So, I made it back home to SoCal from Detroit safe and sound … another perfect flight without delays or baggage mishaps. I wish I could be totally contented with my travel yesterday except that because it was September 1, I was forced to pay $15 to check a bag of luggage for my flight. I guess most if not all airlines are now charging for every bag you check for flight … which, I think, really sucks. But, what are you gonna do? Before I had to catch my plane, Sarah, Mark and I went out for lunch at BD’s Mongolian BBQ and then snapped one last photo before I had to take off:

I really miss Sarah, Mark, all my Detroit peeps and family already … I can’t wait to get back to see them.

While flying back home yesterday, I was able to finish book 3 of the Twilight series Eclipse:

Even tho I still have a bit of difficulty with some of the hallmarks of this book series (specifically Bella‘s weak nature) I am really caught up in the story. I loved the dichotomy that sprung up between the two loves of her life, Edward the vampire and Jacob the werewolf. I can see where the folks who are rooting for Jacob to win Bella‘s heart are coming from. I find him much more endearing than Edward. All in all, the books are really an entertaining guilty pleasure for me. I really thought the corny parts of the books would get to me but I really don’t have a problem with them. Sure, I would love the prose to be a bit less … dorky (wack? nerdy? I dunno how exactly to categorize it) but if you just go with it, it’s not really so bad. I get that Stephenie Meyer is creating a world with her novels, the characters are not as “hip” as in other books (no matter how much she tries to “hip” them up with fancy cars, etc.) but they are consistent. You get lost in this world … and I can deffo see the appeal. I’m sold. I began reading Breaking Dawn last night … I’m intrigued where this book will take the story. I can tell by the Table of Contents that Meyer does change things up with this last book. I’m curious to see how it all ends. I’ve read up to the part of Bella and Edward‘s honeymoon (which was a bit ridic to picture, I mean sex between those two characters seems so … wrong) and I have no idea where the story goes from there. The marriage seems like a great place to end the story … what could possibly be next? I guess I’ll find out.

In between reading chapters last night, I did watch the season premiere of Gossip Girl … which I enjoyed for the most part. I tried to watch Prison Break but I think I’m finally over that show. I don’t even care anymore. I’m to scratch that one off my DVR record list.