The SVC Spectacular

Just a quick note before we hit the road tomorrow - SVC is heading to the cabin Friday through Sunday for Girl's Weekend! YAYYYY!

Hopefully we'll have some fun pics to post when we get back :-)

Random Weekend Observations

A few things of note:

Joanna Krupa's name was brought up when I was watching E! News and for a minute, I couldn't figure out where I had heard her name. Turns out, on Stephenie Meyer's original Twilight movie site (constructed before any of the actual casting had been made), she had listed Joanna as someone who looked like Rosalie to her. I totally agree. Anyway, Joanna is starring in an upcoming movie this year called Six Days in Paradise.

The SVC coven leaders came over to my house last night, and we had several exciting events occur, includingbutnotlimitedto me taking an embarrassing picture at the town festival of my husband with a former coworker he barely knew, simply because she was wearing a "I Run With Vampires/Team Edward" tshirt, toasting to Jace, some AWESOMEAWESOME LaPush mementos from Corinne, and a bird flying into my house at the end of the night (I think it was the Scribe Virgin at work). We also listened to Crash and Burn by Jesse McCartney, which (much to Alison's dismay) is totally a Jace and Clary song, as pointed out by Jes.

I just finished Evermore by Alyson Noel - Kari lended it to me, and I really enjoyed it. The ending was okay-ish for me, but for the most part, I loved it! There are sososo many parallels to Twilight! And I laughed out loud when I got to the end and realized the sequel (due out July 7, 2009) is titled Blue Moon. Niiiiiice. I am so checking out her blog!

Many, many random things. We have an exciting week ahead: a SVC baby shower, Corinne's birthday celebration, and we may get to begin planning for our girls' cabin weekend? YAY!

We spent the night with Carlisle

because we're watching CAN'T HARDLY WAIT!!!!!! <3 Mike Dexter. And Ethan Embry. And Seth Green.

Alison, Ryah and Jes are at my house hanging out, and we're loving it. 92%, yo!!

Anyway, I thought with four SVCers together, I should blog. That, and Jes and I have been marveling at IMDB after discovering the crazy number of celebrities who make small appearances in the movie. And trying to determine if James Marsden is in the movie.

Kari, hope you had fun at Benihana, and we all know Corinne's having a great time! ;-)

SVC night of fun and mourning.

First, the bad news. Corinne is probably landing now (or soon) in Seattle. Without us. A moment of silence, please.

...

Enough mourning. The remaining SVCers have been hanging out at my house tonight, enjoying the MN Twins (Ryah and Erin, anyway), pizza, shots of Patron, margaritas, fake wine, and Pepsi. And the Justin Timberlake SNL. "I can be the syrup, she can be my waffle..."

Anyway...we've decided to turn two more people into vampires.

Welcome to the coven, Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine:



Oh, so beautiful. They can beam me up anytime...

Corinne, you've gotta go here...

http://volterrarestaurant.com/

There's a Volterra restaurant in Seattle!! I just saw it on Tasty Travels (a Rachael Ray Food Network show). Who knew???!

Please, go and take a picture with Aro. Or Jane. Or whoever...

SVC: Year in Review

I'm totally copying SM's brother/webmaster Seth's post about her successful year. See http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/for his post.

However, I wanted to focus this post on the serendipitous development of the SVC. On April 13, 2008 (I know because I saved the Facebook message between Alison and me), I got to know some of the best lady-husbands and friends I could ask for when the SVC was formed! And what a glorious day it was.

As 2008 comes to a close, I'd like to name just a few of the SVC's major accomplishments:

• a website, tshirts, logos and playlists...not to mention totally awesome RPattz fridge magnets
• several awesome karaoke appearances, including "Hitch Me Baby (One More Time)" and "La...Push It!"
• meeting SM herself at the Mall of America signing of The Host
• the Borders midnight release event for Breaking Dawn
• new vampire lairs (new states, houses AND the Front with DJ Dirty Duke)
• some baby vampires on the way (our own Renesmees! Awww!)
• a crazy-fun and giggly midnight movie premiere of Twilight
• several other awesome fantasy books, especially City of Bones and City of Ashes
• innumerable photos with SVC fangs, especially at karaoke, dancing, and NKOTB concerts
• many, many new friends here at SVC!

What are your favorite memories of the year? Please share! I know I'm missing a bunch of things.

