Domestic Geek

Today I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (I borrowed it from Nina since I don't yet own it). It's funny trying to watch or read HP stuff with Marcus around. He's been exposed to just enough of it to kind of get what's going on, but he won't outright actually get into it. Cracks me up.

I'm mulling over some possible scenarios of what might come in my head. If I can come up with thirteen predictions, I'll use that for this week's Thursday Thirteen list.

I decided I may skip over Order of the Phoenix and just reread Half Blood Prince. It was my least favorite book out of them all. I think it is because of that Umbridge character. Reminded me a lot of the bureaucratic bull crap I dealt with back as a teacher.

So it occurred to me that at this time next week, I will probably already have finished reading (or be darned close to having finished reading) the final Harry Potter book. Weird.

I also got a text from Nina that she got me a chocolate frog. Man, I can't wait to get that and see what a Muggle version of a chocolate frog is. LOL

Any designer who has been around a while hates certain fonts because of their overuse and their inappropriate use. One of these among the design community is Comic Sans. In fact, I had a CSR last week suggest that as a font I should use for her client's cover. I gently had to steer her away from that particular font. That's why this Achewood comic is so darned funny. [via Moxiegirls]

My friend Nina gave me a Harry Potter goodie bag today that she put together. It's the cutest little gift bag with the Hogwart's crest and she put pens, a couple of note pads and some sticky notes in it. Very thoughtful. Thank you, Nina!

I've got a week to read 2½ books. Probably not going to make it, but that's ok. I hope this next week goes fast!

Nina and I were on Border's Media site today. There is a Snape action figure that I would love to have. Snape better be a good guy in the end, dang it! They also have Chocolate Frogs with collectible cards for sale. How cool it would be if the cards had little mini flash drives that played mini movies to replicate the moving wizard pictures, eh?

Wow, the excitement is starting to build. I have mixed feelings about the final book coming out. On the one hand, I want to know how this all ends. On the other hand, this all ends. I'm still predicting Dumbledore comes back ala Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. He's a Phoenix animagus, I think.

I really want to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix over at the IMAX theater over at Colorado Blvd. and I-25. It's supposed to be in 3D. That would be so cool. It's going to be a while though, because a check of Fandango and the showtimes when I could go are all sold out. I hope it stays there awhile.