Harry Potter!!!!

Apparently I lose a lot of sanity whenever I think or talk about Harry Potter.  For example, I decided to dress up to see the last Harry Potter movie tonight with friends.  But it wasn't the midnight showing.  And I went on a last-minute shopping spree after work like this:

4:45pm: Take the M31 to FAOSchwarz and breath a huge sign of relief because they still have plenty of Hogwarts house ties.  I buy two and some Harry Potter glasses:

5:00pm-ish: Walk and take the M31 again back to TJMaxx and don't find anything. In between a bunch of these stops I duck into drugstores looking for a big fancy box of chocolates because I wanted to be Romilda Vane. But I don't find any that are good enough.  I mean, no love-potion of Whitman's sampler is going to cut it for Harry Ron, let's face it.

5:30pm-ish: Almost out of time! Walk to NY&Company and spend way too much on 2 white button up shirts:

6:15pm: Home and dress up. Learn how to tie a tie - thank you adorable-inflection how-to-tie-a-tie guy for teaching me the Windsor knot. Run out the door...

7:25pm: Arrive at the theater.  Realize that the Harry Potter spirit is only alive at midnight on opening day. Am still (40%) glad I dressed up. As my friend at the theater put it, this is the last time we can dress up for a premier.  There won't be any other awesome ones soon and by the time there are I'll be old and hopefully have kids and they'll think it's lame for me to dress up. So I most likely won't costume-it-out unless I feel like embarrassing them. Which I will probably do enough without dressing up for movie premiers. But I digress.

8:30pm: Movie! Not the best ever, but definitely wonderful. I need to do a HP book reading/movie watching marathon sometime.

Awesome night!