Team "We'll Take What We Can Get"

I wouldn't be a midnight movie premiere without crazy fangirl antics. And we pulled out all the stops. Team Threesome shirt (Erin), Team Carlisle shirt (Lindsay) and me with my Twilight Scrabble neckace (Thanks, Karen!). We had New Moon cake, Vampire wine and a host of other goodies to help us bide our time until midnight.

With a quick trip to the airport to pick up Suzanne, we were back at the theater with fifteen minutes to spare before the premiere. Despite the second row, neck-breaking seats, we had a blast.

Then we went and did it all again the next day.

Vampire fever

Just had a woman take a picture of my "Stupid Lamb" sticker while stopped at a red light.

Halloween: Twilight fangirl style

A cross-country movie premiere extravaganza

Tickets for New Moon are selling out in pre-sales online all across the country. Luckily, my friends and I already have our tickets. So when I emailed Suzanne in Colorado last week to let her know, this is (roughly) what transpired over multiple emails:

Me: Tickets are on sale if you want to come with us.
Suz: I don't know if you were serious or not, but I looked into flights to Wilmington and they're not too bad. I could come visit if you wouldn't mind.
Me: Of course I'm serious. Please come visit!
Suz: I'm serious if you're serious. I'll call you tonight and we'll work out the details.

Later that night we got stupidly excited on the phone as she purchased a ticket to fly in on Thursday, Nov. 19 (the day of our New Moon midnight showing) and leave Sunday morning. She also secured her movie ticket so we can get all geeky and fangirly with the rest of the girls for drinks before the premiere. Cannot wait!

Vampires and werewolves and fangirls, oh my

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I didn't like the wolf til now

OK. I'm kinda impressed Jacob. Kinda. Don't let it go to your head. I'm still Team Edward all the way.

New Moon rising

This is how I spent my evening last night with the girls...

This is why I love my friends

Just received the following text:
"OMG. Am in the car, daydreaming about Twilight and am totally blanking on the 'dad's' name. Is it Carlisle? Help!"

The fact that I totally understand the daydreaming and the need to text someone to get a name when your mind shuts down is why I love my friends. They're not scared to be fan girls. And they totally rock for it!

I mean it's, like, really good...

This is the response I received from John Allen after threatening to explain the appeal of Twilight: "i understand they are well written books, but come on! "OMG I, like, really like this guy, like and like he's a vampire!" It's like Judy Blume's Stories from the Crypt. HAHAHA"

A little Twilight in the morning

Thanks to mininova.com I spent the morning watching Twilight with my computer hooked up to the flat screen. It gets better each time I watch it. I'm sure to watch it again before the long weekend is up.

The Edward to Erin's Bella

These are our seriuous Twilight faces.

Twilight: initial impressions

The movie totally rocked. Apart from a few minor things that annoyed the crap out of me, I LOVED this movie. I sat sandwiched in between Mark and Erin on an almost full row of people our friends had invited. Mark seemed annoyed but kep to his promise of not saying "Awww" once. Though he looked very much like he wanted to. Erin was so excited, she held my hand through most of the movie.

The Good:

• Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart - they were kinda perfect as Bella and Edward. Playful and serious, and intense and gorgeous.
• Voice overs from the book that made it feel like the book I fell in love with.
• Their first kiss - OMG! Much more powerful than I was expecting.
• Stupid Lamb quote was intact and exactly the way it was said in the book.
• The music kicked ass. Especially Muse during the baseball scene. (Erin and I sang along quietly to almost every song.)
• I cannot wait to see it again in Chatta with Mom and Karen!

The Bad:

• Edward sparkles so much better in my head.
• Edward shows Bella that he sparkles because he is trying to scare her, not because he's sharing some wonderful, perfect secret with her as in the book.
• Edward looked sick when he first smelled Bella not hungry or mad. It was sadly laughable.
• I liked Jacob. (And I HATE Jacob!)
• No "Stupid shiny Volvo owner"
• If I hadn't known the back story of why they loved each other, I probably would have been confused. And that makes me sad.

