Last minute purchases....

As our trip approaches quickly…we are making our last minute, we cant live without, purchases .  This week Anne and I went on a scavenger hunt for the new Eclipse backpacks.  Of course, Toys r Us advertises them but doesn’t carry them in the store. BOO! They are sold out now online too…..DOUBLE BOO!  Blockbuster didn’t have the one we wanted and Borders just doesn’t have the Twilight sections anymore…WTF?!?!  Anyhow….Anne ended up ordering them from Amazon along with some cool Twilight luggage tags!  YAY!  Also, Liz and I ordered a new Skin It of Edward for our phones…aww  I cant wait to put it on!  Best of all,  on Friday night, I saw Eclipse (for the 3rd time) with Lil Mo and Julia… Please add yourself as a follower to our blog!  Don’t let us go out with nobody reading about our grand adventure…that would be sooo sad!   There’s only 19 more days till Forks….stay tuned!

 

Our feature this week is about the beautiful, Liz Black. ( I say Black cuz she is a Jacob fan..even before he was legal...eewww!)  Here, in her own words, are the circumstances of when and where Twilight changed her life…..

During the summer of 2008 as I was getting ready to send Nicole to college, I saw an article in Entertainment magazine about Stephanie Meyer. Not ever being much of a reader, I thought maybe I may enjoy her books. I ordered Twilight on Amazon with a gift card and started reading it a few weeks before Nicole left for Arizona.  Wasn’t really getting into it as quickly as I had hoped, but when we took Nicole to school, got her settled in her dorm and went back to our room to basically kill time the rest of the day, I finished Twilight. I told Mike I needed to run out to the local bookstore and buy New Moon. I became so obsessed with all characters I needed to know more. I think it was also my way of coping with Nicole being away from home.  I started reading New Moon but thought it started a little slow. I was only about a quarter the way through the book when on a Saturday I sat for 8 hours straight and finished the book. Then immediately ran out and bought the third book.  By the time I got most of the way through Eclipse, I was so hooked, Mike couldn’t peel me away from the books. I would come home from work and read. Eat dinner, then read. Go the bed and read until 2 sometimes 3 in the morning. I would wake up and read. Mike said you’d better slow down or you will be very sad when you’re done. He was right. The moment I finished Breaking Dawn I wanted to cry, didn’t know what to do with myself. Could not get the stories out of my head.  I needed help. My therapy was to buy the entire set for Anne because apparently I thought she needed to feel my pain. Now I’m completely addicted to erotic vampire books. Thanks Stephanie. ~Liz