Sweet Valley Confidential

I've gone into a Sweet Valley High blackhole over at my tumblr. Also - please do yourself a favor and check out the website for the new SVH book Sweet Valley Confidential. My favorite section is "Remember It!" where we are reminded that Lila Fowler was Jessica Wakefield's rival AND best friend." In other words - FRENEMIES.

Lila you were SUCH a bitch.

Social TV Viewing Chez Moi

Let's say you were considering watching TV at my house, with me and my roommates (DiTonto, Adubs, Becca and our lovely summer squatter Bui) - what could you expect? What's it like watching TV targeted for tweens with five girls in their mid-twenties?

Well, in an email chain attempting to plan what time we'd be watching tonight's mid-season finale of Pretty Little Liars, Becca made an insanely hilarious, and likely accurate prediction for the night:

I know you're all looking forward to group watching. We all know that Adubs is going to pause a lot to discuss. And I'm going to get up 9 times to do miscellaneous activities and Stamos is gonna be like "wait what's going on" and then Bui is going to get up and get watermelon three times and leave her bowl on the floor next to her flip flops and groan about how much she's eaten. Next we'll have Ash holding her shirt over her nose from the smell of the popcorn I'll inevitably make, huffing and puffing the whole time about who is talking and what's going on and how she is nauseous and we are all going to end the PLL watching affair with the same sort of blank stare that the impeccably dressed liars take on with every new A-originated SMS.

Becca - you're a genius. Those girls really have that post-text blank stare locked down, and it's not too far off from our own collective post-viewing expressions. (And I do realize the irony of the fact that I, the TV obsessed one, is almost always the one who has no idea what's happening - but that applies to most of my life.)

Much love to the four girls I live with...

I'm such a sucker...

I hate myself a little bit for openly admitting this, especially considering it's really not that surprising, but I think I am going to the midnight showing of Eclipse tonight.

Goddamn you Twilight Saga and your capacity to get me to lose sleep and spend money...

We can thank my lovely roommate Adubs for appealing to my inner tween with the pic above.

Tweens are AWESOME

A recent email from Ashleigh:

i'm IMing with my THIRTEEN year old cousin who strangely sounds all too much like my TWENTY 3 and 4 year old roomies...

ditonto19 (4:52:33 PM): hahah you have rob pattinson as your icon...my roomies are OBSESSED with twilight
youngun xox (4:54:05 PM): omghhh, im obssessed too <3>
youngun xox (4:54:29 PM): lol, its pretty funny i read the book and so the moviee twicee
youngun xox (4:54:43 PM): andd now im workingg on the second book
ditonto19 (4:54:54 PM): yeeeeah, my one roomie has read the whole series and seen it 3 times, but she's 24
youngun xox (4:55:14 PM): lol, apparentlyy we think very alikeeee
youngun xox (4:55:27 PM): im def planning on readingg the whole series
youngun xox (4:56:46 PM): and this grl trashedd talked rob and i kinda screamedd at her
ditonto19 (4:56:55 PM): that's not ok...he's perfect
youngun xox (4:57:02 PM): ik <33333333333>

please note that apparently tweens like to use multiple letters to express enthusiasm ie - alikeeeee, and screamedd - in case you want to start employing to completely transform into your tween selves.