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Joee and I went to see Enchanted at the Thanksgiving Point theaters tonight. The movie was great (I love it! So much fun!), but it was funner because I saw it with my BFF! :)
It's been a while since we've seen a movie together (Ocean's 13 in June), and even longer since we've seen a movie with just the two of us (I can't even remember the last time that happened!). It was fun to whisper about the movie, and sigh about Amy Adams getting to kiss James Marsden and Patrick Dempsey in the same scene! It was fun, too, to sit in Joee's car after the movie and talk like we used to, before we started growing up. We talked for a long time, even though I was freezing (Joee with her internal heater don't need external sources of heat like the rest of us do! I could have used a werewolf boyfriend at the time... but that's a different story!).
Friends, movies, talk, and 75 cent drinks... what a great girl's night out! Let's do it again!

Eclipse

What a whirlwind weekend for reading! I finished reading Eclipse, and now have to wait until next August to have my next Bella, vampire, and werewolf fix. Sigh. I knew I should have waited for them to all come out!

I don't want to spoil the story line, so I'll just say this: I really enjoyed reading Eclipse, and enjoyed perhaps even better having something that was so engrossing to read. I haven't been so obsessed by a book or series in a long time. The joy of that is almost more than the book itself. Also, I really don't know quite what to think about Bella, Edward, or Jacob right now. It appears to me that there are two camps, the Edward and the Jacob. I don't know which side to go with right now. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. And if certain events had gone just slightly different, it would have, naturally, changed the course of the book. And I don't know which events I would want changed or which way I would want them changed.

Well. It's a darn good thing it's fiction! (And darn good that I finished during the break!)

New Moon

I finished New Moon last night/this morning. I even had to take it to Thanksgiving Dinner with me! My cousin-in-law, Amanda, has read the books, so we talked about them a little. She said that she was so jealous that I was still in the second book, because I still had the third one to look forward to. Not for long, I'm afraid. Maybe I should have waited until they were all out to begin the series, so I wouldn't get caught in the waiting game. Oh well. I'm in the thick of it now. Too late to go back!

I liked New Moon, though I'm not entirely sure how I feel about all the characters right now. I'm still not sure whether or not I'd like to date a vampire, and now I have to think about werewolves too...

Elf Yourself

Charlotte at school showed me this site. Pretty funny stuff. Try it for yourself:
http://www.elfyourself.com/
Here's my cute elf! :)
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9551548903

25 Things I Did...

... when I was 25. Now that I'm not 25 any more, what did I do when I was such a great number? (so many mathematical possibilities... 5x5, 5 squared, square root of 625...)
And now, in no particular order...

1. Was a wicked King Noah citizen in the Hill Cumorah Pageant
2. Drove across the country to be in the Hill Cumorah Pageant
3. Climbed up Hill Cumorah countless times... only drove up the back once!
4. Visited the Sacred Grove, the Smith homes, the Palmyra Temple, the Grandin Building, and the Peter Whitmer farm
   
5. Visited the Joseph Smith birthplace memorial
   
6. Taught 3rd grade for the first time... and lived to tell about it!
7. Taught summer school, practicing 'Linking Oral Language to Literacy' strategies
8. Scrapbooked at the Scrapbook Expo... what an experience... and so much more expensive than how we normally shop the Expo!
9. Saw Niagara Falls
10. Took the Maid of the Mist into the Falls... and survived!
11. Ate at Tim Horton's (yum-o!)
12. Ate at Mark's Pizza (of Palmyra - too bad they don't deliver to Midvale!)
    
13. Toured NYC from a double-decker sight-seeing bus
14. Enjoyed hot dogs from NYC street vendors
    
15. Shopped at L. L. Bean (yes, the actual store, in Freeport, Maine)
16. Taste-tested a dark chocolate candy bar at the Hershey factory in Pennsylvania (another yum-o!)
17. Visited Carthage Jail and Nauvoo
    
18. Listened to Harry Potter 7 in the car
    
19. Bought an iPod Shuffle
20. Completed comps (3 12-page papers in 10 days - yeah, baby!)
21. Wrote my last paper for grad school (for now, anyway...!)
    
22. Graduated... again...
23. Helped to create, format, and edit a Sterling Scholar portfolio
    
24. Wore out a digital camera... and bought a new one
25. Served my last hallway duty with Joee & Lee at the WX Sweethearts Ball
26. Found out that my best friend is having a baby... I'm going to be an aunt!
    
27. Watched my car pass 50,000 miles (All of them fun-filled! Okay, well, most of them anyway...)
28. Went to a 'Bells on Temple Square' Christmas concert

Okay, well I guess I did a few more things than just 25 this past year. Hopefully I'll have a few to add during the next year!

Free Rice

www.freerice.com
I heard about this website on the news the other day.
The site quizzes you on vocabulary, and for each word you get right, it donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. The funding to do this is done through the advertising on the site. All you have to do is answer the questions!
Here's a dictionary site, just in case... http://dictionary.reference.com/

Twilight

I gave Joee Twilight for her birthday. I had heard that it was a pretty good book, though hadn't ever read it myself. I figured that she had some time... she might like to fill it with that book. (When she found the book in with her presents, she said, "I was going to give the same book to you!") Once she really got into it, it didn't take her long to finish. She gave it to her mom to read, which didn't take long, and then gave it to me. (My mom has the book and is stuck in the middle.) I've had it for a few weeks now, and have read some at night, but not for long enough sets of time to see why it was so fascinating and so difficult to put down. Now perhaps I know why...

I finished reading Twilight this morning at 12:30 am. I was fortunate enough to get to sleep in yesterday, which I did (it was lovely!). When I did wake up, no one else was up, so I stayed cozied up in bed and read. And read. And read some more. Then when others started to wake up, I still read. Eventually, I did actually get up, but only got as far as the recliner, where I continued to read. When I finished, I very nearly called Joee, to first tell her that I had finished, and second, to see if I could go down to her house to get the next book. Then I realized what time it was, and decided the call could wait until later today, and I'd have to own these books anyway, so that can wait until I get to the bookstore tomorrow.

I can't decide if I would want to date a vampire or not. Maybe I'll have to wait for an offer before I decide for sure...