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Nick & My 3rd Anniversary

Last Wednesday was Nick and my third anniversary. We played hooky in order to spend the day together. Nick stayed up playing WOW the night before and didn’t get up until the crack of noon, so our day started with lunch.

We decided to go to the Como Zoo & Conservatory. Actually, Nick decided to go to the conservatory because he didn’t realize it was attached to the zoo, which was completely out of character for him (the looking at flowers part, not the not knowing where things are part).

Since we didn’t have anywhere specific we wanted to eat, we just drove until we found somewhere interesting. We ended up eating at Gabe’s Roadhouse in Historic Como Park. Nick ordered a burger and I ordered a personal pizza with mushrooms, which Nick found displeasing. I thought the mushrooms were quite delicious.

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After lunch we continued to the zoo. We saw lions and zebras and penguins, oh my! And of course my favorite: giraffes. Don’t forget about Sparky the sea lion, as well as some other animals. We didn’t go in the primate house because Nick’s got some weird thing about that. I didn’t mind at the time, but I found out later that there were lemurs and sloths in there, and I like lemurs and sloths. They also have a spider monkey. I didn’t realize spider monkeys actually existed. Oh well.

The conservatory was lovely and smelled like plants. We didn’t get any pictures since our old camera is on the fritz and our new camera hadn’t arrived yet. Oh well, 3 isn’t a milestone number. It probably doesn’t even really count. Let’s see, three down, I suppose we have at least three more to go…

Twilight7

On February 13th I saw Twilight in theaters for the 7th time. By no choice of my own, mind you. I was practically forced by four of my friends: Sarah and Kristy who had just read the book, Michelle who was in the process of reading and Tara who was reading Breaking Dawn. For the record, it is just as good the 7th time around and Robert Pattinson is just as swoon worthy.

Fortunately the movie was only $3 this time since it had moved to the discount theater. Woo-hoo!! Of course the popcorn is just as expensive. Bastards. The five of us enjoyed the movie and then went to dinner afterward. We wanted to go to Champps but they were charging a cover (WTF?) so we opted for Houlihan’s instead. I enjoyed some delicious meatloaf. It was nice to have some fresh minds to discuss the book and movie with. In retrospect I should have driven with Tara alone so we could have discussed the other books. Instead we had to bite our tongues and be hush hush as not to ruin it for the slackers others who hadn’t read the series. But they will, just like Renee will eventually read Twilight. :o

Twilight comes out on DVD in three weeks and I’ve preordered the Border’s special edition copy. Nice.
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Happy 2nd Birthday jillapalooza.com

Today jillapalooza.com enters it’s terrible twos!!

Wow, two long years. P&T to me for not getting all ADD on my beloved website. I have done [almost] my best to keep my loyal readers happy. Why, it seems like just yesterday I was consulting my fellow webbies to help me pick the perfect name. Here were the suggestions from Curtis, Kristen and Ryan that didn’t quite make the cut:
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Twilight5 & Twilight6

I saw Twilight for the 5th time last Friday night with my sister Lani and niece-in-law Megan. Lani had read the first two books, but Megan was a Twilight virgin. The movie was enjoyed by all. I thought the theater was still quite busy for the movie having been out for 7 weeks, but I suppose not everyone is a superfan like me who rushed out to see it on opening weekend. Of course, I was curious as to how many people in the theater had already seen it. Apparently the dad in the family sitting in front of us hadn’t seen it before, because he kept leaning over and asking his daughter questions.

I fully intended on stopping at 5 times. It seemed like a good number, and more than enough times to tide me over until the DVD comes out in March. But Blog Reader Kristen left me a comment that she was interested in seeing it again. Apparently she had to see it again to make up for that disgusting display in Grand Cayman, which it didn’t seem like she wanted to count in her total Twilight viewings. I drove to Cloud on Saturday night so we could see it there. Curtis accompanied us as well, not having enough Alice is my guess. That or he wanted to monitor our swooning, keep us in line. Somebody has to. I swooned over Edward as usual, but Kristen fully swooned over baseball Jasper.

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