Death By Dur-hey

Look, it's me. Or rather it's me as a Simpsons type character. I know it doesn't quite look like me, but I had to design it using the available features from the characters that exist. There is an option to download a picture of yourself to have it done more accurately, but unlike Paris Hilton, I don't have tons of photos readily available of myself on my computer.


So I'm back from Arkansas visiting a friend with another friend and her family. 9 hours by car. Let me add to that. 9 hours by car with two young girls. In all honesty, the girls did really pretty well. Thanks dvd player and latch hook pillow! I realized that where we went was a lot like where I live, only with accents. The city festival we went to could have easily been plopped down in my home town.


Had a couple of firsts during the trip. Rode in a Mercedes for the first time. I am even more convinced I am not a car person. All I was thinking about during the ride was how I was lower to the ground than usual and it reminded me of Sherri Swanson's Camero back in high school.


I also attempted to scale one of those rock climbing walls. I went up mostly because I figured no one knew me in this town so if I did horribly no one could rat me out. I checked out the safety system first before making my attempt. I had asked the lady who was running it with her husband (?) if I could have the side that didn't face people. She told me that was the toughest side so instead I ended up providing the viewing public with a fine view of my flat ass. Though, even in a harness I doubt my ass was any more disturbing to see than the t-shirt I saw one bigger gal wearing. It read "objects under this shirt are larger than they appear." Insert your own joke/horror stricken sound effect here.


Thanks to watching various survival type programming on t.v. (thanks Man Vs. Wild!), I knew I needed to sort of plan my moves as I went up. I was doing pretty good and got up to within a couple or three feet of the top when I realized I'd made a mistake. I could only reach out with my left hand. The only "rock" I could grab was maybe 1 to 1 1/2 inches across and stuck out about the same. My left foot was stretched out enough I wasn't going to get any good pushing force out of it. And, I was holding myself up with my right hand so I couldn't use it to reach for another "rock." Since it was my only option, I reached for the little nub, took hold of it and tried to quickly get my right hand free. I reached up with my right hand, lost hold with my left, felt my feet start to slip and then....wheeeeee...down I float. Truth be told, the ride down was the best part. I was so close to hitting that flippin' buzzer too. Oh well. At least I can say I did it once.

So, on to the point behind the title of today's blog.


You know how you're told not to chip away at ice, etc. that forms in your fridge. You should take out the food and defrost the damn thing.


Not so much with me. No, I decide I can do it carefully.


One cooling gas leak later...


I killed my fridge. At 10pm. After a day of having the computers crash repeatedly at work, meaning I got about 10 boxes received ALL DAY! We still have about 100 boxes waiting to be done and another 100 on the way tomorrow.


Yeah.


I rushed some stuff over to my Mom's then called my landlord to let him know what I'd done. I will hopefully have a new fridge in a couple of days. What a pain in the ass and I have no one to blame but myself. Whee.

Takin' A Break

Hi gang! Due to a quick trip to Arkansas this weekend, I won't be able to post anything for a bit. I'll try and get something up on Tues. or Weds. Until then, you'll just have to amuse yourselves. Try to stay within legal parameters please.

Also, the quote is a line from Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. It's a quick conversation between Ginny and Mrs. Weasley. Ginny is coming down the stairs looking for something to wear not expecting to see Harry at the table and gets all jittery and shy when she spots him. This line always makes me laugh.

9 1/2 Hours Later

To steal a bit from Comic Book Guy...

Best. Book. In. Series.

When I awoke this "morning" at 11am-ish, I had a nasty headache. No, my scar was not burning, but it might as well have been. I began reading and only took breaks to make and eat meals and sneak in a quick cat nap for about 30 min. And now that I'm done all I can say is...

WOW!

I won't tell you what happens since I don't want to ruin it for those still reading the book. Or those waiting till the final movie comes out in about 3 years I suppose. I will say this though. I think she really put a great deal of care and thought into the final installment. It moves really quickly. It is funny in parts and sad in others. All the pieces seem to fit, though I think I need to re-read the last couple of chapters. I was moving through them so quickly because of my excitement that I missed a certain bit and was surprised when it was referenced a few pages later. Duh to me.

As far as my predictions go, I won't say which ones I got right and which ones I got wrong but I'll give you a rough idea of how I did.

8 of my guesses were spot on. (Oh, before continuing, I will mention that under each heading I had multiple guesses in reference to the heading don't forget.)

For 3 of my guesses, my theory was right, but a slight variation kept me from being fully correct. Which I guess makes those particular ideas half-assed...hee,hee.

4 of them were just plain wrong, or wrong enough that I didn't even want to count them as half assed.

There was sort of a 5th wrong answer, but I don't know that this one should be counted since my logic for arguing why it wouldn't happen wasn't bad and the event itself happend on accident and without anyone's knowledge (or without being truely known, though someone had guessed it had happend).

