Twilight

I said this was coming so here it is.
I came late to the Twilight fan base. Even after the first movie came out, my family went to see it cause we had heard so much about it. I wasn't sure about all the hype about it, it seemed like nothing special to me. My sister and I felt like we were missing parts of the story; like there was more to it. My sister is the one who read the books first. She was just going to read Twilight but as soon as she finished she went right out and got the next one. She did it for each book. She badgered me to read the series and I fought her off for the longest time. Then with the talk about the second movie coming out I decided to give into the craze and read the books.
I had thought that I would just read the first one and wait for New Moon to come out to theaters to be surprised when I saw it but when I finished Twilight in a day I was hungry for more. I was going to borrow my sisters copy like I did for the first book but she had lent it to someone else, so of course I went right out and got my own copy. I also finished that in a day, mostly because I was staying up all night reading it. It's a good thing I read them in the summer, otherwise I don't know how I would have be able to function. All and all it took me about 5 days to get through the entire series. My sister made fun of me because she said I was more addicted than she was and it was only fair that she gave me as much crap as I did her. I took it in stride.
I went through the rest of the summer without reading anything; however, I did go up on the Internet more to see what was happening in the Twi-universe. At the end of the summer my family was going to Hawaii for vacation. I was determined to read some other book and packed 2 different books. When I got to the Airport I tried to start reading, but couldn't get past the first page. My mind was still too engulfed in Twilight that I couldn't bring myself to read anything else. So I went into the bookstore and bought a copy of Twilight and started reading it. Of course I finished it before the trip was over and had to wait to get home before I could finish the series again.
That started my new tradition. Since I have read the Twilight saga every summer. I actually just finished reading the series because my sister had started reading it and it was as if I got a craving after seeing her read the books. I needed to satisfy my craving so I wound up reading the series over the weekend, which started another Twilight frenzy, because I couldn't stop at just reading the books.
I started looking online again for anything and came upon a fan fiction site. I saw a story that I had seen the title of before but never thought about looking at it. I finally decided to look at it and got addicted to it. It's called "Siren Blood" written by Midnightwalking on Twilight Fan Fiction. There were 56 'chapters' and I read them all in 3 days. It's a story about if Edward and Bella really existed and what they would think of the whole Twilight craze. It also is Edward's account of Bella's story, as it "really" happened. There is more chapters to come but haven't been put up yet. It's driving me crazy having to wait and not being able to speed up the process at all.
As for the movies, the first one was a little different. I think it could have been done better. New Moon was a lot better, but since it was my least favorite book it was hard to like it very much. Eclipse has been my favorite so far. I saw it in the movies 4 times and now have to wait till December to get it on DVD. I also can't wait for the final movies to come out. It's going to be EPIC!

Facebook

Ok so I was talking with my mom today and she was telling me about someone who was upset about being de-friended by someone on Facebook. I started cracking up...when did it become the latest "BURN" when someone de-friend's you on Facebook? 

It's official I'm no longer talking to you, I'm not your friend on Facebook. 

Soon its going to be: I'm cutting you out of my life. I'm no longer following you on Twitter, you are not my friend on Facebook and I have blocked you from seeing when I'm available on AIM!

I understand the whole thing that these social networks have become a huge deal, but you cannot honestly get hurt or try to hurt someone by de-friending them or blocking them from seeing their profile. That is not the worst thing in the world. Of course if you write something on someone's wall that is mean and hurtful I can understand, but guess what....you can delete any post and its like it never happened.

This whole Facebook "burn" is really immature. If someone does it to you then they need to grow up, so its probably best that it happened cause you don't need that kind of immaturity in your life. If you do it to someone else...then you know what I think of you and have nothing left to say. 

Mustache

Had too much fun today. Went to JoAnn's fabrics today and found this fake mustache in their Halloween section. My brother has this big curly mustache that drives all of us crazy and he likes to use wax to curl it up, but sometimes it gets into his mouth. Anyway to make a story short, we all make fun of him and his mustache so we decided to put on this fake-stache and took pictures. 

Frankly I think my mom won. She totally made the Josh face! 

Cake making- First attempt

My mom came home today with a huge sheet cake and decided she was going to try to transform it into a purse. She was testing it out because she wants a purse cake for a meeting she has next week. It didn't come out too bad but it is a little loppy and could use more work. However, as a first attempt at ever making a professional model cake. 

