confessions

today's confessions:

1. i am a hopeless romantic.
2. i have an affinity for teen angst.
3. i heart fairy tales.
4. i am completely in love with the twilight saga.

ok, i said it. twilight. i love it. a lot.
last year at this time i had read all 4 books. twice.

it all started a few summers ago when jenna, a friend from texas, who also happens to be one of my oldest friends, recommended the books to me - before all the twilight mania hype. and because we are such old friends, we have spent many nights in front of the tv, sharing our love for teen angsty shows - buffy, angel, dawson's, felicity - you know, the good ones. so naturally she knew if she could convince me to get past the vampire science fictiony part and give it a shot, that i'd be hooked. because we love teen angst and drama and love stories. no excuses, we are girls.

so when i finally started the 1st book on the beach 2 summers ago, i. couldn't. put. it. down. i immediately texted jenna that i was loving it so far. she told me to text her the next day, after i'd fallen in love with edward. and i did. she predicted it. i think i finished all the books in a matter of 3 weeks. then convinced about 10 people they should read them too. then re-read all 4 because i'd read so fast the 1st time, i was afraid i'd missed something!

no shame.

fast forward to last november. twilight movie premiere.
i'd read each book twice. i'm completely caught up in the twilight crazy. our boss had convinced NCM to send us a twilight movie poster for cube decoration. and caroline, my roomie, had just started working at an entertainment pr firm that handled the movie launch. during premiere week rob pattinson was actually in her office. 10 feet from her. imagine the squealing from me and bethany as caro gave us play-by-play via gchat. it went a lil something like this. . .

November 21st, 2008

Caroline: ROB IS HERE
DXZGDSKOJFDSF
rob
is
here
not
leaving
ever
again
COME HERE can you?

me: kljfakl;sdjfakl;sdf
SHUT UP
IS HE STAYING??????????

Caroline: dont know
diana couldnt open the door because she froze

me: omgomgomg

anyway, all this to say that somehow, by some magical turn of events, me and bethany ended up helping caroline work a screening of the movie before it came out in theaters. as expected, we were a giggly, girly mess. and it was awesome. ok, not that awesome. but because we loved the books so much, we loved the movie.

and now it's time for new moon. it's premiere week! rob and taylor are running around the city doing interviews and making all the girls giggle. and i am ohsoready to jump back into twilight mode. i mean, seriously. how can i resist?

caroline worked a new moon screening last night. (sadly i wasn't able to tag along this year!) here's her report --

oh it was so good, lauren! you're going to love it. like, so much more than the 1st one. taylor is really perfect! everyone today is talking about how much they liked the movie. and some people are even switching from team edward to team jacob. that's how good he was!

i'm so ready. bring on the vampires and teen angst and love stories. no shame. :)