Happy Monday! I am out of school ALLLLL week, so I’m totally psyched. Right now the cat and I are sitting on the couch, Tom Jones is singing on GMA, and I’m eating chips and blogging. It’s a rough day already. Hopefully I can work on my current book, the final installment in The Charmed Life series. Book one, So Not Happening, hits shelves this spring. But if I don’t get some snow days between now and then, I may not live to see April. Stupid Farmer’s Alamanc…

Okay, so I hesitate to even bring this up…but I saw Twilight. I didn’t read anyone’s reviews/blogs yet because I wanted to keep a fairly open mind (I’d already heard some buzz…). Anyway…I really disliked it. STRONGLY disliked it. My friend Holly, who also prays and dances for snow, had warned me that Bella had a very prominent form of facial epilepsy. I wasn’t sure what that meant, but a few seconds into the movie…yikes. All Bella does is blink rapidly, scrunch her face up, and say things like, “Ugh!” “No!” It’s like the director told Bella and Edward, “The only feeling we want you to convey is deep, deep cheesy angst.” So Bella was a huge no for me. The part was just bigger than her. (Or should’ve been). I thought the screenplay was AWFUL. It went nowhere. No action until the end. I mean, when your butt falls asleep in Twilight, you know something is wrong.

It was just a movie of talking. And saying uninteresting things. And the camera angles? What was up with that? Half the movie was just Bella and Edward’s eyeballs. And the Cullens? Well, I liked the ladies. I thought those were good picks, especially Alice. But Dr. Cullen? He creeped me out. And not in a “I’m a vampire” sort of way, but more in a “I stalk little girls in my spare time” fashion. And Jacob? I just wanted to reach through the screen and rip out his fake extensions. And don’t get me started on how his dad kept trying to talk all gangsta and hip.

I could go on an on, but there was not any chemistry between E and B. I think Edward couldn’t truly love her because she couldn’t act and she was so blinky. And like some of you mentioned, lots of moments that made the entire audience laugh…and not because it was supposed to be funny. Anyway, if I had been the author of that book, I would be in a deep, deep depression right now and drowning my sorrows in orange juice and Fritos.

The fabulous Amy Poehler has teamed up with Barbie and has created a video series for girls. You can check out the first episode to get some great tips on writing from a 10 year old.

I need to take notes and get on the ball like that girl. She is a writing machine. I’m more of an emailing machine who occasionally writes.

So I’m on the hunt for boots. Again. I finally decided to get some Uggs. Well, some fake ones. I don’t feel like selling my left lung for a pair of boots I’ll probably hate by next year. So anyway, I went to my favorite online store Zappos.com to see what they had. I put in my search keywords…and this is what pulls up.

WHAT in the world? Why is it every time I try to find boots on Zappos, it brings up top picks for hookers? I mean can you honestly see me in those things at school? Not to mention I wouldn’t even make it out of the car without breaking a femur. But this (probably misplaced) review for the shoes made me smile.

My husband finds these slippers very comfortable but wishes it had more arch support. He says that they’re a bit narrower than marked but that’s okay because they stretch after a little while. Overall, great slippers for the price!

This puppy cam of Shiba Inus also makes me smile.

You have to check throughout the day because sometimes the puppies are just sleeping. But they are so cute.

So about six months ago, I ditched all but my basic cable. It was a HUGE adjustment, but really good for a chronic channel surfer like me. I watch nothing…but want to see it all. Anyway, last week my cable company calls and wants to extend my cable by a billion channels for 5 bucks through next year. So I’m like…okay. Anyway, there is ABSOLUTELY nothing on. STILL! But I did catch the amazingly talented and funny Flight of the Concords on HBO. This line had me scrambling for a pen:

Boss: So what’s new?
Conchord Guy 1: We have girlfriends now.
Boss: Really?
Conchord Guy 1: Yeah. We’ve met them and everything.

Okay, well, have a great week. I know I will!!!

JEN

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