My copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I dutifully preordered June 12 did not arrive today. I was dubious about ordering it this way in the first place, seeing how Manda and I skipped all the hub-bub of the last release and STILL had a copy in our grubby paws by 12:05AM (24hour grocery stores sell books, at a discount even!). Still, well-meaning coworkers and peer pressure got to me and I caved; I preordered.
Manda didn't. Instead, she dragged me to King Soopers at 11:30 for HER copy. I ended up there anyway; I should have just purchased the dag nab thing that way. I should have run to Sam's or Costco this morning and gotten it for $17.99 (and NO SHIPPING!). But nooooooo.. I have to be all '21st Century', Internet savvy, seduced by one coworkers' story that she actually received her copy of HP:ATHBP a whole day early.
Manda's on Chapter 11 and periodically gasps or laughs. It's torture.
I sent a very uncharacteristically un-world-peace-good-karma-pay-it-forward email to Amazon at exactly 7:15 pointing out that their delivery guarantee was as valuable as Confederate money.
It's a good thing my Pat did such a great job on my hair; otherwise the day might be a total loss.
As for the Writer's Block: my grandfather has asked me to speak at Alex's rehearsal dinner. It's something of a tradition for my father's side of the family to have a little speech, poem or song prepared for very special occasions. Sometimes my grandparents spent weeks getting it ready, sometimes they made the thing up in the middle of the event.
I spoke at my grandmother's wake and most of my family read my blog at least occasionally. I guess it's kind of a passing of the torch that Pop-pop has asked me to do it for Alex. Needless to say, I'm incredibly honored and touched. I'm incredibly proud of Alex and couldn't be more happy for him. Combine that with a history of saying exactly the very most WRONG thing at the worst possible times and.......
Forget Writer's Block. It's Writer's Mountain.
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I hate it when the internet lets you down. Hopefully Manda didn't read all the words off her copy and you got a chance to dig into it on Sunday. Reviews have been pretty good. Don't visit CL until you're finished, tho. Spoilers a-plenty!
Good luck on the speech. There's GOT to be a good funny/embarrassing/incriminating story on you brother to get you over the hump! If so, please share it with us :)
I let her start take it from me on saturday night because she was growing REALLY annoyed and I could tell she'd ask for it eventually (and was probably hoping I'd be called off for a quest in a far off distant land and have to leave the book in her care.)
But she got it and is now finishing it as I comment...oooo the tears.
:..(
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