This Post is Actually About Books and Movies for Once

So by some sort of happy coincidence, I find myself ready to go to work 1 and 1/2 hours before I need to even think of being there, so I figured I'd do a post.

I finished OotP! But there's something I feel quite bad about: this book has never made me cry. I know, I know, Sirius's death is horridly tragic, but the first time I read this book, I already knew that Sirius died. I didn't read the whole series when it first came out, but my grandma bought me all of the earlier books when they all came out, so I owned all of them. Before I got into the series, she told me that someone dies in the 5th book. Thinking it was Ron or Hermione, I pestered her about it until she finally said, "Sirius dies!" And I was just like, "...Who?" It's really bad, I know. I do love Sirius, but since I knew it was coming and at the time I had not attachment to him, it was never that sad. But like I said, I feel bad about it now.

So now I'm onto Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, of course. I'm only on the second chapter, but I hope I can get through this one pretty quickly.

So there are 2 new movies I want to talk about. First, Vampires Suck. It's a parody of all of the recent vampire related movies (i.e. Twilight) and shows that have been littering the entertainment circuit recently. The trailer is hilarious, and I really want to see it! It actually comes out today, so maybe I'll get a chance to. Here's the official trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHkPJ1ACLrg

The 2nd movie is the film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I read the book last summer, and it was completely awesome. There are 2 more books in the series, which I hope to eventually read, but for now they're just making the 1st movie. I'm really excited to see this one too!

Maybe It WAS the Tea...

So I'm in a much better mood today. I'm not really sure why. Maybe it's that I've accepted a couple of things that have happened and am working through them. Maybe it's that I spent about 2 hours cleaning, and cleaning usually calms me down. Who knows? But yeah, I feel better now.

I've started my next book, which is Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz. I first heard about this one a couple years ago from a girl who was reading it, and she said the books were awesome. However, it is a vampire novel, and I've been quite wary about vampire novels since the whole Twilight thing was blown out of proportion (I used to love the series. Now, thanks to all of the 13-year-olds who only like it because Rob Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are "hot," I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I am a fan). But we'll see. It's not too bad so far, except that it's about sophomores and juniors in high school, and I'm getting a bit old for that. We'll see.

This weekend, two of my roommates will be gone and the other two will be, for the most part, working. Hopefully I'll have some time to myself. There's this Wellness Retreat that I really want to go to. It offers little workshops for yoga and facials, etc. So I think it'll be fun. I'm also taking a test this weekend to test out of a writing class that I really don't need to take, considering I was an honors English student in high school. So hopefully that'll go well too.