Friday fly-by

[stgulik]

Thank you, darklotus1211 for sending me my first virtual gift! This LiveJournal thing is just what I needed, and I'm glad Teddy Radiator shamed goaded encouraged me to join. There are still a few things I need to learn, though. Like, the two names above are formatted differently. Why? How can I command the little head icon to appear? And what feats of legerdemain are required to build a sidebar? That sort of thing.

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Have been innundated with humorous Harry Potter videos and Cheezburger-type cartoons. In fact, between Twitter and Facebook and Reddit and my own friends, that's basically all I viewed online yesterday. I won't post them all here because a) I'm sure you're being similarly bombarded, and b) I don't want to become "that" lj blog. But it's out there, oh yes. People are building up to a fever pitch for the final movie.

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"I'm going to see 'Deathly Hallows' in 3D," declared my husband in a show of independent spirit.

"That's nice, dear," I replied. He knows I think 3D is vulgar and gratuitous, and gives me a headache. If he wants to go, though, groovy. With our daughter seeing it with her uncle and cousin in another city that day, that means the three of us will all be at different theatres that Friday evening. Oh, the world we live in.

It reminds me of the purchase of the Deathly Hallows book. Here's how the conversation went:

Me: When Deathly Hallows comes out next week, I'll read it first just to get it out of the way. Then you guys can have it.

Daughter: NO I WILL READ IT FIRST

Husband: Logically, I should read it first. I'm the one who's the fastest reader here.

Me: I'm the one buying it ...

Daughter: I'M THE ONE THROWING A TEMPER TANTRUM (okay, she didn't really throw a temper tantrum, but she did speak in all caps.)

Husband: I really want to read it first ... come on ...

Me: I have an idea.

My solution, which I can only chalk up to sheer Harry Potter madness, was to buy three copies of Deathly Hallows. So yes, all three of us read the book at the same time, and JK Rowling earned enough revenues to buy Iceland or whatever.

Now, we did turn around and give away two copies to family, so, you know, at least we got to be generous gift-givers. But still. One of my weirder decisions! I love the looks I get whenever I tell this story.

Comments

[justpinkpastel.livejournal.com]

My husband and I decided that we will first see the movie in 2-D, then go back another time to see it in 3-D. I think 3-D can be distracting, so I want to make sure I see it and absorb all the details before I have projections flying at my face.

Deathly Hallows was released on my birthday, so of course I had to go to WalMart at midnight to get my copy.

When I started reading Harry Potter when it first came out, I would tell my dad and stepmom all about what I was reading and how awesome it was. I got them hooked on the books, too. So needless to say, at midnight at Walmart when I got my copy, I also had to pick up another two copies for my parents. We couldn't wait to have the other one finish it before we got our hands on it.

Since the fourth book came out, when my parents finally started reading them, we have had to get three copies.

We actually saved all the copies, and I am so glad that we did, because when I moved out, I already had a set and there was no custody battle over the books.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

OMG, I thought my family was the only one!

[voxangelus.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! We had a similar argument at our house, except it was just between Mr Vox and I. I won, because I DO read faster. Plus, we had a good time laughing at the people lined up at Barnes and Noble to get the book after we strolled into Meijer, bought a copy, and were out in 5 minutes.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Okay, sweetiepie and fellow perv. I think I can help you with some of your LJ queries. My name on LJ is written all together, like teddyradiator, and that might be the problem. And you know how to make it a locator, like you did darklotus, right? By highlighting it and clicking on the little 'person' icon when you're in real text mode?

By Sidebar, do you mean the bit on the left with your tags? I think you do that at Home => Profile, or some such. I usually find these things by blundering around until something miraculously works.

Maybe I'm not the best person for this, after all - ask Pink - she knows everything!

Yes, we're doing the 3D thing. My friends who moved away are coming back just to watch it with us, so we're going all out. I dread it. I really do. I know that sounds so dramatic, but I wouldn't have gone unless Kela made me.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

"Fellow perv." You have written proof now, don't you? As if you didn't already know.

LJ's platform looks intuitive. I'll dig in and unearth its secrets soon.

Yaaay, Kela! Thank you for making Teddy go to DH2!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Yep, Kela is the reason I'm here, so I decided I would indulge her, even though I told her she would have to let me sit on her lap and suck my thumb through the whole thing. Thank god for 3-d glasses...

The storm has hit, by the way...