Obsession is back!!

I have not posted too much recently, but that is not because I got over my obsession. I was too busy reading to actually post too much. I just finished the books for the ninth time and I just started "Twilight" again! I love the books so much and I really love reading the books again and again. I love getting submerged in the world of Bella and Edward.

The more I read the books the more I think that Jacob is a jerk until the fourth book. He still is a little bit of a jerk in "Breaking Dawn" but I can handle him a little more then. I think most of the "Team Jacob" fans aren't fans of Jacob but Taylor Lautner. Now every time I see anything that says "Team Jacob" I think it should be "Team Taylor." I love Taylor Lautner and in the first three movies he's the only reason I even like Jacob in parts of the movie that I disliked Jacob from the book. Does that even make sense?

I love "Midnight Sun" (The unfinished book that Stephenie Meyer wrote that was leaked. It's basically "Twilight" from Edward's view - I love this version almost more than Bella's version). I'm re-reading "Midnight Sun" and "Twilight" at the same time. It's so cool reading Bella then Edward's versions.

Obsessed much?

Okay, I have to admit it. I was resisting but it never lasts for too long. I am almost done with the fourth book...for the seventh time. I'm not sure why I've got this obsession with the Twilight Saga but I like the obsession. 
My father-in-law asked me why I would read a book over and over again. Most people can only read a book once and then they move on the the next book.
I have always been able to re-read books. The first book I remember reading was a book I got for Christmas when I was about 16 called "Winter Dreams, Christmas Love". I have read that book probably about 20 times. Then there is the Harry Potter series - which I've read each book multiple times. I enjoy re-reading books. I get another chance to immerse myself in the world that exists in the book. It's my little escape from reality and I thoroughly enjoy it.
I'm hoping to stop reading Twilight after I'm done with the fourth book for the seventh time. I am having a huge pull towards reading "Persuasion" by Jane Austen.
Stephenie Meyer was inspired by some awesome authors, including Jane Austen whom I love. I have only read "Pride and Prejudice" but I own "Mansfield Park" and "Sense and Sensibility" Maybe Jane can smother my obsession for Twilight for at least a few months.

Will my obsession ever cease?

I just finished the fourth book for the sixth time and I am trying to resist starting over. I am a little OCD (or CDO as my mom calls it - it's in alphabetical order) and I like even numbers so if I read
them again then I would have to read it one more time so it would be an even eight times!

Part of me wants to give the books to my sister to keep at her house, but the other part doesn't want to have to go to Cottonwood Heights when I want to read it again.

While reading "Breaking Dawn" it would mention something that had happened in one of the three prior books and it would make me eager to re-read that book again.

I am like an addict and I don't want to stop. They always say that you can't force someone to get help until they are ready. Well......I am not ready yet. I think I'll try to go to the library tomorrow and check out a book that I can read to keep me from re-reading Twilight.

I don't know what it is about the series that has me completely hooked. Maybe it's the relationship between Edward and Bella, maybe I like the action of all the scary things that happen to The Cullen's because of Bella. I'm not sure but the books are very entertaining and difficult for me to put down when I'm reading them. Maybe there is some kind of drug in the pages of the books that make you addicted to the books. I don't know........

I've read a lot of things lately where some authors have been calling Stephenie Meyer names. Saying things like she's not a good author, or is a very juvenile writer. Maybe it's just sour grapes, that they're jealous that Stephenie has all this money from her four books (plus "The Host").

I would love to be able to write a story have as entertaining as hers. Maybe one day....

Any new news?

Not a day goes by that I don't check the internet for some news about the "Twilight" saga, books or movies. I've already pre-ordered my "New Moon" DVD, and I checked to see if I could buy my "Eclipse" opening night tickets, but I couldn't find anything on Megaplex theaters website to pre-order the tickets. :(

I'm almost done reading the series for the sixth time! I told my husband that after I finish the fourth book (again) I need to go to the library and check out something completely different so I can resist reading the books again.

I can't say what it is that makes me want to re-read the books over and over again other than the story is soooooo entertaining and I feel like I'm in Edward and Bella's world when I read. It takes me out of my (sometimes) boring life and into the exciting world of Vampires and Werewolves. I just love the books!

It's official.......I have no willpower when it comes to Twilight

My willpower crumbled and I started reading "Twilight" again. I told my husband that I need a 12-step program to help break my obsession with Twilight, but then I realized that I don't want help. I like being obsessed with the Twilight series. I don't want to stop reading the books, however, I would like to get to the point that I have much more time in between reading the books again.
I check Stephenie Meyer's website about once a day. I want to see if there is anything new poster on her site. I also check Twilight Lexicon for news.
I think my husband and other family members (and a few friends) think I'm crazy for my obsession with Twilight and I may be, but I like my obsession.
Does this make me crazy?

Five times...I must be obsessed

My laptop wasn't working for a bit so I wasn't able to post things when I wanted to.

