WTF is up with my Home State?
Texas born, Texas raised. I live here, I love here, I work here.

But, seriously. What is up with my fellow Texan citizens? I work at QT, and am exposed on a daily basis to HUNDREDS of peeps, and honestly, wth has gone wrong?

Crude, rude, and completely uncultured.


But my biggest beef is thaaaaa TEETH.

Brush them, bitches.
I don't even care if you floss everyday. But purchase some paste and brush those bastards.

We'll not even delve too deeply into color, but, honestly, Crest Whitestrips are like 30 bucks.

It's a sound investment into your smile and my sanity.

I haven't posted an entry in almost 2 years(77 weeks!).
Mainly because I had to go through this truly awful ordeal that left no time for anything trivial like an LJ that hardly anyone but me read anyway...the ordeal, what was it, you say?
GROWING UP.
I'm 18 now. Almost 19. Crazy, I know. I'm an official adult (And it kinda sucks).

I have to pay rent. Work to pay said rent. Turn off lights so as to be able to pay light bill.
Uncool is adulthood.
I can't even legally drink yet, so there really aren't any perks. If I smoked(ugh)maybe. But I don't, so..wtf?

I kind of grew out of HP for a while there. After the 7th book (and the AWFUL epilogue),I lost my fervor, but then I got back online one day recently, started reading some fanfiction(feeling like a total geek all the while, things I did when I was a quirky sixteen year old aren't so cool now that I'm a working adult with a boyfriend who isn't in on my HP obsessed *past*)...and I realized it's all still very entertaining to me. I've been re-reading a lot of Hermione/Sirius stuff I loved, and getting hyped about the sixth movie. SO, it's going to be good times.

I'm really into Twilight(For years, though, since before anyone knew what it was and RPattz was still Cedric instead of Edward Cullen. I kind of feel like all the chicks have stolen my fandom. But...whatevs.

anwaysss...I'm going to be posting on here regularly now. Going to recruit readers* (*friends who love me even in my LJ sparked and completely unforeseen nerdocity).

Good times, indeed.

Can anyone help me find the fic, 'The Fires of Beltane'???
I read it, and I realllly want to read it again, only it seems to have disappeared. Seriously.
It was taken off aff.net, and another place I looked, and I just can't find it...
I really have an itch to read it, and I'll love you forever and a day if you can help me locate it:)

Also, if anyone just feels like helping me pass the time until it IS located, are there any other good fics where Hermione gets pregnant that you would recommend?
(I read this one, it might have been the FOB, where Hermione is falling on the quidditch pitch, and Draco chooses to catch the snitch over her, so Harry has to save her...I wouldn't at all mind a point in the direction of that one..;)

Anyway, thanks a lot!

*spoilers*
I finished The Deathly Hallows.
I'm rather depressed.
I am also rather surprised at how much I hated the ending, as I am so firmly in JKR's camp that she could pretty much get away with anything.
I feel like she was a bit of a coward, that she took the easy way out.
I need some closure!!!
Jo,Jo,JO.
She killed no really KEY characters.
All the trio survived, everyone got exactly what they thought they were going to get.
Ginny and Harry got married, Hermione and Ron got married. Happy, happy, happy.
blah.
I just expected more from her.
No.
I'm probably just still upset that my fave character died rather abruptly.
I won't say who, but it begins with an S- and ends with a -nape.

I'm sure I'll feel better after it's all sunk in.

BUT, Who the bloody hell is the much mentioned character that, quote, "will develop powers quite late in life".
I mean, SHE SAID IT WOULD HAPPEN.

Last sentence: ALL WAS WELL.

One word: Chicken!

I almost have my paws on The Deathly Hallows.

Son.Of.a...Monkey.


Can't wait.

It is taking all the control, every tiny little ounce of will power I possess, not to read The Deathly Hallows spoilers posted everywhere.

I thought Mugglenet had said they wouldn't post ANY spoilers.
THose liars.

They put up on of those "Don't scroll down if you haven't had it spoiled for you already" things.

DAMN IT.

Those bastards.

I didn't scroll down, but I swear to god, something broke inside me at resisting the exquisitely painful urge to just end my decade long curiousity.

I might have cried a little.

OK. SO I have not spoiled it for myself even a little bit, which, judging by what I've been told by fellow HP die-hards, is quite a feat.
Apparently, spoilers are EVERYWHERE.
I'm scared to even go to Perez Hilton.
HELLS, The New Yorker even posted a premature review.

Those bastards.

I'm scared to read those LJs I usually read for fear of spoilers.

IMMENSE FRUSTRATION.

If I have a nervous breakdown, you will so know what caused it.

Only 2 days EXACTLY to go.

I can so do this.


Also, I would like to go on the record as completely believing Harry will die.

OMG.
OMG.
CAN'T WAIT.
OMG.

AS you've probably noticed, I completely changed my layout. I like it....

Now on to my deepest fear!!!!!!

I am so completely scared that I'm going to accidentally read a Deathly Hallows spoiler with only a couple of days to go.
OMG.
So...I'm pretty much about to go into internet blackout. I'm only going to visit those sites I know are 200% spoiler free.
It pains me, but it must be done!
So don't get huffy if I don't respond to myspace comments;]

OK. Back to waiting for HPATDH.....

*SPOILERS*


I freaking Finally saw Order of the Phoenix!

And, I must say, IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!


It was easily the best movie yet.

But, I did have one issue with the film...

If you blinked, you'd miss Sirius dying. Literally.

I was completely prepared to be a sobbing mass of gooey teenage girl when Sirius died, only to find that I was left almost completely cold by the hasty dispatch of one of my fav characters.

Tragic.


BUT, I loved SNAPE. I mean, I always love Snape, but, c'mon, Alan played him SOOO GOOD in this one. Crazy good. It was amazing.

Anyway, I'm going to see it again asap, this time wearing my Snape shirt (WHICH IS CRAZY COOL. Got it from Hot Topic, who has some great stuff out for this season of HP mania;), rather than my Slytherin Scarf.

This time, I can only hope that the person sitting next to me doesn't exclaim loudly every time Draco Malfoy appears on-screen. Ahh, who am I kidding, I hope they do.

Ok...so we are so super close to the release of Deathly Hallows.

It's really bittersweet.

I want to know what happens, but I don't want it to end. at all.

I mean, I've been a Potterhead since I was like 9. I've grown up with Harry. Now I'm 17, and Harry's going to be 17 in the books...and I'm geting way too emotional over a fictional world, I know. But...there it is.

The 21st approaches. I wish I could do all 7 releases over again:)

I just really hope the fandom stays strong. I don't want all the awesome events to end now that I'm only a year away from being at liberty to attend them!

My five year plan includes meeting a fabulous Male Potter freak at one of the aforementioned awesome events and falling madly in love, so fandom, don't fail me now!!!!


LOL.

I don't know if everyone has a moment of revelation in their lives...But I did....See this movie, and you might, too.
We're all tools of the goverment until we take a stand.
-Kimberly D.