Tara (and I) are Twilight Addicts

I read all the books. Tara would like for me to read them all to her but instead, I have told her about the first book. She's seen previews for the movie and became increasingly excited about watching it. Tara is a sucker for a love story. Of course, I wasn't sure if I could wait until its DVD release.

So the big release day came at 12:01am on March 21. Tara and I went back and forth about leaving our home, in the middle of the night, to go out and buy a DVD. If that wasn't extreme enough, we also wanted to watch it when we got home.

We hung around the house most of the evening. Tara started feeling tired. I told her that it was ok, we could run our money next door to Stacy, she was going with her girlfriends to the release. We could either watch it when she got back or first thing in the morning.

After a long discussion, we walked next door to give Stacy our money. Unfortunately, she had already left. This left us with a dilemma.

Tara, at this point, knew she had to do it. This is the first time in her young life that she has stayed up this late.

We arrived at Walmart at 11pm and sat in the truck a half hour. I wasn't quite ready to face a store full of crazed teenagers. It wasn't bad and you wouldn't believe the amount of older women, like myself, who were just as eager. Tara and I picked out a shirt for her, we grabbed the soundtrack to listen to on the way home, and, finally, at 12:01am, we grabbed our DVD 2-disc copy of Twilight. We raced to the checkout, made our purchase, and headed home as we jammed to some really awesome music.

At home, we made us a bed on the couch, put the DVD in to play and settled down for the movie. I really didn't think Tara would make it through the first half hour but it was me who was struggling. Tara woke me up several times through the movie. She stayed up for the entire thing. We went to bed at 2:50am. Then, around 8am, I was awoke by the sounds of Twilight playing in the DVD again. She was back in front of the movie. As a matter of fact, she has watched it everyday and sometimes more than once.