Birthday

My birthday was a few days ago, and I spent it quietly enjoying family and looking through the tiny museum here in the county's center. I enjoyed seeing the sun shine brilliantly on the yellowed leaves of trees, seeing how they shined as gold or copper with the sun's help.  They were beautiful.  

Today, I gave myself my birthday present.  In the past this has been something like a new haircut, a new outfit, something like that.  Not this time.  Today I decided my present to myself was to go watch the movie no one wanted to watch with me.  I admit that part of my desire to see it was so that I could have closure for the series of movies it completed. (Twilight - Breaking Dawn Part 2)  

Having watched it, I was very glad I had done it.  The rest of the series was good, even considering the story line is centered around sparkly vampires and teen angst that lasts centuries long.  But the finale piece, the final movie, makes seeing all the movies that lead up to it worth while.  Also necessary, since much of it won't make sense if you don't know the back story. 

Usually I watch a movie and say, that was nice but the books gave me a lot more info.  This one for the most part was the same, but I watched certain scenes and thought, "I don't remember getting nearly this involved during this part of the book." I liked that moment.  I love books, and I always prefer to read a book prior to watching the movie that's based on it.  But that was a nice moment to experience. And it was a good present to myself.  Thank you, me!