tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post1404980066653367904..comments2023-10-15T02:53:40.405-06:00Comments on Life in a glass house: My BirthdayEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11835924016744040120noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-71432151064598085072011-12-20T18:26:13.295-07:002011-12-20T18:26:13.295-07:00oh emily i love this whole post and it makes me mi...oh emily i love this whole post and it makes me miss you. a few comments: one, it seems like every time anybody ever talks about wyoming its always a story about snowstorms of death and crazy mountain passes, etc. didn't a woman and two boys just die driving to wyoming like, a month ago? i'm beginning to think they should just close down the state for the entire winter or something, "sorry, wyoming is closed from september to may! we recommend new mexico!"<br /><br />also, i was dying of embarrasment during the werewolf scene. i was embarrassed for myself and every single person in the packed theater and also every single person associated with the movie. good night nurse it was bad. i agree with your sister, as much as i enjoy the books and get a semi-kick out of seeing them done in movies almost all of the special effects through the whole series have made me cringe. and lastly why is no one mentioning the creepy weird CGI baby at the end? what the heck? what's wrong with real babies? I mean really. Every movie and tv show since the beginning of movies and tv shows have just borrowed some cute small baby to be the newborn and no one sits there going, "she doesn't look like her parents!" newborn babies never really do anyway, they just look cute and squishy. i don't know, the CGI baby pissed me off, i'll be honest.<br /><br />last but not least, em, i actually posted on my blog. can you imagine? i can't decide if its the start of a new thing or just a one-off. we'll see!megandjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10887251146602171261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-43399798229214036842011-12-11T12:18:35.456-07:002011-12-11T12:18:35.456-07:00Oh good! Glad you saw it. Yeah I agree that pictur...Oh good! Glad you saw it. Yeah I agree that picturing their movements in your head is a lot better. They just can't do it as graceful as I imagine. Yeah in the book, the window scene is just jasper peeking his head in to tell her they won't be late to the wedding. Haha about making up stupid lines for jacob. I think he's just a bad actor. The other ones can disguise the bad lines a little better with better acting. I've always hated the screenwriter for these movies. Blech.Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701900460512673699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-13487899543080566832011-12-11T10:19:40.843-07:002011-12-11T10:19:40.843-07:00I can TOTALLY picture you guys driving over South ...I can TOTALLY picture you guys driving over South Pass, stressed out, hunched over, and of course, laughing. I love the "I thought we were done going downhill" comment. On nights like these it seems the pass goes on forever. <br />OK, I saw Breaking Dawn last night! Sarah's visiting this weekend. We had a marathon day yesterday. We got the announcements in the mail, her wedding slideshow almost finished, tied her quilt Grandma's giving her, I made a big pot of Steak Soup and 4 loaves of wheat bread! Anyway, the subject of Breaking Dawn came up and Sarah said she hadn't seen it and I said, "we should go tonight at 10 after we finish the quilt." Matt said that he'd see it again, Kelly, Annie, and Kyle all piped up, too. (Kyle hadn't seen it either). So we almost finished the quilt by 9:45 and ran to the movie. I wish I had known before I left that I had an assignment to look for lame Jacob lines. How about this: EVERY line that Jacob says is lame! We were joking that the screenwriters hate him and just sit there trying to think up lines that make him sound like an idiot. What I do remember is that he ripped off his shirt literally in the first 30 seconds of the movie, said "Hi Bella" really lamely. I agree, the wolfpack scene was pretty bad. We were calling them "Transformer voices". "You did this!" to Edward was a particularly memorable Jacob line. I'll try to come up with more. Anyway, overall, I liked the movie. I thought the sex scenes were done pretty well, too. Just a little awkward for a mom of a 13 year old boy sitting nearby, but really not too bad. Great job of making Bella look terrible, like you all said. What I felt as I was watching this and really all of the movies is that I guess I just like reading the books so much more. I have a hard time with all of the special effects; the vampire quick motion moves, the wolves, etc. just bother me a little. I don't love the way they make the vampires move around so jerky and fast. It seemed to bother me more in this one than the others. Example: when Carlisle, Emmett, and Jasper came to pick Edward up for his Bachelor party and they kept jumping up on his window sill and jumping down to the ground. Did anyone else think that was cheesy?Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15240493105008078007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-88282860278478419442011-12-10T09:37:16.131-07:002011-12-10T09:37:16.131-07:00Sue- we didn't mention my windshield wiper tr...Sue- we didn't mention my windshield wiper traumas. During the thick of it, they got really loud and would make us all jump and for a while only granted me a few square inches in which to see down at the bottom. I had to hunch like a little old lady (or hunchcat if you like) for a good long wile, long enough to give me a back and neck ache. Then on our way home, I got out to examine what their problem was and the whole thing came off in my hand! I gingerly put it back and we drove on and it actually worked ok, but during a bad time outside of Heber, it totally failed me and we drove blind for a panicky moment or two. We luckily found an open auto place in Heber and the guy replaced it for us very nicely and the garbage can outside was FILLED with empty wiper blade packaging. Good times. South Pass totally shredded my wiper.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835924016744040120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-72725434541823317622011-12-09T19:38:33.914-07:002011-12-09T19:38:33.914-07:00Oh yeah I didn't mind the gore, just started g...Oh yeah I didn't mind the gore, just started getting a little woozy. Probably because they did it so well! Yeah it's crazy how bad they made her look. I loved how they showed the "change." So cool. I also thought they did a good job sticking to the story. That's so funny what happened in Kyle's room, I would have died. I wouldn't have been EVER watching that movie though. I wouldn't be able to sleep for months.Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701900460512673699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-53564173439613167292011-12-09T15:14:15.164-07:002011-12-09T15:14:15.164-07:00I did gloss over the PN2 thing, but I figured my p...I did gloss over the PN2 thing, but I figured my post was long and wordy enough. The comment section is a fine place for that talk. Yes, during the movie, simultaneously Kyle's door came open and there was a crash and his light went out. Then at intervals, the light would flicker on for a second then go out. Perhaps my explanation that explained the events had a few too many "sometimes that can happen" in them, I still feel like the furnace/air compression thing was very plausible. <br /> <br /> Thanks for the added memories. I particularly laughed at you too stressed to work my ipod and not being the one driving. Ha! <br /><br />I thought BD was pretty good, emaciated Bella was done so well, she looked as terrible as I pictured her in the book and the spine breaking was crazy gross and awesome. Personally, I thought the sex was done tastefully enough. You know there are scores and scores of people that have been waiting for that and needed to feel like it was worth the wait. There are people that feel seeing that kind of stuff is important, so with that in mind it was done in a fine manner. The part in the book that made me roll my eyes was the vampire on vampire sex and how much that was talked up. I thought it smacked of a lame fantasy in Stephenie Meyer's brain, but perhaps that's just me. She got pretty fantastical when it comes to vampires, so I suppose their love making would have to be equally over the top.<br />The birth scene was pretty dang bloody and in my opinion awesome, but then again- I'm cool rolling with the gore.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835924016744040120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-30984592170689663162011-12-09T14:50:39.847-07:002011-12-09T14:50:39.847-07:00Oh yeah, we never did get an explanation for his d...Oh yeah, we never did get an explanation for his door opening a little on it's own. I think we all wanted Em's air compression, furnace theory to be the explanation. <br /><br />I thought the movie was okay. I thought the worst part was when her back broke in the living room. Other than that, it wasn't so bad.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00758354440910012121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-20234285655883959712011-12-09T14:47:30.658-07:002011-12-09T14:47:30.658-07:00We were in the middle of the movie and most of us ...We were in the middle of the movie and most of us were watching it pretty frozen in place by fear. The people on the right end of the couch could see down the hallway to Kyle's room and they noticed his door opened a little. It was like 2:30 or 3:00 in the morning. That kind of freaked them out and then a little while later we hear a crash in his room. I cannot believe we didn't wake up Amy, two floors up, with our screams. Didn't wake up Kyle either for that matter. None of us dared go check on what happened. Emily finally got up the courage to go check. I would have, Booker was clinging to me in fear and I didn't want to leave him, haha. She was only checking to see if Kyle was even in his room asleep and he was. We didn't know what caused the crash until the next morning when Kyle told us he remembers his arm kind of jerking in his sleep and he knocked his light off his bed side table. Oh yeah, after the crash we could see a light flickering in his room. Of all the movies to be watching when something like that happens! <br /><br />Emily tried to come up with some scientific explanation and Matt was pretty convinced it was an hour long prank that Kyle was doing. Good times.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00758354440910012121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-8883962784354077792011-12-09T14:00:04.503-07:002011-12-09T14:00:04.503-07:00I also remember him saying something funny but can...I also remember him saying something funny but can't remember either. How did you like it though? I started getting light headed at the end there, pretty greusome! I thought it was pretty good. Could have done without the sex scenes in the movie and in the book. We all know what's going on, we don't need the details!Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701900460512673699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-16924293709296793922011-12-09T13:56:59.578-07:002011-12-09T13:56:59.578-07:00Ewww.
