My Virtual Life http://viking.org.au/blog Minutiae of my Little Life Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:24:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en When is “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” available? http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/when-is-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-available/ http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/when-is-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-available/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:45:29 +0000 Lea http://viking.org.au/blog/?p=40 When will the final Harry Potter novel be available?
Current expectations are that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on July 21 this year (2007) - so at time of writing we only have a little over 5 months to go.
I’d love to know if its actually finished yet. What do you think? Likely? :)

Want to pre-order? Amazon has Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows available for pre order, if you are a big Harry Potter fan and want the book to arrive on your doorstep on the day of release, rather than doing that nasty queue-in-the-bookshop thing.

Or are you trying to avoid all that overseas postage cost? You can order Harry Potter at Seek Books, too - they are probably the best online bookstore in Australia. (Seek doesn’t have the book available for pre-order at the tme of writing, but that link should work later - hopefully when you read this :) )

There are adult and children covers being pushed again, but the pictures aren’t actually different yet - I guess that means that the publisher hasn’t yet said what they will look like?

And how do you think the storyline will come out? Voldemort will be defeated, of course, but I think we will have to lose one of main characters - so, who will it be? Harry? (A little predictable) Ron? (Most likely, I think) or Hermoine? (I hope not! It would lack balance, although she is brave enough…)
Me, I can imagine Ron being killed, and Harry and Hermoine eventually hooking up (possibly after the books end, but I nice hint to it in the book?)
Anyway - time will tell!
Only 5 more months to wait…

]]> http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/when-is-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-available/feed/ The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mothers http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/the-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-mothers/ http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/the-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-mothers/#comments Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:13:03 +0000 Lea http://viking.org.au/blog/?p=39 1. Shake out the bath mat before you run the children’s bath

2. Empty the dishwasher as soon as you get out of bed
2a. Set the dishwasher on timer after you wash up in the evening so you can get those last few glasses in and clean for the next day
2b. ok, ok - go to the loo first!
2c. This usually takes just long enough for the kettle to run. Bonus!

3. Make the bed as soon as you get out of it

4. Lay out the kids clothes for the next day before they go to bed (then you have the whole evening to figure out where to find clean socks)

5. Never go to bed with the clean washing unfolded

6. When you arrive back from dropping the kids at school, bang out each of the door mats

7. Put the laundry on before you go to bed (on timer if you have one) so it is ready to hang out first thing in the morning

]]> http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/the-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-mothers/feed/ I am the empress! http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/i-am-the-empress/ http://viking.org.au/blog/archive/i-am-the-empress/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:33:43 +0000 Lea http://viking.org.au/blog/?p=38 Annie got the magician card, so I thought I would try it out. I’m an Empress - who would have thought. ;) (but it doesn’t say *a word* about writing code!!!)

You scored as III - The Empress. The Empress is a maternal symbol. She is the mother figure who loves, nurtures and protects.
She will protect you, she will always be there when you are in trouble. When you fall over and graze your knee, the Empress will kiss it better.
Yet she is not a weak figure. Her compassion is strength. If her children are threatened she will stop at nothing to protect them. If well aspected in a Tarot spread, the Empress can symbolise security, protection and unconditional love. If badly aspected it can represent over-protectiveness, fear of risk taking and refusal to face the real world.

III - The Empress
100%

XIX: The Sun
81%

II - The High Priestess
81%

VI: The Lovers
75%

VIII - Strength
69%

XIII: Death
69%

X - Wheel of Fortune
69%

XVI: The Tower
63%

XI: Justice
63%

IV - The Emperor
56%

I - Magician
50%

0 - The Fool
44%

XV: The Devil
19%

Which Major Arcana Tarot Card Are You?
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