I Told Myself I Wouldn't Blog Or Facebook About This Like Everyone Else

But here I am.  Blogging about Harry Potter. Yes it's nerdy and dumb but I'm going to anyway. 

I saw the final Harry Potter movie yesterday.  I loved it.  I think they did an excellent job with it.  But I'm also really sad that it's over.  I feel like it's one more way that I'm leaving my childhood behind.  I first started reading the books when I was about eight.  Harry Potter has been a part of my life since then. (Get ready for a super long, run-on sentance...and go!)  I've stayed up late to read the books, read the books in a day, read and reread the books over and over again, stayed up and watched all the movies, I've played the music in band, I dressed up as Hermione, I've played Harry Potter Uno, Legos, computer/internet games, I had a stuffed Hedwig, I had my own "wand", and I waited when I was little for my letter from Hogwarts to come.  I've grown up with Harry Potter for twelve years of my life. It's sad that it's ending.  

These books and movies are part of what have defined my generation.  We were the kids to stay up late waiting for the books, reading as fast as we could to find out what would happen to these beloved characters, our friends.  We stayed up late to see the movies, hoping that they would stay true to the books.  We were the ones to grow up with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.  The first movie came out just before I turned eleven, so I felt like I was joining Hogwarts with them. 

I guess we'll have to see what life "post-Harry-Potter" has to hold.

Just Another Manic Monday

It's Monday and sometimes on Mondays you were red fuzzy socks that don't match your brown and cream shoes at all.  Just because you can.

Sometimes you have to find motivation to work on homework...and end up playing...

I love M&M's!

Sometimes you go to Walmart on Mondays.

Sometimes you go on walks with your rommates and notice the beauty around you and practice your (lacking) picture taking skills.

Sometimes you go to amazing concerts with some amazing new muscians!  :)  Due West rocks my socks. Check them out here.

Not pictured adventures: Cooking A Fabulous Experimental Dinner (And smoking out the house in the process.  Opps!), Vanilla Ice's (Yum for $0.25!), and Watching Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog at the guys house (with Wiccan Subtitles!  So Cool!) If you haven't seen Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog I highly suggest you watch it here and here and here and here and here and finally here.  And please watch it at least three times and you'll love it, nobody likes it the first time.  Anywho, I hope you'll have a Marvelous Monday!

My Dear Husband,

It's true, I'm not married, yet, but I have seen cute letters to future husbands here and I thought I would try it, especially because she won't be writing letters to a future husband anymore.  :)

Dear Husband,

I hope you know I'm a hopeless romantic. 

I love rainstorms, I think they are so romantic.  If I ever text you this "Drop everything now. Meet me in the pouring rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, Take away the pain." and it's raining, please do just that.  I know it's corney, but it's also cute (in my opinion) and that will make me so happy. (And yes that is from a Taylor Swift song.  Have I mentioned I'm a hopeless romantic?)

I love little kid movies like The Lion King and Tangled and Up and How to Train Your Dragon and Finding Nemo.  We will be watching those on a regular basis.  (I'll let you off the hook for my favorite chick flicks like Pride and Prejudice and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I may even let you off the hook for my cute but really old classic movies.  Maybe.)

I like to sing and dance.  I sing really loudly and badly and I dance really silly.  I hope you will sing and dance and make a fool out of yourself with me.

Sometimes I'm really sarcastic and I don't like being wrong.  I apologize in advance.

I love food, I love to cook, but I hate doing the dishes.  I hope you like to eat and do dishes.  :)

Sometimes I just have to have ice cream.  It's not a want, it's a need.

That's All!

Love,

You're darling future wife!

:)

Growing Up

As I start a new year and a new semester quickly approaches, I have never felt so much like I don't want to grow up.  I really wish I had found Peter Pan when I was younger and escaped to Neverland.  I spent my whole childhood wishing I was grown up, in college with my own car and my own place to live away from my parents, with my own rules doing whatever I wanted to do.  Now I just want to go back to naptimes, toys, and the carefreeness of childhood.  Everyone told me when I was little to appreciate my childhood and I couldn't understand then.  But now I do. 

But I guess instead of living in the past I should be enjoying the present.  All of the "real adults" (and I say that because I don't feel like a real adult yet) talk about how much they miss college and seem envious of all the experiences I'm having now.  I can't understand that right now, but I probably will at some other point in my life. 

When I get really stressed I have a tendancy to resort back to my childhood, blankets, chocolate, comfort food, The Lion King, and other classic movies.

I guess that's the trick to life isn't it, not living in the past or the future but just enjoying the present. 

It's amazing how fast time flies and how slow time goes.

I don't really want school to start up again, but I know it needs to because I've been extremely lazy this week.  It's time for me to do something other than mindlessly watch tv or surf the internet.  Seriously, how many times can a girl check facebook in one day?  I've done pretty good most of Christmas vacation, I've been busy quilting, reading Jane Austen, working, exercising, hanging out with friends and family, and doing everything else I told myself I would do when I actually had free time again.  But as much as I don't want to go back to school and to have to start paying for all my own food again, do homework, search for a job, and go to class, I need the structure back.  It'll be interesting to see how long it takes to get my work ethic back.  Let's just be honest, I've been checked out of school since before Thanksgiving break.  And I am excited to get back up there so I can hang out with all of my awesome roommates and all my friends up there.