I totally paused!

Aww, good old Stacey McGill. I don’t recall the description of the outfit on this cover, but the event on the cover did happen. Except in my mind I did not picture Stacey smiling about it. Instead, I figured she’d be moping about how she can’t have anything in the candy store and OMG SHE ALMOST BOUGHT SOMETHING! This is foreshadowing to that future book where she starts cheating on her diet and gets sick. You bet your ass I remember that!

That outfit, btw, ugh. However, if those sunglasses were in a different color I’d totally want them. In fact, I think I have some in black. And maybe also in hot pink. I’m not afraid to admit if Stacey has one good fashion idea!

Also, I really think she looks funny. She looks different on later covers and as much as I don’t want to say it, better. Although I still have a hard time telling the difference between her and Dawn on covers where they are both present. Sometimes it’s obvs because Stacey has a perm and Dawn does not, but sometimes Stacey’s permed hair looks remarkably straight.

I had totally forgotten about the whole Baby-Sitters Agency thing. I remembered Stacey making up with Laine and issues with doctors, but the BSA took me by surprise. And in reading about them, they are totally the kind of baby-sitter I was. See, I wanted to be a good baby-sitter, but I just didn’t have it in me. I did not let the kids play outside by the street, but I was also much more interested in watching Devon Sawa movies than the actual child care aspect. Hey – to the 14 year old me, he was hot! Okay, I imdb’d him and he actually still is hot, so I rest my case!

Also I think it is hilarious that we get an emergency BSC meeting eight pages into the book, in the middle of a regular BSC meeting. Classic! I LOLed when someone other than Kristy called an emergency meeting also…that bossy bitch can’t handle anyone else calling emergency meetings!

For some reason, I thought this was the book where Stacey’s parents decided to divorce. But then I remembered that she moves back to New York for like 2 seconds before they do that. Of the older sitters, Stacey was always my least favorite, she’s always felt so snobby and above it all to me. I remember being sad each month or whatever when the next BSC book came out and it was a Stacey book. I read it anyway, but I was disappointed.

My favorite part of this book was the BSC girls confronting the BSA girls and asking questions about the kids. Umm, I baby-sat my own siblings a ton and I couldn’t tell you what their favorite foods were. Guess I would never have been accepted into the BSC!

I am sorry to say that I don’t think I liked this season as well as the first two.  It had a lot of great potential, and I quite enjoyed Miguel Prado, but the end left me feeling like I needed more.  This is in contrast to previous ends, which made me feel like “Ooooh I am so sad I don’t get a new Dexter for six months!”  This time I felt like “Wow, that ended way too fast!”

The pacing of the season was really working for me up until Miguel and Dexter started not getting along, and more specifically, when Miguel started turning on Dexter.  It seemed so abrupt, there needed to be more to it.  The whole last half or so just felt that way – it needed more time.

I especially felt that way about the final episode.  Things with George King were resolved way too quickly.  I wanted more tension, more worrying for Dexter’s safety!  I mean, could we have at least gotten a little bit of cutting?  It made me recall back to the first season when Brian had Deb – I was completely worried for her safety.  I adore Dexter and definitely want no harm to come to him, but I also would like to worry a smidge to feel more triumph when he succeeded.

Also, I don’t think that Showtime should have started advertising “what’s new for Dexter next season” so early.  I’m totally fine with them talking about it at the end of the last episode, but when they say it three episodes before the end, you know things are going to be fine and again, no suspense.

This is still my favorite current TV show and I love it to pieces, I just hope for a little more next season.  It will be very interesting to see what happens with Dexter’s child and how his marriage to Rita goes.

As I mentioned before, I still haven’t read the books.  And honestly, I haven’t been terribly interested.

But this stuff here really makes me desire the read very much.  I would say don’t read while at work, but man it is hilarious!

Starring Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart

I haven’t read any of the Twilight books as of yet, so I had virtually no expectations going into this.  Other than it’s a vampire movie and I like vampires.  This was basically a romance novel wrapped in the guise of a maybe scary vampire movie.  Which isn’t bad, I liked the movie alright, but I’m not going to say this is the best thing I’ve seen in years.

