Bye, summer!

Took one last trip to the beach this season:

(I'm always prepared)

I started reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Up to speed on all my celebrity gossip ... and fashion

All things summer!

I can't believe we've almost reached the end of summer! Labor day is right around the corner, which means pants and jackets, sweaters and cute scarves and no more open-toed shoes!

I love summer and I'll miss it all!

Beautiful sunsets!

The beach!


My pup, Roxy loves summer too!


Fresh veggies from the garden!
Also my 'week in the life' feature on BettyConfidential.com this week:
A Week in the Life of a Betty


Summer concerts
Tim McGraw and Lady Antebellum this year!


More beach!
Newport, RI with friends

Who doesn't love summer?

Betty Blogging!

Okay, so BettyConfidential just launched their new blogging community. We're still in the pilot phase and it's a lot of testing things out, but here's my blog:

Life ... in the fast lane?
http://bettyfanblogs.typepad.com/lifeinthefastlane/

The Betty Fan Blogs are more love+sex+relationship focus, which is why I'll keep this blog. Come join us though! It's a great community!

Be a Betty Blogger!
http://www.bettyconfidential.com/ar/ld/a/fan-blogger-question-of-the-week.html

My fabulous new nail polish

It's been a while so instead of letting my blog fall into the black hole (like my previous 5,683 blogs did), I'll write about this fabulous new nail polish I just put on.

Part of Orly's new Cosmic FX Collection: Space Cadet

* Pardon my unprofessional camera phone photos *

It's really cool looking though ... with a purple, green, teal sparkle. I love it. Bravo, Orly, Bravo!


"Green with a purple gold"

As I Jump on the Twilight Bandwagon ...

I stumbled across a Twilight book last week and decided to take a stab at understanding this whole vampire thing. To my surprise, as I started reading -- I quickly found myself intrigued with every aspect of the book. (I know vampires aren't real, but imagine if they were?) I was mesmerized by Bella and Edward and their level of love and affection for one another. Do people really feel that way about one another? Can they? Is it possible? Being so... over the top in love with someone (and to know that he isn't even a human?)

Okay, so like many other Twilight fans, I became (just shy of) obsessed with this book. I was able to feel the characters, picture their life, and be a part of the story. Before I knew it, I was 500 pages deep and quickly finished with the book (thank goodness there are 3 more).

So I went to Blockbuster last night to rent Twilight (Yes, blockbuster is still in existence -- as of right now), volunteered my sister to spend a couple hours on the couch with me and sat down to watch this great vampire, love story.

FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.

Are these people serious?

I know the movie is never as good as the book and I wasn't expecting it to be, but where is the story line? Where is the passion? Where is the convincing love and affection?

Scenes cut in half, important details left out (that couldn't be left to the imagination), choppy plots, etc.

I couldn't help but be entirely disappointed. Thank goodness I read the book first. If you haven't jumped on the Twilight bandwagon and are considering doing so in the near future, I highly recommend not watching the movie first (or at all).

Summer time

Time really does fly. I ended up falling behind on my blog posts (once again). I can't tell you how many times I've tried to maintain a personal blog.

Let's see, two weddings, my birthday, 3 jobs later -- summer is officially here -- where does the time go? Summer Fridays makes the week that much crazier, more to do in less time. I wish my job gave me Summer Fridays, but I guess when you work for yourself there really isn't time for that ;) I have enough trouble managing everything as it is!

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