It's Twilight Time

I awoke in the early pre dawn hours with vague memories of a dream where I was in the midst of an earthquake. Shaking cobwebs from my brain, I reached over the bed to ask Doughboy to turn off the bed massage. Ruffling my fingers through the empty bed, I realized that Doughboy wasn’t there – he is in Pittsburgh. Waking further, I realized we don’t have a bed massage. The shaking was coming from above my head where our pup-sickle Scottie – Dianora – was desperately attempting to bury herself in my pillows to keep warm. Leo, our 4 pound Yorkie was plastered against my back deep under the covers while Kady, our Westie was buried under the covers into my stomach. Brrrrr! If it wasn’t so dark, I swear I could see my breath in the chilly air of our bedroom. Forcing myself out of bed, I raced to the thermostat. It was turned OFF for heavens sake, and the temp was 61 degrees. I prefer sleeping in cooler temps (it helps with the hot flashes)…but our pups were visibly uncomfortable with the too-cold temps. It is a frigid morning in Georgia – 30.9 degrees. This is too cold too early. But daytime temps are supposed to warm back into the 70s this weekend. I am decidedly not ready for winter.

I suppose an explanation is in order for my blogging absence. Even Doughboy complained last evening about my lack of blogging activity. You may recall I told you – actually warned – about my literary obsession with the Twilight series. I plowed through the first book – Twilight – in two days, and the 2nd and 3rd books within a week of beginning the first. I am one-third of the way into the 4th book – Breaking Dawn. I left off on page 290 of 754. I promise that once I am finished with the series my life will return to normal. But seriously, these books are addictive! My daughter called me a loser yesterday. I had just returned from spending my lunch break at Barnes and Noble where I picked up Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion. Looking at the cast of characters, I was not disappointed by the selection. All of the actors are exactly as I pictured them when reading the books. I like the way they are virtually unknowns because it will make viewing the movie more enjoyable to me. For example, Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, originally pictured Orlando Bloom as the lead male character Edward Cullen. No! It would have ruined my experience – I can’t picture him as anything other than the swashbuckling hero of Pirates of the Caribbean.


Anyway, I promise to focus more on getting my life back to normal after I finish reading Breaking Dawn. Please bear with me a couple days longer. And if you haven’t read the series, you must start – now! – before the movie release November 21st. You won’t be disappointed!