So what was going on in Kyle's room. I...Ewww.<br /><br /><br />So what was going on in Kyle's room. I'm curious.Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701900460512673699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-58049085718241074872011-12-09T12:54:17.702-07:002011-12-09T12:54:17.702-07:00I love this post! I love reading about that weeke...I love this post! I love reading about that weekend! Too bad you lost those pictures of us standing on the side of the road at Dad's accident laughing. What is wrong with us?<br /><br />You really glossed over the whole ruckus in Kyle's room while we were watching Paranormal Activity 2 and your explanation of how it happened due to air compressure caused by the furnace going on. I forgot that B listened to the entire movie hiding under a blanket and did not look at the screen once. Hilarious. <br /><br />And yes, we did watch Hunch Cat about 50 times downstairs, but then we watched it about another 20 times upstairs the next day. Mom hadn't seen it yet. I laughed so hard that night it hurt and gave me a sore throat. <br /><br />Okay here are some things that were left out that I think need to be recorded. <br /><br />Emily and I thinking that South Pass was only 12 miles long and started at the Rock Shop and how incredibly wrong we were. <br /><br />Me telling Emily that we were done going downhill once we got out of South Pass and then we started going downhill and Emily yelled "You said we were done going downhill!"<br /><br />Me deciding I was just too stressed out to figure out Emily's Ipod and find the Tobolowsky Files and I wasn't even the one driving.<br /><br />Emily and I getting the giggles that first night we went to the play. The bad kind of giggles. The kind that you can't stop and you are in an inappropriate place to be giggling. And the look we gave each other when we both realized that Puck was a leprechaun.<br /><br />And finally:<br /><br />Tan wrinklies. That makes me laugh almost as hard as hunch cat.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00758354440910012121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-66639872458286490152011-12-09T10:46:36.617-07:002011-12-09T10:46:36.617-07:00Yeah Aim, it was too bad you had so much going on,...Yeah Aim, it was too bad you had so much going on, we still managed to have some good times though. <br /><br />Once in a while randomly while we watched hunch cat, Matt would go, "it was so funny that time!" and I totally knew what he meant. Ahh, good fun. <br /><br />Yeah Haley- why did they feel the need to make their voices like that? I know Jacob said something especially funny that Kelly and I kept repeating, but it is escaping my mind at the moment. Amy, you need to go see it and report back the funny thing Jacob says.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835924016744040120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-64754720388042767312011-12-09T10:23:00.617-07:002011-12-09T10:23:00.617-07:00Oh man, I can just picture you guys laughing at th...Oh man, I can just picture you guys laughing at that 50 times! Hahaha. Marcus and I just watched it a good 7 times and we laughed so hard. The way it walks off on it's hind legs is so funny and creepy! Sounds like a fun weekend, besides some drama of course. Glad everyone was safe. YES! The wolf pack scene was absolutely hilarious. The Star Wars voices were so great. Nia and I were laughing so hard! I also laughed at the idea of Matt going to ask the people for an Edward cup. Hahaha.Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06701900460512673699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-71454159713486069262011-12-09T08:20:57.999-07:002011-12-09T08:20:57.999-07:00It was fun to revisit that trip, Em. Thanks.It was fun to revisit that trip, Em. Thanks.Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03830410781129496175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852868884277826063.post-28906293387898639572011-12-08T21:53:37.094-07:002011-12-08T21:53:37.094-07:00Of course I laughed again at Hunchcat...all by mys...Of course I laughed again at Hunchcat...all by myself. Fun reading your post and remembering the fun, yet sometimes sad and stressful weekend. I wish I didn't have so many other things going on so I could have done more with you guys. I still haven't seen Breaking Dawn! Am I the last female in America? Probably. Anyway, good times. Glad you were safe and come back again soon (after the weddings :) Haha.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15240493105008078007noreply@blogger.com