New Moon

Don't worry, I'm not going to give away any secrets of the movie. Feel free to read on:)

In no way am I a crazy Twilight fan. I love the books, well, two of the four. Okay, three of the four. Having said that, Meems and I went to the midnight showing of New Moon this morning. (I almost wrote last night:) Normally I would never do this, but I thought, "what the hay. It'll be like I was back at Ricks keeping regular hours of not going to bed before 2 in the morning. How did I ever survive that?

I have to say that I actually did enjoy it. Maybe because the bar had been set so low with the first one, that truthfully there was really nowhere to go but up, but I thought there was a lot of great dry humor. Gosh I love dry humor. But the thing that really had me laughing was the audience. An audience full of young girls and women. But mostly I'm targeting the young high school crowd. There was so much screaming and cheering when Edward first came on the scene. And boy did they stage that one. I had to laugh at how he enters, with his hair blowing in the breeze (how they managed that with the amount of hair gel to keep his hair up is anybody's guess) and his coat flapping in the breeze as he comes toward Bella with his best bad boy look in his eye. The audience practically swooned. There was so much screaming and then shushing that the first two sentences out of Edward's mouth couldn't even be heard. And don't even get me started about what happened when Jacob took off his shirt. Had to admire the boy's bronzed physique however:) Hey, I'm not blind! I was just noticing:)

There were a couple of cheesy parts (look for a quick 10 second run through the meadow scene. It's true cheese that scene), but all in all I liked it. Apart from the fact that the reel MELTED as we were at the height of the climax, where they were standing in front of the Volturi, it was good. That small detour added an additional twenty minutes that I could've used as sleep this morning, but it was a pretty decent show. The free movie pass for melting the movie strip in front of our eyes was pretty decent as well.
I finally got home at 3:30 this morning and wondered if I should even bother going to bed. However I did, and I have to say I've been pretty darn alert for having woke up at 7 ish. Too much on the brain I suppose. Maybe I'm in hyperdrive.

Hmmm.

This move is going to be the death of me. I'm happy to say though, that our house is all painted and we're ready to move in tomorrow! Well, as ready as you can be I suppose:)

A Slow Down? I don't think so.

Even though I've been released from my calling as RS President my life has yet to slow down. Apparently I've been living enough for 2 different people in the last year and now that I'm down to one life again, I still have not transitioned the brain to get a clue. The new President emailed me some questions she had and as I was answering I realized that I needed a phone number. I jumped out of my seat to go grab my binder before I realized that I DON'T HAVE IT ANYMORE. I gave it to her!

Like I said, Brain hasn't realized I've been released.

When you give your whole self to something, it's hard to let go, even if it is something of a relief:) I've got all sorts of conflicting crazy emotions about being released, but mostly I'm just grateful for the experience.

We're still moving in, and still in between houses. It's really annoying when you need something only to find it's been boxed up. Can't wait to finally be in one location, even if it will look like World War III just occurred. Seriously, I hate moving. At least I can finally get rid of stuff I've been meaning to get rid of for some time now. Anybody want any floor rugs? They're in really great shape!!

Our vacation was amazing!! Came home more tired than I left. There's a bit of irony. Went ziplining in the mexican jungle, though the guides' said that the canopy wasn't technically a jungle, but glory, it sure felt like it!! Mexico is hot! However, since you sweat from every pore I have to say that my skin loved it. Every time we went outside while we were there it was like getting an instant facial. And for free!

We ate dinner at a beach front restaurant called La Palapa. GORGEOUS!!!! I can't say that enough. They set up our table 10 feet from the beach with tiki torches and candles on our table for light. And the food, ahhhh the food.... We ordered 4 desserts just to sample them all.

(sigh)

Lots and lots of shopping in Mazatlan, and then some much needed beach time in Cabo. We took a water taxi out to a popular beach and stayed there for a couple of hours just enjoying the water, and then we ate lunch at a local place. Kind of scared to eat outside of the boat, but it really was fine. And the food was better!!

That catches me up, but now we're heading into the holidays and it just feels wrong. Maybe because I was sunning on the beach not 2 weeks ago??? Does time feel like it's being sped up? Seriously, I feel like we just had Christmas!! Not that I'm a bah humbug cause this really is my favorite holiday, but sheesh- it's a lot of work! I don't even think we'll be completely unpacked by Christmas. Poor sweet hubby, can you get on installing those closet organizers before Saturday? I know you're putting together so many pieces of furniture right now, and your knees have blistered from kneeling on the tile, but it would really help with the unpacking of clothes.

Did I tell you how much I love you!

I'm moving Saturday officially and seeing New Moon at Midnight on Friday. I'm crazy. I'm downright crazy. I don't even know if I'll be awake to even watch the movie. It better be good or I'm gonna be a-snoozin!

Gosh I'm going to miss Mather. Somebody buy my house!