Confused yet? Basically, I'm saying I didn't completely suck at this guessing thing, but I didn't pour over the books enough to be a hard core expert. And, I'm okay with that fact.

A couple more things to add. There were more deaths than I thought. For some reason I had it in my head that there would be just the 2 or 3 deaths ever since Rowling made the comment about re-writing one of them. Pretty silly on my part, this was going to be a war after all. Still, given the people who died, I'm unsure of who she was most sad about. I have a guess, but it's probably a bit off. I can also say this---I can't wait for this to be made into a movie. It is seriously going to rock.

Finally (I do realize I say this and then follow with four more paragraphs of rambling), a quick wrap up of the festivities. Fully enjoyed my evening at the table with Jackie and Jillian. We all got snarky at about the same time which was fun. The most annoying bit was when (repeatedly) a person would approach the table to get their wristband and we would ask if they had a reservation. They would look at us dumbstruck. "Reservation for what?" they would ask. "For Harry Potter" we would answer. "No." they'd say. "But I ordered the book ________ (insert time period here)." Our response. "That would be a reservation." Man, people are stupid.

One kid took our picture while sitting at the table because he wanted to have a record of every bit of the evening. We also got a group picture taken that actually turned out pretty well considering we were getting towards the end of the night. Not sure where that went though, hopefully Jillian snagged it off the table. Got home at around 3am, watched Psych to unwind and went to bed. Probably should go to bed now actually. Think I will. Night.

So there's this book coming out soon...

Approximately 25 hours from now, the final book in the Harry Potter series goes on sale. Some of you may not care. That's fine. I have vowed to never watch the film Titanic. I had also vowed to not watch Pretty Woman, but it was on a tv right next to me while I was playing cards with some friends so I couldn't leave the table. I did ignore it as best I could.

Bits are already leaking online, but it's hard to know what is true and what is conjecture. All I know is I have enjoyed the books and I can't wait to read this final installment. I was going to write down my predictions and seal them in an envelope, but then I thought, duh, put 'em up on the blog. That way when I am completely wrong it will be there for all to see. I fear not the "paper trail."

WHO'S GOING TO DIE:

I'll be honest. I can't remember if 2 or 3 people are expiring. I'm leaning towards Snape, Malfoy and Mrs. Weasley. Mom Weasley is a guess, but I think it's definitely possible that one of the Weasley's will no longer be with us. And, since she is a member of the Order, she's atleast one of the potential victims. Some people believe Hagrid is going to die, but I think he was the one that J.K. gave a reprive to. She said she re-wrote one person's death and let them live. I think that person is Hagrid.

WILL HARRY DIE:

Nope. But I think there's a good chance that once Voldy has been defeated his scar will be gone.

IS HARRY A HORCRUX:

This too is a nope. Why? Voldy has to create a Horcrux after murdering someone. As far as he knew, Harry was going to die the night he was attacked. Why would you plan on putting part of your soul in a dead person? I suppose there is a chance he could have made Harry one by mistake, but would that mean Voldy's "death" created the magic needed to make Harry a Horcrux? That's just too illogical.

WILL RON AND HERMIONE GET TOGETHER:

No duh. The question is who will make the first move. I'm sort of voting for Ron on this point. Hermione likes to plan so much you'd think she would've figured something out by now. I think it's going to be impulsive and Ron will be the one taking the big leap. Yeah!

SNAPE AND MALFOY--GOOD OR BAD:

Snape will turn out to be a good guy and will sacrifice himself to help Harry. I think he will see it as fitting punishment for offing Dumbledore.

Malfoy is still bad, but I think he will be so afraid of Voldy that he will be forced into helping Harry somehow. He still bites it though.

PETER'S PART:

Mr. Rat's Ass still owes Harry big time. I think Harry will go to him to find out the location/identity of one of the Horcruxes.

WILL WE HEAR FROM DUMBLEDORE:

Sure, his portrait will be in the Head Master's Office--although Harry claims he won't be back at Hogwarts that doesn't mean he might not try to sneak in to get some chat time. Also, it's safe to assume that their are other portraits around of the Big D that Harry could get to and talk to him that way.

WHAT'S UP WITH MOM:

This is the one I'm not so sure about. I haven't poured over the books, etc. to search for clues in the way others have. Allegedly, we will find out why we kept getting references to Harry's eyes being green like his mother's. The only thing I can come up with is we get confirmation that Lily was related to Godric Gryffindor (on JK's website the wizard of the month is Godric and in his illustration he has green eyes) and perhaps had an item that at one time was Godric's that will either help Harry or was stolen by Voldy and contains part of his soul. I'm stretching here I know.

And, of course, Harry and Ginny will get back together. Thus ends my prediction.

On a quick side note:

I saw an ad today for a drug that's supposed to help relieve restless leg syndrome. I was caught off guard by some of the side effects which include an "increase in gambling, sexual, and other urges." What the hell?