Roundup

No, not the weed killer. A brief overview of recent events.

There's still no word on the family friend that's missing, aside from two people seeing him peek his head into a bar the Friday after he went missing. So, that makes things even weirder, in my opinion.

Rusty peed in the bedroom early Saturday morning (just before 2 a.m.) just as I was settling in to begin "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" (HBP). I was quite pissed. He's never done that before, and he'd better not do it ever again, or he'll get the boot!

Went to the family cookout Saturday on about three hours of sleep, but I didn't get too grouchy, surprisingly enough. It was nice to see everyone, and I even got to watch my parents, Dave, cousins, uncle, and other sundry people play cornhole and listen to lots of people make jokes pertaining to cornhole. We also listened to HBP on the way there and back, so the drive time didn't take too much away from the finishing of the book.

Which, by the way, I did around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. I must say, I am really not happy with J.K. Rowling at this moment. Dave and I kept saying "I don't like the way this book has started ... I don't have a good feeling about this ..." Not that the book is bad, mind you, just, well, we didn't like where we thought she was going with it. I kept hoping and hoping that what I thought was going to happen didn't happen, but it did. I bawled my eyes out toward the end when *NAME WITHHELD* died. (And if I just spoiled things a bit for anyone, I apologize, but where the hell have you been? Don't you read the papers? Rowling said ages ago that she was going to kill off another main character!)

Then today I got to go to work. Hooray! I also learned today that the little girl next door has started taking after her brother and repeatedly asking "What are you doing?" I can't figure out though if she's actually talking to the dog, or if she thinks my name is Rusty, or if she just calls both of us Rusty because she can't remember my name, because she kept saying "Rusty, what are you doing?" or "What are you doing, Rusty?" She just turned 3 so who knows what's in her head. But I am so looking forward to having two kids scream at me from their porch! Um, no, not so much.