Good News, Bad News...

I always like to start with the bad news.

I have always been a fan of Frosted Mini Wheats (the cereal). I recently found out that it has gelatin in it (for those of you who do not know, gelatin is made from crushed up animal bones and ligaments, etc. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin). Some vegetarians choose to still eat gelatin, or at least not go out of their way to avoid it. I am very firm in my vegetarianism. I don't eat anything which required an animal to be killed in order for that item to be made. So, gelatin is out.

I religiously check the ingredients in food to make sure that there is nothing in it that I can't eat. I have no idea how I missed it on the Frosted Mini Wheats ingredients this whole time. I'm guessing that I just thought I had checked it before and then never checked it again. So, I was a bit ill about that when I found out. And, now I will no longer be buying or eating Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats. :(

Also, Joe and I went to this Italian restaurant near where we live. I ordered a vegetarian dish. Several bites in, I thought I got a tiny bit of meat, probably sausage. I spit it out just in case, but I wasn't completely convinced that it was meat, especially since I had already eaten quite a bit and there had been nothing in it. I also didn't want to ruin the meal for Joe. Well, I took a few more bites and sure enough, I bit down on a piece of sausage. I almost threw up. Joe wanted to send it back and get me something else. I didn't want to cause any problems, so I didn't. Maybe I should have. I'm sure that someone just used the wrong spoon or something. I probably would have said something, but I forgot to tell the waitress beforehand that I was vegetarian (As I do quite a bit of the time to make sure there aren't any mistakes). If I would have told her when I ordered, then I would have sent it back and had them take it off of my check. So, that ruined that meal.

More bad news (but this leads to good news!), my parents are officially not coming down for Christmas. They told me that a few weeks ago. I was disappointed, but I am determined to spend Christmas with Joe. And, Joe has a tradition in his family of spending Christmas Eve at his Uncle Joe's house. For those of you that know Joe, you know that he doesn't have a whole lot of family left (that he likes/speaks to) and he certainly doesn't have any other real family traditions. So, I am not about to make him miss his only real tradition. Therefore, I would be spending Christmas with Joe and his family and without my family.

I wasn't moping about it so that Joe wouldn't feel guilty, but he apparently knew that I would be disappointed about it. So, he offered to pack up the boys and go to Indiana with me right after we finish at his Uncle Joe's house on Christmas Eve. That is usually done about 5:00ish, so when we finish there, we will pack the boys into the car and drive to Indiana (roughly 11 hours away). It will be a long night, but I will get to surprise my parents. :) I know that my mom will be especially heartbroken that I couldn't be there for Christmas, so she will be ecstatic when I show up on her porch at 4:00 in the morning on Christmas Day. :) I'm so excited!

Also good news, I re-read Twilight to get the ugly movie images out of my head. It's much better now. I started re-reading New Moon just for the fun of it and then I realized that I don't like the book as much because Edward leaves and Bella is heartbroken. That got me to thinking though... They're making a New Moon movie. The movie should have very little of Robert Pattinson in it. Therefore, the New Moon movie still has a chance of being decent. :) lol... anything to keep my hopes up!

A Twilight Disaster...

Ugh. The movie was awful. Absolutely pitiful. I can't believe that so many people have talked about how good it was. It was a disaster.

The script was poor at best. It was like the screenwriter took a chainsaw to the actual book and then went around picking up scraps of it and gluing it to a new piece of paper. A lot of quotations from the book were in the movie, but they weren't in the right places and they sometimes weren't said by the right people. My favorite lines from the book were in the movie, but they were poorly placed and the lines were butchered. Lines that should have been beautiful seemed forced and uncomfortable.

The acting (if you can call it that) was absolutely awful. Robert Pattinson is no Edward. He looked uncomfortable throughout the whole movie. He just seemed scary and stalkerish instead of mysterious and intriguing. And, a lot of the other male actors were way hotter than Edward. James (the villain!) was way hotter. Even his brothers, Emmett and Jasper, were hotter than Edward.

Alice seemed ditzy rather than eccentric.

Jasper seemed constipated the entire movie.

Carlisle looked way too young and kind of creepy looking instead of dreamy.

Jacob looked way too pretty (like a girl). He's supposed to be ruggedly handsome, like Hugh Jackman. Not pretty in the way that Kate Hudson is pretty.

I came to terms with the way that Bella looked. I can deal with that. It wasn't the Bella that I wanted. Even with regard to her acting. I didn't like the way that Bella was portrayed. However, I think that she did the best job she could with the script that was given to her.

