Apparently it's Twired's Anniversary.

Yup, that's right. It's been 1 freakin' year since I typed my first post. And, can you believe it happens to fall on the day before the Eclipse DVD release?!? Woah....cue the TWILIGHT zone music ;) Ok ok, I have known it was coming, but these last few days I have had my head up my ass....working like a mad woman...it slipped my mind today. I suck.

Anyhoo, what does one do when they absentmindedly forget their bloggy anniversary? Originally I was going to chat about my plans for tomorrow night...and lack of plans tonight, and how uber jealous I am of Lisa & Mama_Cougar for getting to spend not 1, but 2 nights together! Geeeez. Ok, maybe I'll still whine about that, but I'll save it till later...

With that said I'm not going to bore you with my old posts. If you want to read them, feel free to peruse my archives. For now, I'm just going to post a shi*t-load of memorable pics :)

ES (aka lil' Sista') and I at our 1st 100 Monkeys Concert at the Viper Room LA back in Nov of 09'.

The next day we lined up at the LA New Moon Premiere!

We didn't get wristbands, but not a bad spot for day of...eh?

Nikki Reed! We also saw Jackson AGAIN, as well as Jamie C. Bower, Kiowa Gordon, PFach, Alex Meraz etc...

Rob did not roll down his window, but he did get 15 feet away. I about died. Hence the dazed look on my face.

Our Pre New Moon Theatre release par-tay! Gotta love Robward on a stick ;)

In my home-made PJ's w/ Robward.

Hale YES!

2nd 100 Monkeys Concert...meeting Mr. MOS himself ;)

3rd 100 Monkeys Concert!
Oh, hai Jackson, fancy meeting you here ;)

Look who was a good sport & made an appearance at my dirty 30th in Feb!

Don't worry, I made sure to thank him.

Official Twilight Saga Eclipse Convention in LA w/ ALL of them, plus the Twifecta!
June 10'

Twilight/New Moon under the stars event...also in June...post Convention & LA Premiere (which Sue went to) and pre Eclipse Theatre release.
@Twilove_sue1, ES, Me, @LuvsMeSumEdward!

Faci, Facinelli!

Our 5th 100 Monkeys Show (?)

Our 6th (?) 100 Monkeys show....I had pics, but they just deleted themselves from this post. I'm too pissed to go reload and reposition. They're on my facebook page fyi ;)

Randomly eating breakfast next to David Slade in LA post 100 Monkeys Show. I shit you not.

FORKS...FINALLY!!!
CC, Mrs. P, JJ, STY, Sue, Me, Lisa!!! Love these girl for realz.

DD, TC, Lisa, HG, MB, Mrs. P, Me, Sue!
Miss you and love you all. So blessed to have met you.

One of my bloggy besties...Lisa ;)

Another bb Mrs. P ;)

Sue & I on Bella's truck!

LKW loved me and my driftwood sucking ways.
That is all.

LKW rocks. Edward is not so sure.


AND THE ICING ON THE TWILIGHT ADVENTURE CAKE THAT YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN A TWIZILLION TIMES:




:)

Hope you enjoyed my little photo collection. Looking back to the NM DVD release, I just curled up on the couch with Sista' last March...we didn't do anything out of the ordinary. It seems we like to party the night before the movie releases, and curl up cozy when they come out on DVD. Truth be told I would have loved to have shared this with my CA girls @amandamelby, @Jaymes805 or @charlahicks Boo :( I also would have loved to plan a surprise trip to IL to meet up with MC & Lisa...word on the street is MC's parties are EPIC. There really are so many of you'd I'd love to share this with.....but, we always have FOOOOOOORKS ;)

So, the plan for manana: I'm getting up mid morning and heading to Target to snag a copy of Eclipse! Tomorrow evening I'm heading over to my parents to watch it with my Sis, Mom & Dad. Surprisingly, my Dad is super excited, as he hasn't seen it yet. Sue invited me up to watch it Sunday night (I think)...but I have to go into work early on Monday morning...My boss is going out of town for a week and I will have a sh*tload to do to prepare.

