It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

In case you're wondering, this superb quote is said by Professor Dumbledore. He says it in the first book after Harry discovered the Mirror of Erised, the mirror of desire.
I finished rereading the fifth book yesterday. It is my favourite one. I still remember when I got the Hungarian copy as a Christmas present and started reading immediately and felt very bad before going to sleep for 3 or 4 days until I couldn't finish it. It is the second longest Harry Potter book. It's full of surprises and you can never know what you'll find behind the next shelf. Of course the other books are amazing too. The sixth and seventh are really great, it is almost impossible to put them down.
I've seen all the film adaptations but I'm not a big fan of them. They are spectacular, exciting and full of action but the books are just soo much better. There are a lot of arguement among Harry Potter and film fans that it cannot be expected from a film to be as elaborated as a book. And of course it is true for other film adaptation as well. Because then these films would be 5 or more hours long.
I'm perfectly aware of this fact but somehow I couldn't leave the cinema after seeing any of the Harry Potter films totally amazed. I couldn't see how the others who haven't read the books were able to understand the most important parts when there was no real explanation.
But it seems that the people who haven't read the books aren't looking for that detailed explanation. Because they don't know what should they seek. Most of them are satisfied with the happenings and solutions. At least this is what my friends tell me.
I wouldn't dare say that the films are rubbish because they are definitaly worth to watch. I'm keenly looking forward to seeing the last two. I'm hoping that this way, that they made two parts, the Harry Potter adaptation will be much more true to the book itself.


The premier of the first film is on the 19th of November in the USA, in Hungary the 25th of November (shame). But I hope we will go together because in the Netherlands it is the 17th of November. (In Egypt it is the 7th of November. But I can't go there right now...)
It was planned that both of the films will be shown in 3D but this week the studio made the decision that it will be only in 2D because they couldn't finish it properly and they don't want to let down the fans. I think it's nice of them.

Anyway, don't forget to mark you calendars because it is one of the most important days of the year:)

In case you haven't seen the trailer:



You're welcome ;)

If you guys have some time, write something about your current position. Maybe we could talk this week and decide once and for all what to do. I'm just sayin':)

Mira

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I've been listening to the same song (you can see the title above from Ani Difranco) for days now. It's beautifully written and just amazing. I guess it's a little girly for you guys, but if you have time, I highly suggest listening to it.

I'd like to tell you a little about the weekdays of my family today.
My mom and dad are trying to find out why my brother's wall is getting soaked so the flat is a noisy mess now. My brother's room is next to the bathroom and according to my dad's brilliant idea our bathtub doesn't contain the water properly so when one of us is taking a bath or a shower, the water is flowing down next to the bathtub and it makes the wall wet. It's difficult to explain in English I don't really get my dad's idea in Hungarian either. But at this moment he's started to use his drill and he's trying to take out our bathtub and find out the cause of the trouble...at any price.
Well, I'd like to add to my strory, that he is not a plumber, he's a truck driver. He has a paper as an electrician which he used for a year, maybe, because then he got his driving license and started to work on other fields. I wouldn't have a problem with this, let him try to fix it, let him try to solve the problem because I've come to accept that men think they can solve everything. But as I've been living with him for 20 years, I've seen him trying. And at the end of the day his ideas caused more trouble than the problem itself.
I'd like to give you only one example which I particularly remember as I was the lucky one to help him. One rainy day we couldn't have got into the flat because we had some problems with the locks (it's another story related him, of course) so my dear father decided that as we live on the ground floor one of us could easily go in through the window. So he broke the window and chose me, the youngest and smallest to climb in with their help. I desperately tried to avoid the pieces of glass, I stood up on the window sill, and somehow as I was jumping to the floor, I got caught by the curtain and I managed to tear out the curtain rail from the wall. After I landed in a way I never thought anyone could survive, covered with the curtain, the curtain rail, pieces from the wall I couldn't speak. Of course by this time most of the habitants of the house were watching, giving advice how they would've come in and saw my wonderful landing. They got scared for a minute but I stood up confidently in my parents room and shout through the window that I was fine. Magically noone got hurt, I let the family in and we've kept on living happily since then.
I could tell you other stories of course. The one when we almost lost our front door or when he had to stood in shorts in front of the house for hours because he tried to get rid of the flees in the cellar after we moved here...life-changing stories :)

And now this issue. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how I will be able to take a shower today. I'm not even sure that we will have water. My dad is in full equipment and ready to rock. My mom is the chosen one to help him. My brother and I are in our rooms behind closed doors. We're waiting for the party. Let us hope that he will not destroy the bathroom.

That's it from me for today. I could write more, but the post took more time than I expected so I have to go now. I'm waiting for the news from you, too. I hope everything's going ok for you.
Hugs,
Mira