Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
This weekend has been the best weekend since I moved to Florida. I used to have weekends like this all the time before I moved. I have friends back in Augusta, we would hang out, have fun and do things.
Friday night was sorta calm. Tori invited Valerie over and ordered some pizza. The plan was to watch a couple of movies. It was an alright time. I had seen both movies that we watched before and was feeling kinda crappy so I went to bed afterwards. I’ve had this sore throat for a number of days now that has been making my life suck. Waking up every hour in the night coughing and during the day, coughing as equally much. I kinda worked late as well as I was trying to wrap something up for work but still failed to complete.
Saturday proved to me much more interesting and fun. I had a therapy session and my Dr. told me about a Starburst meeting that night. It was more like a Thanksgiving dinner sorta thing that was funded mostly in part by Dr. Reed. Dr. Reed does SRS in Miami. Tori and I went and ate. The food was all really good and we talked to a few others there. It was a good turn out actually, from what I was told. I good mix of transmen and women plus their SO’s/friends.
Afterwards we hurried home to get ready and go out for the evening. A friend from work asked me on Friday that if her and her boyfriend were going out, if I was interested as well. I was like, YES! It was her, her boyfriend, a guest from work, Tori and I that went out Saturday night. Our destination was Ybor City, Tampa’s nightlife. Everyone but Tori, got to see me as “Erin” for the first time. The guest from work had no idea so it was sorta a surprise to him when he first saw me but he didn’t care. I had talked to him later that night and apologized for surprising him with that like I did. He has spent all week with me as “the boy”.
We went out to a few clubs. It was soo great to go whereever as me and just have fun, have a drink and move on. We ended up going to three clubs that night and settled upon the Castle. The Castle is a goth/industrial club. It is my friend’s favorite place to go in Ybor. We all had a great time, drinking and dancing. I do have an interest in the kind of clothing most people were wearing there. I can so do the vinyl/leather look and I think I might try upon a future return. We ended up leaving at 3am.
Today was Harry Potter day!!! It was Tori’s suggestion to go see the movie a couple weeks ago. A couple weeks ago I had never seen any of the Harry Potter movies. It just seemed like something I wouldn’t be interested in. Tori said you’re coming with me to see the Goblet of Fire and you need to watch the first 3 movies before we do. So I did. I watched all 3 last week and so enjoyed them. In fact, I loved the movies. The story is so great, wonderful, magical and just plain awesome. I’m now hooked on Harry Potter. A part of me wishes a world like that really existed so that I could escape to it.
The Goblet of Fire was anything but a great movie. Previously, The Chamber of Secrets was my favorite movie so far but this one is right up there with it. I think it might be my new favorite so far. It sucks that The Order of the Phoenix won’t be out till 2007. I plan to read either all the books or up until the 6th book by the time that movie comes out. I don’t read books but this story just has me wanting more. I think Emma Watson is so pretty too.
Then there is tomorrow. November 21st, the day that my office will know about my transition. I’m not nervous, more like I just don’t care or numb to it. I’m just gonna deal with whatever comes about tomorrow. Having the support of my boss and the owner is a big deal that I’m not too worried about much anymore. So we’ll see what comes about after tommorrow’s workday is over with.
I am also flying back to my parents house Wednesday morning for Thanksgiving. I’ll be away till Monday evening. I am so looking forward to spending time with my parents, brother and two sisters. I missed Thanksgiving last year which upset me. It was the first time I wasn’t with my family at Thanksgiving. I am also anxious to see my friends back in Augusta again. I miss them ever so much and look forward to spending time with them again and having fun.
For now, I’m gonna do some cleaning up and watch all the special features on the Harry Potter DVDs before I bring them back tomorrow.
Tori and I watched this movie last night. She said it was a great movie (has she been wrong in the past? Not yet). I loved it. It was so different then anything I had seen before and really, in my opinion, a great concept to put on the ever so common beginning to end story line.
I almost cried a few times during the movie. My favorite scene was towards the end when they met for the first time. If Tori didn’t already own this movie, I’d go out and buy it!
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Thinking about this movie a bit reminds me of a movie titled “Go” that I watched several years ago. It started off at present time and went backwards as well. The kids were like all tripped out on drugs half the time but quite the same as this movie was.
I had a really good time with Val and her uncle, mom and grandma. I really nice surprise was that one of Val’s friends from Michigan was down here visiting and she was over for dinner as well. Her name is Carly (sp?) and she just started full-time and is 29 years old. She is soo wonderful and soo nice! We had a lot in common and I think we’re gonna get along just fine 
It’s so awesome that there is another sane, real friend down here. She is not going back home, thus moved down here permanently now. Again, thank you all for dinner, it was wonderful and you both are two bad-ass cooks! I was really happy to spend Thanksgiving with you girls
Over the last couple of years I have heard some friends online and in some online groups, people calling Thanksgiving Turkey Day? Is this something new or is this a name for the holiday if people just don’t want to call it Thanksgiving?
At any rate, Happy Thanksgiving or Turkey Day So what are you thankful for? You did know today isn’t just to eat a ton of food, get stuffed and then watch football right? I’ll tell you what I am thankful for:
1. Having the strength to follow my dreams.
2. Having a loving and supportive family.
3. Having awesome friends that I love to death! Eric, Crystal, Jason, Alita, Chris, Brian, Valerie and Stephanie. Y’all make my life that much better and brighter I’ll see most of you at Christmas!
4. Having the money to transition, even though this means 60-65 hr work weeks.
I suppose there are other little things but those are the things most important to me. I hope I can have all of the same things next year.
But isn’t it usually like that for me? So, my night job has now kicked into Christmas season hours so I’m working till 10 PM now. Same amount of hours still because instead of a 12-7 shift on Sundays, they got me doing a 3-7 now which is much better Maybe I can do something Saturday nights now since I have Saturdays off I’d like to go out but I really don’t have anyone to go out with. Val works a lot and she doesn’t really do any clubs except for lesbian ones. I’m not so sure how much I wanna go to a lesbian club. I’m also afraid to go out by myself as well. I really would like to do something though.
So what’s all that fuss about that Monday night football intro? I’ll say it is such a load of shit that people are pulling such the moral trump card these days. It’s like you can’t do anything now without someone getting offended its not morally right. People are getting so stupid I swear. It’s pissing me off hearing about it all week.
Oh my god, last night when I got home from work, I went into the bathroom and right when I turned on the light I stepped on this spider! I almost cried I was so upset. If it wasn’t for me calling Tobi I woulda been curled up scared on my couch. Now let me tell you about this beast that was in my bathroom. It was sooooo scary and nasty. From leg to leg it was 3 inches and it was like a brown. When I stepped on it, I only stepped on a couple legs so they got ripped off when it ran. I eventually sprayed it with enough Raid and it died.
I have never been so scared of a bug in my life. I hate bugs, I hate spiders, I hate everything nasty. It took me like 30 minutes to calm down enough to actually get it outta my bathroom and flushed down the toilet. I swear, if I see another one of those things in my apartment I’m gonna flip out even worse then I did yesterday. It took me like 15 minutes to get enough courage to even take a picture of it after it was dead. I want to show someone so they can maybe identify it.
So I was watching a couple of movies last weekend. I saw Underworld and Queen of the Damned. Both were pretty good movies. I bought Underworld previously but never watched it 
Anyway… I asked myself a question and pondered about this… Do you think there are transgendered vampires? Lol, I know, I’m a freak 
My name is Erin. I was not always named Erin and I was not always a girl. One could argue that I am not a girl, perhaps a boy or both; maybe neither.
