I'm Back!

Things have finally settled down a little bit and I'm able to blog again. I'm still not getting any writing done with having Tiana home with me recovering from her surgery, but I'm at least able to get to the computer again. We have kept on our streak of kids getting sick. Jimmy came down with Scarlet Fever the day before Thanksgiving and I had to take him to the doctor to get him started on antibiotics so we could spend the holiday with family.

While I've been off of blogging I'm still thinking about writing and working out details in my head. The Council will be under some major rewrites when I get back to work after Tiana is back in school. I want to change some of the details about the vampires in the book to make them work better into the story without seeming too copycat from other books I'm familiar with.

Speaking of vampires... Have any of you seen New Moon yet? I went with Scarlett to see it on the opening day (11/20) at 11:30pm and waited in line forever to get good seats, but we succeeded in getting them and enjoyed the movie immensely. Then Tiana wanted to go see it so I took her during the day on that Tuesday to see it. Yesterday Jim let me get out for a bit of time to myself, and I went to see it again! So, I have now seen it three times and on my Christmas wish list is a date night with Jim to go see it again. I think it was so much better than the first Twilight movie! I can't wait till it comes out on DVD. I think for my birthday in January I'm going to ask to get it preordered on Amazon!

Right now, the music of the moment is from the soundtrack to New Moon and the song is "Possibility" by Lykke Li. I thought this song was a perfect choice for its part in the movie. As Bella is sitting devastated and depressed in a chair looking out her window and the camera circles her counting off the months that she's nearly catatonic from Edward leaving, this song is playing and the words emphasize the pain she's experiencing at that time in her life. Really the whole soundtrack is an interesting mix of indie bands and super cool songs that really fit their places in the movie. I really like "A White Demon Love Song" by The Killers that plays during the ending credits and "Meet Me on the Equinox" by Death Cab for Cutie which also plays during the ending credits. (There are a lot of ending credits!) "Satellite Heart" by Anya Marina is a beautiful song that fits perfectly playing in the truck as Edward and Bella pull up to her house after the disaster of a birthday party the Cullens (mostly Alice) throw for Bella's eighteenth birthday. The mood is so sad as Edward is realizing he can't protect her and everyone who read the book knows he's making up his mind to leave. I could go on about the songs on this soundtrack, but the best thing I can say is that if you are a Twilight fan and haven't bought the soundtrack yet, go get it!

Well, it's time to get off the computer and go get Jimmy off the bus. Scarlett has her final Academic Team meet tonight so she's not on the bus to walk down to the house with him, and he's too little for them to let him off by himself. There shouldn't be anything tomorrow to keep me from blogging again so I will blog again then!