I am looking forward to reminiscing on New Year's Eve with the other coven leaders at my lair. I am so thankful for you ladies! Happy New Year!

Whoa! So much better!

(the pink stars are from the blog I took the photo from -Pink Is the New Blog)

UPDATE: mag hits newstand tmrw!!!!! there will be three different covers!

Jacob's coming to MN!

Hot Topic stores around the US are hosting Twilight actor signings! Laurent, Victoria and Jacob are coming to MPLS! The date: Nov 14th- LET'S GO!

Hot Topic

A Little Closer to Home

For those of us in the Midwest- There will be a Twilight Convention in Chicago April 3-5.

Event Includes:
Autograph sessions (where you can meet celebrity guests and receive a personally signed autograph)
Photo-op sessions (the opportunity to pose for a photo with the celebrity guests)
Panel discussions
Q & A’s with the celebrity guests
Parties
A dealers room
Exclusive receptions

Vacation all I ever wanted, vacation had to get away...

Check out this travel website that offers fab Twilight themed trips! they have one scheduled for next summer to Volterra! They've got some great trip ideas.

What I'm Reading

"The Summoning" by Kelley Armstrong.
Exerpt from Back Cover:
Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life. But now she finds herself in some really strange situations because: *she suddenly starts seeing dead people. *she gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens. * the group home isn't what it seems...


I really liked this book, but in a way I felt like it was a cop-out, because the author is making it a trilogy, yet the book just ended on a cliff-hanger, and it felt like the story was only half-told. We were just starting to get to know everyone and figure out what was going on, and root for romance and all that. Still, I will read the sequel. It was fun.
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"Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter, Book 1") by Laurell K. Hamilton

Anita is an "animator," meaning that her job is to raise zombies (like to find out who they wanted in their will, or who killed them, etc.) But she also works with the police to track supernatural killers, and ends up fighting a lot of vampires and gets into a lot of dangerous messes. It wasn't the best book I've ever read, but it was definitely entertaining, and I've already started the sequel: "The Laughing Corpse."

Amazon.com Review
Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees--with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting--to help figure out who and why.

Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when her allies aren't human. The city's most powerful vampire, Nikolaos, is 1,000 years old and looks like a 10-year-old girl. The second most powerful vampire, Jean-Claude, is interested in more than just Anita's professional talents, but the feisty necromancer isn't playing along--yet. This popular series has a wild energy and humor, and some very appealing characters--both dead and alive.

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Field of Blood by Eric Wilson (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

I picked this one up because it just seemed really interesting, but I haven't started it yet (beyond reading the first chapter at the bookstore). Here is what the back says:

The Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy takes readers on a riveting jopurney, as imaginative fiction mels with biblical and archaeological history.

from Amazon:
The suicide of Judas Iscariot in 30 A.D. left his blood seeping into the soil of the Field of Blood, in Aramaic the Akeldama. When this same field is disturbed by work crews outside Jerusalem in 1989, a clan of supernatural Collectors is released from the ancient burial chambers. Infused with Judas's enmity, they seek to corrupt and destroy.

Gina Lazarescu has always felt like she didn't quite belong. But a bizarre accident with a delivery van leaves her questioning if the differences aren't more significant than she realized. When a man she met as a young girl in Romania reappears with a fantastic tale of immortality, Gina must decide whether to believe or to ignore what she's seeing.

Regardless of what she decides, she's headed for an unavoidable collision with the Akeldama.

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And finally, Corinne reminded me that Untamed: A House of Night Novel comes out tomorrow. Yay!

So....

This isn't quite Twilight news, but -

I am trying to see if we can get SVC invited to the Twilight Premiere in LA. I sent Perez Hilton an e-mail asking for some help/ideas on how to make this happen. I haven't heard back, but I saw this clip on his site of him on Martha today. He gives out tips on blogging successfully and I thought tip #3 was really interesting. Maybe if we bug him enough he will see that we are only FOLLOWING his own advice?



www.perezhilton.com

InStyle Magazine Photo Shoot

Lucky you, Corinne, you subscribe! The Twilight cast will be featured in the October issue of the magazine. (I think Nikki Reed is definitely better as a brunette.)

Forks is going all out! Wouldn't this be fun?

