I hung out with my friend yesterday afternoon, which turned into me getting home at, like, 11:30 at night. We went and saw the twilight showing of Hairspray (between 4-6 p.m., tickets are $4.25, woohoo) and then went to dinner at my uncle’s restaurant, Rio Mambo. We got chicken fajitas and followed those up with [...]
Archive for July, 2007
22 Jul
desperately avoiding spoilers
I blame the rain and my pesky nostalgia, but I’ve barely started reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. By this time two years ago (or whenever Half-Blood Prince came out), I was already done, and had been for quite some time.
My parents were in Washington, DC on my dad’s quest to catch a game [...]
22 Jul
movies, movies and more movies. and also, rain.
As I mentioned in my last post, I spent the weekend with my grandmother out at my parents’ house in Helotes, which is a small suburb up in the Hill Country. It’s only seven miles away from town, and yet sometimes it feels much further than that — they can’t even get high-speed internet where [...]
20 Jul
the making of a kid star
Felt like writing a review. Feel free not to read.
There was a really interesting article in the Harry Potter Entertainment Weekly (I have no idea if it’s the most recent since I check my mail at best once a week) called “The Making of a Kid Star.” It focuses on the latest crop of stars [...]
17 Jul
can’t. let. go.
I’m up way early, which is kind of a surprise, especially considering I didn’t go to bed till 1:30 because I was working on the book. (I knocked out fifteen frakking pages. I can’t believe it, either.)
Anyway, I was going through the videos I’ve got posted here to see if I needed to cull any [...]
11 Jul
dumbledore’s army
I feel like I say this with the advent of every movie, but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the BEST ONE YET.
Prior to OotP, my favorite was …and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Not to detract anything from Chris Columbus (Rent was, after all, great), but his take on …and the Sorcerer’s [...]
6 Jul
double chocolate peppermint cookies
Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
4 ounces milk chocolate, cut in chunks (for both, I opted for Ghirardelli bars)
1/2 cup butter
1 and 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
**1 package Andes peppermint baking chips
(**They were out of these when I went to [...]
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