Twilight.

Okay, so first of all, I have to explain my feelings about the books. I like them a lot. I read Twilight at least a year ago after my sister-in-law, Rebekah, recommended it to me. I had been telling her about a recent read: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (which I HIGHLY recommend) about vampires, and of course, she had to tell me about Twilight.

I read Twilight in a few days. Just like everyone else, I fell in love with Edward. I did not, however, run out and buy the next two books. I went on to read other things...Tale of Two Cities and the Odyssey to name a couple. As soon as the Harry Potter 7 book came out, I ran out and bought it and read it. It felt nice to read something so entertaining and EASY after reading the Odyssey. Just a few days later, Erin came up to the office where I was working (I used to manage the complex she lives in) and brought me New Moon. On my facebook account it was listed as a "To read", so she took the liberty to bring it to me.

I had been planning on reading it of course, but she gave me a little push. I read New Moon in a few days (after letting it sit on the desk for about a week) and was soon down at Erin's apartment requesting Eclipse. While New Moon drove me absolutely nuts...Bella's constant whining gets old...I couldn't help it. But...by the time I finished Eclipse, I had had it. My relationship with the books was becoming a love-hate one. (ADD moment: When I went to the bookstore after reading Twilight to see about buying the second, I looked and looked for it. After asking the employee where I could find those Stephanie Meyer books, he said "Oh, they are in the TEEN fiction section" I was so embarrassed. Blair just laughed.) (Oh, and if you can tell me what book I stole the phrase "ADD moment" from you get a prize.) I was so glad to be done with it. When breaking dawn came out, I decided I was going to wait a while to read it. I just couldn't do it. Everyone around me was running out to buy it, and I just didn't want to.

So here we are. Twilight just came out, and I actually ended up PLANNING a midnight showing party. I know...weird. I knew that someone would, and I wanted to be able to go even though Cami doesn't go to bed till around 10:30 (we're working on that...) So I decided that I should just be the one to plan it. I'm glad I did cause while it might shock you to know this, I have a secret fear of hosting things. I guess I've just had some major lack of attendance at enough parties of mine to make me that way.

Anyway...the moment you have been waiting for has arrived. (sorry for the rambling) If I had to rate MY experience of the movie, I'd give it an 8. That's erring on the high side...but I really did enjoy going. Maybe it had something to do with all the chocolate that was in my system from all the fondue earlier that night, but I really had a good time. I even thought all the 15 year old girls in the theater were fun...screaming and all. Now, if I had to rate the MOVIE itself...it might get a 5. If it was lucky. It was SO SO SO corny. Not to mention the lack of character development...unless of course you could remember all of it from the book. In my mind, if I hadn't read the books, then I wouldn't have liked it, but then I have talked to a couple of people who haven't read it who loved the movie, so what do I know?

While I have a secret fear that Blair will see this movie one day and make fun of me forever, I kinda want to get him to see it for fun. We have a movie mystery shop tonight, so I might push for it...

What did you think?