SMeyer picks four Twi-sites to interview her and we’re not among them (boo!) but my favorite blog LTT is (yeah!)

First of all: Congrats again to UC and Moon from Letterstotwilight, who are my heroes! You deserve this so much! Plus I know that you are the girls who have the guts to ask the REAL questions. This is going to be EPIC!

Meet the goddess herself!

Alright, Stephenie did NOT draw How To Dazzle out of that hat. Nevertheless that whole “Twi-sites get the opportunity to interview the goddess herself” made me think about what I will ask Steph if we get picked next time. (Hey, a girl can dream, right?) I mean, would I be brave enough to ask her all the questions that have been in my head for the last nine months? Like when will you finish Midnight Sun? Or when will Midnight Sun be published? Or will Midnight Sun be out in time for my birthday? Okay, you know me by now, that is not the only question I have for her. I am helplessly addicted to Twilight. You can tell that from the fact that I write a blog about it. This should be proof enough that I am deeply in love with this book series. But if I ever really had the chance to interview Stephenie Meyer, I just HAD to ask her a couple of questions hoping that she would not feel offended. Like Renesmee? Honestly, what were you thinking? Did you ever have the feeling that you were pushing it a bit too far?

Honestly, what were you thinking? Or drinking?

When you came up with that whole Bella and Edward DO get to have children right before Bella turns into a vamp even though that means Bella will be a teen-mom but that’s the only possibility they’ll ever get? Or that super forced and constructed happily ever after for EVERYONE? Couldn’t we just have a nice little epilogue were Jacob comes over to the Cullens for dinner with his new girlfriend on which he just imprinted recently? Did it have to be a story were the only way to save Jacob’s heart from being shattered into pieces was making him fall in love with a freaking BABY? Did you ever consider how weird it would be when Renesmee one day finds out that her boyfriend once was in some kind of love triangle with her MOM? Because if someone told me that Mama Soul had once kissed my boyfriend and that he had wanted to get intimate with her… I would want to vomit. And then break up with my bf and run away from my family and never come back because I would be majorly disgusted and disappointed and hurt. Does that sound ANYTHING like a happy end to you? No? Well, I didn’t think so… Also you once said that you are not Bella and that if it was really a story about “you” Bella would probably end up with Mike Newton. Then how come that if we follow the description, Bella does look EXACTLY like you? Except a little younger that is… And does that mean your husband is “your” Mike Newton? Your brother got Seth Clearwater, the cute, cool little werewolf. All your other siblings and family members got awesome characters and your husband gets… nothing? Or well, Mike Newton? Isn’t that even worse than nothing? I’m not quite sure…

When do you plan this to leak?

This is only a very small selection of what I want to ask Steph for ages. But why does this sound almost as if I HATE the books? Which is so not true! But for some reason this all sounds quite negative. Okay, I’ll admit I had my problems with Breaking Dawn. Yet I’m still an addict. So dear Stephenie, at the end of the day all that really matters is when will I get my next fix? Aka when will you FINALLY publish Midnight Sun? Or leak the finished version on the internet? I don’t care which, just give me that damn meadow scene! Please! Come on, don’t be such a cockblock! Thanks!

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Helplessly addicted despite Renesmee and all the fade to black,

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What would YOU want to ask Stephenie if you ever got the possibility to? And how cool is it that my favoritest blog of ALL TIME got picked? I may or may not have been 2nd-hand-fangirling for UC and Moon… Leave a comment or e-mail us!

(images: Google)

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Happy New Year everyone here at HTD!

Before you do anything else (like reading on) press play on the video below to listen to the ultimate New Year’s song to get you into the right mood!

Okay, now we can go on! You know, holidays and stuff always mean we’re being kind of lazy. Yeah, sorry! Nevertheless we made this fantabulous New Year’s card for you to enjoy! Unfortunately Cam refused to wear one of our amazingly beautiful party hats… See how Rob embraces me? And how Zelda is standing right behind him so she can make a good butt grab? Yes, we’re cool like that

Don’t know if you noticed, but that’s us and the Twilight gang at Isle Esme. Cause that’s where we’re gonna spend New Year’s Eve. So I guess you’ll understand that we’re kind of MIA today. And maybe tomorrow, depending on how much Champagne Carlisle put into the fridge for us… So join you family and friends and let’s ring in the New Year with a bang! And then when everyone’s sober again come back and check what we got for you here at HTD. Cause we’re planning awesome stuff for 2010!

