My brush with greatness!

I know, I know...I am a terrible blogger. I think part of my problem is that I am on the computer all day long and so going back on it to blog in off hours is just sometimes too much for me. The other problem is my life is rather boring...so I have not a lot to say. :) However, that changed a little bit this week and I just have to share my brush with greatness.

I had the opportunity this weekend to meet one of my favorite people. She is the creator of my latest obsession....the Twilight series. Yes I mean Stephenie Meyer! My sister, Jenny got tickets to a book signing event she was having at Thanksgiving Point on Friday. It was a very long day/night, but truly a fun experience. It did my heart good to see that no matter how obsessed I think I am with this author and her books, I am no where near as insane as most of the people at this event. I didn't actually see all of them, but when I looked at some video of the evening on YouTube, I was shocked to see some of the extremes!! Here is a link to the video that shows us all waiting outside the venue to go inside. You can kinda see Teresa, Jenny and I about 9 seconds into the video in front of a jeep right by one of the pine trees. I am sitting in a peach colored shirt...it is very blurry and you can't see us very well, but that will give you an idea of where we were and the craziness that was all around us. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izt1-um0XF0

Also, below are some pics from the event!


This is us waiting for Stephenie to come out...aren't we so cute? :)




This is the only decent pic I could get of Stephenie...it is darker than I wanted, but it is the best I could do. We were not able to take any pics of her on stage signing books...it was a bit of a mad house and they were real sticklers about it so I decided to be a good girl... :)

This is us finally in line to get our books signed! Check out Teresa's HUGE stack!


A side note on this one...I got a little flack from Stephenie, as I had her personalize my book to Buffy. As I am sure you can imagine, in a room full of vampire fans, there were some doubtful looks relating to a certain vampire slayer. All I have to say is that I was Buffy long before there were any vampire slayers...and I am a much funner Buffy. :)

All in all it was a very long, but fun day. We got to Thanksgiving point around 3:30 or 4:00 in the afternoon, got into the building around 5:15 or so....Stephenie came out at about 7pm and we got our books signed at about 10pm. Crazy, but I really had a fun time...and got a lot of reading done. LOVING "The Host"! Not yet finished, but totally loving it.

On top of all of that, I am sooooo excited for the Twilight Movie! I cannot wait!! December seems so far away. But I enjoy visiting the many websites that discuss this upcoming event in the meantime. Twilightseriestheories.com posted the site where you can purchase the movie poster print. So if anyone is wondering what they could get me for my upcoming 40th birthday, here is the link. :) http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product_static.asp?cmio=&sku=410609&dept%5Fid=37637&master%5Fmovie%5Fid=37637

I would love the 11X17 print...I have a place all picked out to hang it.