Harry Potter read-along - Chamber of Secrets : 1&2

Reading the books through one last time in anticipation of the 7th.

I'm having so much fun reading through the threads at read_hp ... The drama and the memories. It's a good community to live things through with.

So, my impressions...

First mention of Sirius. Yay! "Young Sirius Black lent it me." p.16, chpt. 1
The famous opening line: "Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much". p.1, ch.1. 

I learned to hate the Dursleys. Poor Harry.

And, my first time with the book :

I remember that line too. Sitting on my cousins bedroom with the book in my hands, a skeptical 17-year-old regarding 'that whole Potter business' as only for children. I opened the book and fell in love.

And the rest is history. (filled with fangirl squeals, sugar high, sleepless nights, holidays and the most fun I ever had in math(that was Azkaban)..)

I cut this from my comment on the group.

'S all tonight darlings, nighty night!



And on a very chipper note... I've reserved my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on a local bookstore! *bounced up a and down*
I was all bouncy and squealy and grinning like mad afterwards. And then on my way home I noted I'd given them partly a wrong address... I gave them the wrong house letter. I used to live in '1 B' and now I live in '76 A' and gave them '76 B'... sheesh..

Quiz...

You Are Fall!

Thoughtful Expressive Creative Poetic Smart

What Season Are You?

Blegh!

I will be trying to lessen my online time from now on.

I'm currently spending 6-10 hours online depending from the day and it isn't healthy anymore. I've started to have trouble falling asleep, I can't concentrate and if I need two cups of coffee just to keep me up in the mornings then I'm just too beat up.

And all escalated today as I cried on my mums shoulder because of my fatigue, the resulting indecisiveness, my life and things in general. I really should know better than to call her when I'm in this state, I cried through the last third of the call. I hate that I'm worrying my mother so that I have to hear her say "And you are sure you won't do anything to yourself?". She's really fearing me doing something drastic. She knows I could pull it through since she knows I know the basics of how to off myself. In moments like these I hate myself.

So... Two hours online time per day, tops. Tomorrow I'll break it though since I have to get my applications sorted.

And maybe then I'll get back to the things I used to do like reading, drawing and knitting. I need to do it before I start to hate my life to a point where...

          .... I'd become depressed enough to actually do something drastic because of the way my life is.