Here's the end result.

To diary or not to diary

Dear Diary,

I don't think I've ever written in a diary. I might have tried when I was little but it never went anywhere. So why start now you ask? Just because. I was sitting here thinking of what to write about because I felt like writing and that's how it came out. So here it goes:

Life is finally getting back to normal. Although my dad is still sick and my sister's leg is still broken.... OK maybe not "normal" but better than it was. Orientation has started for my sis and she seemed to perk up. I think she was getting a little bit of cabin fever so human interaction was nice. Also my dad is getting up and doing more. He's actually getting out of the house now. It may not be for long, because he poops out fast, but still there is more family outings and less stress on my mom and I.

I'm still mowing the lawn and this last time it was ridiculous because it had gone undone for a couple weeks, but lets face it I wasn't going out in 100+ degrees heat to mow the lawn. My mom helped this time, she mowed the front while I mowed the back. I'm really hoping for a new lawn mower. We've had the same one for 20 years and its being held together by duck tape. Now I'm not saying duck tape isn't useful and helpful at times but somethings should be put out of their misery and not held together by stick tape that gets sticky goop all over your hands. I WANT A NEW LAWN MOWER!!! There that's all I needed to get out. I'm done now.
I feel I need to sign off in some way so in honor of Star Wars which I'm watching right now.....
May the force be with you.

Unicorn After Wisdom Teeth

I'm sure I probably looked and sounded the same after my wisdom teeth were removed. I know I was told I had conversations with some of the nurses that I don't remember at all. I'm just glad no one got it on video. Poor girl....but soooo funny!
I found out that she got to go on Ellen Degeneres show and tell the story. Plus Ellen gave her and her sister free flip video cameras, so I say it was worth the humiliation.

War? Maybe not but this is a battle!

  This past week I felt like I was tripped and kicked while I was down. My dad has been sick for the last 3 months. He was having pain in his hips and stomach. He went from doctor to doctor in urgent care, the emergency room and then his regular doctor. Finally after several blood tests, we got some kind of answer. His doctor said that he has an autoimmune disease, but didn't say which one. Then she spotted something on his arm or something and said that it could be cancer, but said don't worry about it right now. We still don't have an answer and he's been off work for 2 months going on 3 and is wasting away. He's lost like 20lbs and is so weak and tired all the time. I hope that the doctor gives us an answers soon and there is a treatment that will help him get back to normal and allow him to do some work.

  Next my great grandma was brought into the hospital because she wasn't feeling well and her feet were swollen. The doctors said that she had a blood clot in her leg and that her heart was in tachycardia. After a week in the hospital and several in a home she went back to the hospital because she was close to the end. She had pneumonia and at 95 that was the last straw. She became so sickly and uncomfortable that when she was finally asked if she wanted to be kept alive or be comfortable she said comfortable. So that night she was given morphine and began to go into the "morphine coma". Within 2 days she was gone. Since it was an ongoing affair I knew it was coming and was prepared for it. What I wasn't prepared for was the stress of the coming week.

  Which brings me to the final slap in the face. My sister in an attempt to get to the hospital to see my great grandma, passed out in the shower and broke her leg. As I had described in a previous blog, she has RSD, which in itself is painful and constantly causing problems. This injury is what my family had hoped would never happen, because as much as a broken bone would hurt, a broken leg in a leg that already was so painful because of the disease would be intolerable.

  With my father sick, and my mother not as strong as me, I have to be around to be able to lift her up and help her around the house. In the beginning she wasn't able to walk or stand up alone. Her room is upstairs so she was unable to get to her room, so she's been sleeping in my room downstairs and I have been sleeping on the couch/air mattress in the living room so I am close and available if she needs my help. My dad had been so weak and tired that he hadn't been getting out of bed so I was making lunches and taking care of him too when my mom was out of the house working. This past week she was busy helping my grandma set up all the funeral planning and packing up my great grandma's house. I've been taking on double duty, between cooking, cleaning, and being nurse. My mom and I also have been taking care of the lawn, which in my case mowing with a 20 year old lawn mower is like a punishment for prisoners. Just starting it is a long grueling process, then to push it around the yard when its 90 degrees outside.

  The past couple of weeks have been hell. I hope that soon things will die down and go back to normal. For now I will trudge on through and keep working on making it to the next day.