Twilight Review

My review is go see it, you won't be disappointed. It made it all come to life. Several characters were completely different looking than I imagined. But it wasn't completely wrong. I really want to go and see it again so I can watch it with a little less excitement. I'm sure I missed a lot.

Can't wait for New Moon to be released!!! Brad, however, can wait because he stood in line for over an hour for me to get our 15 tickets, in the freezing cold, and somehow convinced that lady that the 6 ticket purchase limit didn't apply to him because he had a crazy wife and 14 of her crazy friends depending on him! I will completely pay for it though!

1 More Day!!!

http://www.twilightthemovie.com/

We're all going from school tomorrow at 4:30! The first show we can get to. I'm even sending Brad over at 12:30 to get tickets for all of us. The box office doesn't open until 1, shhh he doesn't know! I want him to be on time.

Summer Update

So, I've been out of school for a couple of weeks now and people keep asking me what I have been doing. Well, basically NOTHING! I think I have gotten caught up on all my sleep. It's amazing how quickly I can change my schedule from going to bed early and getting up early to staying up until 1 or 2 and sleeping until 10 or 11. And then taking a nap in the afternoon too.


Seriously though, Brad has been working almost everyday. We go to the ballpark on Tuesday and Thursday nights to play ball and other than that that's pretty much it. I've scrapped a couple of days and finished a little book for Makinsi about her family. It is similar to the story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?" It's called "Makinsi, Makinsi, Who do you see?" each page has pictures of her and a family member. She really likes it. She's played with it a couple of times. I still need to order page protectors to go over it, so she doesn't tear it up to bad.


Makinsi has been spending the night with us once a week or so. We love having her here, well, Brad and I do, Bailey doesn't. She is so jealous of her. I guess Bailey doesn't get as much as our attention when Makinsi's around. Monday morning, I fixed her breakfast and she climbed up into the recliner to eat. I put the tv tray in front of her and she sat there and ate. She was too cute!
Then mom and dad picked her up that afternoon in the Mustang. Dad got this car for his 50th birthday. He really likes it and Makinsi loves to ride in it.

I've got my little flower garden growing out back in my hanging planters. I'm impressed that they have lived so long. I planted them in early May when they hadn't bloomed at all so they've spread out pretty good.


And to bring the excitment of my summer so far to a close, I have to brag on this company.



I order a pair of shoes from Zappos.com yesterday morning. They said 4 to 5 business days to ship which was fine, because shipping was free. They came today. I was shocked. Yes, they only came from Shepherdsville, but overnight at no extra charge, I was impressed. And they were a little bit cheaper than in the store.


I'm also on the 3rd book of the summer, so I have been working a little. Of course, they are middle school books, but I'm still on the 3rd book. Hopefully, I get at least one adult book read this summer. Don't forget just 37 more days until Breaking Dawn.

I Heart Edward Cullen!

All you Edward fans: You know you want a shirt like this! I had these shirts made for the kids and teachers that have all fallen in love with the Twilight Series. The boys are all jealous, they want I love Bella shirts. 5 months until the next book! This is my trusty sidekick Gayle! She is wonderful!

(This is not the greatest picture, remember I'm still getting over pink eye and still have to wear my glasses!)

What She's Reading Now...

This is the book that I am now reading. I finally finished the Twilight Series and then took a break to move. So, I'm finally ready to get back to reading again. This is another Jodi Picoult book. Thank goodness she has lots of books, because I can always fall back to her when I don't know what to read. Nineteen Minutes is the story of shooting at a high school.

From the first paragraph:

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.
In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

The author of this book, talked to several people affected by the school shooting in Columbine before she wrote this book and from what I've read so far, she really brings that tragedy to life and makes you feel like you were there.

I've been thinking alot lately about the affects of our actions on other people. Do we say the right things and the wrong things. Could a comment we make push someone else to the limit? I haven't gotten that far into this book, but I just finished this book because my students were all reading it. (They bought it at B&N, they didn't get it out of my library.) I think some of my students are growing up way to fast and probably shouldn't be reading this serious/emotional type of things, but I'm trying to relate to them. Anyway, it has me really thinking and trying to make a conscious effort to make sure I'm uplifting someone, not pushing them farther away.

So, if you need something to read. Pick this one up and lets talk about it.

Challenge!

Ok, here's my challenge for the new year. I want to create a "loose" type book club. Nothing strict, no deadlines, unless you need them and then I will enforce them. Just a read and post/talk about them. I have finished all my classwork and am reading like crazy. But... I love when someone reads the same book I do, so that I can discuss it. I always pass my books onto Teaque, which is great, but it's usually a few weeks, months, (years) before we can discuss them. She is improving though. She just finished a book I read over the summer so we've been talking about it. She's now reading a book that I absolutely love and just finished a couple of weeks ago. This book is the first in a trilogy by Stephenie Meyer. It's called Twilight and it is amazing. I've never been into vampire books or movies, but this is a great series. The main character, Edward is so hot that he just draws you in and makes you fall in love with him. One of the middle schools in my district is going nuts over it and they are having a huge party and even have t-shirts made up for it. The book is being made into a movie to be released in Nov. 2008.

So here's my challenge: Anyone (Shelley/Dendra) want to read it with us and talk about it? I'm on the third book, but want to know what everyone thinks about them.

New Moon is the 2nd book and Eclispe is the 3rd. Teaque has my copy of the 1st book Twilight. Believe it or not she might finish it this week. I've got her hooked. She started it today and when she called me at 8:00 tonight she was already 80 pages into it. These are not difficult reading but very addictive. And I just found out that there is a book 4 in the works: Breaking Dawn. Oh, I'm excited.

So any takers????