praise the Lord, I finally finished Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
Started my day by watching Will & Grace while I biked. I don't care what anyone says about this show losing its edge or being on its last legs, I still think it's hilarious. This episode--which I recorded last week but hadn't gotten the chance to see yet--was called "Von Trapped," & centered around a Sound of Music sing-along. It was a riot. The play on words...Karen in a nun's habit...Grace dressed as Maria & getting stuck babysitting a bunch of kids... I laughed so hard, I almost fell off my bike!Then later, I ended up with a cat on my lap & had to stop writing. Well, I didn't have to, but you'd be surprised by just how much my cats do not appreciate having an AlphaSmart propped on top of them. So I keep a book handy to read until they get tired of using me as a bed & move. Of course, Angel didn't much appreciate having the 800-page Harry Potter book propped on top of him, either. But I finally, finally finished. I admit that I liked the end, the way everything came together & we were told some stuff we never knew before. I even cried when Sirius died--something I'm still upset about. But this was by far the hardest book in the series to get thru. At least for me. It might not have been so bad if I'd had time to just sit & read the thing, but going at it a paragraph or page at a time...it takes me long enough to get thru a 200- or 300-page book that way, but the 800+ pages just about did me in.
Still, I am eager to start the next one. I may not jump right into it, but I have a feeling I'll try to get to it soon. Then I'll be caught up...but of course, by the time the next book or movie comes out, I will have forgotten everything. :-P
And then I got back to writing. I'm on ch10, which only leaves a few more till the end of the book, & it's going well. Not as well as I'd like...I always wish I could whip out 10 or 20 pages in a sitting the way I know some authors do...but good for me. I'm starting to get excited about a couple of things that are going to pop up, & about finally reaching the end. Soon. Not soon-soon, but before too terribly long. Yay!