So, just on the vampire front, I have to wonder if Stephenie Meyer knew anything about vamps at all?  I mean, sure, go ahead and reinvent the genre, I don’t care TOO much, but it is a little confusing.  Like this whole sparkley skin thing in the sun?  Umm, sun kills them, honey.  And why was Edward just able to enter Bella’s house without invitation?  That’s a pretty typical thing too.

I’m also not sure why it was necessary to take James apart and burn him.  I get the burning thing, fire kills vampires.  But why do they take him apart?  Why not just light him on fire?

Since I haven’t read the books, I cannot attest to how well they are written.  But in a lot of cases, I felt like the movie was not.  A lot of the interactions, especially early on, felt kind of forced and just weird.  And honestly, I feel like Bella is kind of a snot…all the kids were so nice to her and she basically shunned them.  I get if she’s shy, but she didn’t really seem that way, just uninterested in nice people sometimes.

And I guess it’s just the romance part of it, or maybe it’s knowing that there were 3 other books after this one, but I never once felt like she was actually in danger.  You just know that Edward is going to get there and save her.  I didn’t like the whole sucking the poison out of her thing though…she should have vamped!  Plus it seemed like she went a long time after James bit her before Edward got the poison out – how long does it take for that to get through your whole body!

Criticisms aside, it did a good job of being romancy and the vampires were definitely sexy.  The people associated with True Blood should take lesson from this!  Also, Alice Cullen is fucking adorable, can I please be her?

So, all in all, it was average but not horrible.  I’m curious to see how the book holds up, knowing now that the lore is so different from what I’m used to.

See this movie if: I don’t really know what to say here.  You’ll either see it or you won’t, I’m relatively certain nothing I say will sway anyone one way or the other.

My Rating: 3/5

Six Degrees of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Does it count that there are vampires in both
Kristen Stewart was in Panic Room with Jared Leto
Jared Leto was in Urban Legend with Rebecca Gayheart
Rebecca Gayheart was in Scream 2 with Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar played Buffy Summers

Starring Ed Norton & Liv Tyler

For a superhero/comic book movie, this wasn’t bad.  And seriously, for someone who doesn’t really like these kinds of movies, I am finding I’m generally giving these decent reviews.

I really liked that the origin story took place during the opening credits, versus spending a lot of time in the movie explaining it.  Which is weird cuz I’m not even opposed to origin stories, in fact I think I love them because I am always interested in getting more information, but this way was kind of new and I liked that about it.

Despite my often dislike of Liv Tyler, she didn’t even bug me that much in this movie.  She wasn’t anything spectacular, but was tolerable and did an okay job.  I do wish a little that there had been more information about the history between Betty and Bruce, because her departure from the existing boyfriend in the movie felt a little abrupt.

I also liked that they seemed to leave several outs for more movies – not finishing the story with The Abomination, Tony Stark showing up at the end, and whatever happened with the scientist and his brain thing.  Since I know nothing about the actual story of The Incredible Hulk, these are all mysteries for me as far as what is to happen next.

I did feel like the story showing the development of The Abomination was a bit short, but that was a small thing since the movie in general was pretty good.  Not The Dark Knight good, but still good.

I don’t remember much about the Hulk movie from a few years back, so I should probably see it again, but this Hulk seemed a lot smarter than the other one.  I enjoyed that, cuz I kind of hate the big dumb Hulk thing, I like some thought behind my heroes.  Plus isn’t the Hulk a weird hero anyway?  Seems a bit odd to me.

See this movie if: You’re looking for an easy yet entertaining action film.  It was fun, basically mindless couple of hours.  Also if you are a Hulk fan you should see it, but you probably already did.

My Rating: 3.5/5

Six Degrees of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Ed Norton was in The Painted Veil with Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber was in Scream 2 with Sarah Michelle Gellar (I bet y’all forgot that Cotton Weary was in all 3 Scream movies)
Sarah Michelle Gellar was Buffy Summers