If I had to choose a mate from the movie, I totally would have picked Mike Newton. And that is completely inexcusable from the book standpoint. I thought that Michael Welch did an awesome job with Mike though.

The movie. It sucked. It lasted for 2 hours. Nothing really happened. There was no real show of how and why Bella and Edward fell in love.

1. Bella moves to Forks.
2. Edward seems to find her repulsive.
3. He disappears for a week.
4. He comes back and talks to her.
5. He follows her to Port Angeles.
6. They're in love.

That's it. One minute he finds her disgusting, the next minute they're inseparable. There is nothing to show how they feel for each other. They say they're in love, but that's the only way you'd know it. The whole thing is so forced and uncomfortable. It's awful.

There is a scene where Edward and Bella kiss for the first time. It's beautiful in the book (It is dangerous because he thirsts for her blood but he wants to control himself because he cares for her). The scene in the movie was horrible. It was very uncomfortable. People were laughing in the theater because it was so bad.

Also, the fight scene with Edward and James was not very believable. Edward can read James' mind. Therefore, the fight should not have been like that. James shouldn't have been able to hurt Edward at all. Edward can see what James is going to do before he does it. And he's also incredibly fast. This can be seen in Eclipse when Edward fights Victoria. So, that was really discouraging as well.

The movie was very disappointing. It was poorly acted, it had a piss-poor script, the plot was forced, and the special effects were bad. And it didn't do the book justice. :(

Twilight Tonight

Joe and I are going to see Twilight tonight. :)

So far, I've heard bad things from critics, but great things from my friends who have seen it. It's getting my hopes up so I really hope that it is good.

I'm getting excited. Like a giddy teenager. Just a few years older... lol

I hope that all of my hopes and dreams aren't smashed. I didn't like any of the trailers and I liked very few of the actors that they cast for the parts. So, before, I wasn't really looking for the movie to be good. Now, people have told me how amazing and wonderful the movie is, so I'm hoping that it lives up to the hype. :S

Wish me luck.

lol... luck. On watching a movie. Sounds silly. I just don't want to be heartbroken about how pitiful this movie is.

Could it be????

Are we actually finished??!?!

No, not really. Hahah! Fooled you. :)

To be fair, we are pretty much finished. For real this time. I have to mop and put the new door handles on the bedroom and the music room. That would have been all there was left to do, but Paul Kitchen screwed up in a way we didn't even realize. There were 2 doors leading into the kitchen. One from the foyer and one from the dining room. Well, we wanted them taken off so that there would be more room and so it would be more open. He told us that he would haul them off for us. Tuesday night we realized that we still hadn't put on the door for the half bathroom. I went to the garage to find it. It doesn't exist. However, there is still one door left in the garage. One from the kitchen. Paul hauled off one kitchen door and one bathroom door instead of 2 kitchen doors. Unfortunately, the kitchen door was much bigger than our bathroom door, so it doesn't fit. So, we have to get another door and have it installed. Zach will be coming tonight to get a check, so we'll probably see if he can do it for us. Hopefully he can.

After that, we will be finished. :) Finally.

Saturday is Joe's 27th birthday. I had a really awesome idea for his birthday present, but I ran out of money and time. lol... I had to buy a bunch of stuff for the house and it took up all of my paycheck from last week (well, most of it... the rest went for my monthly charitable donations and my Netflix subscription which come out of my account the middle of the month). So, I have to wait until I get paid tomorrow to buy Joe's present.

And! Twilight comes out at midnight tonight. I wish I could be like the giddy teenagers lining up to see the midnight showing. But, alas, I already missed 1.5 days of work this week for house-related reasons, so I can't be late and or mentally gone tomorrow. So, I will either see it tomorrow night, or I will wait until Sunday afternoon to see it. Either way, I am going to see it this weekend! :)

Some Random News

I got some more painting done in the kitchen. I have to fix the walls before I can do any more painting. We got more stuff organized and unpacked. The house looks like a home. :)

I am tired. I just want to go back to bed, curl up into a ball, and fall asleep for a few more hours. It would be so nice! I plan to do some sleeping in on Saturday. I haven't really been able to do that for a while. It will be fabulous!

I need to find new chairs for our dining room table. The ones we have are not good. In fact, I would go as far as to say they are bad chairs. Ugly. Bad, bad, bad. And in our nice new house, bad chairs are especially bad. So, I want to replace them.

My mom just finished the Twilight Saga. She really liked it as well. She's probably not nearly as obsessed as I am though. I downloaded the Twilight Movie Companion book last night to my kindle. I haven't started reading it yet though. I had too much to do. I was going to read a little before I fell asleep, but my kindle was going dead and I wasn't sure where my charger was. I need to find it. Joe and I will be going to see the movie on November 21. It's the day before Joe's birthday.

