My Very Own Magic Wand

Guess what.

Go on, guess.

YOU'RE WRONG. (Well, I suppose you could be right, but you're probably not.)

I actually finished reading Great Gatsby this morning!
Isn't that exciting? It made me happy because now I only need to read the first chapter of Walden and I'll have completed my required summer reading. That might sound like a pretty simple task; it's only the first chapter right? Well technically, yes, but it's 65 pages long. UGH. The worst part is that it's not even a story- it's philosophy.

So, I you can't really blame me for not wanting to read right now. But my English teacher can blame me if I fail the test we're going to have on the first day of school, which is on Monday. Which means I really do need to finish those 65 pages by Sunday night... or Monday morning... or the period before I have English. Just kidding! I'm not that much of a procrastinator, or at least I won't be this time. (I hope.)

Alright, enough of my summer reading; it's really not that exciting.

The only thing is, I really don't have anything very exciting to tell you all today. Ha. "You all"... I'm not even sure if that's an accurate description of how many people read this thing. That is probably more fitting for someone with at least twenty readers. Maybe.

Anyway, I guess I'll tell you about my new curler. My mother and my sister went to the store today because my sister needed some stuff for school and a new straightener. Well, they returned home with one of those curling wands for my sister and I to share! This got me pretty excited because I have quite a lot of hair (think horse tail) and it usually takes me like two hours, sometime three, to curl my hair. But I had been told by many people that with this wand thing you only had to hold your hair to the heat for approximately twenty seconds. Of course, I sort of thought that was too good to be true, but somewhere in the back of my brain I sincerely hoped that it would work. Well today, that little part of my noggin got what it wished for! This wand really is magical!

Yep, that's right; today I successfully curled my hair in thirty minutes! Look out world, this girl is going to be curling her hair A LOT. Normally I just straighten it, but now I can actually have some variation in my hairstyle, which will be nice. Plus, I actually like my hair curly more than I like it straight (probably because we always want what we can't have), but now, I CAN have what I want! It's fantastic.

Well, I'd love to continue talking about my hair, but those 65 pages aren't going to read themselves! Wish me luck! Hopefully I won't fall asleep...

Preaching to the Choir?

Today, I finished reading the fifth Harry Potter book for about the seventh or eighth time (I lost count years ago), and I was planning on beginning the sixth, but sadly I had to start my required summer reading for school.

But I digress; the point is that whenever I am not reading anything I start the Harry Potter series over again. I never get sick of reading it. It's a classic, or at least it will be in years to come. If you haven't read the HP series, I highly recommend it. Now if you're one of those people who haven’t read it because you've been told that it's "against the Bible" or something similar, then let me just tell you this: HARRY JAMES POTTER IS A JESUS FIGURE!

Yep, that's right. Harry Potter is not, in fact, some devil's advocate who uses his magic powers for the forces of evil! That would be Lord Voldem-, excuse me, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The whole point of the series is basically that You-Know-Who (The Devil) is trying to kill Harry (Jesus), but Harry (SPOILER ALERT) eventually defeats him because Harry has the ability to love.

In fact, a friend of mine was not allowed to read the series because her mother believed it to be un-Christian and what-not. Then, after my friend relentlessly begged her mother for permission to read Harry Potter, her mother finally agreed to read the books to her. At first, her mom intended to have discussions after each chapter with her on how it was unlike the Bible, but was surprised to find that there were many allusions and similarities to the Bible.

So, if the reason you have yet to fall in love with the "Golden Trio" (like I, and many others have already done) because of your religion. Then I would rethink your decision to ignore this wonderful piece of literature, 'cause you're missing out.

If you have already followed Ron, Hermione, and Harry on their magical journeys, then you'll have to forgive me for "preaching to the choir" today. I promise to refrain from doing so in future blogs.