Domestic Geek

Where, Oh where can the UPS man with my book be? My tracking number says the package left the Commerce City UPS facility at 9:30 this morning. Watch me be the last stop on the route! I need a nap badly, but I don't dare drift off to sleep for fear I won't wake up when he gets here. To pass the time, I caught the end of The Amityville Horror on tv. I thought I had seen it before, but I guess not. That was one BAD MOVIE. It was so disjointed. If I had't read the book, it would've made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I forgot to post about this yesterday. I declared yesterday Half-Blood Prince Eve Day at work yesterday. I was listening to Harry Potter music and constantly searching the Harry Potter related sites that I frequent. The art director asked me if I had seen the Harry Potter skit they had done on Saturday Night Live with Lindsay Lohan. Since I don't watch SNL much anymore, I hadn't seen it. Thanks goodness for the Internet. That was hilarious!

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Potter parties were a bust last night. I went to Barnes & Noble and nothing was going on. People were getting their pictures taken with the big cardboard cutout advertising the book, some kids were running around in lame costumes and that was about it. People were mostly just sitting on their butts waiting for the book to go on sale. I couldn't even get a Starbucks beverage because it was packed. I left and headed for the Tattered Cover. Stupid me forgets that there is a night life in Denver...especially on a Friday night...especially in Cherry Creek. I couldn't find anywhere close to park except the paid parking garage (I missed a day of work this week and can't afford to pay to park). I could've parked at the mall, but it didn't feel particularly safe to walk by myself from the mall's parking garage over to the Tattered Cover that late at night by myself. *sigh* Oh, well. Maybe I'll be in a better financial situation when book 7 is released and I can go to one of those really big, really cool ones.

Nothing happened on J.K. Rowling's site either. That sucked.

Man, I thought for sure that J.K. Rowling would have something cool on her website when the clock stuck midnight in England. No such luck! Oh, well.

I tried to talk Marcus into accompanying me to the Tattered Cover this evening. Also no such luck. Probably has to do with the large amount of children that will be there and that he and Mike are going to Winter Park to mountain bike tomorrow.

In just a little over 8 hours, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will officially be available. Of course, I have to wait longer because I elected to order it online, but so be it. I'll just pass the time more quickly by getting two day's worth of dough done so I don't have to go anywhere near work on Sunday morning. Then I can not be interrupted in my reading by my having to go to work. How's that for a plan?

I know I've been a little silly with the whole countdown thing, but hey, it got me to post every day so that I would use the little pictures I made!

There was a link to this comic called Sore Thumbs today on Mugglenet that had to do with someone's HBP countdown frenzy. It was pretty funny!

I'm stuck at work with nothing to do again, so I'm listening to Harry Potter music on my iPod.

Amazon is getting the books ready for shipment:

Oh, man...I hope it arrives early in the day. I'll go nuts if it shows up in the late afternoon!

Anybody who knows Marcus IRL knows he is bitterly opposed to marriage. Sadly, as the years go by, the people we know are one by one proving his assessment of the whole institution to be correct. Anyway, we were looking at some shirts that were brought in to have stuff printed on the back for some trivia contests they have a bars. One of them said: "Why even bother with marriage? Just find somebody who drives you nuts & buy a house together." If there had been one in Marcus' size, I would've grabbed him one. Priceless. If you want to see what the shirt looks like, I found a picture of it at a site called "What On Earth."