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Off to enjoy my Isle Esme time

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So how are you gonna spend New Year’s Eve? Envy us? Want us to invite you next time? No problem! Whatever it is, leave a comment or e-mail us!

(video: YouTube; image: google, modified by me; took me three hours to make the first one cause I’m not such a pro at photoshop… yet. Then the damn program went down and I had to start all over again. Crap! Well, the second one turned out pretty cool so whatever…)

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How Alex dazzled us by reading Twilight

Because it’s Christmas and I’m out celebrating with my family and friends and Zelda is lying in her bed because she’s really ill we’re gonna featuring only posts where we don’t have to write as much as usual. Yep, we’re being lazy. But nevertheless we bring you your daily dose of HTD-laughs. Today we present you Alex, the amazing guy that reads Twilight and then makes YouTube videos about it. When I stumbled across him for the first time I laughed so hard I fell off my bed (true story!). I can totally imagine him sitting there with at least eight different highlighters, taking notes and stuff, cause he does not miss one tiny little thing. All the awkward passages Stephenie Meyer (Happy Birthday btw!) wrote but you never thought about twice because you were so absorbed with all the Edward hotness. And trust me, there are indeed a lot of strange things written down in that book… I read the books about four times and I still like them. But I also gotta say that I think Alex is not only hilarious, he’s also right. With everything he says in his awesome reviews.

Wanna know what he says about chapters one and two? Here we go:

Isn’t he great? I so hope he gets to Breaking dawn one day. Cause I can’t wait to hear what he thinks about that one…^^

So what is your favorite part of “Alex reads Twilight”? Did you notice any of those things during your first read? Do you think he’s hilarious? And right? Let us know by writing a comment or an e-mail!

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Off to check if Zelda’s still alive

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(videos: YouTube)

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Christmas in our Twiblog-world… and in our real lifes

I can’t believe it’s already the 23rd! Almost Christmas. Have i already mentioned that this is my favorite time of the year? No? Well, it is! Everyone else love the summer and sun and stuff but I’m totally one for lights and candles and drinking tea and making special Christmas cookies and stuff. We always celebrate with our whole family (about 18 people) at Mama Soul’s. Where else? Each year I have an amazing “Christmas outfit” including a dress and awesome jewelery to wear in my hair. And there are always tons and tons of super delicious homemade food Mama Soul makes. She spends the whole day in the kitchen to make at least six different dishes for her lovely family… aka us. I love it! Don’t worry, I’ll take pictures for you so you don’t miss anything.

It's Christmas...

...at Mama Soul's, YAY!

Only thing that sucked so far: There are no Twilight advent calendars! I wanted to get one for Zelda but couldn’t find one. Not in any of the thousand stores I went to and not even on the internet. FAIL! I mean, honestly? There are Valentine chocolates but no advent calendars? You better get one out in time for Christmas 2010. Cause I’ll want one then. For Zelda of course. Glad my mummy made me a super dazzling advent calendar all by herself. Because Mama Soul’s awesome like that. But now let’s talk about Christmas on our beloved Twi-blog! I photoshopped extraordinarily amazing stuff for all our dear readers! Most of it will be in our post for tomorrow but of course I couldn’t resist showing you a little teaser today! So check out Zelda’s and Soul’s Twi-Christmas trees which I’m just gonna post here today instead of writing another 500 words. Because to be honest, I wrapped about 12 presents yesterday and they look fantabulous. Just saying. But I still got about seven more to do. So just get your daily dose of HTD-laughs by watching the two best virtual Christmas trees ever. Seriously! Click for MAXIMUM LOLs!

The Zelda-tree

The Soul-tree

Did you laugh your ass off? I hope so. Cause I did when I first had the idea to make those awesome trees for Zelda and me. Wait till you see the stuff I’ve prepared for tomorrow! Cause its coolspice, promise!

