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I have decided to have Café Intermezzo Day on Sunday, July 29. This will be the Perimeter Mall location, Ashford Dunwoody Road, outside of I-285, in the shopping center by the Jared's. I'll even wear clothes so they don't have to hide me behind a post. I'm planning to stay there for several hours. For those who would like to join me for coffee, brandy, cake, and cheese, 3-7 p.m. is the definite window. If no one shows, I can spend several hours at Intermezzo alone and be very pleased with it. It is the Birthday Treat For Myself.
Monday, I have been informed, there are auditions for "Merry Wives of Windsor." I haven't been on stage for a good long time, and I'm planning to go. That puts "Update acting resume" on the list of things to do this weekend.
I also need to register the car. I may do that this afternoon, ("Look at the time, I can't believe it, they'll be leaving for lunch by the time I get dressed...") or it may have to wait until Monday. But I have the paperwork/emissions (thank you, Charlie!) ready, so I'm ready to do the thing.
Tuesday is my actual birthday; also Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's birthday, so if any of you are going to be missing this because you're having Harry Potter Day, well, you suck. :) Charlie and I already have tickets to go to Six Flags, and if anyone wants to go with us, you're invited, but since I can't afford to buy folkses tickets, I know this limits the opportunities severely.
I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In fact, I finished it before SCA meeting Wednesday.
I don't have much to say, except that I was satisfied that the story worked as she had planned it, that it worked as it ought to have, and that I was right about some things -- right enough to feel like I hadn't misread things, but completely in the dark about many other things that made it still a good read and a good story.
Rowling did not disappoint me, overall. From the first, I have really admired the fact that, instead of sticking with one age group, she wrote books that aged as the characters (and the readers) did. The first book was all childish delight and pratfalls, the last was a serious discussion of good and evil, making grown-up decisions, living with mistakes, and accepting death. I found it redundant and annoying the way people in the public talked about how things were "darker," and how this movie wasn't "as good." I'm looking forward to the movie because it won't be the childish flying broom story anymore.
( Spoilers, and also a boring rundown of my opinions before they're tempered by discussion... )
Just some more boring stuff to put at the end here, so people can comment without seeing spoilers if they don't want to.
I need to call my mother and see if she can come down, or Jennifer, or Michael, or the kids, or if I need to go up there.
I think it's about time for the brakes to be replaced.
I'm looking forward to having a job again. There's a couple of debts I need to repay, and I need new tires. And it will be nice to buy incidental things again without worrying or asking for money. Of course, that means making a budget, too, and I'm not so much looking forward to that.
The rest of today I think I'll be in the bedroom, cleaning up books, refolding clothes, various organizing things. I've been putting off organizing my jewelry for too long, and the jewelry cabinet is an absolute mess of trinkets, coins, mismatched earrings, and hair barrettes.
Charlie is going into HIS "crunch mode," to finish his certification before August 10. Still, we're planning to plan to go to Pirates III and HP V at some point in the near future. I'll keep you updated in case anyone wants to join us.
Monday, I have been informed, there are auditions for "Merry Wives of Windsor." I haven't been on stage for a good long time, and I'm planning to go. That puts "Update acting resume" on the list of things to do this weekend.
I also need to register the car. I may do that this afternoon, ("Look at the time, I can't believe it, they'll be leaving for lunch by the time I get dressed...") or it may have to wait until Monday. But I have the paperwork/emissions (thank you, Charlie!) ready, so I'm ready to do the thing.
Tuesday is my actual birthday; also Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's birthday, so if any of you are going to be missing this because you're having Harry Potter Day, well, you suck. :) Charlie and I already have tickets to go to Six Flags, and if anyone wants to go with us, you're invited, but since I can't afford to buy folkses tickets, I know this limits the opportunities severely.
I did finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In fact, I finished it before SCA meeting Wednesday.
I don't have much to say, except that I was satisfied that the story worked as she had planned it, that it worked as it ought to have, and that I was right about some things -- right enough to feel like I hadn't misread things, but completely in the dark about many other things that made it still a good read and a good story.
Rowling did not disappoint me, overall. From the first, I have really admired the fact that, instead of sticking with one age group, she wrote books that aged as the characters (and the readers) did. The first book was all childish delight and pratfalls, the last was a serious discussion of good and evil, making grown-up decisions, living with mistakes, and accepting death. I found it redundant and annoying the way people in the public talked about how things were "darker," and how this movie wasn't "as good." I'm looking forward to the movie because it won't be the childish flying broom story anymore.
( Spoilers, and also a boring rundown of my opinions before they're tempered by discussion... )
Just some more boring stuff to put at the end here, so people can comment without seeing spoilers if they don't want to.
I need to call my mother and see if she can come down, or Jennifer, or Michael, or the kids, or if I need to go up there.
I think it's about time for the brakes to be replaced.
I'm looking forward to having a job again. There's a couple of debts I need to repay, and I need new tires. And it will be nice to buy incidental things again without worrying or asking for money. Of course, that means making a budget, too, and I'm not so much looking forward to that.
The rest of today I think I'll be in the bedroom, cleaning up books, refolding clothes, various organizing things. I've been putting off organizing my jewelry for too long, and the jewelry cabinet is an absolute mess of trinkets, coins, mismatched earrings, and hair barrettes.
Charlie is going into HIS "crunch mode," to finish his certification before August 10. Still, we're planning to plan to go to Pirates III and HP V at some point in the near future. I'll keep you updated in case anyone wants to join us.