Stephenie Meyer Day, Forks, WA
Saturday September 13, 2008

Stephenie Meyer day honors the author that has made the Twilight book series so popular world-wide. Events and times are listed below:

2008 STEPHENIE MEYER DAY AGENDA

8:00 am Breakfast served, Congregational Church
10 am Tour of high school Forks High school
10 am Vendors (Twilight items)
11 am Tour of high school Forks High School
11 am Blood red punch served at used book sale Forks Memorial Library
12 noon Mayor reads proclamation Tillicum Park, Forks
1:00 Tour of high school Forks High School
1:30 Birthday cake for Bella Tillicum Park, Forks
2:00 Group photo, Tillicum Park, Forks
2:30 Edward/ Bella/Jacob Lookalike judging
3:00 Open discussion on values From Twilight series
2:00 Read aloud from your favorite, Twilight-series book
6:00 Wolf dance, LaPush
7:00 Wolf dance encore performance,First Beach, La Push
7:30 Bonfire and storytelling,First Beach, La Push

Breaking Dawn Postpartum

We've been experiencing a bit of postpartum depression over here at SVC. (Kari and I have made the diagnosis.) We believe it to be triggered by Breaking Dawn and the fact that it just may now be the last Twilight book to be published. (Ugh, say it ain't so.)

We do see some light at the end of the tunnel, and unfortunately it has come at the price of Stephenie's trust being broken. But as Kari said, and I quote, "being able to read some of Midnight Sun has been like taking a long cool drink of water after being very, very thirsty." I've read half of the manuscript and it is so great; I've been missing Edward for a very long time, and now I've gotten to visit him again!

So since we over here at SVC are feeling a little below the weather, SM must be too. I've pulled the following from TwiMoms and the Lex. They have a few ideas as to showing SM some support and love during this time of postpartum and such.

Reaching out to SM and revisiting the love we have for these books and characters (and Edward) may just be what the doctor ordered!


1. Write a letter to Stephenie at
Stephenie Meyer c/o Author Mail
Little, Brown and Company
237 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017

2. Participate in a “We support Stephenie Meyer” video. All you have to do is send a picture of yourself showing support to twilightthanks@gmail.com and put “VIDEO” in the subject line. Be creative with your show of support, but make sure it is a still photograph and not an actual video. We will take the photos and make them into a video that will later be posted on You Tube.

3. For those of you graphics people who want to do something, we have another idea. We are going to make a virtual quilt. Send a 200 X 200 support graphic to twilightthanks@gmail.com and we will work it into a virtual support quilt. Make sure you put “QUILT” in the subject line.

4. On Saturday Sept. 13, in honor of Bella’s birthday, wear a twilight themed t-shirt to show your love of the series. If you work or have other obligations that won’t allow you to wear a Twilight shirt, wear all black, white, and red to show your support.

An SVC request for help!!!!

Ok, so me and my Hubby have been disagreeing on names for the baby! So this morning I spent a few hours online going through the various GIRL baby names! (Since we already KNOW what the boy name will be if it's a boy!) AFTER reading A LOT of highly strange ones...here's what I've come up with! (the Middle name for the girl will be Marie and the Last name obviously will be Nelson, so keep that in mind as you check out the names!) So I thought maybe all my SVC friends could give me some input!

I've put them in the order of what I personally like the best!

1. Isabella (only thing holding me back on that one is how VERY popular it is right now! and being and teacher and having like 15 maddy's in my various classes, I really shy away from the HIGHLY popular names!)
2. Brein (said BREE-in)
3. Calla
4.Alanna (can also be spelled Elanna)
5. Lily
6. Brenna
7. Rory (Can also be spelled Rori)
8. Autumn

So tell me what ya like! (feel free to put them in order of how you like them!) Thanks!

Love,
Heatheryruth

Breaking News!!

This post brought to us by Heatheryruth!!!
BREAKING NEWS!!

Twilight will be in theaters THREE WEEKS SOONER than originally planned!!! It will open in theaters everywhere in North America on

November 21, 2008!

This is the best news ever!!!!

So close!

Waiting at borders.

Yay!

Friday Night

I am sure all of you out there have had your plans made for this Friday night for months now! Just in case you are not as OCD as the rest of us, and if you live in the Twin Cities area, and still have the night open, come and join (most) of the SVC crowd at the Border's Party near Ridgedale Mall (yes, the Ridgedale Mall that was in Juno).

If you are planning to go to the same party, come up and talk to us (we won't be hard to miss with our SVC tees on!).

Heatheryruth, we will miss you! You must hang with us soon!