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Off to wrap up the last few presents
(Don’t worry Zelda, yours is already done )

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Do you think we’re crazy now cause we have a virtual Twilight Christmas tree? In real life we have normal decorations, FYI. Do you have special Twilight Christmas stuff? Did you make your own cards featuring Edward? Wearing nothing but a Santa hat? Want to share it with us? (Oh yes, please do!) Just leave a comment or e-mail us!

(images: me; thanks to the awesome cafepress Twilight themed Christmas ornaments)

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How to undazzle Zelda with my confessions…sorry partner!

Will we still be together happy like that after Zelda reads this post?

Ok Zelda, this is really hard for me right now but I got to tell you anyway! It’s one week before Christmas and that always gets me in a special mood. I feel like I just have to tell you now. So let’s get it over with… I may not be the perfect blog-partner you thought. I may not even be the great friend you thought. So here is the true story behind what you believed to be the best story of friendship and journalistic success ever:

I remember very clearly when I read the Twilight series for the first time back in august. In less than six days. Less than 16 days for the first three times. I don’t quite remember how it happened exactly but within a couple of days I was completely addicted. There was nothing I could do about it and I had no one to share it all with. Well, my sister had read the books as well but she wasn’t pulled in nearly as far as I was… But we both had always liked the same books. I knew you were probably the only person who could understand me. Unfortunately you weren’t there. You were working in Australia for months, thousands of miles away. Only contact we had was through e-mails and skype (Thank God for the internet!). And how could I explain the Twilight phenomenon per mail to someone who basically didn’t know anything at all about the books? I have no idea how I managed it but somehow I got you to the point were you said that the books seem to be quite good and that you would give them a try as soon as you would get home. Was it the part where I called Edward the “supersexy rockstar-type with a supercute family” that got you? Maybe.  The part where I swooned over all his hotness? Probably.

Soul and Zelda finally reunited back in september

Then you finally got home. And I got you the book. With a personal dedication from me in it. Written in extra sparkly ink. And you were so happy about it you almost freaked out. Okay, you nearly knocked me over and I may still recover from several cracked ribs from your embrace… Just kidding. Well, I knew I had you then! Like no good friend ever should I was about to make you an addict just like I was. Like selling you crack or something. But I couldn’t regret it. In contrary, I couldn’t wait for you to finish Breaking Dawn so we could talk it all over together. And watch the movie… like 147 times in a row. We laughed at the same passages, made fun of the same things and swooned over Edward together. I sometimes -ok, almost every day- sent you links to posts from another Twilight-blog I had started reading. I discovered that your whole desktop background was covered in pictures of Rob (although you didn’t even know his name back then). We had so much fun together and I thought well, if I’m going to hell I might as well do it thoroughly! (Yeah, I just quoted, something I usually avoid. I got a bit carried away, sorry!) Suddenly talking to you wasn’t enough anymore. I realized even you noticed how deep I was pulled in. I had to share my thoughts with all the people out there who felt just like me. And I knew you were the only one I could tell this. That I considered starting my own Twilight-blog. Cause the only way left to save my soul (Yep, that’s where my fake name comes from. That and a stupid Rob-Twilight song of course…) was to find another outlet, to make fun of it all… You were so ready to join me I was completely dazzled. While I researched all the technical stuff you came up with the name “how to dazzle”. You even wrote our first post! Yes dear readers, you heard me right. I may have been the one who came up with the whole blog-idea but it was Zelda who actually wrote our first post. Although we didn’t publish it as the first one, still you were the one who started writing. And yeah, I laughed my ass of reading it. You always thought that I had started all this but I knew from the beginning I couldn’t do that alone. The moment I read your text about the “cute shirtless Indian” was actually when I thought “Wow, we’re really doing this”.

I thought you should know that I intentionally made you an addict just like me to have someone to share it all with, abused you and forced you into writing a blog with me because I knew I couldn’t pull it off alone. I apologize. I cannot say I regret it though. Because I don’t. But I apologize. Guilty of all charges, I don’t deny it. In case you ditch me now and end our wonderful blog-partnership I can totally understand you. Still I hope you won’t. Cause honestly, I couldn’t have done all this without you. So thank you so much for being my accomplice!

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Off to look for a new blog partner just in case…
No, just kidding! You know I would never do that!

