Tears of Blood

Did ya'll see this on the news? This 15 year old boy cries tears of blood three times a day.



Religious sign, medical oddity or vampire?

**I'm totally kidding about the vampire part. I really feel bad for this kid.

I have a confession

Do you ever have so many different blog posts rolling around in your head that it's hard to decide what to post? Or how to focus what you are going to write?

I do that all the time. Only recipes are well planned events here, everything thing else is fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants stuff. As if you couldn't tell that.

The title has been hanging in my head for the past few weeks with a whole different post in mind but in light of my Friday night experience, I feel I need to be honest and let you guys in on a secret.

I wasn't crazy about the movie. Twilight that is.

I realize now that I had such high hopes that I was a little under-impressed. I don't want to use the word disappointed. That's not fair to anyone who hasn't seen it yet...and not fair to the people that made the movie.

For me, the movie moved too quick. Too many crucial scenes were cut short - specifically the Meadow scene when he reveals himself, La Push when Jacob lets Bella in on the secret, Port Angeles during the restaurant scene, even the last fight scene was done at an incredible pace.

Scenes that maybe weren't crucial but added to the characters and why we loved the books so much were not there at all. For example Bella cooking for her Dad, it showed me how she is always thinking of others and instead they ate in a diner in the movie.

Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie because I'm a fan. People that haven't read the books won't get it. There was a non-fan sitting next to me that expected more True Blood, less Twilight because they had no idea what the story was about except that it involved a vampire. Needless to say, they didn't get it and commented throughout the entire movie about not getting it.

The scenes with just Bella & Edward were great. They definitely have chemistry. Most of the casting turned out to be right on point - except Jasper. He was just plain odd looking during the whole movie. And who's an Emmett fan now? ME! He was all sorts of hunky. Plus I like the way the film ended...it left an opening for the next one.

Now that I think about it, I don't know how they could have crammed all that the book entails into two hours on the screen without condensing and deleting. I should have known.

So what did you think? Do you want to see it again? What was your favorite scene that didn't make the cut? And your favorite that did?

It's taking over

Twilight has taken over my town, the high school, the internet, the television, the radio, twitter and my life. I am anxiously awaiting Friday's premiere...and there are millions like me.

I bought my tickets yesterday - Friday @ 8PM I will be staring at Twilight on the big screen. ~swoon~


They were talking on the radio this morning about the sold out midnight shows - more than 500 showings are already SOLD OUT! Fandango reports that 86% of the tickets they are selling are just for Twilight. That's H-U-G-E!

Unfortunately I will have to wait an additional 8 hours to see it, but there was no way in hell S was going to see this movie at midnight. It's okay. He doesn't get it.


There are dozens of websites dedicated to nothing but Twilight...these are a few of the more interesting ones:

Custom Scents Online - selling scents of Twilight (Spoiler Alert! If you haven't read all 4 published books - DO NOT go here!)
Patrice Wright's Etsy shop - Twilight inspired bookmarks
Chasing the Frog - One of a billion sites selling Twilight shirts
Twilight Teez - Sells shirts, hoodies and replica of Bella's bracelet.
Designs by Laurie - Twilight shoes

If you are looking for Twilight enhanced jewelry go no further than Etsy since searching for "Twilight" brings up 162 pages. They even have something called Glimmer mist. Guess it's for when you want to add a little sparkle to your favorite guy.


I told you about two Twilight giveaways here but if you want the real scoop on this movie go visit Julie. That lucky lady got to go to a special screening for the Cast & Crew and let's just say I'm green with envy.

Am I the only one that still gets chills watching the movie trailer?

Al Pacino, vampires & other mindless actions...

This week I've got to clean house, decide on food and games for the baby shower, find items for a yard sale, attend a booster meeting and a football game. It would have made more sense for me to get my hiney off the couch today, but I just couldn't do it.

I just love my hormones.

Instead I just vegged out in front of the tv with the Sunday paper. I love doing that, especially when I catch something good on.


HBO was the station of the day and when Scent of Woman came on, I realized that I had never seen it even though it was released 16 years ago. I guess I wasn't interested in this type of movie when I was 16 myself.

It was really good, but I'm a Pacino fan so I didn't expect anything less.

After that I didn't change the channel so I ended up watching The Wicker Man with Nicholas Cage. I've seen that before and I didn't like it much the first time but I was too lazy to get up and get the remote so I watched it again. Strange movie.

I tore myself away from the tube long enough to make dinner and then right back in time for the premiere of True Blood.

Not sure what to make of it yet. I love the scenes with Sookie and Bill, but the other scenes are odd. And the accents...I think some of the characters are trying a bit too hard to sound like they are from a podunk town in good ole' Louisana.

I reserve the right to form an actual opinion later in the season.

Blah...

Have you ever felt that way? I'm just here and I got a case of the "lazies". (I realize this is not a word and probably would not be spelled like that if it were, but I'm too lazy to care.) There are so many things I should be doing.

For one my house needs a serious good cleaning. I talking about top to bottom, windowsills, baseboards, the whole enchilada. But instead of cleaning on Sunday, I took a nap. Definite lack of motivation here.

I also need to get rolling on the baby shower, shop for birthday presents and Christmas (HELLO! It's less than 4 months away...yes, I said LESS THAN), work on booster projects, and at this very moment I should be working instead of blogging.

I suppose it's everything combined that makes it all seem overwhelming and it's got me psyched out. I've been slacking on my menu plans and making new recipes...instead we had a frozen food mecca at my house last week.


I need to get on track. And quick.

I have some good news though. (No, I did not save a bunch of money on my car insurance...)

I think Mickey has taken up residence somewhere else (based on the amount of poison around my house, I would say he's in mice heaven) but I'm still keeping an eye out for any evidence.

And I've taken a look at the new TV line up for this fall...lots to look forward to including the "new" 90210, Gossip Girl, The Shield and last but not least True Blood on HBO.

You know I ♥ vampires!

I just realized the other day this has been a thing of mine for a long time. When I was younger, think middle school age, I loved, loved, loved the original Salem's Lot and I would stay up late on school night's to watch it over and over unbeknownst to my parents.

What shows are you looking forward to?