I just finished "Breaking Dawn" for the fifth time! I have now read the four books of the Twilight Saga five times since Christmas. I am trying to resist reading the books again. My husband has asked my why I've read them over and over again, and I really can't give him a good reason, other than the books really captured my imagination. When I read the books I am transported to the world where Bella and the Cullens exist.
Part of me wishes that world really existed.....Stephenie Meyer makes being a "vegetarian" vampire sound like a good thing.
I'm still obsessed with Twilight movie news and am constantly checking to see if the movie trailer for "Eclipse" has been released. I sooooo want to see it. I got the day off work so my sister, her best friend and my best friend and I can go see the midnight showing of "Eclipse"
My sister and her best friend are "Team Carlisle" since they love Peter Facinelli. They are so cute, freaking out everytime they see Peter Facinelli online, in a movie (Missee's was recently obsessed with watching "Can't Hardly Wait"), in books, etc.
Luckily right now, I'm away from home (and the books) so I can't start reading them over again. I feel like the books are like a very addictive drug to me that I get "high" when I read them. (I'm not going to say that they are like heroin to me since that's what Bella and Edward said in Twilight).
Maybe this extended weekend away will lessen the hold these books have on me.....maybe not.

An ongoing battle

I have tried my hardest to get back to my real life and stop reading the Twilight books and thinking abut them ALL the time. It almost worked yesterday when I went to work and "forgot" to bring a Twilight book to read. When I was sitting at my desk eating my lunch I fought for about 15 minutes before I went to Stephenie Meyer's website and started reading the partial draft to "Midnight Sun".

Since Christmas, when I got the books, not a day has done by that I haven't either read one of the books (including "Midnight Sun"), watched the movie, or thought constantly about the characters.

I really wish they had a "Twilight Anonymous" so I could get a sponsor and every time I felt like I was going to slip and watch/read/think about Twilight I could call them and have them distract me.

Edward calls Bella his personal brand of heroin. I think "Twilight" might just be mine.
When I read the books I picture the actors that play the characters in the movie to be the characters in the book. My imagination has done such a good job that I just realized last night that there was no "Blood typing class" scene in the movie. WEIRD!

I've made plans the see the third movie "Eclipse" with my sister, her friend and my best friend. Now I need to see if anyone else wants to come with us. We'll probably just go to Jordan Commons but who knows.

My husband's ex-wife and my cousin (who are friends with each other) have gone to the last two movie midnight premieres with each other and a couple of friends. I kind of thought they were a little nuts. Who would go to a midnight movie that wasn't "Harry Potter"? Now I know. I'm "nuts" enough now to do it. I have fallen head over heels in love with the books, characters, movies, everything Twilight!!!

One more thing..........TEAM EDWARD!!!!

An introduction to my obsession.

I needed a place to get out my obsessions so I created this blog.

Now I'll admit it....I was not a "Twilight" fan back when the books were released or even when the first (and partially second) movie came out. I don't like being on "the bandwagon" and have been late in getting into the fads. I didn't start reading the Harry Potter books until the fourth book was released.

I tried for so long to resist reading the Twilight books and I had no desire to watch the movies. What changed? My sister got me interested by just talking about a few things about the movie and showing me one scene.

She was talking about how the Cullens have a gourmet kitchen but never use it and then she wanted to show me a part of the movie where an actress was wearing some shoes she loved. The scene she showed me was when "Rosalie" broke the bowl and they showed her gorgeous shoes walking over the debris. That is what planted the "Twilight seed."

A few months later I decided to put Twilight on my Netflix queue, but I didn't put it as number one. After a few more weeks I moved it to the top of my queue. It was delivered and I put it aside (I'm kind of a procrastinator if you can't tell).

One Sunday night in November my husband had to take his son home and with the bad snowstorm the normal two hour round-trip turned into more like three hours. I felt like a kid stealing a cookie from the cookie jar. I was about to break a promise to myself not to have ANYTHING to do with Twilight. I wasn't sure how I would feel about Robert Pattinson, since I was not convinced of him playing a gorgeous vampire (I didn't find him attractive in "Harry Potter Goblet of Fire"). I also wasn't sure about Kristen Stewart as all I could think about when seeing her was "Panic Room" and "Catch that Kid". I gave it a chance though and watched the entire movie.

I LOVED IT!!!! I was excited to see "New Moon". I called up my sister and invited her to see New Moon with me. She asked me if I was going to read the books and I told her that I wanted to wait for all the movies to be released so that the movies wouldn't be "ruined". After seeing "New Moon" I decided that I WANTED to read the books.

I asked my husband for the paperback books for Christmas (Breaking Dawn is not currently out in paperback so it would only be the first three books).

I started reading the first book Christmas afternoon (of course my husband got me the books). I stayed up late, ignored my husband and other family members that were around, took the book with me to the bathroom, when I took a bath, ate dinner (even at restaurants). I finished the third book by the Monday after Christmas. Luckily I was at Brad and Camille's house (brother-in-law and sister-in-law) and Camille lent me the fourth book so I could start reading immediately. I finished the fourth book the next night.

Since that night I have re-read all the books again, even re-reading favorite parts from the different books. I also have read the "Midnight Sun" manuscript off of Stephenie Meyer's website twice. I have also completely scoured her website and read the outtakes and other items that are posted on her page. I bought a three-disc version of Twilight on DVD from Target and have watched the entire special features on all three discs and I have also watched the movie at least 3 times since then (bought the movie on Friday, January 8, 2010.)

That is the start of the story of my obsession with "Twilight"

Hello, my name is Raegan and I'm addicted to Twilight.