Wedding Stuff

Despite the gloomy rain, Heather and I ventured into Boston for the Bridal Expo at Fenway Park (while they are away playing the EVIL Empire.)

We saw lots of great photography, trip planners and other odds and ends. Heather even got a small make over. :-) There is a NEW trend out there that we saw over and over: Mobile Picture Booths. For "X" amount of dollars, you can rent a Photo Booth for your wedding (up to 4 hours). The concept is cool and some even have stickers. At the expo, several photographers were providing Free samples of this feature. Of course, Heather and I took advantage of this. See examples:

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Are we dorks? Probably. But we had fun and that's what counts, right?

Books of my youth

I am a girl of the '80s. I had pegged pants, crimped hair and wore scrunchies.

That's me on the left, with my brother and cousin Lori.

So of course, as a teeny-bopper of the '80's, I worshiped books such as:

The Babysitter's Club

AND........

Sweet Valley Twins!

Do any of you remember these books? I loved them. I always wanted to be like Jessica and be a member of "The Unicorn Club."

And of course I wanted to be like Dawn from the BSC because:

A. She was blonde.

B. She was from California.

C. She was just super cool.

I was also a BIG fan of Stacey too because she had fun clothes.

So you must wonder, what prompted Kristin to bring this up? Well, I took a quiz on Facebook titled, "Which Baby-Sitter's Club Character Are You?"

I have to say, I wasn't super excited about my results: I got Claudia.

You are the teenage artistic genius of StoneyBrook Middle School. Countless pages have been dedicated to your homemade scrunchies/legwarmers/oversized t-shirts with ballet flats. You can paint, sculpt and eat Mallomars with the best of them. Unfortunately, your older sister is a genius with a major stick up her ass. As are your parents. You had a wonderfully understanding Grandmother, Mimi, but now you must rely on your BSC pals and art teachers to boost your self-esteem. And no BSC book would be complete without describing your ""beautiful, almond shaped eyes" which is the 80s politically correct way of describing your Asian ethnicity. .

She's not bad, but she's no Dawn or Stacey. Where I will admit, I am artistic, I do not suffer from low self esteem, plus I am not Asian. :)

The result of this quiz got me thinking. Whatever happened to the Sweet Valley Twins/Sweet Valley High Books?(I lovingly referred to them as the SVH.)

I decided to google "Sweet Valley High" and got this: Diablo Cody to Adapt 'Sweet Valley High.

Ummmm....what?! A movie you say? I know that there was some sort of movie/series in the '90s that was kinda a cheesy, but this might be cool. The director to take on this project directed "Juno" and "Jennifer's Body." I would like to see the spin that she puts on the SVH sisters. I could see Elizabeth (the smart one) portraying the quirky Juno personality while Jessica is your typical "Mean Girl."

Aside from BSC and SVH, I also loved RL Stine, Christopher Pike, Judy Blume, "Are you there God? It's me Margaret," "Just Like Ice Cream," the Ramona Books, and many, many more.

Eventually, at the tender age of 9, my Aunt gave me 500 Harlequin Romance Novels and let's just say I LEARNED alot!

I would LOVE to get my hands on some of my old books! So the search begins!!

What was your favorite books as a kid?