Of course I saw New Moon

And I loved it. They did a wonderful job of adapting the story from the book and I have to say you can really tell the studio invested more money in New Moon than they did in Twilight. About a million other people have already reviewed it, so I won't bother to repeat what I'm sure has been said before. Just that I liked it.

We had visitors this weekend -- family in town for Thanksgiving. It was good, because it forced me to deal with some of the little jobs around the house that I'd been avoiding. I love it when the house is this tidy and well put together. Plus it was a lot of fun to show them the place for the first time, and on top of that we had a nice visit. The one part that amazed me was just how much noise a six year old, four year old and two year can produce simply by existing. Wow. I swear I never got that loud as a child, but maybe I just can't remember. They are sweet and well behaved kids, but they generate an incredible amount of noise.

Speaking of me as a child, my mom has brought up one of the most annoying of her arguments back up again. Thanksgiving is coming, and she's mad that I'm a vegetarian. I should eat turkey for the holidays. Apparently my "personal beliefs" are just pesky phase that get in the way of her cooking a nice big turkey for Thanksgiving. How is it that our parents know exactly which buttons to push to turn us back into eyerolling teenagers? One of life's grand mysteries, I guess.