This time, I began reading the series because I've had time to let book seven sink in, and I wanted to re-read the entire series back-to-back to get the full effect. I'm at the end of book six now, and about to begin the final Harry Potter book (that I've only read once before!) But you know......then what?
I've read and reread these books so many times through the years while impatiently waiting on the next Harry Potter installment that I kinda don't know what to read now. And also..... I mean.... how many times can a person reread Harry Potter? (2 times per year 2000-2006 until the last book came out in 2007 = 16 times including this last reading!)
I mean the Dumbledore being gay explanation from J.K. Rowling made things a little interesting at first, but.....you know....not really.
I've even read the British version.
(not that much different except a jumper to them is a sweater, and tennis shoes are trainers.) (Oh yeah, and they eat something called... Spotted Dick.)
I am not even lying, ya'll. I looked up the recipe!
But!
That's not all.
I have just realized that I do the same things over and over and over again. It's not just Harry Potter.... oh no.
It's EVERYTHING! ;) Take for instance, Friday at work, I asked my co-worker to bring me a pack of Handi-snacks cheese and crackers from the breakroom. Everything was fine until she called me from said breakroom and told me we were out of cheese and crackers.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok.
"How about cheese and pretzels?"
Ok.
So she brings me the cheese and pretzels, and they were very good. I said, "These are great! How can you not like cheese..... and you know....pretzels?" But the very unclear point I am trying to make here is that I would've never tried the pretzels had the crackers been there.
Is my whole life like this....? Yeah. It is.
And my poor husband. Bless his heart. He has to deal with this everynight.
Well, what can I say. I love me some greenbeans!
But any way you stack them..... still greenbeans.
Maybe, it's just a comfort thing. Maybe I'm OCD or something. I don't really think so though, because I usually don't freak out if I can't have something. I think it's more to do with actually deciding to do something else.
It's easy to just go to Chick-Fil-A and have a "six pack kid's meal with a medium tea" every single day (which I did for about .... oh, I'd say six years because I worked close by to a Chick-Fil-A, and they have killer tea!) than to try and decide where I'd like to go for lunch.
I'm a creature of habit....what can I say.
But can someone please tell me what to read now? Because you know, I don't have TV, and my only other option is to watch the live stream of QVC on the internet. So before I become on a first name basis with QVC customer service, or the UPS guy, I'm in desperate need of a good book....maybe even a good book series. Oooh yeah, and I'll get totally immersed in it for a couple of years. That'd be great. Anybody?
3 comments:
Very funny post, but unfortunately I have no book recommendations! But, don't you remember in my parent's old basement? You've had pretzels and cheese before, but I don't remember if they actually made it in your mouth or not???? Ha!!
We have so much in common! I think Marc and Rob would laugh if they read this post... Thankfully Rob puts up with my OCD-like food tendencies. The funny thing is we have both green beans and cheese and crackers in the cubbard right now! As far as books go-- it's hard to beat Harry Potter. I am reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (about her trip to Italy, India and Indonesia). That's been interesting.
Read The Dark Tower series. Okay, yes, it's by Stephen King, but it's not what you think. It's not a horror story or anything you think of as "typical" Stephen King, I promise. Over the span of 7 books, King weaves one of the best stories I've ever seen in print. It's pure, beautiful storytelling at its best.
The books are as follows:
The Gunslinger (get the revised version if you can)
The Drawing of the Three
The Wastelands
Wizard and Glass
Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower
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