I haven’t really been on the internet since Monday so I have some serious catching up to do.  Thank god for long holiday weekends, right?  Not to mention I’m convinced my ass fits a little more tightly into my jeans, especially since a third of the four pounds of Jelly Belly jelly beans I got is now gone.  To be fair, probably about a third of that was chucked because they were the gross flavors.

Alas, I did end up having to wrap my gifts with packing tape.  Hey, you improvise when you can.  No one noticed, though.  I’m sure it was because I cut the tape up and used little pieces instead of hulking strips like I did last year.  Learning experience and all of that.

Santa was good to me this year and I hope he was good to you too.  I got a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card and I might have wept a little, especially when I think of my stack of TBR books I need to read, not to mention the whole set of Chronicles of Narnia my mom bought me for Christmas.  So I’m decided I’m going to buy the three books of Twilight that I don’t have.  Yes, the series turns me into a raging feminist that’s all roided up and the writing sucks, but I will admit this: it’s a guilty pleasure.  Very guilty pleasure.  Like 25 to life with no chance of parole guilty pleasure.  So this way I can buy the books without using my own money and not add to my TBR.  Works out for everyone!

And in that same vein, my cousin thought it was cute (she has the same guilty pleasure for Twilight and we constantly mock Pattinson’s Blue Steel look and dead wombat hair in the movie) to theme my gift after Twilight.  Fun!  *twitch*  So I got the Twilight movie companion book chock full of pictures, a Team Jacob t-shirt (don’t tell her but I’m all about the “vampires” but considering Jacob is the most dynamic character in the book, I can let him have that credit) and a key chain that says “sick masochistic lion” on one side and “stupid lamb” on the other.  I have to say, that’s a good quote.  And oh god the dementing I can do with it!  Ha!

On top of all of that, I have two seasons of Rome to get through so I hope I can get some writing and reading done this weekend.  That show is addicting.

Back to your regularly scheduled posting in a day or so.  I need to hike over to Barnes and Noble (not only to get the books but) so I can gather some information on my next post.  I’ve wanted to discuss teen series for a while but I need to take notes on what’s on the shelves in order to do it.  So that won’t be done until tonight at the earliest.  I’ll be damned if I leave my house and go anywhere near a shopping arena during the day today.  I like my life too much.