Mmm...popsicles and HP6!!!

Thanks for everyone who expressed concern about Mary and me while we were sick. While I am still trying to get rid of a sore throat and cough, I am feeling better. Mary bounced back awhile ago, the little stinker.

We have a big bag of popsicles in our freezer from the virus that plagued us. Mary has discovered that popsicles are REALLY good. She also knows where they are kept. It is not uncommon for her to go running into the kitchen, directly to the fridge, and pointing up to the freezer while asking "please." And heaven forbid you try and say no to the Mary. She blows a gasket. For whatever reason, she thinks limiting her popsicle intake to one a day is absurd.

One evening, after dinner while Mary was enjoying her dessert (aka a popsicle), I started playing music to wash the dishes to. Mary decided to get her groove on while chomping away. She even started to sing along, though naturally stopped that kind of behavior once the camera was rolling. Still, we managed to capture her being cute. You'll probably hear me say something along the lins of "you know i'm recording this, right?" towards the end. That's because Brent started to sing along to encourage Mary, and brent's not too fond of his singing. He probably woudn't want me posting this, but upon further listening/viewing I've realized you can barely hear him.

Tiggy has found a new favorite place to sleep. Whenever Mary sees him she screams "TIGGY!" then points and laughs at how silly our cat is. I'll let the picture do the talking.

Moving on.

As many of you know, I absolutely adore Harry Potter. When I was preggo, I went to wait in line at Borders for the 7th book's release...by myself no less since Brent was in Vegas (man did I feel lame that night). Anyway, that's how much I love that series.

So you can imagine how pumped up I was for the release of the 6th movie: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Even better was working with some girls who were equally as excited as I. So the night tickets went on sale, Valerie bought midnight showing tix for Rachel and me.

We even geeked it out and made shirts to show our love. After much searching on the internet, we found a couple phrases/quotes relating to the series to use. I was inspired by a YouTube parody of the Snuggie Blanket. You can't see the back, which is in my opinion the best part, so let me just tell you what it says. On the front: SPOILER ALERT. On the back: SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE.

I cracked myself up over it. Though I was slightly nervous that on the off chance there would be people there that had not read the books already, some people would be mad. No worries though, I emerged from the theater unscathed.This is what I liked about the movie:
-Slughorn (they did a marvelous job casting him. In the book i didn't much care for him. In the movie I loved him.)
-Ronald Weasley (I have always loved Ron's character. Rupert Grint has succeeded, in my opinion, at taking the character and really making him come alive)
-The budding romances between Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione
-Dumbledore and the fire to escape the Inferi

This is what I didn't like about the movie:
-Random scenes being added in that are NO WHERE in the book
-A rather lack lustre first kiss between Harry and Ginny
-Not enough Dumbledore time
-Lack of explanations on some more crucial points of the plot

But all together, I really enjoyed it. Brent is "making" me go see it a second time with him soon. I think I will enjoy it more the second time as I won't be sitting on the edge of my seat wondering what they were going to do with the story.

So go see HP and the HBP! Support Harry Potter, the "Chosen One." You know you wanna...