Vampire Identity Crisis

Are you one of those people who orders the same thing on the menu every time you go to your favorite restaurant? I am.

I am that way with everything. If I love something, I LOVE it. A good example is the burritos from the Mexican joint up the road. An even better example is the Twilight series. Ah, yes...all things do point back to Twilight, don't they? Well, I love those books and have read the whole series so many times that it is a joke at work. I (purposely) lost count; just too embarrassing.

Even though I have been ordering the exact same burrito combo from the aforementioned Mexican joint for seven years, I decided that I couldn't keep reading Twilight forever. It might have been beneficial to have had this insight a few thousand pages ago, but whatever.

One thing was for certain; I just wasn't ready to give up reading about vampires yet. I shouldn't be surprised. Mommy Lipstick loved Bela Lugosi's Dracula,although she has made the switch to Team Edward quite seamlessly.

One of my dear friends from high school has always loved vampires. She fell in love with Lestat from the Anne Rice books and told me that she just never could quite accept a vampire that sparkled.Well, I can understand that, and she knows a thing or two about vampires. She always dresses as one for Halloween, but more importantly, she is NOT aging. I saw her last summer for the first time in sixteen years and she looked exactly the same. I am un-dead serious.

I digress. Desperate for vampire drama and preferring instant gratification, I decided to try out True Blood on HBO. It is based on the series of novels by Charlaine Harris (which I'll probably begin reading...oh, immediately). I am still trying to become accustomed to this guy as my new vampire(why is he better looking in real life than on the show) and also some of the fundamental differences in vampire "rules."

I cut my teeth on Stephenie Meyer's world of the immortals being the most beautiful, but in True Blood, no one is more beautiful than (mortal) Jason Stackhouse. Maybe I'll find out in the books, but how could Sookie rescue Bill in the beginning, and why does the shape-shifter simply change into a dog? And finally, did HBO really mean to cast Joel Osteen's wife as herself, er...I mean, as the wife of the crazy pastor of the Church of the Light? Yep, I think they did. Could it be that I'm already addicted to True Blood? Yep, I think I am.