I really hope us California Girls can meet up sooner rather than later.

Cheers to Eclipse Saturday! And cheers to all of you that have followed me this last year. I appreciate it more than you'll ever know. Each and everyone of you chicks are ridiculously cool. I love you.
Thank you from the bottom of my Robsten loving heart.

PS Stay tuned to hear about some kick ass mail I just received!

XOXO J

Jen Gets Her Boob Grazed & ES Does The Splits!

Sat night Twilove1 (Sue) & I carpooled to the "Twilight Night" event (PFach appearance & outdoor movie viewing!) at our local ball park, Petco Park. We left my place just before 2pm. We knew the doors would open at 5:30pm and that the first 1,000 people were supposed to get some sort of Twi-goodies. When we got there the line was approximately 150-200 (?) people long. Luckily we had "connections" a little further up in line! LuvsMeSumEdward (Jessica) asked us if we'd like to join her & her Sister. There was a ball park security guy who came around every so often to take counts...he allowed us to include ES, who joined us around 4pm, which I thought was cool. After a few hours of sitting around and chatting about all things Twi, the line eventually started to move, and we were SLOWLY herded into the park that is attached to our baseball stadium. As we were being being allowed in, Sue caught site of this...

LMAO!

I heard some muffled screaming & realized Mrs. P was still in my bag....from the convention!
Poor thing. Go Pads!

L-R Here is Sue, ES, myself and Jessica posing with our FREE shirts!
Too bad they have the dream-catcher and wolf pack tattoo in the background. GAG.

Once inside the park we saw that a band was playing (War Hero's???) and a few different booths were giving away free stuff such as Vitamin Water, Popcorn, buttons etc... They also had a red carpet set up with barricades. Since quite a few Twitards were posing on the red carpet for fun, I assumed that that was it's purpose. After perusing the booths we decided it was best to go stake our claim on a spot to watch the movies. Sue brought her Edward blanket and ES & I couldn't wait to sit on his face ;)

In fact, ES even did the splits! Dirty h00r.

After getting freaky with Edward, ES went in search of some libations...a beer or maybe even a glass of wine to sip during the movie. About 15 minutes later she walks back with a stack of nachos, no drinks in site...WTF?! "It's a dry event..." she says, with a look of horror & panic. She said she could see the beer behind the concession stand but it wasn't available for purchase. Guess it was just there to tease her ;) Anyways, after we got over the shock of it being a dry event, we started getting pumped for Peter Facinelli, however we had no idea how the whole thing would go down. I think most of us just expected him speak to us from one of the stages that had been set up.

"Twitard Hill."

After enjoying our nachos and chatting about all sorts of Twi-things, ES pointed to a crowd that had gathered around the red carpet. By the time we stopped debating whether or not we should join the crowd, it was about 10 ppl deep. She then had the idea to go stand against the barricade in front of a stage the band had been using, almost certain that he would eventually make his way over. No one was standing there and though we figured it was along shot, it was a shot nonetheless. After about 15 minutes of waiting, Christian Serratos arrived...oh yah, I forgot to mention she took the place of Edi Gathegi. She is sooo tiny & I couldn't see her through the line of Twitards. Soon after she arrived we heard screams erupt and Peter was escorted from the ball park up a ramp towards the "red carpet."

Here he is walking up the ramp next to the girl in black.


This was when I lifted my camera up to try and get a shot.
He is to the right of the guy in white wearing a blk hat.
He spent a good 20 min doing interviews and signing stuff on the "red carpet."

Eventually he made his way from the red carpet in our direction.
Doesn't the girl behind him look thrilled!?

Getting closer....

