Domestic Geek

Ten Favorite Movies From My Childhood

1. Bambi
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3. Star Wars
4. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
5. Wizard of Oz
6. Cabaret
7. Airplane
8. Grease
9. Xanadu
10. The Muppet Movie

Wow, just as many days left as fingers on my one hand. I almost can't believe it is so close. I've been waiting for this day for so long...I just hope I'm not majorly disappointed in how J.K. Rowling ends the series.

I've been really trying to avoid surfing the 'net for Potter related stories. I don't want to accidentally stumble on something that is really a spoiler, y'know?

Marcus made fun of my statement that as soon as I have the book in hand, I'll park myself on the couch and not move until I'm finished. I'm sure I'll take a small break to eat dinner and bathroom breaks to give my eyes a break, but I'm pretty much reading until I'm done.

I saw on the Amazon site that people who preordered Deathly Hallows will receive a $5 give cert to use in August. If so, that is very cool of them.

Day-um! Where did my weekend go? Oh, yeah, I put in 11 hours of OT at work helping Marcus on a network changeover on Saturday, passed out from exhaustion Saturday night after a week of little sleep due to menstrual issues and hard work and then was back at work today for a few hours helping Marcus run some cable to my "new" (to me) work computer and surfing while he attended to minor network problems that arose from Saturday's work. I'm still exhausted.

I hope I have a new template in place before Blogathon. I need to tone my vision of this theme down, I think. I'm illustrating all the various elements myself and I'm such a perfectionist that I'm getting bogged down in details. Stuff that the average visitor probably won't even notice anyway.

I like using iChat except that you can't connect with Yahoo users. A lot of my online friends have YIM rather than AIM. Unfortunately, you can't use Trillian on a Mac. I installed a cool free chat app on my Mac today that I read about in Marcus' Mac Life magazine. It's called Adium and you can connect to various chat services at once. I tried it to send messages to Colleen during her Colleenie Weenie Show over on the Blog Talk Radio network. It seems to have worked since she mentioned my comments.

So, I'm a little behind due to working this weekend. I need a day off, darned it.

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