I Just Pissed Myself...

OMG

If I were a boy, I'd totally be sporting a massive erection right now.

Monday Blather

I've been busy entertaining my visiting friend, Matt, since Sunday morning...which is good because I don't have to think about the fact that my girlie parts are going to have a very traumatic experience later this week.


Monday night, we went out to dinner with Mom and Mr. Recommendation. Brother also came along. We decided on Genghis Khan, and I don't remember why.


While Mom slurped down a drink ending with -rita, various discussions about motorcycles, toilets and bowel habits, masturbating, and bad jokes were touched upon. I also discovered that Brother once cleaned out an ashtray with his tongue for $6.


Today, I took Matt, to see Harry Potter on IMAX, which was playing in Olathe. For those of you who are familiar with the lay of the land, it takes an hour to get anywhere in the Kansas City area. It takes me an hour to get from my house to Walmart, and it's only a mile away.


Anyway, we left early, and being the clever and eager-to-please hostess, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to take him to a BBQ place. I mean, while KC isn't known for having a top-tier sports team, it has to be the BBQ. I decided on Oklahoma Joes because it was close to the theater, plus it has pretty good BBQ. Even though there is BBQ in South Carolina, and apparently they usually make theirs with mustard, it couldn't possibly be as good as what we have here.

During lunch, Matt told me about a BBQ place in his state where the owner is openly racist...with pictures in the restaurant of the guy in his KKK getup. Culture in the southern states...so different from us, and we live in a buffer state.


After lunch, we went over to the theater and got our tickets. They handed us these dorky plastic glasses to wear. There was no disclaimer posted as to how we would know when to wear the glasses, but I had heard someone say that they were not needed until the last part of the movie. I speculated that maybe something would flash on the screen to let us know when to put on the dorky glasses. Matt didn't listen, so he wore his dorky glasses through the entire movie. I somehow managed to stifle my laughter when a little icon flashed at the bottom of the screen. Matt looked at me, still wearing his dorky glasses, and had this smirk that told me that he was aware that he'd just been owned, and could we please not discuss it.

On a side note, the Harry Potter on IMAX was excellent fun...dorky glasses aside. The seventh movie is going to kick ass...providing they don't hire a director that's going to fuck it up.

And Now For Something Funny

I found this link from the Sader family website. It contains a lot of spoilers for the last book, so read it only if you've finished the book. Or read it if you have no plans to read the book. By far, the funniest thing I have read.

Just make sure you are not drinking anything when you do.

Wild About Harry

(Warning: Spoilers Ahead...Don't read further if you haven't finished the book!!!)

I stopped at Wally World on my way home from work Saturday morning and picked up the last Harry Potter book. I got one chapter read before I went to sleep.

I woke up that afternoon, read the second chapter, and went to work.

I killed all but the last two chapters plus the epilogue while I was at work. Thank God for slow, uneventful evenings. I even skipped lunch. The rest of my coworkers took a poll and agreed that I am no fun when I am reading.

I finished the book this morning when I got home from work.




All I can say...I WAS TOTALLY RIGHT!!!
- Snape good: I totally thought he was.
- Snape was in love with Lily Potter.
- Dumbledore and Snape had an arrangement for Dumbledore's death.
- One of the Weasley twins died. I had hoped Percy would've gotten the axe instead.
- Lupin died.
- Harry was a horocrux.
- Harry would ultimately sacrifice himself.
- Harry and Ginnny would end up back together.
- Wormtail would end up fulfilling his life debt to Harry.

Things that made me say "What the hell?!"
- JK Rowling seemed to jump the shark a couple times. Like flying out of Gringotts on a blind dragon.
- Percy's reconciliation with his family at the most convenient moment.
- She killed Tonks off as well. Boo!!
- Too much Luna. She kept blathering about the asinine stuff she blathers about. I was hoping someone would come along and give her a warm mug of Shut the Hell Up.

The questions that still remain:
- What the hell did Harry's parents do for a living that they had money?
- Who was the person who "did magic later in life"?
- What was Dudley's worst memory?
- What happened to George? Did he go on to run the business alone?
- What happened with Madam Maxime?
- Did McGonagall become headmistress of Hogwarts in the end?
- What jobs did the the Trio end up taking?
- What became of Fawkes?

Final thoughts: I thought this was a very fitting end to the series. J.K. Rowling has already said that she looks forward to discussing the ending, and now that the series is finished, she really won't have to keep any secrets. Maybe some of my questions will be answered.

It's kind of depressing, having the series over. J.K. Rowling was one of the few writers that actually kept me guessing. However, I think one of the things I will miss the most is sitting with friends and discussing theories on how it will end.

(If you are now sitting at the computer, pissed that I ruined the end for you, you have no one to blame but yourself. You were warned.)