Friday, July 8th, immediately after work (and work has been crazy the last few months), loaded up Eeyore II and took off for Los Angeles. T'was me, Karen, Kyle and Alani. Gayle was still recovering from her concussion. Traffic was bad until we cleared Livermore and then it was a straight drive down to Burbank. We stopped for dinner and soft ( Read more... )

Out the door and made it Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure park in time to open the park. Met up with Jules, her daughter Jessie and Jessie's boyfriend, Diego in the parking garage.

Lost Jessie & Diego to Starbucks. J, W & I rushed through the park to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter land. Line was already at a 40 minute wait for ( Read more... )

Let's see - I read from 2 to 5am, slept, then read from 9 to 11. Went to cult gym and picked up meds. Read from 1:30 to 2:15 or so. Done.

OMG...

MINE!

Now to read...

Sleep who needs sleep?

Note to self: it's time to eat something healthy - last night's unbuttered, but salted popcorn is probably not.

Out of the 6 books, Order of the Phoenix was probably my least favorite. herefox and I went to see the movie last night and we both really enjoyed it. The Luna Lovejoy character was perfectly done. I was ready to bazooka the Dolores Umbridge ( Read more... )

So, we got to the mall around 11:20. Had about 20-30 people ahead of us - but they were "groups". The line at that point only got to the next store over though by midnight the line went all the way to the other end of the mall (by Mervyn's if you know Southshore ( Read more... )

Went to the A's game. Zito almost pitched a no-hitter - he made it to the 8th inning. Good game. A's won 7-2 ( Read more... )

Just finished Harry Potter... took just under 8 hours. Need to go back and reread ( Read more... )