Breaking Dawn Part II

I finally saw Breaking Dawn yesterday with my family.  It was so good.  What a twist- Everyone in my row - family - was yelling - upset - I nearly had a heart attack but then I calm down.  Bill Condon did a great job on this one - Bella - Kristen - did a magnificent job- if you think about it between part 1 and part 2 she really carried the whole movie - between wedding, honeymoon, birth, becoming a vampire, battle scene - it was all about her - the emotions that she had to go through.  I can't wait to see it again and catch some things that I missed.  It really went fast. 

If you get a chance you should definitely see the movie. 

R.I.P. Larry Hagman

Larry Hagman of I Dream of Jeannie & Dallas has passed away at the age of 81.  I always remember coming home from school and watching I Dream of Jeannie - it was so funny.  Dallas - I never missed an episode - he was really good in that role - evil incarnate- He will be sorely missed.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish all of you a happy thanksgiving - don't eat too much turkey!!

Black Friday

Black Friday is coming up - are you going out at the crack of dawn.  I did it one year with my husband and we were back at our local diner for breakfast at 7:30 a.m.  Called my mom and had her meet us for breakfast.  One other Friday I went by myself did some shopping till 8:00, went to breakfast, did more shopping till 11:00 a.m. and then crashed and burn. 

I might get up early and go to breakfast and hit a store or two. 

Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

I just finished reading the above book - I loved it.  I couldn't put it down.  I thought it was so different and fast paced. 

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.   Book Description by Amazon

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Movies We Saw

We saw a couple of movies recently.  The Amazing Spiderman & Promentheus.  Both were really good.  The Promenthus one was a little scary - had to leave the room a couple of times but otherwise was great.  I enjoyed spiderman - it was different seeing Andrew Garfield as spiderman but I liked the story. 

Breaking Dawn Part II

Last night at 10:00 p.m. Breaking Dawn Part II premiered here in the United States!!  Did you go?  I am going Thanksgiving Weekend with my nieces, brother, sister-in-law, husband and cousin/godchild.  I cannot wait.  I am trying to stay away from all reviews and spoilers - I don't want to know anything about it - even though I did read the book many times. 

I can't believe this is the end of Twilight - it was just three years ago that my nieces told me about this wonderful series and I borrowed the books from them - I read the first one in a weekend and couldn't wait to get the rest from them.  They eventually gave me my set of my own books.  They have also given me each of the movies as gifts.  For my 50th birthday my family at work (I call them family because we are all so close) threw me a surprise Twilight Birthday party at work - complete with pillowcases, totebag, etc.  I even got a Twilight cake.  My nieces even gave me Bella's blue coat from the first movie. 

It is sad to see the series end.  It all started with Stephenie Meyer's dream of a meadow with a girl and a vampire.