Wow, it's been quite awhile since I've posted anything! Sorry! I guess we've been pretty busy around here lately! Jim's brother got married a few week ago so we were in Salina for the weekend for that shindig. It was a lot of fun and Ashley's great so we're glad they're all married off. ;) They'll be coming here next week actually to go to a Roadrunners game with us, so that will be fun! We had another wedding last weekend...a coworker of mine got married. That was fun. And then my wonderful cousin, Susan, is getting married in a few weeks! Unfortunately we'll have to miss that one because we'll be in Goodland for Jim's family Christmas. :( I'm very sad that we'll miss it...there's nothing better than a Boos wedding! And I'm so happy that Susan is happy. Sooooo, let's see...Jim's hockey team is doing pretty good...There's 6 teams in their league and I believe they're ranked somewhere in the middle. At least they're not the team that hasn't won any games! LOL
Okay, so at the end of October, a friend of mine told me about a book series called Twilight. I had heard of it but had no desire to read it. It was written for Young Adults and it has a vampire in the book. Not really my cup of tea. However, she loves the Harry Potter series and I'll admit that Jim and I are HP fans too, so she told me just to give it a try and that she just knew I would like it. She gave me the first book in the series (there are 4 in all, so far). I started reading it and wow, it grabbed me. The author (Stephenie Meyer) writes so well, you honestly feel like you're there. In fact I read the first one in a day and had to go out and buy the second one right away because I just had to know what was going to happen. In the second book there's this really sad part at the beginning and honestly I thought my heart was breaking. They are SO good. So, I bought the 3rd and 4th books right away. And honestly, my entire week was consumed with the books. I would get up in the morning and read during breakfast. Come home for lunch and read. As soon as work was over I would come home and read. It was like a serious addiction! I read them all in a week (and they aren't small books! The last one is almost 700 pages I think!) and then I was so sad that it was over! Jim was cracking up at me because he just didn't understand how they could be so addictive. But honestly I couldn't do anything else! I tried doing some homework that week and couldn't concentrate...all I could think about was Edward and Bella. I honestly had to finish the books before I could do anything else that week. It was crazy. I passed the books along to a coworker so she could read them. They grabbed her the same way. And then Kala (my BFF and coworker) was making fun of us so I begged her to read the first book. I told her if she would read until "the meadow scene" if she didn't like it she could stop. Well, let's just say that I had to bring book 2 to her at dinner on Friday night and she asked for book 3 today. :) The good news is that the first book comes out as a movie this coming Friday! Our movie theatre here has the first showing at 1:10 so I took the entire day off so I could see it. :) Jim did too even though I told him it's an amazing love story. I think he just wants to see what the big deal is.
Anyways, I encourage you to get the books and read them. I checked with our library and all the books have like 40 people in line waiting for them so you might have to wait awhile to get them from the library. But honestly, they are so good that you should just buy them. It's taking all of my willpower not to go downstairs and start re-reading them right now. :) In order, the books are Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse & Breaking Dawn. Eclipse is my favorite, but you have to read them in order. Also, once you're done you won't know what to do with yourself, but the author does have Midnight Sun posted on her website...it's about 1/3 of the first book but from Edward's point of view (the others are in Bella's POV). I loved reading his point of view because you got to see a lot of stuff that you didn't really know by reading it from Bella's view. I hope the author finishes that one and actually releases it. Honestly, they're amazing. And if you're not a reader, go see the movie. Rumor has it that it is very true to the book, so YAY!
Anyways, besides becoming a Twilighter there really hasn't been much going on. A few weeks left in this semester of school and I'm glad about that. But now we're to the part where all of our big semester projects are due (term papers, marketing plans, etc.) so that's stressing me out a little! And Christmas...I thought I would start early and get a lot of Christmas shopping done ahead of time. And we did get a lot of shopping done in Orlando but not everything. So I really need to get on that! And I have to get to making my Christmas cards! They HAVE to be mailed the day after Thanksgivig...no idea why I'm so adamant about that, but I haven't even started making them! Yikes!
So on that note I better go. I'll try to update more regularly going forward! :)
