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In this day, ten years ago, I started reading Harry Potter. Thank you, Harry, for these amazing ten years! I really do believe my life changed for the better for having read those books. ♥ For months and months, and then somehow, years, just thinking of HP gave me a tingle of happiness and excitement.

I read Philosopher's Stone because my grandparents were having their 40th anniversary party, and I knew I'd get quite bored, seeing that it was going to be all old people, dancing to old people music. Tomorrow, my grandparents are having their 50th anniversary party, and while I'm pretty sure it'll be all old people dancing to old people music, I'm glad they've gotten to this point. Even if my grandma has driven EVERYONE in the family crazy with this party - a lot of her friends are having similar parties, and she is determined to make her party the event of the CENTURY, it seems. ARGH.

Now, Fringe! Fringe was awesome! I'm so loving this new season. :DD ( Now, some complaints, not about the show but about some of the fans )

I cannot believe people are actually saying Eleven's outfit is the worse of all times - even over Six's. Just. It might not be the flashiest, but seriously, worse than SIX? That was VILE, come on. Anyway, I hadn't posted my reaction to the new costume, ( so here goes )

So, it's been a while! I saw HBP last friday, it was lovely! I always go see the movies with the mindset that they'll be fun and a very, very loose adaptation, so I have never had the heart to pile hatred on any of them. So yeah, the magic looked amazing (Dumbledore+fire=awesomesauce) and the kids looked comfortable with each other and it was really funny and I really wouldn't mind seeing it again!

Other than that I've been doing a lot of nothing. I read, I walk, and I talk to the boy for hours on end. Aaaand, that's it. WELL.

Zomg, it's Harry's birthday today! HAPPY 28TH BIRTHDAY, YOU CRAZY POTTER KID! :D :D :D And Happy Birthday, JKR, and thanks for sharing your wacky mind with us even wackier people. :3

I baked whole wheat apple and brown sugar muffins yesterday. They're already all gone, which means that they were AWESOME. :DDD It was a blast, I missed baking so freaking much. :3

I dreamt with the Joker last night. He was terrorizing my city's downtown, using a kid (and a giant ball shaped like a pumpking. Don't ask.) as a shield. There was some kind of fair going on, and it was crowded and suddenly there was fire everywhere and men with guns and I couldn't find my family and when I did we just kept running running running and hiding and it was so completely HORRIFYING. And I thought I was one of the lucky ones that hadn't gotten nightmares after watching the Dark Knight. WELL NOT ANYMORE. o_O

I’ve become sort of obsessed with the Watchmen trailer. And with it, the song. I know it was actually made for Batman (and the original song is quite more Batman-y, if such a thing exists, lol), but the song will forever be the essential Watchmen song for me – and indeed, part of the trailer’s awesomeness is due to how well edited it is to fit the song completely. SEE? OBSESSED. I guess it is a bit late for regretting not going to that Smashing Pumpkins concert, huh? XD

But really, I’m just too hyped up about the movie. PLEASE BE AWESOME, MOVIE. PLEASE PLEASE. Apparently the whole comic-within-a-comic will be available in the dvd, which; YAY. It’s sad that it can’t fit into the actual movie, but being practical there wasn’t enough time. AND it’ll be narrated by Gerard Butler, so win all around. :D

Dude, I didn't know Starbucks CHARGED to use the wireless! That-- that is a fucking TRAVESTY. I PAID stupid 40 pesos for a stupid coffee, damnit, and I hardly even LIKE coffee. Stupid starbucks. So I am writing from a tiny cybercafe. Of course, because this is me and I thought I'd be using my laptop, I forgot my USB key, so I have no way to save all that awesome fic that is turning up in my flist. WHY, OH WHY.

I also just finished reading JKR'S 800 word prequel and if anyone else bitches about this I'll have to hit someone because it is made of WIN and it made me grin a lot and it is JAMES AND SIRIUS AND A CERTAIN MAGICAL BIKE, OKAY? NOTHING CAN GO WRONG WITH THAT COMBINATION. ♥♥

Okay. Now I'll go and and read Neil Gaiman's story and bask in it before I have to leave.

