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Memory #113
Today I was lurking the internet and I came across a bunch of funny twilight pictures, you know that silly vampire book and made-into-a-movie series? Anyways it got me thinking about my mom, odd right? Well there's a back story to why, I promise. I'll admit that when I was in middle school I read and liked the twilight series. Yup. Only because my best friend was really really really into the whole dark goth vampire thing and she really liked them...because now that I think about it I never handled twilight like I handle my other obsessions. Whatever I don't need to explain myself, I was young and dumb! Haha When my mom became a 5th grade teacher she decided to start reading some of the books her kids were reading to make sure they were appropriate/but also so that she could be cool and hip and so she ended up borrowing my books, shocker. Her opinion on them was much lower than that of my own, so I suppose we were the few during that time that wasn't all gaga for this silly love series.
Even though the book series, in our eyes, was kind of a bust when they came out saying that they were going to make them into movies we knew we had to see them. Why else do we read books anyways? (-MAJOR SARCASM, I PROMISE-) When the twilight movie premiered, all of my friends asked if I wanted to accompany them and I turned them down. Why? Because my mom and I had already made plans to see it together. Lets just say that the people around us did not care for our presence, since we were snickering and making immature jokes throughout the entire movie. (Typical) We thought we were so funny Probably cause we actually were. We ended up seeing the second movie together as well, this one we didn't see it on the premiere date (out of respect for the twihards) but we were dying to go see it because well...
No shame. My 40 something mother was totally fine with being honest about her reasoning to go see this movie. I remember giggling as we sat in the Alamo draft house (Our favorite theater) waiting for Taylor Lautner (Shown above) to take off his shirt and when he finally did you better believe we were hootin. Haha! I know we saw the third movie together but I don't really recall anything about it, probably more obsession over the shirtless wonder here and making corny jokes. The fourth movie (The first half?) I remember seeing this movie right before it left theaters, in case you haven't seen this (Which if you haven't, don't. Go be a productive member of society) this is the movie with a super graphic birthing scene at the end. I remember that when this scene came up my mom and I became quite aware of the 10 year old girls in front of us, which made us even more uncomfortable that we were seeing the same movie as 10 year olds and we were being way more squirmy than they were. I guess we weren't mature enough to handle that beauty that is the twilight series....lol. The last movie came out in 2012...I believe but it was long after my mom had passed away so I ended up seeing it with my friends (Who rock) but it was kind of strange to not be able to finish out this silly little series with my mom.
Love always,
Erin
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