her snuggled among a bunch of Seven of them, to be precise. I dont know about you, but finding seven baby Olgamuses in my fridge is not something that happens to me every day! I think I could say without exaggerating that yesterday was the most exciting (and exhausting) day of my life. And they were So delicate, so tiny, so weird looking! How I itched to pick one up to look at it more closely, but when I got my hand too close to them, Meh didnt like it one bit. Some of my friends were at my house with me when I discovered the babies.

They were as fascinated as I was. We spent a few minutes watching them quietly. Then one of my friends, Farla, got a funny look on her face and screamed: I call Farla and her sister, Shalala, the Lalas. Theyre sort of my frenemies, and they have a tendency to notice yucky things and are easily disgusted. I find this annoying, but I guess they have other good qualities. Plus, they were right about the fridge.

It was HORRIFYING. Im not very good at cleaning. Like many scientists, Im very busy with my research, and sometimes cleaning ends up at the bottom of my priority list. Anyway, my fridge is usually pretty empty. Yesterday, though, it was not. It was cleanup time, all right.

We got rid of a bunch of junk, wiped down the glass shelves using some Windex and a sponge, and cleared a whole shelf out for Meh and the babies. Chuck came back with the dog bed that Mister used as a baby. I didnt want to pick the babies up and disturb the little family, so I gently closed the fridge door and waited to see if Meh would transfer her babies to the cozy shelf.

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