Twilight Tonight

Midnight, baby. T minus thirteen hours and counting.

Ramblings from the anti-social

• At trivia on Monday I talked to my friend Bret's girlfriend for the first time. We'd exchanged a few hellos and what nots before, but we had never actually had a real conversation. She sat next to me and we bonded over Edward. As it turns out, she's a really cool chick.

• On Wednesday, I went to Krysti and Billy's for a Rock Band party where, thankfully, they did not force me to participate. I toured the house, pet the sweet kitty who I was told doesn't usually like to be pet by strangers, and continued bonding with Erin over Twilight, and then Buffy and Linkin Park.

• I realized last night while talking to Ash for over an hour that I haven't seen her in almost a year. And though we email and comment on each others blogs frequently, I haven't spoken to her in that long as well. Hearing the Georgia twang creep softly back into her voice when she got really excited about something made me smile. It's been way too long and I've missed her way too much.

He must really love me

A few weeks ago, I was complaining to Mark that I didn't think I could drive to TN for Aria's wedding knowing that Twilight came out at midnight and I hadn't seen it yet. Those eight and a half hours seemed daunting in my current obsessive state of mind. This is the exchange that followed:

Mark: "I'll go see it with you at midnight."
Me: "Seriously? You'll go see Twilight with me?"
Mark: "Yes. I know how badly you want to see it."
Me: "You'll go at midnight? What about having to be at work early?"
Mark: "It's okay. I'll deal with the lack of sleep if you want to see it before you leave."

So I just bought my tickets to see Twilight at 12:01 am on 11/21 from www.fandango.com so he can't back out. (though I think he actually wants to see it so he knows how the big fight with james ends. He didn't get that far in the book on CD on the last drive from TN.)

Current obessions collide

So I'm sitting here watching Daisies and relaxing for the first time today. This is the one show I really look forward to each week and my excitement is reminiscent of the good ole' days of Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars. I finally have a show that makes me giddy and girly and oh, so happy again. (I've missed this feeling!)

And then the first commercial of the first commercial break begins. With Edward and Bella! This is the first trailer I've seen on TV. And it has new scenes in it. Just a few small ones that I have not seen before that made me rewind and watch it two more times. The one I watched is not included in the clip below; I couldnd't find it!) And each time James tells Edward he's not strong enough and Edward replies "I'm strong enough to kill you.." I say the line out loud right along with him.

What could be better than Ned and Chuck and Edward and Bella all in a five minute time span?

Bella's Lullaby?

I must confess, I was a dorky fan-girl and went to Hot Topic at the mall last night to hear the unveiling of the Twilight Soundtrack. I only made it though a few songs because I felt like such a dork. While I was not the oldest, I was in work clothes (ie: dressed up in heels) and did not quite mesh with the skulls and goth clothes in the store.
I very desperately wanted to hear two specific songs: Never Think by Robert Pattinson (the lovely Edward) and Bella's Lullaby, composed specifically for the movie. But I didn't want to be lurking around a store with lots of tweens ans teens eying me like I was out of place so I left before either song came on. So today I did what any dorky fan-girl would do after missing out on my songs - I found them on You Tube. They're not the best quality, but I'll take them. Enjoy.

The vampires are coming...

Here is the full trailer for Twilight. Enjoy. (It gave me goosebumps!)

Living Twilight

So tomorrow I am going to Phoenix for a work conference. And you know the most exciting part? I get to go to Sky Harbor Airport where Bella runs away from Alice and Jasper in Twilight. Then I get to take a cab into Scottsdale. Hopefully I won't be racing toward a demented vampire set on killing me though.

It'll be kinda cool to have that part of the book come alive for me once I've seen what it all looks like though. I may just have to take a detour to the bathroom on level three of Terminal 4 and take a picture for Karen and Ash, just for fun.

I am a force to be reckoned with

Well, maybe I'm not quite that good, but I have managed to personally get two people in love with Edward Cullen. And I talked about it at work so much that Deb and Kristen started the series and are now in love with him too. Shawn even said he "may" have to read it. :)