Twilight

Things I Normally Don’t Do:

1. Read romance novels, I mean come on, the women in them are all airheads and really you’re reading 300 pages for 10 in particular.
2. Heck just reading books in general, since I’ve had 2 small beings to take up my time, I’ve stopped reading most everything. Which is a shocker to anyone who knew me in my younger less children years, where I would read 3-5 a week.
3. Have anything to do with anything remotely scary. The Mummy (yes the one with Brendan Fraiser) use to give me nightmares. I watched The Ring 4 years ago for Steven’s 23rd birthday and I still can’t go into a dark room with a television by myself.
4. Fantasize over men, I mean I can literally count on 1 hand the men who have made me stop for a second look since I married my husband. I’ve got a good one, what’s the point.
5. Turn on the television so my children will not bug me and then ignore the dishes piling up, the laundry piling up, the trash piling up and the toys piling up while I read.
6. Stay up until 1am reading even though I know my daughters are early risers and I’ll be up by 6am.

All that’s changed thanks to Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. This would be a teenage romance (that’s means it’s plenty sensual without the sex) about vampires. Vampires, yeah don’t ask how I of all people found the book. Just realize it’s completely spellbinding. Enough so I haven’t done dishes since I started both it and it’s 2 sequels last week (the concluding book comes out August) and only minimal laundry and maintaining of the house. I’m also sleep deprived (by my own choice no less, having nothing whatsoever to do with the girls) and the girls have watched way too much TV.
Yeah, I just realized I didn’t tell you much about the book other than the fact it consumed me for a week, but yeah, go read it. Just tell everyone else around you, you’ll be out of commission until it’s done.

BTW, it’s also being made into a movie, it comes out in December.