what i did today

I’m sitting at my desk working away and Scott walks from the living room/kitchen area: What do you have in the washer?

Me: Lexi’s blanket.  She wanted it washed.

Lexi, from other room: Mattie licked it and I wanted it washed.

Him: You should go put it in the dryer.

Me: Me? Why? I’m sitting here working and you’re twice as close.

He moves onto the elliptical in the office: Come on, mommy, go dry her blankie for her.

I get up, annoyed: OK, I’m sitting here but yet I have to get up to do this. Whatever.

He follows me into the kitchen into the laundry room.  I open up the lid to the washer and it farts (sorry, I don’t usually use that word, it’s just fitting).  I spot his fart machine sitting on top of the blanket.  He cracks up laughing, lying his head in his arms on the kitchen counter

Me, rolling my eyes and throwing the wet blanket into the dryer: Do you have to be so juvenile?

He’s still laughing.

I’m still rolling my eyes.

*************BREAKING DAWN SPOILERS***********************

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My fingers barely know what to type right now.  I’ve just finished Breaking Dawn and I’m speechless.  The word beautiful keeps ringing through my head over and over.  Such love.  Such amazing, unending love.  I really don’t know if I can write a proper review right now.  Tears stream down my face and I am sure that a book has never touched me quite like this one.  It’s not that this one was better than the other three.  Suddenly it’s not about a four part book series.  To me it is just Bella and Edward and their story.  No, their love.  It’s not a simple Romeo and Juliet or Cinderella and her prince.  It’s that and so much more.  The hard stuff.  The scary stuff.  The REAL stuff.  Maybe another day I can dissect it as a book but for now, I’m a part of their story.  A very lucky participant at that.

I could seriously listen to a man read the phone book if he has a British accent.  It’s not just British accents either.  Australian or Scottish works too.  I’ve been known to literally stare at a man at a perfume counter at a department store.  I almost tripped over myself when a man with an accent needed through the line where I stood and said, “Excuse me, love.”  OMG.  What I don’t get is why TV and movie execs are not taking advantage of this since I KNOW I’m not alone.  I can think of at least three really good examples.

First and foremost.  Rob Pattinson in Twilight.  Edward has been around long enough I would believe he had an accent.  Couldn’t she have written an extended stay in London into his life? Not so hard, my dear.

Second.  Ed Westwick as Charles Bass on Gossip Girl.  He could have easily went to boarding school growing up.  Come on, PLEASE!

And finally Dr. House!  He has such a weird background I could believe he spent his residency in Europe. I’m not sure if House would seem so mean WITH an English accent but still, I’d like to hear it.

People, quit stripping these men of their beautiful accents and our swoon-worthy TV and movie watching moments!

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I think maybe I’m reading so much that I just don’t feel creative enough to write.  Or maybe it’s because I’m not getting enough sleep.  And work is really busy.  Something like that.  But here’s a few things of randomness:

• Lexi had a dentist appointment yesterday to get a tooth filled.  She was REALLY talkative so I hit the record button on my iPhone and got some of it. I think the dental assistant’s Southern accent is just as entertaining.
• I’m having issues with Rob Pattinson being Edward.  He’s got nice, chiseled features but he’s shorter than I thought and not gorgeous as the book might describe.  I have yet to come up with an actor to replace him with though. *Update* I just read he is 6’1″.  OK, so maybe he’s growing on me.
• I’m about 1/3 of the way through Breaking Dawn.  Jury is still out on this one.  Had a great beginning but now I’m in Book Two and it’s waning a bit.
• We didn’t go out at all last night.  Scott got bored and remade my shelf in the laundry room.  It is bigger to hold all the great cleaning supplies I bought at KMart on double coupons.
• Yesterday’s Isagenix cleanse day was pretty easy compared to last time.  I decided to just do one day. I was down two pounds this morning.  But it won’t last long as I’m prepared to eat WELL for dinner tonight.
• I realized the New Kids on the Block concert I’m going to with Melissa is THIS Thursday.  I haven’t been following them since their comeback but we were huge fans back in the day.  And we got tickets for twenty bucks so couldn’t really pass that up.

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I don’t have a whole lot of time to write but I did want to get this off my chest before I got so involved with Breaking Dawn.  I started Eclipse Saturday afternoon and finished in the car line this afternoon getting Lexi.  48 hours.  629 pages.  I’m insane and addicted but what can I say?  Oh maybe that Eclipse was SO much better than New Moon.  It had me scared for the first few hundred pages.  I felt for a time that I was simply reading a History books with Edward and Bella scenes stuck in between.  But it got REALLY good towards the end.

