Mood:  hungry

I watched out my window Saturday as the little girl across the street ran to check her mailbox every 15 minutes until the mailman finally arrived with the parcel she had been so anxiously waiting for. I too felt anxious but I wouldn’t allow myself to even touch the mailbox until I had completed my chores. For I knew if I ran out there and grabbed the package I would end up getting nothing accomplished. I will admit that knowing that it was just sitting out there waiting for me definitely helped to speed the cleaning process along

At 2 o’clock I looked around the house and when satisfied with the cleaning, I ran out to the mailbox. There it was…my box from Amazon.com. There was some bright red taped that sealed the box that read Muggles, Do not deliver or open till July 21^st. Well today was Jul 21^st so it was free to open and I ran into the house and grabbed a knife. After pushing away all the advertisements, I finally saw the object I have been waiting for since February. My very own copy of the last book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollow. I grabbed my glasses, some lemonade and headed to my patio to start reading. I got about 1/4^th way through when Lennie arrived to take me to dinner. I am sure he was annoyed that all I wanted to talk about at dinner was what Harry had been up to since book 6. But he sat patiently and listened while I rattled off what happened so far and which characters had already died. Don’t worry, I didn’t spoil the book for him because he doesn’t and probably will never read it. Well unless we have kids and he agreed that we should read to our children and that these stories had great moral values. He even said that he could see this becoming the next bible. LMAO Only if the world is destroyed and someone comes from another plant and finds that most households contain the Potter series, they may think it was some sort of religious following.

Sunday morning I grabbed some coffee and the book and headed back to the patio. This time I reach the middle of the book and forced myself to set it down. I know some of you were shocked. The day was so beautiful that I didn’t want to spend all day reading. I also through that since this is the last book that I will savor it a little since another will not be coming out next year. So of my friends stayed up all night to read it. I enjoy the journey. I like to read a few chapters and then mull over the contents. Trying to figure out in my own mind what Harry might do next. I read a couple more chapters last night before finally putting it down to go to bed.

I may have it finished by Wednesday if the homeowner’s meeting doesn’t run long tomorrow.

As for puppy news….There still is no puppy. There ate a couple of puppies that just arrived at the SPCA so hopefully I will have time this week to go out and take a look. I just feel like I am on puppy overload. I contacted a pound in Columbus County. They had a Golden Retriever puppy there that would have been perfect. I asked the shelter if they could hold it for me. I was so excited because the adoption fee was only $15 and it was already neutered. Well I got an email back saying that the dog was on its way to Raleigh to the Neuse River Golden Rescue. My heart sunk. I am happy the dog is out of the pound but to adopt a dog from the NRGRR cost $350. WAY out of my price range. So I will just keep my eye out for something else.