MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

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That's about where I'm at in the 750 page Harry Potter book that came out Friday night. We have one book in our family and so we have to share, and so I can't read it constantly myself. We do get to share a bit less than we thought because 1) DD stayed up all night and finished the book at 9 am Saturday morning, and 2) DH cheated and didn't tell us until late Saturday that he'd already read the book before it came out--- he found the copy online that someone had photographed each page of the book and he finished before we left for the party on Friday night! Hey, not fair! And then he had to do this tricky thing of going to the party at Barnes & Noble as "Cousin Barny Weasley," because we had red hairspray and he didn't think he looked enough like Arthur Weasley to be him (and I was going as Molly Weasley, and we got 15 year old DS to also spray his hair red and go as Ron, although he was so embarrassed to be in a costume he almost washed it all off before going). Now, we thought he was just being funny because there is no "Barny Weasley" in the books.... however, he was being clever to see if anyone else had pre-read the book because Harry is disguised as a red-haired guy for a wedding in the 7th book, and he goes as "Barny Weasley." So clever...

It still pissed me off that he read it early! But at least now we don't have to share the book with me. It's down to me and older DS (younger DS really doesn't want to read it--- he'd rather listen to the book on tape).

And so I've been having this odd weekend, because I've been staying away from the media totally. I'm afraid to hear someone say, "Harry's dead," or "Harry's not dead," so I'm not listening to the radio, watching TV, reading the paper. It's very quiet here. I usually have this woman's talk radio on all the time, which my family isn't always thrilled about, but I find it entertaining. It's been kinda nice to have the world be quiet, to not listen to anything but a CD in the car, to just live in the world of Harry Potter for a few days.

BTW, the book is really good and I'm enjoying it immensely. I can't wait to steal the book back from older DS!