As this point, I sort of panicked. What am I going to ask him? Who's going to take the picture? Do I hand him the camera? Will he have a sharpie? All the while I'm looking at Sue expecting her to be the expert...seeing as she is the Eclipse camping, celeb attention-grabbing veteran. I kid. I also realized that I didn't have anything for him to sign. I'd always been more keen on having pictures of celebs...

closer...


Sooo hawt...want to touch the hiney!

Right as he approached us, I asked if he would take a picture with us...he said something to the effect of "I'm sorry but I'm short on time"...though I swear for a second he looked conflicted. I could tell from earlier that he wasn't taking pictures with people, but I figured it was worth a shot. The next thing I blurted out was "Could you please sign my shirt?!" Which of course he did, with his OWN SHARPIE. Duh, celebs usually have their own at events like this. Oh, and I swear to you that his forearm grazed my boob when he leaned in to sign my shirt. NOT ON PURPOSE of course. I love Jennie Garth too much to say anything remotely risque' about Mr. Facinelli.

Here he is signing my shirt (I think)...he had to lean over me to sign the girls stuff behind me,
which gave me the opportunity to get a couple nose hair shots ;)

Here is the pic Sue took of him signing my shirt!

As you can tell he looks very serious. I think he was just trying to sign as much stuff as possible before he had to go up on stage (not the one we were in front of..boo!) to do more interviews and Meet n' Greets with local radio contest winners.

He's a crappy pic of me & my PFach autograph.

Eventually they started Twilight on the big screen (awesome, since I had never seen Twilight on the big screen!) after PFach signed again for another 20 min or so. We watched all of Twilight, and New Moon up until the f*ckhawt sex strut. It was unusually cold & damp out, plus I had to work early this morning. Overall we had a great time. A total win.

Here is one more pic of him on stage, and a video from the local radio station that put together the event. Turn down your volume on the vid! It's totally worth watching though because you can see him smiling, unlike a lot of the pictures.

For some reason I couldn't catch him smiling.
btw, he ended up going back and signing for about 30 more minutes prior to them starting the movie.

CLOSE-UP pic of the autograph:


To wash or not to wash, that is the question. What do you think?

XOXO J

Wristbands and Monkeys

...so I did my research...searched fan sites, watched youtube vids, read blogs for info on how to get wristbands for a premiere. At this point the New Moon premiere date wasn't even set in stone...at least not to the public. I must admit something...before all this "research" began, I re-read the entire saga. Yup. All of it. My boyfriend looked at me funny one day as a copy of Twilight burned a hole through my fingertips...

"Are you reading that again?"
"Um..no..I'm just skimming through certain parts."
"Oh"

Nose back in the book.

I think that was my response every time I picked up one of the books. I must mention that at this point, my Mom was now reading THE BOOKS. Oh the excitement to be able to share it with her. My Mom doesn't have the same knack for obsession, but I knew she'd enjoy them if she'd just start reading...In the middle of her reading Twilight, w/ New Moon in her duffel bag...we were off to Palm Springs. While she worked through Twilight, I reread New Moon with Eclipse in tow... I read while the intense sun baked my fragile skin, I read while I lounged on a blow up raft, I read while we took respite from the sun, I read while she read...

Looking back now, I can't believe how much I missed the first time around. The greatest part of rereading Twilight after you have read the partial draft of Midnight Sun is that it opens up a whole 'nother can of worms. You feel as if you possess a secret that no one else knows about; the inner workings of Edwards mind. Oh the glory.

Back to my LA idea...time went on and I continued my daily habit of checking sites such as www.robsessedpattinson.com, www.newmoonmovie.org, www.eclipsemovie.org (because at that time they were actually filming Eclipse in Vancouver, and I had to have my daily dose of sightings and set news!) www.cullenboysanonymous.com, www.twitarded.com and more...
I wasn't sure if my lovely Sister Sarah could get the time off of work/school, and though it disappointed me, I kept it on the back burner of my mind and didn't rule it out completely. In the meantime through my intense "research", I learned that people lined up a day or two in advanced for the Twilight Premiere in 08', and that they only gave out so many wristbands, and you had to have a wristband to be allowed next to the barricade on the red carpet. Ok...I thought...we can TRY?!