One of my favorite chapters was Compromise.  It was Edward and Bella’s chapter where they compromise on marriage and sex.  I don’t think anything more than kissing happened and somehow I think I was blushing.  I liked the idea of the compromise.  I liked that Edward pulled out a card and used it to his advantage and ours since it will hurry the process along.  I just liked the theme of compromise she wove in there for a time.

It turns out I could handle Jac0b Black.  In fact, I could be happy with them together.  In fact, don’t tell anyone this, but Edward was quite on my nerves most of the first half.  The way he was treating her like a child, well, it was nauseating.  Jac0b and her was just so comfortable…and warm together.  By the end of the book I almost hoped she picked him.  Not quite, but almost.

And speaking of Edward and Jac0b I think my second favorite chapter was Fire and Ice.  When they were on the mountain the tent and Jac0b turned into a space heater.  The conversation between Edward and Jac0b was completely entertaining.  I honestly think at one point a small, audible giggle escaped my lungs I was smiling so hard.  And I’m not kidding.

Usually the fight scene/Volturi/history stuff bored me in the first three books but all the writing of Victoria and her army were actually fascinating.  I wasn’t trying to speed read through it.

And the end was nice.  They’re engaged.  Solidly.  But poor Jake.  I felt bad for the guy.

All in all, if you can get through the history lessons at the beginning, it was WELL worth the read.  Definitely my second favorite in the series so far.

Today was a really great day.  Felt very “Saturday-ish” to me.  I slept in as long as I could before getting to Bible Study at 9:30.  We had a great time talking with one another.  That time has really become almost a confessional time between women in very different stages of life including age, marriage, spiritually and motherhood, and it’s so interesting to me to get so many viewpoints in such a small group.

When I got home, I did some ironing before we headed out to Moe’s to eat and Wal-Mart where I picked up books 3 and 4 of the Twilight series and Scott and I also got costumes for the costume party at youth group on Wednesday.  I think I’m going to wait to tell you what Scott is going to be until I get a picture of him in it.  Too much!  As for me, you might guess what I chose…a vampiress.  Yeah, I know, I’m lame.  I haven’t dressed up for Halloween in 25 years so I thought I’d do a little something this year.  The kids are really into costumes and the adults all seem to be jazzed for the party so…I bought a black cape, fangs, red lipstick, cool eyelashes and fake blood and I’ll plan to wear my black dress under the cape.  Basically I’m going for the city girl vampiress look LOL.

This afternoon was spent cleaning and a little reading before heading to my parents’ for a little while for dinner.  When we got home, J&J came over for some coffee to chat.  Scott and J headed over to our youth pastor’s house for the UFC fights tonight so I’m left to read all evening.  Oh darn.

All in all, a really great family day.

******************NEW MOON SPOILERS******************

I finished New Moon last night.  And honestly?  Not nearly as good.  In fact, I could have skipped the whole thing.  I’m such an Edward fan that I couldn’t handle him not being in the book.  As mentioned in my previous post, I just couldn’t handle him leaving. I felt empty and it just wasn’t as good of a story without the two of them.  The romance part of romance novel went out the door.  Yes, she tried to take you to that place with Jac0b but they never got her there. I would have rather her jumped into it with Jac0b rather than danced around it for hundreds of pages.  And then, when Edward finally did come back, it was crazy action and hardly any interaction. I can tell it wasn’t nearly as good just because I had only ONE post-it note marking a good passage and it wasn’t even a quote from Edward or Bella.  That’s my new measuring stick…how many post-it notes are in the book at the end!

But, I do realize this book had a purpose to the story.  I’m just not so sure she couldn’t have done the whole thing in 100 pages instead of 600.  Here are a few things I’m happy we came out of from the book:

• We got to know  Jac0b.  I liked that Bella had him as a friend.
• We moved ahead with the werewolf storyline.  I did enjoy having a whole new monster to learn about.
• Edward left Bella and realized he couldn’t live without her.
• Edward asked her to marry him.
• The Voulturi forced Edward’s hand on turning Bella into a vampire.
• I enjoyed Alice and Bella together.

I guess that is a lot to expect in a few chapters. I don’t know, instead of enjoying every page, I felt like I was always reading to get to the good part and unfortunately there was never a heart-stopping moment like that for me.