#18 Reading Harry Potter

Read all 7 of the Harry Potter books

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone finished 12/28/07
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

So...Santa kindly brought me the Harry Potter series for Christmas. I finished the first one last night.

A friend described it as "goodish". I'd describe it as a very interesting start to more adventures. It definitely made me want to read the next one.

Now, I have to confess that I've already seen all the movies that are out (I think 5 by now), so as I was reading the "Sorcerer's Stone" visions of that movie popped into my head.

On to the next.

#45. Take my mother out to dinner

Good grief! I've passed the 10% milestone of my days but feel like I've been an absolute slug the last month or so. With less than 900 days left I certainly haven't finished 10% of my goals. After the holidays it is time to buckle down again.

One item that I can mark off, but forgot to mention, was to take my mother out to dinner. When we visited her at Thanksgiving, she wanted to go to this Italian restaurant, Buca di Beppo She called it a food museum. So the day after turkey day, off we go to this crazy place covered floor to ceiling with photographs of Italians and Italian-Americans and all sorts of statuary and do-dads. She had reserved the Frank Sinatra booth but it was not empty when we arrived. She was PO'd about that but there were plenty of empty spaces so we had another booth with murals of ladies and fountains.

The food was good. Really big portions, even the single-serving entries were huge. It was fun.