A couple rereads later and many sites explored, I get a call from Sar two weeks before the Premiere in LA. She says she can swing it. I squeal in delight. At first we planned to get up at the butt-crack of dawn on the morning of Monday Nov. 16th and drive up there...That WAS the plan. A few nights prior I randomly decided to check out the website for a band called 100 Monkeys. Who? 100 Monkeys is Jackson Rathbone's band. Who? Jackson Rathbone is the beautiful man that plays "Jasper" in the Twilight movies. I could definitely appreciate his male beauty, but Sarah thought he was super hot. She'd mentioned previous to my LA idea, that if the band, hence Jackson Rathbone, ever came to San Diego, we must go. Apparently their music was good too...By random chance while exploring www.100monkeysmusic.com, I noticed they had just announced a last minute show at The Viper Room in LA...the night before the Premiere! Fate? Frantically I texted Sarah to call me ASAP, and said it had something to do with Jackson Rathbone. That sure got her attention!
"We're going. I got tickets." That's all she said. We had our plan... Hurry up to LA after I got off work on Sunday, change/makeup in the car, Viper Room by 4:30pm, bite to eat after, check into our hotel, then be up early to go wait in line for those pesky wristbands.

Before I knew it Sunday had arrived. I was a bit nervous from the knowledge that twihards had been camped out to get wristbands since Thursday evening. I would not allow that knowledge to befuddle my attempts. The morning flew by and we were in Sarah's Civic and LA bound. We made record time and parked ourselves on a hill perpendicular to Sunset Blvd., about a block from The Viper Room. We hustled around the confines of her car and managed to do our make up, slather on deodorant and change into LA acceptable attire.

Once in line with about 40 other "Twi-hards", it was impossible not to be ecstatic. The Banana guy was in full force that afternoon, dancing around like a goof for Bananavision. Later we find out that the "banana guy" is the "Bananager"...Marty. Knowing this would prove useful in the future. The 100 Monkeys show ended up being a blast. We even got a glimpse of JRath's beautifully sculpted face as we waited in line for the bathroom before the show started. The Monkeys were partying inside some sort of green room which had a door that lead to the hallway, which in turn lead to the bathroom. After the show, we waited outside with a bunch of other crazies hoping to catch a glimpse of JRath again. We waited for about an hour and witnessed some crazy lady we later nicknamed "Mom Jeans" have a drunken breakdown because they wouldn't let her back in the bar. This woman was at least in her late 30's...drunk...crying...begging. It was disgraceful. We joke that she scared him away. Though he probably just left early seeing as the New Moon Premiere was the following day.

Fast forward to the following day: We were up and out the door by about 7:30am. We easily found our way to the Mann Village and Bruin Theatre in Westwood. As we circled for parking, the stark realization of just how long the line was became apparent. Oh well we said... We're in it to win it....that was our motto from the get-go. We found parking and trudged to the end of the line. The day was long, hotter than expected, and full of feelings of the unknown...btw, Justin Chon drove by and waved at us all around 1pm...that was our first Twi-sighting, and an exciting one at that. Towards the afternoon, as we had slowly been herded 5-6 blocks forward ,it slowly became apparent that Premiere time was fast approaching, and none of the security guards would tell us what was going on. We heard rumors from the front that all the place holder tickets had been given out the night before...and that those people were guaranteed a wristband...Finally we started noticing random people arriving and walking up towards the premiere area all nonchalantly...What were they doing? We had been waiting with at least 800 other people for 8 hours. It only took an outburst from some lady to one of the security guards about how we had all been lied to for the crowd to start misbehaving... With one look at each other, we grabbed hands and ran like the wind. 2 blocks down the street, one massive trash can wheeled out of our way, and we were against the barricade facing the street, parallel to the theatre. It wasn't the red carpet, but it sure felt good.

