Update By Numbers

[ciroccoj]

• Rooms cleaned: 0
  
  
• Laundry baskets carried downstairs: 5
  
  
• Laundry baskets holding clean laundry ready to be folded and put away: 4
  
  
• Boys who are going to help in this endeavor: 2
  
  
• Presents wrapped this morning: 10
  
  
• Total number of presents wrapped and under the tree: I can't count that high
  
  
• Total number of Christmas cards sent so far: 6
  
  
• Total number awaiting pictures in order to be sent out: 26
  
  
• Total number of cards being sent out, by country:
  
  • Canada: 22
    
  • USA: 10
    
  • Overseas: 4
  
  
  
• Total number of people, ghosts, portraits and creatures in Marta's Potterverse picture: 143
  
  
• Total number I could accurately identify: I'll get back to you on that one.
  
  
• Random quotes from HP fics whose names and locations I no longer know: 6
  
  
  1. "I was saying -- I was -- what was I saying?" he asked, and was instantly mortified. His cool, it appeared, had left the building.
     
     
  2. "This potion Madam Pomfrey's got me drinking has played merry hell with my tastebuds; so far I've established that tea tastes blue, chocolate frogs taste of anchovies and liquorice tastes like a violin playing B flat. I can only imagine what grapes will be like."
     
     
  3. "Go to hell, Malfoy, that's my brother you're talking about," Ginny said, amiably enough but with an edge to her smile that suggested Draco's body could be lying beside the train tracks for days.
     
     
  4. Harry glared indignantly at Ron, who shrugged. "Hey, mate. Boy Who Lived, Chosen One, fucker-up of Dark Lords since 1981. You're scary when you're pissed off."
     
     
  5. He quite liked Umbridge. She was dreadful to Potter and had a nasty sense of humour and really, he required no more from a person. Also, he was fairly certain she wasn't a werewolf. He couldn't imagine a werewolf in a frilly floral blouse.
     
     
  6. "He's not my study partner anymore," Terry almost snapped, and suddenly it became so clear. Smith and Terry had had one of those tragic studying arguments about flow charts and Venn diagrams in which unforgivable words like 'I never found your notes concise anyway!' were uttered.
  
  
  
• Total number of people in our house who are going to see a movie tonight: 4

Comments

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

#3 makes me laugh out loud. :)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

I saw that picture too. Intense. There's... so many characters... lol.

Looks like you're doing pretty well with the holiday preparation stuff. Better than my house. :)

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I believe 3, 5 & 6 are from the recent Draco as a Ravenclaw story by mistful. Good stuff! Have a fun laundry day!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yes! Thank you. I knew those sounded like I'd read them very, very recently...

Thanks for the birthday wishes, BTW :)