I Refuse To Be A House's Wife

If you want a really good laugh (and total relief and validation for the mess you live in) go read this HILAROIUS blog Mormon Mommy Wars. I scored a 20!!!! *Woot* and just peed a little from all the laughter.

Really, who came up with the term "Housewife" anyway? I'm my husband's wife and when he is feeling well, which has been rare these last 6 months, as long as he has clean underwear he doesn't mind my excessive slothfulness that occurs while I'm, not only surfing the net, but deep-sea diving through all my obsessions online: Twilight sites, Star Wars sites, friends from those sites blogs and live journals, other friends sites, my myspace and friends on myspace, my online store (still in the works) and 2 blogs (1 in the works), book sites, craft sites, stores, music, fan fiction and my own writing, emails, and more....

And I go through spurts. I'm a very dichotimous thinker - it's all or nothing for me. When I get on the web or even just the computer it's for weeks and weeks until I've had my fix of online happyland. Then I will look behind me at all that's transpired during that time, get really stressed out and then dive into cleaning and oraganizing and about 15 loads of laundry, and oh, yeah....I have kids? Whoops!
This is why you will notice great, big, black holes in my online correspondence. But my New Year's Resolution is to be more consistent so that I don't have to read through pages and pages I've missed to merely catch up on only one site or blog just so that I can post my comments. That really sucks, but I can't NOT do it. Out of love for my friends and remember my dichotomy...

I'm so lucky to have a husband who understands this.

Endless Twilight

Last month I finished reading Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series. I am not only obsessed with these books, I'm POSSESSED!!!

Here's how it all got started:

My friend Kim and I are hopeless romantics. We just LOVE all the same types of things. I'd heard about the Twilight series by another friend, Jessica (who, again, is another romantic) but was trying to finish some other books I'd started so I thought that I might delve into the series later. However, my friend Kim called me one day ECSTATIC telling me to get on Amazon RIGHT NOW and order all three books!!! So as I was accessing the site she read to me the meadow scene from Twilight. And it goes a little something like this:

Wait, let me first set this up - Edward is a forever 17-year-old vampire. Bella is a 17-year-old human girl. They like each other, she knows he's a vampire, but she also knows he's a little dangerous because he craves her blood more than any other he's ever come into contact with in all his 90+ years as a vampire. Mrs. Meyers vampires don't burst into flames under the sun, in fact all those legends about the garlic and holy water are just merely rumors in her world. Edward is beautiful, a vegetarian vampire (meaning he only drinks animal blood), and very romantic. This scene is when Bella (the narrorator) first sees Edward in the sun...

"Edward in the sunlight was shocking. I couldn't get used to it, though I'd been staring at him all afternoon. His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening, pale lavendar lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal."


With THAT FIRST PARAGRAPH IN THAT CHAPTER I WAS HOOKED!!!! A gorgeous god of a VAMPIRE lying in a meadow with a girl and SPARKLING LIKE DIAMONDS?? WHOO-HA-HA!!!!

That was it.

The fat lady sang.

And I've been singing choir in the church of Twilight ever since! I read all 3 books in a week flat and have spent most of the last month downloading songs, youtube vids, pictures, rereading, and spending my time on Twilight Moms (a myspace group and now a website).

And our theory on vampires sparkling in the sun? They are reflecting it!

Above is my little Halloween shrine to Twilight - complete with miniature vampire gargoyles and bat lantern. Mom calls it "The Alter".


You see, after you visit http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/ you will be hooked too! She has a music playlist of songs that inspired each book, and if you go to "Twilight Series" and then "Movie News" you can see all the actors Stephenie sees as her characters, although, sadley, she does not have any say in who plays who in the movie. Movie will be up in either 2009 or 2010, shooting begins this February.

The story is set in the real-life town of Forks, WA, which is the one place in the U.S. that gets the most rain - convenient place for vampires, who would attract too much attention in the sun, to live. The rain forests in this place are soooo ethereal looking - I had no idea places like this existed in the U.S.!!