At that point, though we didn't have wristbands, I could smell the excitement in the air. Sarah had heard from one of the security guards that the limos were going to be pulling up right next to us on their way to the red carpet. Low and behold, she was right. Limos, sedans and SUV's starting arriving. Before we knew it, we had seen Nikki Reed, Jamie Campbell Bower, Alex Meraz, JRath again (we even screamed to him over the noise that we loved his show, and he said thank you), Kiowa Gordon, and more. But we all know who we were really waiting for...KStew and RPattz! Finally he arrived...you could tell by the crowd craning their neck to the right over the barricade. He emerged from the limo...again I could tell from the screams. He was escorted across the street, away from the red carpet...I gasped...could that mean he was coming to our side too? Was he really visiting all of us poor fans that hadn't camped out for 4 days, who hadn't won the golden ticket? Yes, yes he was! Like a flash of light I noticed one of the body guards make sure one of the limos was at a standstill, as he directed Rob accross the street, towards US! OMG OMG OMG...was all I could muster. At that point I think I lost all self control. Ridiculous really...How old am I? I screamed and practically flipped out like a 13 year old girl. I still to this day can't remember actually seeing him. I think I saw him as he crossed the street, but Sar assures me I did see him from about 15 ft away. I don't know. It was all an ecstasy-ridden blur. I must mention that as he got closer to us, the barricade started to slip and his body guards whisked him back towards the red carpet. (insert sigh here) We also saw KStew, Taylor and Dakota. They all looked fantastic. What a night...what a night. Even when it was over, we knew we only had a few more days until New Moon. It was the light at the end of the tunnel. -J

Twilight

I wish I could remember the exact date I started to read Twilight, in fact I am a tad bit shameful that I cant. I know it was probably early August 2009. It must have been right after Comic Con here in San Diego, otherwise I would have been downtown faster than you can say twi-hard. (I can't believe RPattz and KStew were so close, yet so far away.)

My younger Sister Sarah had mentioned, albeit very briefly, that she was reading the series. She's not one to offer a lot of information, unless you ask..and even then, it's tough. I remember being surprised that she was reading it, because like me, she's not huge into fantasy/fiction/vampires etc...Someone had actually given her the book as a gift...she didn't end up reading it till much later, and only after she'd seen the movie in flight.

This part I can remember: I drove over to my parents house to lay out on their back deck with my Sister and Mom. I was warned ahead of time by Sar that she was super engrossed in one of the books (how many were their? i had no clue at the time). She certainly wasn't kidding, I could barely talk to her, except for a moment when she got this devious look in her eyes and convinced me to open the first book and read at least a chapter.

"Here read it, take it home, I have all of them." She said nonchalantly.

"Okaaaay.....What if I can't create the characters looks in my head? What if I can only picture the actors that are on the cover of the book?" I asked apprehensively.

Leave it to me to be worried about something as minuscule as that...Kristen Stewart had bugged me, and I had no clue why anyone found Robert Pattinson attractive. Wow, it almost hurts me now to type that. How could I not have loved KStew...not found RPattz delicious? (I know, I know, they really aren't Edward and Bella...I get it...kind of.)

With the same wild look , she said that it would be fine, it wouldn't mess with the enjoyment of the book. So I opened it. It was the copy that had Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed and Kellan Lutz on the front. I couldn't help but think it would interfere with what my mind wanted to create. Little did I know....

I read a couple chapters, and though it was easy reading, I wasn't thoroughly impressed. I put it down and went home without it. Keep in mind that I am a forgetful person, so I don't blame my going home without it completely upon the fact that it didn't grab my attention. It just didn't grab it tight enough. Maybe Sar was disappointed somewhere inside, but I'd never have known it.

