Our Twilight Chronicles: Catherine Hardwicke at Borders in Allen, TX

You Know You're Addicted If........ (true comments only)

1. You sleep with your books next to you because you can't bear to have them too far away. (Cindy)
2. When you go to bed at night your husband asks if I wish he were a vampire, then he bites my arm and says, "you never know." (Amber)
3. When you let your mother borrow your books and as you hand them to her you tell her to guard them with her life and then watch as they drive off in your rearview mirror. (Amber)
4. You really need to use the restroom, but hold is as long as you can just to get in some more reading. You finally get up to go, but decide to take the book with you. (Tara)
5. You spend an ENTIRE day at work working on this blog. Oops (Cindy)
6. You are seriously considering naming your children Isabella (Bella) and Edward or Cullen, I like that better, and it still makes me smile when I say it! (Amber)
7. You read #6 and think to yourself, hey, Cullen really is a cool name......hey Holly!!! (Cindy)
8. You really need to use the restroom, but you don't make it. And then you need to buy a new book. (Holly)
9. You lie about your addiction hoping to make someone laugh. Now thats addicted! (Holly)
10. You eat and read at the same time trying to make sure you don't get any food on the pages! (Patty)
11. You read while you wait in the drive thru line. (Patty)
12. While watching the Olympics you wonder....is Michael Phelps a vampire??? He is an "excellent" swimmer and check out those teeth!!! Hmmmmm.....(Cindy)
13. You and your mother have a serious conversation over whether vampires are real or not and secretly your both hoping that they are! (Amber)
14. You have a wonderfully romantic dream of Edward. You're holding hands, kissing, and you've never felt so in love before. Then you awake to find your significant other lying next to you. Ugh! Utter disappointment is all you feel. (Tara)
15. Someone you don't totally trust asks to borrow your books ~ you can't bring yourself to lend them out. You hope they'll forget about it, but if that doesn't work, you decide you'll go buy the paperbacks as your "lend-out books." (Cindy)

Favorite Quotes

1. You know how to drown a blonde? Glue a mirror to the bottom of a pool. (Cindy)
2. Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off? (Amber)
3. I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture. (Amber)
4. Given Blondie's new expression, I was surprised she didn't break into a touchdown dance. (Cindy)
5. Where's the flood, mutt? (Cindy)
6. The room was full of statues. I crossed my ankles. (Cindy)
7. And so the lion fell in love with the lamb. (Tara)
8. Everyone smelled fine to me. (Holly)
9. Say what you want, I still think Dracula One and Dracula Two are creep-tacular. (Cindy)
10. "I'll be back soon, you won't have time to miss me, look after my heart, I left it with you." (Amber)
11. "Fall down again Bella?" No, I punched a werewolf in the face." (Amber)
12. Bet she'd love to see the look on my human face as I stood there naked, holding a sundress. (Holly)
13. If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.(Cindy)
14. Will you turn into a bat? (Cindy)
15. Well, I’m nearly a hundred and ten. It’s time I settled down.(Cindy)
16. "Um."..."I'm going to run over Tyler Crowley tomorrow before school?" (Tara)
17. He looks at you like...like you're something to eat. (Tara)

Monday, March 23, 2009

Catherine Hardwicke at Borders in Allen, TX

Our Twilight Chronicles contributor, Holly D., was at the Borders in Allen, TX, when Catherine Hardwicke surprised guests with her visit at the "Twilight DVD Release Party" Friday night. It was lots of fun getting to hear her talk about the movie and meeting her in person! I also was able to get the Borders Exclusive DVD set autographed along with Catherine's Directors Notebook. Here are pictures from my experience. . .it was an awesome night. Thanks Catherine for your autograph, keepin it real, and stopping by my city!

Oh yeah, we are totally besties now:)

Catherine signed over 300 copies of DVDs that night. Even after the original 300 that was set, she stayed longer to autograph more items-posters, books, shirts, etc. I was told by my good friend, Amy, who is also the general manager of that Borders Store, that over 500 people were there that night!

In the middle of the signing, Catherine stood up and walked over to a special needs teenager and chatted with her for a bit. She was so awesome, gave her a big hug and kiss on the cheek and told her how much she appreciated her being a fan. This young lady had watched Twilight 14 times in the theatre! I was impressed with Catherine's genuinity.

Me and a fellow Twilight fan, Katie. We made friends in the crazy long DVD wait line

Here is a better face shot of Catherine, taken by my new friend Katie, right before she started signing DVDs. Thanks Katie for the picture!

Here is Catherine sharing some Twilight movie making stories. She said that when casting for the role of Edward, Kristen told Catherine teasingly, "I will kill you if you don't pick Rob!" I agree Kristen, Rob was the PERFECT choice! Doesn't everyone agree??!

2 comments:

Tara D. said...: How awesome! And just think, I was only a mere hour away, I wish I had gone.; March 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Patty said...: Wow, that must have been exciting! You even got your picture taken with her. How cool!!!; March 23, 2009 at 9:29 PM