To all my fellow Potheads!

You true fans stood in line with me at 10:30 Tuesday night. You wore your house colors (blue for us Ravenclaws) and your wands held high, you entered the movie theater.

You knew, that like me, Wednesday was going to be a b****. But it was worth it.

I personally felt that this movie was very good and I think it just might be my fav. It's up there in the top 3 for sure.

A few things to note about the movie:

1. Alan Rickman is a god. Snape only grows more cool with each scene and movie release.
2. Professor McGonagall, also one of my favs, aged about 20 yrs between the two movies. Not sure if that was on purpose or if Maggie Smith is just starting to show her age. Please oh please don't let her be too old to be in the last one. We simply must have the scene where she screams while Harry is in Hagrid's arms!!!!
3. The ending... they left out the funeral. I knew they probably wouldn't have the whole ordeal, but a sweep over shot or something would have been nice. The whole death scene and non-existent after fight scene (which was really more of Harry getting pwn'd by Snape than anything else) left much to be desired. Ok, they didn't want to have a big battle when there's a very similar scene in Deathly Hallows. I get that. But this part in the book really kicked me in the stomach, and while watching the movie, I really didn't get emotional at all until Fawkes showed up. And he was only on screen for a few seconds.
4. I loved the 'high school' scenes. It was like the Goblet of Fire parts where they have to learn to dance and are all awkward, only now they are a little less awkward. But it was still very high school and I loved it, because even though all this stuff is going on - they are still just 16 and care about all the things that 16 yr old's care about.

So bottom line - good movie. Great up until the death scene.

Ken gets a bath

Kenshin is so furry. He gets hair everywhere.

So I decided to bathe him and hopefully wash away a good amount of the fur that seems to cling to my sofa like it is glued on.


Immediately, Ken does not like the water.


He tries swimming away.


Then climbing the walls.


Finally, he grabs my arm in desperation. Thankfully, he has no claws.


He does like the part where I scratch his booty. But he would never admit it.


Is it so bad? Poor Kenshin, so mistreated.


Time to drip dry.


Ken, you weigh a ton when dripping wet!!


Time to dry off!


Annie wants to help.


My little refugee, kitteh!


Oh so fluffy!!!



"Now I can escape and spend the next 6 hours licking myself!!!"

Party like it's 1985

I turned 30 this week and so in celebration, we threw a big to-do. I wasn't technically born in the 80's (missed it by 6 months) but I grew up then, so I chose an 80's theme.



I made this cake myself. I'm quite proud because it was my first endeavor in fondant and multi-tiered cakes. The squares could be larger and the sides more straight, but not too shabby for my first try.
It's a rubix cube BTW....





Everyone having a really good time. I was glad so many people dressed up.
Jesse made an 80's movie/music video montage and had it playing on the wall. It was pretty sweet.


I danced until I was so sore the next day I could barely walk.


Jesse had my dad sing Happy Birthday to me in front of everyone. He sings it in this lounge lizard, croony voice. It's quite cheesy.

more pics coming as soon as I get them loaded!