The next time I was face to face with the book was when (i think) Sarah came over and brought it with her. It was like a little book haunting me...screaming at me to read it. It sat on the coffee table staring me in the face like left over food....you feel bad about wasting it, so you eat it...even when you're full. That night I curled up on the couch and opened it back up again. I re-read the first couple chapters and continued on. About 4-5 chapters in, I was a woman certifiably obsessed. I kept turning the pages like a glutton raids the fridge in the middle of the night. I had to have more, I craved more. It was not enough to just STOP. I hated to put it down, but it was around 2am and I worked early the next morning. You better believe the book came with me to work. I was finding any excuse to go on a break just so I could get a quick read in here and there. Even if I could just swallow 3 paragraphs...it helped subdue the intense craving, at least for a tiny bit while I returned to what I was supposed to be doing...working.

Two days later, I was almost done with Twilight and so fearful of not having New Moon, that I had to go buy it ASAP. I not only purchased New Moon, but my own copy of Twilight as well. I needed the feeling of ownership. Mine, Mine Mine! Prior to my trip to Target, Sar texted me to see if I'd finished, when I said yes, she squealed that I must come over and watch the movie with her. So I did. We replayed the scene of the Cullen "kids" walking into the cafeteria about 6 times. Sarah had seen the movie before she read the books, and knew I'd love it. She was right. Though "love" did not seem to describe the emotions I felt. Robert Pattinson was without a doubt Edward Cullen, and Kristen Stewart was absolutely Bella Swan. Sure I couldn't help but visualize the young actors as I read...but hey, I didn't know any different and they seemed to fit perfectly.

I drove like a Cullen to get home so I could open New Moon. Sarah had warned me that Edward might disappear for a while, so I was mildly prepared. I was also assured he'd return. I suppose she was afraid I might give up reading right then and there when he vanished. I have a bit of ADD when it comes to books that don't go the way I want them to. I thank her now for the warning. Knowing he'd return, gave me the motivation to keep reading.

From New Moon, I moved onto Eclipse, Breaking Dawn and of course at the advice of Sar, Midnight Sun. That was a toughy...trying to read it on my lap top, while laying on the couch. I managed to finish them within about 2 weeks. During the course of reading, Edward and Bella became real, tangible. I thought about them at all times of the day, even waking up in the middle of the night to find myself wondering what they were doing...what was coming next in the book. How ridiculous! I had never had this type of passion/obsession before. My boyfriend thought it was kind of funny. He'd never seen me like this, and I'm sure I wasn't the most pleasant person to be around...my nose stuck in a book almost 24/7. I proceeded to watch Twilight about 2-3 more times until I just broke down and bought the DVD...not like I needed persuading.

Curling up on the couch to watch Twilight became a guilty pleasure. I'd turn off all the lights and immerse myself in the watercolor-esque movie. At that point I had developed quite a Robsession. I was googling Robert Pattinson as well as the other actors...trying to soak up as much information about them as possible. As if they really were the characters they portrayed. Was I crazy? Quite possibly. I started finding all sorts of websites regarding the Twilight phenomenon. I also realized through talking with friends/coworkers/random strangers in line at the book store, that I wasn't the only one. It's like this guilty pleasure amongst women ages 25 and beyond. They don't really talk about it, but you know they're doing it. Teenagers are a bit more inclined to be guilt-free. My Sister and I started sharing in our obsession together. She came out of the closet a bit more with her obsession when I was around. It was fun to share a common bond with her.

Before I knew it, promotions were being made for New Moon. I couldn't believe I had to wait 3 mos. Not bad compared to people from all over the world that had to wait a year! To help ease the time I made a New Moon countdown calendar..and planned to mark the days off as they passed. Nov 20th seemed light years away in early Sept. I even half jokingly said to Sar that we should go up to LA for the Premiere. I knew nothing about how to get near the red carpet; how to witness such a monumental event. I did know that it was only a 2 hour drive, and that I have mad researching skills. So...I put them to work. -J