Is there a support group for Twilight addicts?  If such a condition exists I think I have it.  I first watched the movie a month or two ago and was surprised that I liked it as much as I did.  I get lost in the scenery.  Maybe because it is such a stark contrast to hot, flat, tree barren Phoenix but I am mesmerized by the green trees, moss, wet ground, and cold air.  I’ve watched the movie at least a dozen times so far, if it wasn’t for my husband that number would be higher.  After enjoying the movie so much I read the first book which took me less then 24 hours.  Then I immediately ran to the library and got the second.  It took me about 2 days to finish that one….I paced myself a little bit more.  After that I had to wait an excruciating 7 days before the third book was available at the library.  I’m glad I was forced to wait though…it prolonged the excitement for me.  The anticipation of the drug is better then the actual experience of getting high.  That’s what I learned working with drug addicts anyway.  See what I mean?  Support group is badly needed.

I just can’t stop thinking about these characters.  After I finish one book and am waiting for the other I find myself going back and re-reading certain parts.  It’s intoxicating and a little bit disturbing.  I’ve never been so obsessed about a book before.  Everything about this series, the movie, and the author intrigues me.   Do you know how she came up these characters?  She had a dream!  It just blows my mind that all of this, the success of these books, and the movie has been the product of a dream.  She wasn’t even actively writing at the time or wishing to write a book.  It just came to her.  Of course there had to have been a lot of hard work on her part and not to mention talent.  She does a wonderful job building the characters up in your head. Yes, sometimes they are annoyingly sappy but it doesn’t make it any easier to put down the books.  I just can’t stop reading about them.

I just got an e-mail that the fourth book is ready at my library.  I’ll be comatose for the next day or two.

I guess this doesn’t really qualify as a random thoughts post so to get your fill head over to Keely’s blog The UnMom.

OH…MY…GOD!  Have you seen this movie?  I just watched it last night and cannot get over how delicious it was.

In my past life I would have had all the books read before the first movie came out but for the past year and a half all I have been able to read are snippets of parenting books whilst running after a toddler.

I had read a couple of reviews that highly recommended the movie so I was expecting it to be good but man was it good!  I was immediately entranced with the scenery and the acting and was pleasantly surprised what a superb  job Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Robert Pattinson (Edward) did.

Last week I had read a brief description of the movie in a magazine and it mentioned that Stephanie Meyer, the book’s author, was Mormon.  So I was kind of interested to know what a Mormon was doing writing a book about Vampires.  Of course if you are Mormon you can still write whatever you damn please but it just intrigued me is all.

So when the movie started my mind couldn’t help but try and figure out some hidden religious meaning to it.  When Edward tells Bella that his family “is different, we learn to control our thirst” it hit me.  A 17 year old vampire that refuses to suck the blood of a human, no matter how tempting, is a metaphor for teenagers to remain abstinent from sex! Right?  I haven’t read anything to back this up but I am sure it is true.  For people that have seen the movie or read the books do you think I’m right?