The excuses
Why have I not been blogging?
Because we’re just home from a road trip to Mount St Helens and Portland, Oregon. Where the most enjoyable time I spent was in a bookstore. This city is far too expensive for my taste. Well, its zoo is.
Because I am too busy re-reading Lynne Truss’ Eats, Shoots and Leaves because it’s so darn funny and because I just got the book at Powell’s, evidently the Best Place to Visit in Portland, Oregon. Thanks, Adrienne!
Because, really, one should only blog if one has something Truly Good to blog about. And right now, my excuses are Truly Good.
ps. To deviate a second, HARRY POTTER SPOILER WARNING!! DON’T READ THIS IF YOU’VE NOT READ DEATHLY HALLOWS: How on earth did the sword end up with Neville Nigel (is it Nigel?) (thanks Ann!!) when that goblin stole it?
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August 8th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
been wondering myself. but if you read back the previous books, i recall something on a part where only a real gryffindor can draw out the gryffindor sword from the sorting hat. i left books 1-6 in msia so cant double check. it’s neville. btw.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:05 am
HAHA Blog away dear
always love reading what u write, no matter what 
:)
Portland Oregon? I watched a lot about it in the show Little People Big World, absolutely love that show!
If only it was pumpkin season, wish I could have seen it hehe
We didn’t really like it tho. The zoo was just too expensive for our taste. $8.50 to get in, and $3.50/$4.50 for each of the rides like the zoo train, which didn’t really go around the animals like the Northwest Trek. It was disappointing. Like I said, the best place was Powell’s City of Books! You’d love it there.
August 9th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Yay! I’m so glad you liked Powell’s! I now wish I’d told you about eating delicious sausages from Good Dog/Bad Dog and sitting in Pioneer Square people-watching.
Did you see that there is an Eats, Shoots, and Leaves for grades 1 to 3. Ranger’s about 3 years from it, but Rae will soon be in the age group!
My husband’s also a fan of “Little People, Big World.” I’m trying to keep it a secret that Matt Roloff (the dad) and the show’s producer are speaking in a small Kentucky town about an hour from here on Saturday. I’d rather celebrate my anniversary than travel to Paducah, KY for discussion of a tv program. Plus the wee town is hosting American Idol try-outs this weekend, so it’s bound to be overrun and insane.
Hope things are going well with the co-op!
Things are going, that’s more than one can hope for at this point. It’s giving me palpitations! Sigh. I could use one of those Chicago slices right about now.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Ann is right, “Only a true Gryffindor can see and pull out the sword” from the sorting hat. That was in book 2 “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” when Harry was fighting the Basilisk and Dumbledore’s Phoenix bird flew in with the sorting hat.
Ahhh…ok. I thought it was some sort of mistake.