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A Recap of 2011 and What I Wish for 2012

Oh boy.  What a year!  And, I’ll create a list of everything I’ve done this year…

  • Served lunch/dinner at two successful Shrine Circuses in January and Febuary.
  • Installed as Queen of Makere Temple No 99 in March.
  • Had a successful GoEx for OES in May.
  • Had a Nile Ceremonial in May.
  • Went to my THIRD Supreme Session in June.  Met so many cool people and added them all to Facebook.
  • Nile Picnic in July!
  • Turned 30.
  • Successful Supreme Queen Visit in August.
  • Interviews in May, August, and September.
  • Second interview with Chrysler in September.
  • JOB OFFER IN SEPTEMBER!!!! (RGBSI at Chrysler.)
  • Alpena Nile Visit first weekend of October.
  • Moved to hotel in Auburn Hills in October.
  • Went to first CHC in October (haven’t been back because I’ve been busy).
  • Thanksgiving.
  • MOVED to new apartment same weekend as Thanksgiving.
  • Power went out the following week.  :-(
  • Power restored after two days; Cable and internet installed week following.
  • Work.
  • Work.
  • Work.
  • Christmas.
  • Happy New Year!!!

I go back to work on the third.  I’m looking forward to it.  :)  I’ve met so many cool people at work and on the internet, I really can’t complain.

What I wish for 2012:

  • To keep my job.  This might not sound like a lot, but shit.  I’ve worked my ass off for various places and they usually dump me after I’ve done a decent job and hit all their rīdiculus deadlines and stretched myself.
  • Keep on keepin’ on.
  • Create something for NaNoWriMo in November.
  • Finish my Holmes fanfic.
  • Watch more films.
  • Read.
  • Read.
  • Read.
  • Work.
  • Write.

That’s pretty much it.  Simple list, huh?

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phenoix

We (my mom,

[info]ferociouskater

 and I) went to the new Harry Potter film.  It is awesome.

If you’ve just read the book, you will see things that were left out.  All movies do that.  The best part of this one was that they didn’t add anything.  Many movies add things that aren’t in the books (I cite H2G2 as an example…).

Anyway, here’s my small review.

Background:

Harry is back for his  fifth year of school at Hogwart’s.  There have been strange things going on, including his dreams, where he is seeing things that are happening at the time (Sirius being captured; Mr. Weasley being tortured).

It turns out that Harry has a mental connection to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (Lord Voldemort) and he can sort of communicate with him this way.  Understandably, it freaks Harry out, and he goes to Dumbledore for help; Dumbledore sort of distances himself from Harry.

Voldamort is returning to terrorize the world.  He uses this connection to Harry as a means to get ahead in the “war”.

There’s a new teacher at the school in the Dark Arts department, who is from the Ministry of Magic (MM; Prof. Umbridge).  She is hell-bent on changing the school and turning it into something that focuses on rules, regulations and book-learning.

Harry tries to warn the school (including Umbridge) of Lord Voldemort’s return to power, but most scoff at his claims.

The movie ends with a HUGE CG scene in the MM.  I’m not going to reveal the ending, because, well, you all have to see it!

The movie is awesome!  I do not recommend taking kids to it (it is rated PG-13, after all) that are easily scared.  The dementors scenes in the beginning are scary (they even scared me!) and are not appropriate for a kid under 12 to see.

Rating: 5/5 stars.  Brilliant story-line, well paced, not too long and held true to the book.