Eclipse Drinking Game

This is a drinking game for the book Eclipse (3rd Twilight book) by Stephenie Meyer.

Everytime one of these things are mentioned, you must take a drink of water. Let me know what page you're on when you have to pee.



Someone either holds their breath or it comes out in a gush.
Someone growls or hisses.
Someone balls their fists.
Someone stiffens.
Someone lopes.
Bella blushes.
Edwards eyebrows are raised.
Bella tries unsuccessfully to lie to Edward (or Jacob), but of course he can see right through it.
Jacob goes shirtless.
Chest muscles are obvious through a tight shirt.
Someone purses their lips.
Bella mentions the old Jacob's smile.
Jacob's skin is hot.
Edward's skin is cold...like ice.
Bella hates parties or gifts (because no teenage girl in their right mind would want a wealthy bf)
The Cullens are exceptionally beautiful.
Bella can't except that Edward really loves her.
Someone clenches or grinds their teeth, and audibly too.


Please feel free to add to my list.


Don't get me wrong, I'm really enjoying these books. But, there are things that can be mentioned frequently, and that's ok, these are just things that aren't ok.

My farewell to nursing

Sigh. I have actually experienced something new for me. I have always felt that I would rather never experience good things at all, if I were just going to lose that experience in the end. What I mean is: nusing P. was extremely difficult for the first 8 months. I mean, excruciatingly painful. I was counting down each day until he reaches 1 year, when I planned on stopping. However the last 2 months of nursing have been so wonderful. It's been really great to bond with P. pain-free, and so easy. When I found out this week that I would have to stop nursing him, I sat in the car and cried. At first I was mad that things had gotten better nursing-wise, because this would be so much easier for me to handle if it never got better. But for the first time in my life I realized that I would rather have experienced those 2 wonderful months with him, than to have never experienced them at all, even if it means sadness now. I feel very priveleged to have been able to have this good time with him, and very fortunate to have been able to nurse my beautiful children at all. I didn't think I'd ever miss it, but now that it's all over (since P. is our last child) I feel like I'm in mourning. I was just saying to A. the other day that nursing was so great for me now, that I didn't want to stop right when he turned 1 (which is a big deal for me to say). Maybe I would've been able to handle this better if I had realized that I would have to stop right now. I never got to appreciate my last time snuggling with him in the mother's lounge at church on Sunday. By this Sunday it will be all over. Well, I was given 3 weeks, but that would be to hard for P.. It's better to do it quickly and end this soon. That first night of giving him formula broke my heart. He screamed and yelled and I knew exactly what he wanted. I wanted to scream and yell too. Then the sense of relief and heartbreak when he finally accepted it was overwhelming.

Sorry for being too melodramatic. It's just that I feel that this came up suddenly, and I don't like changes. I need this closure especially because this is the last of an era for me. Well, it's been great. I'm really proud of myself for sticking through with it all, even during the hard times. For all you women who haven't had the option of nursing a baby yet, please do it if you can. It's so worth it.

This makes my day

This is hilarious!

I love Italy!

Ok, video should work now...

I had to change it to "public" heehee.

P. changed his wave to this...

Do you like my sports bra hanging on the doorknob? We're classy people.

My oldest child, at 6 and a half years

Me: You'll look beautiful no matter what. Even if you wore an ugly hat, you'd still be beautiful.
I.: But I don't like ugly hats.
Me: Even if you had a pile of poo on your head, you would still be beautiful.
I.: But that would be weird.
Usually this kind of joking makes her laugh--for a second I thought I was talking to D.!

Yup, you're still beautiful.

We just got back from Kaiser, picking up I.'s new glasses. It came in a cute Barbie case (the glasses are Barbie brand) and she got a free little backpack. Before the vision test, she was afraid she'd have to wear glasses (cause she thought the idea was cool until she realized they might be for all-the-time use). When she tried on the glasses and looked in the mirror she changed her mind because "I look good in glasses!"

Next month she'll be returning to the orthodontist for the full x-rays. He wanted to wait until next month because her 2 front front teeth were too wiggly. Now she just has the 2nd on the top to lose (her 6th tooth to lose). When she first had loose teeth, it was so exciting that she wiggled them all the time. But now it takes longer for her teeth to come out because it's not exciting anymore, so she doesn't think to wiggle it. Anyway, she'll most likely be getting a bar put in behind her teeth to push her teeth in the right position so that this one tooth will acutally have somewhere to go, because right now it doesn't. In order to do this, they'll have to remove the bottom 2 baby "fang" teeth. The only reason right now that they won't do this proceedure, is if the x-rays show that that one permanent tooth doesn't exist. My brother never got 6 of his permanent teeth, so we'll see if that's the case with I..

Computer, Potter, Hollywood

We got a new computer. That's good and bad. Good because we couldn't use our old one any longer. It only had 128 MB of RAM. It took forever to open up Microsoft Word (like 20min), and was getting harder and harder just to check email. I'd like to think that I'll write on here more often now, but deep down inside I know that that wasn't the reason why I didn't write here that often. Well, not that deep down.

Anyhow, the bad side of course is that we can't afford to buy a new computer. So we'll be making payments.

But I LOVE this new Dell. It's an XPS 410 or something. I hand picked what I wanted and didn't want. I love electronics. Unfortunately I couldn't have my dream computer. But this is still pretty good, and I made sure to take out all software so that we could use what we already have, and so that it would cost less.

Anyway, I don't update this often because I always wished I could have at least one picture per post, but I'm too lazy to do that.

A couple of things:
I LOVED the last Harry Potter book.
We had a good time in Hollywood a couple of weeks ago, although the trip itself was horrible.
The El Capitan Theater was the best part of our trip and I HIGHLY recommend it.
P. is 10 months old today, and I absolutely adore him with a ferocity that's hard to describe.

Good luck to my brother, Ed, in his new adventures in Hollywood, and I wish him success at that music/sound school thing.

There's more to come in another post.