Blah. While I am still not feeling 100% well again, I am feeling a lot better than I was late Saturday night. I’ve been drowning myself in Nyquil and orange juice and have been able to, thus far, fend off illness. My body aches are gone (thankfully) but I’ve still got throat/nose issues going on. Keep those healin’ vibes coming, please … I could really use them.

David and I took his brother Aram out for brunch yesterday before he had to fly back to San Fran. I spent much of the afternoon in bed trying to sleep off my illness and felt well enough to go to the movies last night. We decided to see 2012:

Okay, no lie … the plot is really dumb and the acting is laughably bad BUT I cannot encourage all y’all to go see 2012 in theaters enough. The special effects are so grand, so fun that you MUST see them on the big screen. The action gets started really early in the film and there is a lot of pay off … first Los Angeles gets destroyed, then Wyoming, then Las Vegas, then Washington DC … it’s really cool to see. Movies like this have nothing to do with plot, it’s all about the FX … 2012 is a fun time at the movies, I think you will love it. I loved it … and, thankfully, the dumb plot parts are few and far between … there is a lot of action to see. I’m so glad we saw it on the big screen.

I’d like to give a special shout-out to Pink reader Jamie who I met on Twitter during the last hockey season. She and I were Red Wings buddies on Twitter … and I randomly ran into her at Disneyland on Saturday:

It was so cool getting to meet her in person! Aren’t we cute in our pic ;)

No plans for today, I’m gonna try and keep getting better … we’ve got a bizzy week ahead of us, so hopefully I’ll be right as rain very soon.

Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers — Melissa from Roseville, CA sends in a pic of her newborn babygirl Kailyn Sara who was born on 09.22.09 — Amy sends in a pic with the amazing actor Patrick Stewart (who famously played Capt. Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation) who she got to meet at an event in New Jersey recently — Iris, who attended the San Francisco, CA Twilight Mall Tour event with Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene, sends in a pic with an Edward Cullen look-a-like — Sarah and her hubby send in a fun Hallowe’en pic of them dressed as a Girl Gone Wild and GGW founder Joe Francis — Christina, too, sends in a fun Hallowe’en pic of a bunch of friends dressed as all the characters from Street Fighter:

Thank you all much for sending in a another fun batch of photos. As you might imagine, I still have a large collection of Hallowe’en pics so I will *try* to keep posting as much of them as possible. Love to you all for continuing to send in your amazing photos … please keep ‘em coming!!

Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers … because I received LOTS of amazing Hallowe’en photos, I want to share another batch of those with all y’all — Kari sends in an ADORABLE photo of her little monkey Eliza Ann — Karen sends in a cute pic of her granddaughter Little Nemo — Sarah sends in a pic of her little Analise dressed up as Michael Jackson — Sandy from Winnipeg, Manitoba sends in a pic of her fun witch costume — Krissy and Jared from Waukesha, WI send in a pic of their Bill and Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) costumes — Danielle sends in a pic from her Dia de los Muertos celebration:

Thank you all so much for your amazing photos … I wish I could post them all but I got TONS! I’ll try to share a few more photos in the coming weeks but I do want to thank you all so much for sending them in. I’ve seen them all, I love them all :)

Yesterday was a very quiet day for David and me … since The Turtle Party: Book Club meeting was postponed to Sunday, we found ourselves with a free day. I spent much of it reading and lounging around … and last night was spent in front of the TV along with almost 14,000,000 other folks watching the series premiere of V on ABC:

Earlier this year I blogged my love for the original V miniseries that aired back in the 80’s so I have been anxiously awaiting the premiere of the new version. Some very special friends of mine got me a copy of last night’s pilot episode on DVD for my birthday back in July so I was already well aware of how awesome the new series is … and now all y’all know too. I thought the pilot got things off to a great start … I can’t wait to see more.

I’m not the only V fan around here you know … Pink reader Philip sent in pics of his Hallowe’en costume this year where he dressed up as a Visitor circa 1985:

Isn’t this a rad costume? I love it!! I’m sure many of y’all enjoyed the ep last night as well … here’s hoping it turns out to be a huge smash success!

Tonight, David and I have plans to attend an event in Beverly Hills, CA … we’ll see if we actually make it out to the event or if our laziness will win out. If we do go, tho, I should have fun pics to share tomorrow ;)

I asked all y’all to send in fun pics from your Hallowe’en celebrations this year and so many of you sent in amazingly fun photos!!! Now, there’s no way I can post them all here today but I did select a sample of your photos for sharing — Shae sends in a pic of her 4 week old Rosalie dressed as a cute pink leopard — Lisa sends in a pic of her 6 month old Ronan dressed as a garden gnome — Geret sends in a pic with his baby son Josh dressed as Batman & Robin — Kayleigh sends in a pic with her adorable baby pumpkin Caleb — Meta sends in a pic of her 2 month old baby bunny — Jaclyn the Kitty sends in a pic with Brooklyn the Ladybug and Marissa the Bee:

There were so many photo submissions that I have another batch of pics to share — after the jump, check out if YOUR photo made the cut …

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Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers — Tiffany sends in a cute pic of her little 8 month old pink skeleton Eva who is all ready for her first night of trick or treating — Danielle sends in a pic of her Taylor Swift vs. Kanye West Hallowe’en costume — Jessica sends in a pic with her three bridesmaids Megan, Sarah and Janice at her recent wedding reception in Canmore, Alberta — Vanessa sends in a pic with hottie Robin Thicke who she met recently in Chicago, IL — my dear friend Sashie sends in a photo with her beautiful baby boy Jasper, who David and I finally got to meet back in September, all dressed up as a cute little dragon in his pre-Hallowe’en costume:

LOVE these photos … thank you all so much for sending them in!! Remember, I hoping that all will take fun pics of your Hallowe’en costumes today so that you can send them in for sharing here on the blog. Send your fun photos to pinkisthenewblog @ gmail.com and I will post as many of them as I can! Thank you all so much for continuing to send in your awesome photos … keep ‘em coming!!

Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers — Brittany sends in a pic of her BFF Lindsey who just celebrated her Hawt Dirty Thirty birthday — Lura sends in pic with actor/musician Ryan Gosling whom she met after the first Dead Man’s Bones concert in Cambridge, MA last week — Tory in South Florida sends in a pic of her kiddies Trenton and Kayden showin’ off their Hallowe’en costumes this year … he’s a cool Optimus Prime she is an adorable Hannah Montana — Pammy sends in a pic with her BFF Greg sitting in the audience at a taping of The Wendy Williams Show in NYC — Javier sends in a pic with Shereé Whitfield from The Real Housewives of Atlanta whom he got to meet at an event in Dallas, TX:

Thank you all for taking the time to send in another batch of amazing photos!! Birthday lurve goes out to Lindsey and regular love goes out to the rest of you :) Remember, Hallowe’en is next Saturday so if any of y’all have fun costume photos to send in … please do! I’d love to be able to post an entire batch of Hallowe’en photos next Saturday :) Send in those pics, y’all!!