Domestic Geek

Well, it is now official: The final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be published on Saturday, July 21st! I just heard the news on channel 2 and verified it on J.K. Rowling's site. Yay!!! It's not yet available for preorder on Amazon, yet, but I did get myself on the email list to order it as soon as it is available.

Update: Of course, Amazon sends me the preorder email shortly after I made this post. I've secured myself a copy...have you?

It appears the final book 7 of the Harry Potter saga finally has a title. Nina sent me an email from Borders and I've confirmed at both Mugglenet and J.K. Rowling's site. The door on Jo's site is open and the book name is her Christmas gift to her fans. If you don't want to go figure the puzzle out yourself, there is a video of the process in the extended. I can't wait for the book to come out, but I'll be sad it's over at the same time.

Speaking of Harry Potter, ABC Family channel has been played Prisoner of Azkaban alot. I loooooooove Severus Snape! *sigh*

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OK, I'm cleaning out my inbox and I found a link to a comic that I sent myself over a year ago about waiting for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to come out:

http://wheretheresawil.kiwibonga.com/random/index.php?id=025.jpg

I read the book again for the sixth time (I think it was the sixth) over the past two days. I wish J.K. Rowling would get the darned 7th book finished so I can move on with my life. LOL Besides, they have to get the movies into production before the actors are too old to play teenagers anymore. It will suck if Harry Potter is anybody other than Dan Radcliff (IMHO).

I also want to see if my theories are correct. I came up with a new one. You know how Dumbledore's hand wouldn't heal? What if Voldemort's soul moved from the Horcrux ring into him? What if that is why had begged for Snape to kill him? It was the only way to destory that bit of soul. I still believe he'll be back (ala Gandalf). He knew it was ok to be killed because his animagus is a Phoenix and he'll be back. Hmmm, maybe I'll do some googling and see if anybody else drew that same conclusion.

In a bad freakin' mood today. Between the heat and stupid people, I'm at the end of my rope.

First, I've been bored as hell at work for over two weeks. The art director is going a vacation on Thursday and suddenly we're swamped with work. It's all last minute, I need it yesterday type of stuff. Grrrrr. Hey, if you didn't have the foresight to get this to a printer a couple of weeks before you needed them...tough. I'll get done when I get done. Calling every half hour is only going to delay you getting your stupid proof. Morons. Also, it's hard as hell to print photoshop effects on a t-shirt. Don't use them unless you know how to separate them yourself or expect to get charged art time up the ass. These kind of headaches are not worth what I'm getting paid. I took a low wage for the experience. I've had enough of that experience. I'll take a little bit of absue if it is my own personal client, y'know? I'm also tired of trying to figure out what these people want second or third hand. Trying to pry information out of the sales people is like pulling your own teeth. Let me talk to somebody face-to-face about what they want.

Oh, and it got up over 100°F today. People get stupid when it gets hot. Plus they drive even more crazy. I made the mistake of trying to see where the shop of one of our clients was and it ended up being smack in downtown. Have you ever driven in downtown Dever at 4:30 in the afternoon when the temps are over 100? Not one of my smartest moves. See, the heat got to me, too.

When I was going to get lunch I heard on the radio that three major credit card companies are doubling their minimum monthly payments. Great. The brilliant idea behind this is some government regulation that wants to decrease the amount of time people pay back their debts and how much they spend on interest or some other such crap. I hate to tell these losers in the government, but it's not like people charge once and then pay it off. It's a constant thing. Some people like me will probably always be in debt (although I'm more determined than ever to get rid of the credit card balances). They pull this shit just as the bankruptcy laws are tightening, too. Some people are majorly screwed. You think this could've been phased in gradually until they were up to the magic "4%". Anyway, between that, my newly acquired car payment and my impending student loan payments, I definitely need more cash coming in.

Then I get a phone call about a half hour ago from the pizza place. The message says that she "thinks" there will be oven cleaning people there at 4 in the morning. At least I was warned this time, but I can't make any dough when they're not sure when they'll be there. I can't make dough at all when they're there. They totally disasseble the oven and have stuff spread out all over the whole store. Nice, huh? Not like this stuff can't get planned ahead of time so that I have advance warning. Maybe schedule it on a day when I'm not usually there (like Monday) when I can get two days' done on the previous Sunday. Morons. Oh, well. Since I seriously doubt anybody else will make any, I guess dough doesn't get done tomorrow.

I guess I'll make Marcus a nice dinner since I can sleep in. I'll have to go to the store, though, as I have absolutely NO FOOD WHATSOEVER here. I hate going grocery shopping with a passion. *sigh*

Warning: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Spoilers ahead!

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I'm so stupid. The email I posted from Amazon the other day actually says it will probably come U.S. Mail. I vaguely remember reading that, but since I had a UPS tracking number, that is what made me think it was coming UPS. Oh, well. I got it. I read it. I cried. I can't wait for the last one.