So DH didn't go go karting. Instead he stayed home and we had a wonderful, relaxing weekend. Started of Saturday morning with sleeping in. Eventually I got up, had some coffee and then rode bike over to Laima's to buy some soap and a CD. I then hit 5 or 6 other garage sales and got a few finds -- a nice peacock tile thing for the kitchen, a dragon book, a 100 year old cook book, a mesh bag for the dog park and a long, grey sweater. Total cost? About $4.00.
I returned home, at some lunch, started Harry Potter for a chapter or two (what's with the muggle perspective? -- there has never been that before...I am not sure I approve) and then went out to mow the front and back lawn. The rest of the afternoon was spent playing Champions of Norath with DH. Around 6:00 we went to the Orton Park Festival -- but only stayed for 10 minutes. We had gone to eat but there food was overpriced, crowded and we just weren't that enthused. Instead we splurged! Yeah! We went to the Laotian Place next to the Barrymore -- and it was great. I had a squash curry and DH had some kind seafood mania type thing. Delicious and enough for two dinners. :D Came back...and ... you guessed it...played some more Champions.
Sunday was dog park, showing Taz to a potential couple (they seemed to like him a lot!), read, cleaned up the house a bit, went skating, watched the 4400, played more vids and then went to bed.
See? The very picture of relaxation.
Oh, and Eric I didn't forget your BDay -- It's just a little belated.
posted by hadjare @ 9:50 AM
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i tried to watch the 4400 last night... i guess i should have made more of an effort to watch it when it first started. *SIGH*
And last night was the season finale -- you know the first season is out on DVD -- you should watch that. I think you would like it.
the muggle perspective in book 6... yeah, i wasn't too sure what to make of it, either. aside from the perspective, the tone itself was a little different from the rest of the series, as it seemed to me less of a straight-fantasy sequence than an attempt to sort of answer some of the "real world" questions that come up in relation to the series.
to be honest, i think the whole book would have been better if that chapter was removed and had been pre-released in a sort of short pamphlet form or online or in a magazine or something. not that the book needed any advance hype or anything but maybe as a sort of whetting of the appetite for fans of the series... i also think the book could have done with another 50 or so pages worth of scenes featuring all the supporting players and fleshing out their role in the hogwarts universe. sure, we learned more about draco and some of the slytherins in this book but who cares about those jerks?! i wanted more neville and luna and ginny and everyone else.
of course, i also thought harry dumping ginny at the end was fuckin' retarded...
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