Twilight

Well I finally saw Twilight last night and I must say it met my expectations. It wasn't great, but like I said, I wasn't expecting it to be great. It was mediocre (did I spell that right? I have no idea). You just can't make a good movie from a book that is amazing, at least what I deem as amazing. Most of the characters are not how I imagined them to be, looks and personality. You can't always help with the looks, but the personalities? They could have done so much better. I also wish that they had made the movie into a 3 hour movie instead of 2 so that they wouldn't have had to cut out so many good parts. You know they make quite a few movies that long now, why not Twilight? Oh well. It's a good thing I like reading books better than watching movies.

The other night Shalum and I were home teaching and Shalum got a call on his phone, he just shut it off. On the way home he looked at the missed call, it was a number he didn't recognize, and asked me if I knew it. It was familiar to me but I couldn't place it. I thought of a couple people it could have been but wasn't sure. One person I though of was my ex-step-father. So Shalum calls the number and says 'I saw I have a missed call from this number' the person on the line was all 'no, not from this number', Shalum was all 'yeah, I have a missed call from this phone number', the guy was all 'what's a missed call?', Shalum was all 'you called my phone and I missed it.' the guy was all 'who is this', so Shalum tells him and the guy was all 'Oh, yeah I'm looking for Candice.' Yeah, it was Gary, my stepdad. It was a little weird, I hadn't seen or talked to him in a year and a half. He was all talking to me asking how me and my sisters are. And he was looking for my mom's number. Which was interesting, they don't talk, my mom wants no contact with him whatsoever, and they've been divorced for almost 10 years. Anyway as we were talking it became quite clear to me that he was drunk, surprise surprise. He kept repeating the same questions. At first I was thinking something was wrong with him, like he has alhzeimer's or something. Then I was like what am I thinking, he's drunk. When is he not drunk? So anyway I ended up giving him my mom's house phone, figuring he can just look in the phone book and get it, but I wouldn't give him her cell. Well after we hang up, he calls back a minute later and says she didn't answer and asks if he could have her cell, I just told him no, I didn't have the number on me at the moment. So anyway, after we hang up, I called my mom figuring she saw it was him calling and refused to answer. I was right. The first thing I said was "why are you not answering your phone?" She sat there for a second then, "How did you know Gary called me?" So I told her, she wasn't so happy. I found out her home phone is unlisted. I actually knew that, but had completely forgotten, oops. She all but threatened my life if I gave him her cell. :] Shalum, sitting right next to me, could hear what she was saying, so he's threatening to call him and give it to him, so she's threatening to take some of his christmas presents back. It was all very humorous to us. Mother wasn't so amused. She told me I need to stop being so nice.