ETA: LOL LOL LOL I JUST READ IT XDDD OH, NEIL. ♥

( You wanna know what we do in Graphic Expression V class, which is supposed to be acrylic all semester long? )

I'm pretty sure the supernaturalfic mods must hate me by now. Last time I posted there I messed up the subject line, and today and apparently hit the post button twice, lol. XD

My friend has finally finished Deathly Hallows and we fangirled in loud loud voices and talked about whose deaths made us cry the most and it was, no joke, sort of fantastic. AH, POTTER. YOU SHALL ALWAYS BE ONE OF THE GREATEST ERAS OF MY LIFE.

Also, I just posted the Large Fic of Doom I've been blabbing about for ages! A Thousand Shades of Red, in which Sam is growing up and sexing up Dean while at it. :3

Today was a bundle of little bad stuff that just amounted for a big OMG WHEN IS THE DAY ENDING. Like, my new eyeliner fell down in the gap between the shower and the sink which we like to call The Endless Pit, the place that nothing ever comes out of; I hit myself on doors/door handles/walls/the triplay wood for Watercolor class/people. I had a headache. I walked a lot for nothing. I dumped half of the bluish watercolor water on my jacket. I almost 'lost' the parking lot ticket and was about to be charged 10 dlls for it (as in, I forgot to pick it up after I payed in the machine, *headdesk*), and then came home and dumped ANOTHER large amount of water over me. One of those days, you know.

And then I looked down on my desk when I came home and saw that my mom had managed to fish my eyeliner out of The Endless Pit and it was like, A RAY OF LIGHT. FROM HEAVEN. Seriously, It was the best thing that'd happened so far in the day and I immediatly texted my mom saying something like 'OMG MUMMY I LOVES YOU SO, SOOOO MUCH'. XD

But there were also good parts of the day. A friend from flamenco class is reading Deathly Hallows (the Spanish translation came out like, a week ago and I didn't even NOTICE, lol) and we fangirled about it and it made me lol because she's in no way involved in fandom, and yet she shares the Popular Opinion that Harry/Ginny = makes no sense whatsoever. In all honesty, I sort of made it my mission to like Ginny because no one else seems to like her. But I still find her a bit blah, and I'm guilty of shipping H/G only because, yes, it means YAY BIG HAPPY WEASLEY FAMILY. Er.

I was also thinking while driving (as one does) about how much I love the turn of phrases in Travis' Why Does It Always Rain on Me and I was wondering how the new album is going and whether they'll stop touring for a while after Dougie's baby is born and then I thought: 'WAIT. I DIDN'T SEE KELLY MACDONALD AT THE OSCARS.' but then again, the baby is born in March, right? So she must be sort of HUGE by now. Still, it would've been nice to see her, girl deserves more praise that she gets. And she's still part of the winner movie of the year, yikes.

AND ALSO. And because this song just started: The girl playing Shaz in Ashes to Ashes is named Monsterrat - how do the British pronounce that? Thanks to this particular song I think of this name and I think Argentina, but I actually know a bazillion Montserrats so I know it's not as exclusive. But. I honestly can't imagine it being said by a native English speaker. o_O

Exactly seven years ago to the day I started reading Prisioner of Azkaban, after a month of waiting non-so-patiently for the translation to arrive. I finished it at around 12pm. I loved every second of it and Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs continues to be my all time favorite chapter of HP. (the second being The Forest Again because it makes me weep like a baby.)

( lulz, this is my very well read book. SPANISH COVERS, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM. )

Okay, now I really have to go and do homework.

( Er, spoilers for Deathly Hallows. Does anyone care anymore? )

Quick, someone tell mon_starling!

Well, in all honesty, it was its birthday on October 5th, but I totally forgot about it. Still, two years in LJ! Ah, so many good times.

Also, seven years ago to the day, I started reading Harry Potter. Ah, it's been such a ride, Harry, I wouldn't change it for the world. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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In other news, the hightlights of my day were having Pan de Muerto (Death Bread), which is my favorite favoritest kind of bread in the whole wide world. It's usually only sold on the Day of the Death, but the bakeries usually make a batch around these times to try out their recipes. I'm all up for it, really. MORE DEATH BREAD = HAPPY ALE. It's only proof of how morbid us Mexicans are the fact that our bread is shaped like BONES. LOL.

I also got two books today, one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and The Picture of Dorian Gray because it was getting embarassing not to have read it before. I managed to get them both in English, too, which rocked.

A question, though: Do we know for sure for how long the Doctor and Martha stayed in 1969? I have my most boring class tomorrow, and I want to at least write something.

And now I gotta go because I have State of Play to watch, yayz!