Speaking of Joe's birthday, I will be having a party for Joe. Nothing huge. He doesn't like big surprises and he doesn't like for all of the attention to be on him. So, we are going to play ultimate frisbee, eat dinner, hang out, play some games, maybe play the wii, and smoke the hookah. It should be a good time. So long as all of the cool people can come. :)

Life update + This Date in History

I had a wonderful weekend filled with wonderful people. :) I'm incredibly sore from playing way too many doucheball games in a single day. I had a great time playing, though.

I continue to reread parts of the Twilight Saga because I can't just stop. lol... I just reread the parts that I really like at bedtime. Yeah, I know. I'm crazy and obsessed. Oh, well. Not much I can do now. :)

Today is my 4 year anniversary with Joe. We've had our ups and downs, but we're still here together. With four wonderful pups to show for it. lol Gosh, we have a dog for every year we've been together. I don't think I could handle it if that kept up! Anyway, in honor of our anniversary, I've collected a list of important events which took place on this date in history.

• 63 BC - Birth of Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor (d. 14)
• 1642 - First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
• 1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
• 1846 - Discovery of Neptune by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
• 1889 - Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
• 1920 - Birth of Mickey Rooney, American actor
• 1930 - Birth of Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
• 1939 - Death of Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (b. 1856)
• 1941 - The first gas murder experiments are conducted at Auschwitz.
• 1949 - Birth of Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter
• 1959 - Birth of Jason Alexander, American actor
• 1973 - Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
• 1973 - Death of Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
• 1976 - Birth of Kip Pardue, American actor and model
• 1983 - Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa becomes the first African boxing world heavyweight champion.
• 1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
• 2004 - At least 1,070 in Haiti reported killed by floods due to Hurricane Jeanne
• Astrology: Usually the first day of sun sign Libra in the tropical zodiac.
• In ancient Latvia, the second day of Mikeli.
• Roman Catholic Saints - Feast day of Saint Adomnan of Iona, Saint Thecla, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
• Saudi Arabia - National Day (unification 1932).
• Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first recognized in 1999 and is observed mainly in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Well, some pretty crappy stuff happened on this date in history. In fact, the very same day that Joe and I started dating, over a thousand Haitians died in floods! But, at least we got Ray Charles on this date as well. :)

Now that you're all informed about this date in history, have a lovely day.

Twilight Disappointment

Okay. So I finished the Saga and I read the 12 chapters of Midnight Sun that Stephenie Meyer put on her website (it was leaked, so she put it up herself). And now I'm incredibly disappointed that she may never finish it. It's really good and I want to read the rest of it!

I also watched 2 trailers for the movie which comes out November 21. While it doesn't look as cheesy as what I thought it would (I don't honestly think that Twilight can be made into a movie without giving something up... it'll just end up looking fake or cheesy). However, even though I wasn't disappointed with the way it looks, I am disappointed in the characters. They are all wrong! The way they look is wrong. And Bella acts completely wrong. It's infuriating. If this movie is wrong, I'm going to be pissed. I'm hoping that the trailers just made it seem different than what it is. :S ** Fingers Crossed **

Anyway, Edward Cullen is supposed to be the most beautiful man to ever live (at least in Bella's eyes and the eyes of those surrounding them)... Does this look like the most beautiful man to ever live?? I think not. Utterly disappointing.

Also, Edward's family is supposed to be drop-dead gorgeous, and I think they failed at representing them as well. Ugh.

I don't think I've ever been so obsessed with fictional characters before. That was a good thing. I guess it's too late for me now. :(

My new obsession...

For those of you who aren't familiar with the Twilight Saga, don't try! You will never be able to put it down!


I downloaded it to my Kindle on Friday... The first book: Twilight. I couldn't put it down.






As soon as I finished it, I downloaded the second book: New Moon. I stayed up until 4:00 in the morning reading it. I got back up at 7:30 and started reading more. Joe and I had stuff to do that day for the house and I brought my kindle with me.





As soon as I finished the second book, I downloaded the third book: Eclipse. I read all weekend long.





I downloaded the fourth book on Sunday. With work and all those other things I "have to do" I still haven't finished the fourth book. I can't wait to finish it. It's driving me nuts. I just have a few pages left. :)

The books are absolutely amazing. And Edward Cullen will always be my dream guy... Shhhh... don't tell Joe! And I'd totally be better for him than Bella. Except for the whole being a vegetarian thing. Edward Cullen might be perfect enough to make me drink blood though. :)