First thing's first: Shpooky Party!
What can I say? It was awesome. I spent over a month planning this thing, and it was worth all of the work! I guess I should have taken some pictures of how our apartment looked...the ones I have are using the flash, so the apartment doesn't look the least bit Shpooky. But it was! It really was! I replaced all of the light bulbs with black lights; those, combined with black votives and candlesticks EVERYWHERE were the only source of light. We ordered pizza, and I made everyone shpooky shpritzahs (which were a huge hit!). We played Halloween pictionary, watched Psycho, and voted for best costume. It was so much fun! By the time the night was over, I wished I could do it all over again! It was a Shpooky Shuccess!!
Okay, next thing on the list: TWILIGHT.
Oh, Twilight.
I just need to ask you all one thing...
WHY?
Seriously. I mean it...WHY?
WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THESE BOOKS????
In response to the pleading of nearly every female I am acquainted with, I read the first Twilight book, and hated it. It was vapid, poorly written, repetitive, predictable, and monotonous. If you're thinking about reading it, I can save you the time and the $12 by summing it up in just a few sentences:
She looked into his intense, honey-colored (or red, depending on his mood) eyes
She cooks dinner for her dad
Sarcastic banter
He gets protective over something
Intense conversation
She gets into trouble
He saves her
She cooks dinner for her dad again
More sarcastic banter
More intense conversations
She looked into his fiery golden eyes again, so intense
She gets into more trouble
He saves her again
Rinse and repeat.
Then, over a year later, I watched the movie at my sister in law's house. It was indeed much better than the book, although still not anything to get overly excited about. I didn't bother reading the second book (New Moon), because the Twilight saga simply didn't hold my interest.
Fast forward to last Saturday; everyone is freaking out about New Moon coming out, and Thomas and I want to see a movie, but nothing really sounds good. So we decide to go watch New Moon just for silly fun. I couldn't believe it...I liked it! It had action, romance, an actual plot...you know, all of the things you look for in an actually good story line.
Immediately after the movie, I made Thomas take me to Barnes and Noble so that I could buy Eclipse. I figured that the books must have vastly improved since the first, and was willing to give them a second chance. After all, if tens of thousands of members of my sex were going gaga over this stuff, perhaps I had overlooked something?
I was content with Eclipse...until I was about a third of the way through. Can you guess what happened next?
She gets into trouble
He saves her
Intense conversation
Oh lordy lordy, his golden fiery eyes and rock hard chest
She cooks dinner for her dad
Sarcastic banter
More intense conversation
She gets into more trouble
So disappointing.
I'm not going to totally diss Twilight. It obviously captures the interest of females because it depicts a kind of perfect intense forbidden love, served to them on a shiny fictional platter by a perfectly sculpted, intelligent, protective, unconditionally loving, 100%-of-his-attention-giving VAMPIRE....who for some reason doesn't want to eat them.
And if that's what they like, who am I to judge? Heck, I like the story as well...but apparently, only after Hollywood takes over and cuts out all of the repetitive crap.
Oh...I'm sorry. Did you read all the way through that to find out what the point was? There is none, really. I just like to rant.
THANKSGIVING!!
Thomas and I drove to Idaho Falls on Wednesday right after I got off work, had dinner the next day, and then drove home after. It was a little tiring, but definitely worth it. Who wants to spend Thanksgiving sans family? Not me! I think I really hit the jackpot with Thomas's family; they're all awesome. And I got to see some of my own family too, whom I hadn't seen in a long time! All in all, a very successful holiday indeed.
And noooowwwwwww
THE HOUSE!!!!
I decided to do you all a favor and move into a house so that you don't have to listen to me gripe and moan and complain 24/7 about how LOUD and OBNOXIOUS and INCONSIDERATE my neighbors are. Wasn't that nice of me?
You're welcome.
We're moving into a HOUSE!!!! I can't contain my excitement!! We got the keys today and we're going to go over and paint tomorrow and then we'll start moving stuff in! We'll be officially moved in by this time next week!!!
Horrah!!!
And it's not just any old house, either. It's a CUTE house. So so cute. It's got a big bay window in the living room, archways, hardwood floors, glass doorknobs, and old charming everything! And the best part: NO UPSTAIRS OR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS!!! Well, you know. We'll have next door neighbors, but no one we actually have to share a wall with!!! Aww yeah!!
I don't think I have made this very clear through my writing, so I'm just going to go ahead and spell it out for you: I'm excited about the new house.
