Twilight Madness!!!

So, I can actually blog about this because I have read all 4 books and the unfinished 5th rough draft, and because I'm working at a movie theatre and we are currently selling advanced tickets to the first movie which comes out next week. First, the advanced tickets are selling out like crazy and even the advanced showing that is the day before the movie is officially released is almost sold out. So, now for my opinions....just so we have one thing clear, I LOVE (and I mean love love love love) Vampire mythology! I always have since I can remember. So, with that said, I went in with an open mind. I started reading Twilight while I was in California in August (yes Steve, I read while on vacation!) I actually enjoyed the first book, even though it puts an entire new spin on the vampire world. I found the second book (New Moon) was excrutiating to get through. It was drawn out and I had to force myself to finish it. The third book (Eclipse) wasn't as bad as the second but not as good as the first and don't even get me started on Breaking Dawn (the fourth book). I found each book should have been read over a few more times before being published, it was filled with grammatical errors (and I know I'm not perfect with my writing skills but I'm not a published author and even I caught them!) I found that most of my problems were with the final book. There was just way too much crap! It was just too mushy and too much focus on their sexual/physical relationship. We get it, they like to be "alone"! Enough with the writing about it already! And the whole issue with the 5th rough draft being leaked onto the internet and Stephenie Meyers long drawn out pitty party about how she felt betrayed and therefore will not finish and publish the 5th book....come on....get over yourself lady! After I read the letter she posted on her website, I was like, "For Reals?" Crap happens and she has a huge fan base for which she should be grateful for, she just needs to finish the freakin' thing. Ridiculous!! I don't hate the Twilight series, I was just a little disappointed with it. This could have been an amazing story of love and sacrifice but I didn't feel that at all. So, now I will reveal something that might garnish a few haters towards me...I am totally a Jacob fan! Sign me up for Team Wolf! I'm totally serious! The guys a huge wolf...that's HOTT!! I feel that if Edward truly loved Bella, she would have stayed human. Obsession is what became of both Edward and Bella and that is not love. Obsession consumes the people involved and it burns and burns until there is nothing left. I could go on about this cause I really believe that Edward was selfish and Jacob is who she belonged with but I'll stop cause I don't hate Edward. With that said, it's not like this was a horrible reading experience, it could have been better but it wasn't horrible. And now, the day approaches us where the world will be able to view the Twilight movie and so I will be writing about that soon as I am currently working at the movie theatre while I'm at home so that should be an interesting experience next week when the masses (mostly teenage girls) come in to see this first installment, I'll be writing about that. Until then, I was gonna leave you with a few images of Twilight merchandise that made me laugh but they won't download properly so I can post them at the end of this blog, only at the beginning and it's making me annoyed so maybe next time.

Trick or Treat!!!

We had the cutest little trick-or-treater this year! Brody was a skunk for Halloween, and he was so freakin' cute! The funniest thing was that he would not smile while he had his costume on, it was almost like he was embarassed by it so he just wouldn't smile. He had his serious face on and he just wasn't having it! He was still cute though so we took lots of pictures anyways. Next year he'll be almost a year and a half old for Halloween so I wonder what he'll be then?