Twilight Tuesday

Well, whew. So much going on in the Twilight world. Reports are coming in fast and furiously from the New Moon set in Vancouver. Filming started this past Monday, and so far we have: a glimpse of Jacob Black's wolf pack (thank goodness they replaced the original ugly boys from Twilight), a promise that Edward's sparkle will be better (holding my breath), Bella's cliff diving will be CGI, what is believed to be Jacob's house and shed where he fixes up the motorcycles, a whole slew of set spoilers where we find out that virtually all the cast members smoke (RPattz you break my heart!), and revelation that the Italy scenes will not be filmed in Volterra, but in a town called Montepulciano.

RPattz is also going to be on the cover of April's GQ magazine and the outtakes are hotness personified. I mean, seriously.


Lastly, my friend Sarah works across the street from Summit Entertainment, so I asked her to take a picture of the building for me as a sort of vicarious Twilight experience. I totally love this!

I also ordered my copy (or I should say copies) of the Twilight DVD that's coming out in just three short days: the Borders special edition, and the iTunes version (so I can watch it on the train, over and over...and over).

On chickens

For dinner tonight I'm roasting a Cornish hen. Cornish hens are tricky because they're so small that cooking just one doesn't seem enough, but two is too much. In the past, I thought Cornish hens were a special breed of tiny chickens grown in Cornwall. But then I read somewhere that they're actually just baby chickens that hadn't had a chance to grow yet. And that made me feel bad. Poor baby chickens! Until I remembered that I love eating balut (a Filipino delicacy) - and then I don't feel as bad (if you don't know what balut is, I don't suggest finding out). But can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with the doodads wrapped in plastic that's tucked into the cavity of the chicken? I just throw them away, but I think I'm supposed to save this for something. Tonight I threw in a few cloves of garlic, white wine, and chicken stock on the roasting pan, sprinkled seasoning on the chicken, stuffed some chopped onions into the cavity (a lemon is also good here) and voila - the whole house smells heavenly.

A peek

At one of several things I'm working on. Happy Ides of March!

A-sproutin'

My purple hyacinths are finally coming out of the cold, muddy winter ground. They are usually my personal harbingers of spring, so when I see them start to peek out I know winter's almost over. Next come my neighbor's pink tulips, then our cherry blossom tree, and by the time the blossoms turn pink and drop to the ground like snow, the weather has turned balmy for good.

Twilight Tuesday

And so it begins. Rehearsals for New Moon started this weekend in Vancouver, where the whole gang started assembling, with filming to begin shortly after. Lainey Gossip had all the play-by-play of arrivals and sightings of the actors, including one of RPattz with his hair dyed an "Edward red" (though still a little bit too short). Also there are pictures of Taylor Lautner (boo!) learning to ride a motorbike for what are perhaps some of my favorite scenes from New Moon (my two most favorites being the gut-wrenching breakup scene and Volterra). Eeek! I'm excited!

And now here are two deleted scenes from the Twilight DVD (ten more days!) that were leaked out. My fellow Twihards and I have been in a tizzy all week over them. Consider this one. So hot that I almost fainted. I'm mad that they deleted this scene in the first place.



And then this bit of naughtiness here. I can see why they deleted this scene - they probably didn't want to give the tween fans a collective heart attack.

Commuting cartoons

Because I've been in raptures over my daily commute to and from the city - enabling me to come home at the end of the day in a great state of mind - I thought I would pay homage to how much the train has improved my quality of life by sharing some funny cartoons that I found. The first one is especially apropos.

This is what 72 degrees looks like

Nomad is enjoying the lovely weather this weekend.

And Moxie is hard at work being a board game spectator.