If you haven’t guessed by now, the movie I’m talking about is New Moon. I’m making an event out of it — some friends are coming over to eat Italiano, watch Twilight and then go to the theater. At the time I was planning this, I thought it would be easier for everyone to get together on Saturday. Now I realize the rest of the world will get to see the movie a day before we do. What was I thinking?

So to get you (and me) through the next 5 days, I offer 5 things to occupy your time:

1. Go to party one superstore to stare at the life-size Edward Cullen. Maybe take a picture with it.
2. Record all the talkshows this week and count how many times Taylor says he put on 30 pounds of muscle, Kristen refuses to say if she and Rob are together, and Rob says something goofy in a very hot British accent.
3. Continue your “research” using google images to decide if you are Team Edward or Team Jacob.
4. Watch the 3728 clips that are posted on YouTube and then wonder why you need to go see the movie since you’ve pretty much seen it all now.
5. Re-read the book. Or if you are Diana and Lisa, read it for the first time. (And you might want to start with the first one. You’ll probably have to use some vacation time to finish by Saturday.)

Does anyone else have New Moon plans?

Possibility by Lykke-Li

Today’s theme is driving. I love any song that talks about driving or going somewhere. It’s probably because I love to drive especially since I got the coolest car ever.  I have always wanted to just get in my car and drive until I run out of gas, fill up and then come back. Until I do that, I’ll just settle for taking the long way home.

So this post’s title is a line in one of my driving songs.  It is “Days Go By” by Keith Urban. Click More to see my list and some of my favorite lyrics for each song.

• Christina Aguilera – Cruz
  “As I’m driving, I’m captured by the view; So much beauty, the road becomes my muse; The heat is rising, and my hand surfs through the wind; Cool, calm, collective as a child that lies within”
• Barenaked Ladies – Go Home
  “If you think of her as joan of arc; Shes burning for you, get your car out of park; If you think of her as catherine the great; Then you should be the horse to help her meet her fate; If you need her, you should be there, go home”
• Dierks Bentley – Settle for a Slowdown
  “But your wheels just turn down the road ahead; if it hurts at all, you ain’t showed it yet; you’re just a tiny dot on that horizon line; come on tap those brakes baby just one time; I know there’s nothing stopping you now… but I’d settle for a slowdown”
• Kenny Chesney – What I need to do
  “This old highway seems to understand; Leadin me on to somewhere no one knows my name; I got the window rolled down; I got the radio up; I’m doin all I can to get my mind off us”
• Kelly Clarkson – Go (Ford commercial)
  “Let’s Go; Let’s Jump Right In; Screamin’ To the Wind; Feel The Fire Within; I Can’t Ignore This Burnin’ In My Soul; C’mon Baby, Let’s Go”
• Matchbox Twenty – Rest Stop
  “Just three miles from the rest stop; And my mouths too dry to rage; The light was shining from the radio; I could barely see her face; But she knew all the words that I never had said; She knew the crumpled-up promise of this; Broken down man – and as I opened up the door”
• George Strait – Run
  “Find a truck and fire it up; Lean on the gas and off the clutch; Leave dallas in the dust; I need you in a rush; So baby run”
• Keith Urban – Days Go By
  “And the days go by…; I can feel ‘em flyin’; Like a hand out the window as the cars go by…”
• Keith Urban – Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me
  “And the sun is shinin’; This road keeps windin’; Through the prettiest country; From Georgia to Tennessee; And I got the one I love beside me; My troubles behind me; I’m alive and I’m free; Who wouldn’t wanna be me”

That’s my list so far.  If I think of any more, I’ll add them.