Gas Dropping to $1.48

Gas is down to $1.48 (didn't get a pic of it today so have the $1.63 here), dropped 15 cents in a week. Amazing, huh? I was trying to remember when the last time I saw that price was. Three summers ago when I was here it was about $2.56 and I took a shot of that then. So it has been a while. At least 3 years.

Mark the Builder

My son Mark finished the room which is now the dining room. It was a covered deck before. He built a new deck and enclosed the other room and has the light fan up and the insulation installed. He is going to put up the wall board next week. Now I can't imagine how we ever ate in the kitchen, now that we have the big table with benches in the new dining room with room to spare.

Tree up

Mark and Sally put their Christmas tree up. Then Katie decorated it. It is very sparkly and pretty. I took Katie to see Twilight Friday and today we went to see Australia. She read the first book in the Twilight series and finished it Thursday night so we went to the movie. Her friend borrowed the book Saturday night and is almost through it. So we await the second book from Amazon so Katie can read it. It is fun to be able to share books and movies with my granddaughter. It costs only $4 to see a movie here if you go before 6pm.

Obsession past on

Okay, so today I went to Walmart to buy Twilight for my granddaughter Katie who says she wants to read the book before she goes to the movie. No Twilight, all sold out. They had a couple of the following books, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, but no Twilight. But the third book, Eclipse was cheap so I bought it and will give it to Katie (age 15) for Christmas. I went to Borders to get Twilight and gave it to her, saying "Happy Thanksgiving." She was quietly delighted. She seems to be a very reasonable young girl. I gave it to her saying, "I just want you to know that 99.9% of boys are not like Edward. In fact 99% of boys and men are not like Edward. And if you throw in the vampire part then that makes it 100%." I just want her to know it is a very idealistic though passionate love story. No teenage boy and few men could live up to this guy. He is gorgeous, tender, considerate, caring, and is totally and unconditionaly in love with Bella. Oh, did I add passionate in there? Not to mention strong, fast and immortal. For anyone who likes a good love story get in on this one!

Twilight - Guilty Pleasures

So I feel like a thirteen year old girl. My guilty pleasure: I must have been the oldest person at the Twilight movie today. And I have been obsessing over it all night, going to websites with clips and the songs from the soundtrack which is a topseller on Amazon. The songs are quite good and one is written by the male lead in the movie, Robert Pattinson who is also a musician. He wrote and sang the song "Never Think." He is also British which surprised me because his American accent is perfect. (Like Hugh Lauries' in House). I read all four books and wish I had not sold them all on Amazon now. I would love to read them again. The movie leaves out some things in the book like movies always do. But this reminds me of Harry Potter a bit, not in the content at all but because I had read those books too and knew what would happen and then had to wait for the movies to come out. I do say, for anyone who is a Twilight series fan that the cast was in my opnion cast very well. The part of Edward and Bella were very well cast. The author Stephanie Meyer does draw them quite distinctly in her books so it was important to cast them well. The story is about a very passionate love that seems doomed from the start. There are many obstacles but their love never wavers. Yes, it is about a human girl and a Vampire boy, both 17 years old. So you can see the built in obstacles right off. The movie was low budget and the special effects were too but they did well with what they had. I can't wait for the next one, for all three of the next ones. Robert Pattinson (who plays Edward) was on Ellen today and the guy seems totally unaware of how big he is or how big he will be. I think he will have a long movie career. If he wants it. If he doesn't go off the rails like so many young stars do.