So, Yeah... When I started this blog thing I was going to be so good about it, but then life happens and something has to get put aside. Then someone- a friend named Jeri, mentioned she had a blog and now well, I want to blog!!
Let's see, what HAVE I been doing? Well, there was work. That's always there. Stand by Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story, Beauty & the Beast and then a little known play called Be My Baby. So, that happened. There isn't much to say about those now. The shows are over. Surely at the time I had lots to say, but now, they are a thing of the past. They happened, and none died. Oh but I did get to leave Jennerstown!!! Not that it wasn't lovely, I'm just not that much into country life. I prefer the more city-fied living!
That summer experience led right into my wedding experience. NOT MY WEDDING! Don't get all crazy. I was a Bridesmaid (never a bride) I had a dress that I looked great in that I will still never wear again. I pair of shoes that gave me blister so bad I had to go to a podiatrist. I spent more money than i could afford and really in the end all I have to show for it are happy friends and a great necklace that I received as a bridesmaid gift that I have worn tons. Again, at the time I probably had more to say, but now, it happened. Like every wedding I take from it things I liked, things I didn't and a better sense of what I would like my one-day wedding to be like.
I had my short foray into Internet dating. I stayed just long enough to discover what I already knew- it wasn't for me. There were a lot of creeps, some guys that were nice enough and 2 worth mentioning. The first was interesting but just stopped calling. The second, I had to stop calling because well, he was making me crazy! There is a guy out there, I'm still looking for him and hopefully he's still looking for me. I like to believe that I will know who he is immediately, but just in case I hope I don't accidentally blow him off!!
Right after the wedding I did something I'd never done before, I cut off all my hair. My hair is shorter than it's ever been. I'm still not in love with it, but everyone else seems to like it. I will be happier when it's a little longer. If I had it to do all over again, I would wait and cut it 6 months from now. But you know, what's done is done!
I am currently back in my old stomping ground, Little Rock, Arkansas. I am forbidden by my friends to frequent that employs a former object of desire, so that means I can't call one of my friends here because I don't really want to explain to her why we aren't going to this bar.
Upon my arrival, I enlisted 10 unsuspecting co-workers to join me at the midnight showing of TWILIGHT. Yeah, that's how I have spent a lot of my time lately. Following the wedding and the hair cut, I had to pack and vote for change. (That was an amazing experience, but I think I'll wait to sum up everything after the inauguration.)
So I started reading the Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer. I have a lot to say about this, so sit back. Back during the summer the 4th book came out and I was unfamiliar with what Twilight even was. So when I knew I'd be driving from NY to Arkansas I thought it would be fun to buy the books on cd to listen to. (I had decided that I wanted to go to the midnight showing, because I had wanted to go see Harry Potter, but when it got postponed and this movie started being promoted, I was intrigued) But I knew that I would prefer to read them eventually, so I ordered the 1st book as well.
What happened after that can only be compared to the first bite of cake that accidentally makes you eat the whole thing. I spent Halloween taking it easy. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and I started packing. Right before I went to bed, probably around 6am Saturday morning,(don't judge my sleeping habits- that's not the point) I picked up the book to start reading. At 11am I was 200 pages in. At 3pm I had to stop reading and have a life. I needed to go to the post office and get dinner... So I did. I also realized that I was going to need to pick up the next book, and I knew I couldn't wait until I ordered it from Amazon, so I bought it after shopping around. By 7pm I was back in the book and by 10pm I was finished.
Talk about slightly obsessed! If you haven't read Twilight, stop reading this and go get the book. (Seriously- I'm going to say things that may spoiler it for you, so if you don't want to know- stop right now I will continue talking about the books for many paragraphs) Edward Cullen, despite the fact that he is literally 1/2 my age and a fictional vampire, is as close to the perfect man as you can get. Say what you will, it's hard not to fall a little in love with him. And I am a logical person- I know all the reasons why this is never going to be a literary classic in the vein of To Kill a Mocking Bird or Of Mice and Men, but he is exactly what you want him to be.
In any case, The obsession continued, after getting through the first 3 chapters of New Moon, maybe more, once I realized Edward was gone for a while, I finally allowed myself to sleep for the first time in 2 days. HOWEVER, by my friends' birthday party on Monday, I had stopped to pick up book 3 before getting on the train. By the time John McCain gave his concession speech, I had finished the 3rd book. I believe that it was Thursday evening when I finished the last one, and then maybe Friday when I finished reading the partial manuscript for book 5 online. I spent the entire night packing because I needed to start driving on Saturday. I listened to the books cd in my car. I stopped at bookstore and targets along the way to buy the ones I didn't have. I literally went from 0 to obsessed in 7 days.
After convincing people that I barely knew to come to the movie with me, I convinced people to start reading the books so I had someone to talk to about them since most of my fiends scoffed at my young adult vampire books. It's a month later. I have loaned twilight to 3 people, New Moon to 3 people, Eclipse to 2 people and Breaking Dawn to 4 people.
My favorite book has to be Eclipse. I love the fight, I love Edward. I didn't love the movie, but I can't remember a book that I loved that translated into a movie I loved. I could list all the things that didn't work for me, but you everyone knows what was wrong. Everyone knows what scene from the book that didn't make it onto the movie or wasn't the same in the movie. That's life. I didn't love Breaking Dawn. I thought that I read a lot of things that steered me to believe things and in the end I had just spent a lot of time reading about things that would ultimately have no effect on the outcome. More importantly, I didn't want that to be the end. I wanted more. I wanted the 5th one. I would love books that were just about the back stories of all the Cullens. A book about how Alice ended up in the mental hospital, What Edward was doing before contracting the Spanish influenza, Why Esme jumped off the Cliff. Who was Emmet? Rosalie in her last early vampire years. The travels of Jasper during the vampire wars all the way through the arrival at the Cullens. Carlisle's 300 years! And what the heck the Cullens were up to before meeting Bella. There's like 10 more stories to tell!! I'm just saying. Maybe even an all encompassing La Push book. Like who is Embry's father? And what will happen with Jacob and Renesme? (Seriously what do you get when you cross a half human/ half vampire with a shape shifting wolf? Enquiring minds want to know- is it a baby that is self loathing and can't stand it's smell-- it makes the brain hurt if you try to figure it out)
Oh and speaking of Vampires. Anyone watching True Blood? After reading the Twilight books and then watching the True Blood series- there are a lot of similarities. I think my current obsession with vampire is the immortality. When someone you know dies,and then you get a year older, you start thinking about how nice it would be to live forever. (And at the rate I'm going, I might need the extra time to find love)
Wow, I have gone on haven't I? I am tired and I will attempt to keep this up with more consistency. Till next time...