This is where the vampires roam -

I love it and now have Forks, WA in the top 5 places on earth I will visit someday.

So Stephenie Meyer's number one pick for Edward is Henry Cavill so I made a little remix full of pics of him from his different movies and photo shoots and why each pic is soooooo Edward Cullen. Plus he sorta looks like my Andy when he was young :9

Enjoy!

Feather's Blogaversary

My good friend Heather who I've known for years is the celebrity gossip blogger for the Fresno Bee. My kids have always called her "Feather". She is Hil-a-rious!!!

Go check her out. It's her 1 year anniverary of blogging for the bee and doing what she does best - making everyone laugh!

Click here if you want to laugh your socks off

Oh! The cleverness of you, Feather! Love you!

Halloween Party

So we had a little Halloween party for my church friends from my old ward. Here's the pics of it and the pumpkin patch in a little slide show:

Sorry a few people's heads got cut off and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. But hey, cute background, huh?

Pottery Barn Can Stick It

While I love its plethora of design ideas and classic appeal, Pottery Barn lacks the quaint coziness and character of a room that I desire. I mean, lets just get real people - If your house constantly could pass for a Stepford Wife model home, there's something very wrong with you. See my boycott of conformity evident in my new chalkboard labels from said store:

Halloween Night is Approaching...

Entry way and kitchen table top...

The Mantle

I have fake tealights in all the milk glass. They have a real eerie glow to them with the lights off.

Soundtrack Of My Life

If your life was a movie, what would the soundtrack be?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press Play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the Next button.
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool.
7. Don't skip songs.

Here's mine....

Opening credits:
In Paradisium – Sarah Brightman (perfect!!)

Waking up:
The Houses of Healing – Lord of the Rings

First day at school:
Beautiful Disaster – Kelly Clarkson (ain’t that the truth?)

First Love:
Sweet Emotion – Arrowsmith (This is sorta freaky....hmm)

Breaking up:
Taxi Ride – Tori Amos (heh – she sings, “I’m glad you’re on my side.”)

Happiness:
A Sorta Fairytale – Tori Amos (No JOKE!!)

Life's okay:
A Case of You – Tori Amos

Mental breakdown:
Anakin’s Theme – John Williams (Not kidding!!!!)

Driving:
Never Ending Story – Klaus Doldinger (I’m sooo not making this up!)

Flashback:
Any Other Way – Tim McGraw (Scarey!)

Getting back together:
Everything – Alanis Morissette (well, this is why you would get back together-perfect!)

Wedding:
Arc – Pearl Jam (a bunch of Native Americans chanting – cool!)

Birth of a child:
In My Tree – Pearl Jam (okay, this one is random)

Final battle:
Take On Me – A-ha (Ha!)

Death scene:
You Are – Pearl Jam (Sweeeet!)

Funeral song:
Dance With You – Live (Oh! That’s Beautiful! It even says, " I see a world where people live and die with grace.)

End credits:
Let Go – Frou Frou (DOOODE! This is JUST what I would want!!)

Ya'll need to try this...

A Fabulous Discovery!

Those of you who know me well know that I love to make handmade gifts. Well, I just found this site that is a compilation of a whole bunch of artists selling their handmade goods like art, jewlery, figurines, etc.

A really cool aspect of the site is all the cool ways to search for that perfect gift. You can search items by color - just click on one of many dots in every color of the rainbow and out will pop a couple pics of things for sale that color! It's nifty! Or you can go into the Time Machine and see the item most recently posted.

You have to create an account to buy anything but it's great cuz then you can tag your favorite sellers for future reference from the THOUSANDS of sellers on the site. I already have a good list going.

I couldn't resist and bought two things already - a really elegant ring and some graphic art for Halloween! Here's the link. Happy Shopping!

More Decor

This is what's on top of the entertainment center. That's a Wendy Froud Faery on the page of the open book which looks similar to my witch-faery costume this year. *cackle*