New Moon - My review

I loved it. Done and done. I thought it was going to be ridiculous and silly - and instead I'm obsessed with it and want to see it again. I loved how closely it stuck to the book.

My Aunt Chris had access to a special 9:00pm prescreening. Our tickets had assigned seating, and there was no waiting in line. We got there at 6:30pm and people were already lined up for the midnight showing, we were like "Sorry suckers" as we pranced by with our VIP passes.



Before the movie started there was a raffle for various New Moon themed prizes. Here's my mom laughing at the New Moon puzzle that was being given away - even though we secretly wanted to win it - along with everything else.


Waiting for Jacob and Edward. PS I want to see every cheesy chick flick from here on out with a theater full of women - the enthusiasm was absolutely ridiculous. Screaming when Edward made his first appearance, screaming when Jacob first took off his shirt - I ate up every minute of it.


And this is just inappropriate.


That concludes my creepfest of a post. It couldn't be avoided. Sorry.

New Moon

Saw this picture on the Entertainment Weekly site, obvs it is the scene where Jasper wants to eat Bella at the birthday party.



Okay...so.....I thought the budget was supposed to be bigger for this one? Like maybe they could have spent a little more on hair and makeup? Because, yikes.

A List

I love lists. I love grocery lists, I love house chore lists, my favorite is probably my Saturday morning list that contains all the things I want to get done that day. So I was inspired by Jordan's "30 Things Before I'm 30" list. I loved how everything she listed is specific and short-term. I have a few years before I'm 30, so my list is about little things I want to do in the next few months.

1. Make a Blurb photo book for each vacation.
2. Organize old pictures into matching albums.
3. Get wisdom teeth pulled.
4. Finish decorating all downstairs rooms.
5. Choose paint colors for upstairs rooms.
6. Start planning our vacation for 2010.
7. Get matching bins for all the crap in the garage.
8. Send out Christmas cards.
9. Try making a NEW recipe once a week.
10. Try wearing red lipstick. (Done. And Zach was not a fan.)

Before and After

Here's what we've done to the exterior of the house so far. We still want a new front door if you want to buy us one.

BEFORE = ghetto fabulous


AFTER

Nightmares

Zach and I were talking about animals we are terrified of yesterday. By the end of the conversation we had given ourselves the heebie jeebies (official diagnosis) and I thought you should share in our misery.

The conversation started because we were discussing the chimp attack victim who was on Oprah, and I am not even going to link to it. But I will say this - Chimps will F you up. And I am never going near one again. I know you're all thinking, but chimps are so cute! With the diapers! And the hand holding!



No. Don't let his sweater mislead you, it's part of his scheme. Because really he looks like this:


And he'll rip your hands off and then he'll eat your eyelids.

Zach's obvious number one nemesis of the animal world is the shark.


Okay. Duh.

Next on both our lists is the Black Mamba. I did not know this snake existed, and I wish I still didn't. But apparently Zach was recently reading a book about them (?) and they are highly aggressive. Like if you even breathe wrong in the vicinity of a Black Mamba he'll be all, "Bitch you did not just breathe like that. You dead." And then he'll kill you.



Don't believe me? Here are a few Black Mamba facts for you to be horrified by:

• considered world's deadliest snake
• reaches up to 14 ft long
• among fastest snakes in the world, can slither at 12 miles an hour
• they are usually gray, but the inside of their mouths are black - hence the name.
• When threatened they will raise their heads, sometimes with a third of their body off the ground, spread their cobra-like neck-flap, open their black mouths and hiss. And you best get to runnin'.
• Doesn't just bite you once and then slither on his 12mph way, he will bite you like a bajillion times over and over.
• Zach claims a black mamba once chased down a guy on a horse - not sure that one is true. But, YIKES.

Last on the list, the Australian Saltwater Crocodile.

Are. you. effing. kidding me.

It's the largest crocodile around, and if I ever see one I will die on the spot. They usually weigh, oh just, 1,300 to 2,200 POUNDS. That's all. And real small little guys, only 18 FEET LONG. According to Wikipedia:

"Capable of explosive bursts of speed when launching an attack from the water, many species of crocodile are also capable of fast land-movement. The 23 species of crocodilian can travel over land using the belly crawl, the walk, the high-walk, and the gallop."

The belly crawl, I can't even talk about it. And I don't even want to know what the high-walk and the gallop look like. And now I have to hurry and publish this so I can go sing a primary song and calm myself down.

Killing time

When Zach and I go to the movies, we usually don't look up showtimes; we just arrive at the theater after dinner and hope the movie we want to see is showing in the next 10 or 15 minutes.

Side note - That sentence alone is going to cause my mother to lose sleep tonight, and probably years off of her life. She who looks up the showtimes in the newspaper, plans her evening around making sure she arrives at the theater at the appropriate time, brings said newspaper with her (in case the movie times change during her commute?), and always has her official Harkins Cup in hand for her one dollar refill.

As you might imagine, the Young's strategy doesn't always work out. Like Friday night when we went to see Zombieland and the closest showing was an hour and a half away. The conversation went like this:

E - Well it's not for an hour and a half, what should we do?
Z - We could go walk around Target. Wait, have you already been to Target today?
E - ....yes.
Z - (*eye roll) Well let's just get our tickets then.

Then I watched Zach do this for an hour and a half while I ate milk duds.

Polaroids

It's 4:00pm at work and I've decided to spend the rest of the day turning several of my pictures into polaroids, you know how it goes.

Used this program. Definitely not hip enough to actually own a polaroid camera.













I noticed these selections carried a theme - cats, Zach, and the beach. Wouldn't it be great if my daily activities only rested in those three categories? It's more like - work, TV watching, and bitching about not wanting to make dinner.