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Have you ever done anything like this? Have you lured your friends into the Twi-world to have someone to share all your addiction fascination with? Do you think Zelda and I have some kind of abusive relationship? Tell us your Twi-story in the comments or send an e-mail!

(images: my dad and me)

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How I almost met Edward in Munich

Twi-blogging deluxe on my journey to Munich

For the last five days I was MIA. Five days of Twi-blogging abstinence. Doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy though. I was on the road making important Soul Twi-investigations. Wanna know what I found out? Wanna know where Edward lives and whether I met him in Munich or not? Wanna know what Rosalie’s and Emmett’s wedding song was? Cause I might have the answers here!

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Rocking my plaid bedshorts in honor to Rob

When I left I had kind of a bad conscience because of leaving Zelda all alone with the blog. But she did a great job while I was away. Well, there was that one time she forgot to mail me the daily blog update… Just kidding girl, you did great!

So as I already wrote a few days ago, I went to Munich to visit some old friends I haven’t seen in a while and I stayed at my guyfriend’s apartment. And I gotta say, he was damn polite. He carried my suitcase. He cooked super delicious dinner (Man, that guy can cook… I took a picture but I wish I could make you smell it, hmmm). He invited me for a so-called cherry glühwein at the Christmas market (Absolutely delicious as well. If you ever get the chance to drink one, do it!). And I got his bed while he slept on the mattress on the floor (Gave me a really bad conscience at first…)
And then it happened. Just thinking of it again gives me goosebumps. You know, he has that fantabulous piano. And I played a bit on it just for fun. And then he comes along and starts playing with me. Maybe I should mention that he’s a total pro. So I stop and sit there silently while listening to him and theeen… he suddenly starts playing Debussy’s Claire de Lune. We all know Claire the Lune’s great. And then he goes on with Yiruma’s River flows in you, the  unofficial lullaby so to say. And he plays it all by heart. And absolutely perfectly. I died. Literally.

Are those Edward's pale hands playing wonderful songs for me?

Well, no, maybe not literally or I couldn’t write this post right now…but you know what I mean. I was sitting there completely paralyzed. The most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard in my whole live. I may or may not have secretly recorded that on my camera. I considered making a CD as a Christmas gift for Zelda. (Sorry girl, I can’t now cause the surprise effect would be gone. But otherwise I couldn’t have written about it here on the blog…) So when I had recovered a bit I asked him “Where do you know all that from? I mean, you played it all by heart and it sounded absolutely amazing…” and he says “I played it all at my sister’s wedding.” What? Rosalie and Emmett had Claire de Lune and River flows in you as their wedding songs? Oh no, hold on, he isn’t Edward just some old friend of mine, right? RIGHT???

But then again he’s really really pale. And we only went out on cloudy days. Well, there wasn’t a sunny day during my stay. And he’s so polite, a complete gentleman. And he knows how to cook just like Edward in Breaking Dawn. Okay, he ate with me though. But his name sounds pretty similar to “Edward”. Might be the german version, even though I’m not quite sure about that. Hm, guess he’s my almost-Edward…

Oh, wanna know what else happened while I was in Munich? Cause apart from the piano-thing everything else seems to fade in a blur… We visited an international Christmas market. There were Indians from Arizona selling handmade jewelry. Only Navajos and Cheyennes, no Quileutes. And no handcarved little wolves. Otherwise I would have brought one for Zelda, just for fun.

Are those Edward's pale hands making delicious cranberry Christmas cookies?

On the first night it snowed. Everything was white and it got freezing cold. I made a snowball and kissed it softly. Just in case I ever meet the real Edward, you know… And we baked homemade cranberry Christmas cookies. My hands got all shimmering from the butter. Unfortunately it didn’t transfer that well to the picture but if you look hard enough you can see what sparkly vampire skin would look like in the family photo album. And I got amazing Christmas gifts for both my sister and Zelda. Just saying.

Wanna know whether my almost-Edward composed a special lullaby for me? Sorry, I don’t know… yet. But I’ll tell you as soon as I find out, promise!

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Off to recover from my almost-Edward encounter

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Wanna have almost-Edwards number? Or his adress? Sorry, but I’m not gonna share this time… Anything else you wanna say? Leave a comment or e-mail us!

(images: me)

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