Randomness

11 Days Until My Inner Teenager Is Satisfied/Tormented

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 4 Comments

Yes, I am talking about Twilight the movie.  It opens in a theater near you on November 21st.  I am going with some girl friends to see it on the 22nd.  I cannot wait.  I am excited and also a little sad.  Why you ask?  Well becasue I love this series–I know it’s for teens–and I read all four books in rapid succession and I know that the movies won’t be the same.  I would love to be able to sit down and watch all four movies at once.  I will miss Edward as I wait for the next movie.  I have a huge crush on the vampire teen–it’s really not that bad he is like 100-years-old. 

I am looking forward to getting to share the experience with other women and to have a girl’s night out–I know it seems as though I have had a lot of those lately.  I can’t wait. 

Who else out there plans to see it?  Come on–who else is still nurturing their inner teenage girl?

A Smashing Success and Strange Underwear

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 2 Comments

EOR’s Art for Ethiopia event was a smashing success.  We don’t have final numbers but people came out in droves.  We sold nearly everything we had and hope to have raised about $10,000 for Children’s Heaven.  Thanks for all who came.  Thanks to the amazing women and Greg who made it all possible. 

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On a funnier note.  Six of us women got two hotel rooms after the event for a little after party.  We drank and laughed and talked.  We stayed up way too late and it was so nice.  I am sad that these women all live so far away from me and that it will be another year until I see them again. 

So, we were packing up this morning and one of the ladies picked up a pair of underwear off the bed and asked whose they were.  We all said “Not mine.”  So, yes we had a pair of used/dirty underwear in one of our beds that belonged to no one.  A little gross.  We complained and the front desk lady was like “I can give you $20 off your stay.”  Really, not quite enough for finding soiled women’s underwear in your bed that isn’t yours.  And we weren’t staying at some cheap hotel.  It was nice–aside from the extra underwear. 

So, what the weirdest thing you have found in a hotel room that doesn’t belong to you?

I Swear I Am Still Sixteen

/ Dawn Kasal-Finley / 2 Comments

I am so totally in love with the Twilight Series.  And I am not at all ashamed that it is a Young Adult novel.  Technically I am still a young adult.  I am fascinated by the story and the inherent problems that the characters face–forget about the reality of vampires and werewolves.  I have always been captivated by a good vampire novel.  Loved Draculaand Salem’s Lot.  I had never paid any attention to this series until I heard all the hype about the forth book and how the publisher was printing 3.5 million copies as a first run.  Really.  There must be something to this. 

I loved the first book.  I finished the 2nd one in two days and I have to say I didn’t like it as much as I liked the first–I so totally missed Edward.  Is it horrible that I am in love with a seventeen-year-0ld fictional vampire?  Anyway. 

I have now just started the third book and I cannot wait to find out what happens.  It is a cheesy love story with all the teenage angst that I miss from high school.  I can’t get enough of it.  I would read 24/7 if I didn’t have children and a husband to take care of.  If only I was sixteen, then I could spend the rest of my summer break reading this book. 

These books are not great literature.  But the characters and the story has spoken to the little girl who still resides in my subconscious and if I was teaching high school still, I would be fighting to teach this series.  What a great moral dilemma on so many levels for so many characters. 

I am off to try and coax my children to sleep (hello benadryl) so that I can hurry up and so the dishes and get some reading done, before hubby gets home and chastises me for reading instead of doing laundry or something else housewifely.