Saturday, August 29, 2009

Call Me The Converter

I did it again! And holy shit balls people I may need an award for this one. Let me start by saying I this friend. She is an awesome friend. But she is sceptical of EVERY fucking thing! She is my "80's BadAss"friend, she loves 80 metal music and everything that goes with it. She was the ultimate 80's Bitch in high school-you know the one, she smoked cigarettes, drank, snuck out of her house, hid out from the cops ... all the stuff I was too chicken shit to do when I was 16. Of course time has caught up with her and she acts like she is a "goodie" now...but deep down-she is still that 80's hard ass that I love. So when I tried persuading her to read Twilight a few months back she gave me the "are you a fucking stupid" look but ended up taking my book with the promise to give it a try. I hounded her at least once a week...and her response was always "I tried-I read a few pages and I just can't get into it". UGH!


Let's fast forward to last night.... 80's Queen came over for a "girls" evening. The dh's were going night golfing-whatever! I think they secretly just go drinking - but who cares, it gets them out of the house! And I had a plan! I was going to make her watch the movie. If my persuading skills couldn't get her to read the fucking book, perhaps Mr. Pattinson's could.





Come on 80's Queen, Lay down here with me and let's watch Twilight together

Now I couldn't just say "Hey Bitch, let's watch Twilight" because that would have been met with her burning me with a lit ciggie...so I carefully-very sneaky like - put the movie on while she was out of the room..so when she returned it was starting. She sat down and started watching-without knowing "what" she was getting ready to see (insert evil laugh here). To my amazement she didn't run at me like a rabid dog and kick my ass! She actually got into it, and started asking questions.

So there we were, I would pause the DVD every now and again and explain certain things to her and she would soak it all in and love every minute of it. I could have cried! I was there to witness her lose her Twilight Virginity!


I was a little frightened because frankly I think the movie does blow donkey balls-but maybe it is just if you read the books first and you didn't have someone explaining why Edward was giving Bella the Stalker Vampire Stare most of the movie. But 80's Queen LOVED it...and even said she was going to read the book today! I called her this morning to see if she made it home ok last night and guess what? Bitch didn't lie! She was reading already!

Ahhh! I feel like a proud parent! And it didn't hurt that she thought Rob was fucking H.O.T. (except she didn't like the weird lipstick---but who did).

OK-Off to do some celebrating! LOL!!
Posted by at 8:35 AM

13 comments:

  1. Christina PadillaAugust 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM

    RIGHTFRIGGENON! the witnessing of her twi virginity lost seriously made me lmao.

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  2. MarlanaAugust 29, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    You fucking crack me up!!!

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  3. Rachel Z.August 29, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    Just like a proud parents. Nothing feels better than converting a hard ass.

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  4. Countess TwiculaAugust 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM

    congratulations!!!good for you!one more (obsessed) fan (like the rest of us)!!!

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  5. sparkle for twilightAugust 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM

    Oh its always so exciting when you get to turn someone! I have one of my best college friends still on the outs. I harrass her with a line about reading Twilight every email, and she used to deny me simply because she "doesn't do what everyone does" (which is also the absurd reason she's never seen Titanic), and now she just ignores the request all together. In my last email I at least told her if she ever was in a situation where she could watch Twilight the movie, to avoid it because I wanted to be the one who showed her and be in the room. She owes me that much, but till then I am still hounding her...

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  6. Ms. JAugust 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM

    Thanks for bringing Ms S to the dark side with us. I wish I could have been there.

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  7. Ms. JAugust 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM

    Thanks for bringing Ms S to the dark side with us. I wish I could have been there.

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  8. Snarcastic MAugust 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM

    Thanks all! I do feel like I accomplished something BIG! LOL!

    SFT: Can you trick her like I did? Sometimes you just got to be devious...LOL!

    Ms J: I about laughed my ass off when Edward ripped his shirt down to show his lame ass sparkles in the movie and 80's Queen was like "Oh, THAT'S what you mean by you like boys that sparkle"...I just wanted to throw a shoe at her...DUH! LOL!

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  9. sparkle for twilightAugust 30, 2009 at 1:28 PM

    Sadly I can't. She's moved out to CA, I'm on the East coast. I thought about sending her Twilight paperback and a bottle of that Twilight-inspired wine. She does love wine... can u even mail alcohol these days?

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  10. Rob's Swiss MissAugust 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM

    Congrats on your newborn ;) And thanks for the fabulous idea...I never thought on covertly having them watch the movie first and then push the books.

    The gears are already turning...must decide who my next victim will be. Bwuahahaha!

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  11. Ms. JAugust 30, 2009 at 2:36 PM

    :-) So did you talk to Ms S to see if she has continued to read it?

    Do you have another copy of Twilight at your house? Maybe we should read it along with her :-)

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  12. Snarcastic MAugust 30, 2009 at 4:29 PM

    Of course I have another copy...how obsessed would I be if I didn't ...LOL! When she took longer than a week to give me my original back I started getting the shakes and shit so I went and bought another one. Oh Geez--I do need a padded room!

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  13. Ms. JAugust 31, 2009 at 8:11 AM

    Ms M, I think when we run to Target today I will have to get me another copy. My friend has had mine for awhile...time to get a new copy :-)

    I love converting people. I'll have to share my 'Twilight' experiences from the preschool :-)

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