Well, as most of you know, I am hopelessly addicted to the Twilight Saga. Also, for any of you who have been outside lately, you will know that the final book in the saga, Breaking Dawn, was released last saturday! The success of Stephenie Meyer's vampire books are comparable only to the success of Harry Potter, and everyone knows that story! I was sorely tempted to go down to Barnes and Noble on Friday night at midnight, just so I could get the last book! I finally decided that I was too old for such shinanigans, and too practical to think that nine hours would make a difference! (yeah I don't believe either of those things, but thats what I like to tell myself!) So I woke up at nine on saturday morning (yes nine on a SATURDAY, for those of you who know me at all, nine is an accomplishment any day, let alone saturday!) and dragged myself down to Costco to buy the book when it opened at 9:30. I have to tell you all, that by 9:37 there were about 200 people in the store and I saw maybe 5 carts without the book in it! One cart had six copies! The pallets that the books were on were stacked about eight feet high, they have now put a limit that you can only buy ten copies! It was truly an outstanding display at the Bountiful Costco last saturday morning! You may be asking yourselves why I am going on and on about these books? Two reasons. The first, is that these books are currently a part of my life, and since this blog is about my life I thought it would be appropriate. The second, and much more important reason, is to hopefully convince some of you to let these books add the immense pleasure and enjoyment that they have added to mine. I know that those of you who have not read them have excuses like: I don't want to read a book about vampires, or I'm not going to jump on the band-wagon just because everyone else has! Do me a favor, get Twilight, the first in the series, and read the first four chapters. If you are not completely drawn into the impossible and beautiful love story and the age-old discussion of what is right and what is wrong, then you will never hear another peep about it from me. I fully understand that these books are classified as young adult, but just like Harry Potter, they are meant for everyone. I would love to hear about your own twilight saga adventures, I promise it will be worth it. And as for me, I read the 754 pg Breaking Dawn twice in about three and a half days. Yes, I am truly hopeless!Also last Saturday (Yes I had to put my book down for a few hours,
and yes it almost killed me!) My best friend Tanya threw a How to Host a Murder party. I don't know if any of you have ever attended one of these soires, but they are a total blast! We had four girls and each of us had to invite one boy. I invited my really good friend Nolan Cordon. Well the story was set in 1936 London, so of course we all dressed up and put on fake english accents! (Except me, I'm not about to expose severalof my closest friends to the horrible experience that would be listening to me attempt a British accent!)
It was a great night. Of course I had to play the highly educated and motivated stodgy secretary, BIG surprise! Why can't I ever play the flighty actress? We drank from champagne glasses and ate a tradition english meal complete with yorkshire pudding! It was so much fun! Nolan even turned out to be the murderer! We all decided that we needed to do another one soon!
