Guest Banana: Vampires, Werewolves, Aliens (and maybe some wizards). Oh my!

As I tend to be from time to time, I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with all of these dang responsibilities that being a mom, wife, IT consultant, Power Point operator, writer and primetime television watcher entails. So, in order to ease the burden a bit, I’ve decided to ask people to be Guest Bananas, AKA guest writers on this site. This Guest Banana post was written by my good friend, and fellow watcher of awful television, Mara. Take it away, Mara!

Well hello there interweb. If you have followed the wonderful Crazybananas for a while, you will know me as “The Mara”. I used to leave 17 page comments on posts, usually having nothing to do with the actual post itself and just updating Megan and her followers on my college days. I was awesome. Megan has asked me, knowing my awesomeness, to guest post on her wonderful website as she is busy being a wonderful mother, wife and working girl (not prostitute) [ed note: Thanks for clarifying that I’m not a prostitute, Mara] and not to mention growing a Pirate King in her womb. Her life is crazy and I am thankful for every day that I get to spend time with her and her beautiful family. Enough gushing about her, seriously though, look at the freaking family pictures. Like, are you kidding me!?

It took me 2 seconds to determine what I wanted to write about, it went something like this (via text):

Megan: P.S. would you do a guest post on my website?
Me: OF COURSE! Vampires, werewolves and aliens?!
Megan: Perfect!

So, I’m sitting here trying to determine how to organize my thoughts about the following topics: vampires, werewolves, aliens and wizards (preferably of the Ginger variety). This is hard. I could write on and on and on and on about the things that entertain me the most. I’ll keep it short and sweet…yea, right.

Wizards:
“I’d be sleazy for Ron Weasley”- Yes. Yes, I would. Especially the older, not as awkward, super adorable Ron Weasley. Damn that Hermione Granger. What can I say? I have a thing for awkward Gingers.

As for the Harry Potter Series? Thank you for existing. I am going to cry like a 3 year old when the second movie for The Deathly Hallows comes out. It really can’t be ending, really!? Ugh. The books are amazingly written and while the movies have rarely lived up to my standards they are amazing as well. I highly recommend those who are obsessed with the Twilight series to check out an actual well written series of awesomely addicting books that don’t make you feel like your IQ has dropped 90 points.

Vampires and Werewolves:
I love vampires. I also love werewolves. Now please don’t confuse this with me believing that vampires and werewolves exist. While it is entirely possible and would be awesome, my common sense does take over, sometimes. Megan introduced me to Twilight and Moonlight which opened the flood gates to all popular vampire “pop culture” (True Blood, Vampire Diaries, etc). And for that, I am eternally grateful. Seriously. I have had some of the best times hanging out with my BFF’s, drinking (even not drinking sometimes, I know, weird, right!?) and watching awesomely bad vampire shows/movies. They are cheesy, drama filled and full of smoking hot men. Delicious. I’m not sure what I’m trying to get across here except that I think these series/sagas have taught me to not take myself too seriously. If I had, I would have missed out on lots of laughs and good times with friends. For a future post I will prepare an essay comparing Twilight, Moonlight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries and have Megan post it as she will be busy being a mom for the second time (yay!!). This is something I’ve joked about for awhile but I really should get a start on it, because, really, what else do I have to do?

Aliens:
One word: Roswell. [Ed note: The clips in this section are different…yes I know the screen caps look the same. F’ing Hulu. Trust, you want to click on both. The truth is out there. Wait, wrong aliens…]

Introduced into my life by, guess who!? (Who else thinks that Megan introduces these things to my life to ensure herself a bad/cheesy T.V./movie watching buddy? I do. But I love it.) Roswell thoroughly entertained me for the 2 days it took me to watch the entire series. Alright, alright, it was more than 2 days but honestly if I didn’t have to work or sleep, I would have just watched every episode straight through. That good. And cheesy. And full of hotness monsters (and Max’s body, holy cow. Take your shirt off more often, please!?). Aliens do exist. As current events prove, they are watching/deactivating nuclear weapons. Awesome. Anywho, Roswell is about normal teenagers just trying to live their lives. Half of them are aliens: Max, Michael and Isabel. Michael, by far the fan favorite, is the bad boy. With the bad hair, which ends up being charming…well in that cheesy way. Teenage angst ensues. Really that’s all you need to know. They battle with the same problems as normal teenagers: relationships, lisps, parent problems and money woes, but better because they aren’t from this planet!

Shocking and amazing! I suggest and encourage the renting/buying of these DVD’s and maybe starting a website to get the cast back together for a movie reunion (I would, but I’m too lazy). That would be awesome and I would pee my pants with excitement!!

Alright, summation time, I love wizards, werewolves, vampires and aliens. The above is a scrabble brained attempt to show this. Also, Megan has destroyed any chance of me living a normal life. Harsh but true. Most of the above obsessions have occurred because of or have increased in nature due to the lovely blonde lady with the beautiful family. She has convinced me (really twisting my arm and forcing me) to watch every Cutting Edge (except one that even Megan deemed unwatchable) and 2 of the 3 Step Up films. Yes, I called them films. It just gets better and better. And to her I say, Thank you. Thank you for letting me be me and ensuring me a safe place, without criticism to enjoy the nerdy things in life. And thank you to all the creative people that have brought these characters to life for me to enjoy. Seriously, I wish I had a quarter of the imagination of J.K. Rowling.

Interweb, watch some vampires, werewolves, aliens and wizards, laugh and enjoy life, don’t take it too seriously.

Until next time, if I’m ever invited back!