I want a puppy!

I'm not an animal person. At all. When we got those guinea pigs a year and a half ago, I was completely uninterested in them, not to mention so upset that we got them that I ended up creating this blog to cheer myself up. (OK, that was weird.) I refused to touch them, and I fed them once within the year that we had to. (I don't remember why, but I think I had to.) I thought it was a bit cool when they had babies, but that's the extent of it. I had nothing to do with the babies either. Oh, and I did rather enjoy naming them.
The fact remains, however, that three days ago, my family finally got satellite TV, and my brothers like Animal Planet. I watched some of it with them, and, AAARGH! Puppies are so cute!!! I want one. Yet somehow, I'm still not an animal person. Sad.
On an unrelated note, it was finally announced that by 2010, Universal Studios in Orlando will have a Harry Potter section. I don't know what the chances are that I'll get over there, but it still looks pretty cool.
Can someone give me a puppy? *sad puppy face*

I never thought the day would come...

...where I would tell my brothers, "Stop talking about Harry Potter and go to sleep!" But it has. I should be ashamed of myself, not to mention, that's so hypocritical. But my brothers are obsessive about things, and they talk a lot in bed. They're three chapters into the first HP book (and of course, I keep requesting to be the one who puts them to bed, so I can read to them), and now Noam keeps running back to my room to ask things like "Is the part where Uncle Vernon sleeps in a sleeping bag in the movie?" and to ask me just how scary the movies are. I don't know why the movie is so important to them, but then, I'm not as much a fan of the movies as I am of the books. So maybe I'm not that much of a hypocrite...

Oh yeah.

I don't know how I forgot this in both of the posts I made today, but I preordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. 2 copies, one for me and one for my cool HP-obsessed cousin who'll be here by July 21st. :-)
Oh, and my new thing is Beauty and the Geek. Geeks are so cute...

Guess what I did?

I just read my first John Grisham book. My parents were raving about The Testament, having both read it, saying they couldn't put it down. It sounded good, and I've been into lawyer stuff (wow, that sounded blonde...) since I started reading Jodi Picoult's books, so I decided to read it.
The book was... OK. It did suck me in a little bit, and the plot is definitely interesting- it covers the will of a man worth $11 billion which he left entirely to his illegitimate daughter nobody ever heard of instead of his idiotic kids, just before jumping out the window. It doesn't help much that this daughter is a missionary living in a jungle in Brazil.
That's the story, basically. It was kinda a cool book, but I don't know how many more of his I'll read.

*squee* I'm so happy!

My little brother, Natani (age 7), decided today that he wants to read Harry Potter. I was so happy, I hugged him something like a million times. Poor kid. But yeah, that made me so thrilled, and that was after a bad day. So welcome to the club, Natani!

Know how I love things that make you feel good?

That said, I watched such an awesome movie tonight! Elizabethtown. It just, like, makes you feel happy. Except for the little parts that make fun of death (wow, that was really pessimistic.) and the occasional weirdness, it just has such a great feeling.
In short, the movie is about Drew (Orlando Bloom), who's just lost his job after a massive failiure, and feels completely lost. Then his father dies, and Drew is sent to meet his father's family in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The combination of the small-town charm, all the things he learns about his father, and the influence of Claire (Kirsten Dunst), one of those really optimistic people, brought him back to finding himself. Actually, it sounds a bit like Cars when I put it like that, just it's not animated.
So this movie had a lot of the small town/road trip across America stuff that I love. You take that and put it with great background music, and it's not at all surprising that I loved this movie. Not to mention, Orlando Bloom is so cute...
To change the subject, I kinda feel like my father and I are in surgery. We're trying to fix my computer- or rather, he's trying, and I'm the worried relative he reports back to. Nothing life-threatening, I don't need him to tell me that, but it's just been slow (and it's not even four years old, *sniff*) and some of the changes he did yesterday actually had some negative consequences, which just means we need more work. Oh, well. At least I'm back in the XP look.
Shabbat Shalom!

Yom Yerushalayim has come and gone...

Today was the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. That's not something to look down upon, considering the young age of our country. For us, 40 years is a long time.
Over the past week, I thought a bit about what I'd write here today. I didn't come up with anything, either because inspiration just didn't strike, or because I'm somewhat preoccupied with school. But I thought I should mention it anyway.
In other news, it rained again today. I'm starting to think summer just isn't going to come...
So I'm out of school now- I'm there a couple times a week for tests and such. At home, I'm studying full time, and then I'm usually tired and ready for bed by 7ish. Not good. My mother is out of the country, which means a little extra work at home, (BTW: Noam lost his first 2 teeth! My baby brother is growing up...) and my computer is giving me issues that need to be fixed.
This is the benefit of having a father in high-tech, because I have no idea what he's doing. The one thing I do understand is that he changed the look of my computer from Windows XP look to Windows classic, because that will save memory or something like that. I don't like it, and since I have XP the old Windows 98 look clashes with everything on the computer... LOL I'm such a snob and I still have no idea what I'm talking about...
Anyway, I should stop rambling and go to sleep...