This weekend I am DVR-ing the first four movies (ABC family channel) for my huge Harry Potter viewing bonanza. This is very good because I don't have kids or a husband (I'm a lookin' at YOU, Vito) that play movies over and over and geez-oh-pete I can't remember everything I read in the book series a gajillion YEARS ago. And the fifth movie comes out next Friday!
This weekend, I will be nacho-eating and hard-lemonade-swilling to THIS:
Film one: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Film Two: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Film Three: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Film Four: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
...Then I have to Netflix
Film Five: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
...And then I will be totally ready for THIS:
Film Six: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince**
WOO!
I am just a little sad, however, that I am not spending my usual "July Time" in Texas with my sister. I don't care to go to the movies in an actual movie theater anymore, but I always enjoy going to the movies with my sister and we both LOVE the Harry Potter books. In fact, one of my favorite memories is the summer of 2003 when book five came out and we went to Target together to buy our own copies (we couldn't share!) and then we sat in the kiddie pool in her backyard and read together for hours. Unfortunately, her little son was just a toddler then and he was being SO needy. Just that afternoon, naturally. He was such a good little boy normally, but the minute we wanted to settle down with our books, oh - he just wasn't havin' it! (Denise wasn't havin' it either.)
Freddie isn't into the Harry Potter franchise. Or at least, not yet. He hasn't read the books and, sure, he watched the 4th movie while he was deployed over in Germany, but he told me he wasn't that invested because he hadn't seen the first three. I don't know when I'll catch him up on HP. He's far too busy this summer to catch up.
I'll be thinking about my sister a lot this weekend!
** SEE COMMENTS -- classic!
