TwiScam?

UPDATE! 12/21/09

Rachel Thieme e-mailed my mom back. She apologized and said she will be getting the necklace to our home shortly. She also said due to our troubles she would add a little something extra. My mom won't tell me what :( Until Christmas morning!

You see? Not only did I have a snow day on Jackson's birthday, but I get good news as well. He's good luck, I tell you!

Happy Birthday, Jackson.

ATTENTION:

DO YOU LOVE THE NEW TWIMERCH. CIRCULATING THE WEB?

BE CAREFUL!

NOT ALL MERCH WILL GET TO YOU ON TIME BEFORE XMAS.

TAKENBYTWILIGHT.COM

The handcrafted Twilight-themed miscellaneous of Taken By Twilight use the actual pages from the Twilight books in order to craft their one-of-a-kind gems. Naturally, like every Twilight fan, you would want your favorite character's name as a necklace, pin, or anything, right? Well I asked for a necklace with "Jasper's Presence" as the focus of the piece by Rachel Thieme (seen below).

My mom ordered it for me on December 2nd, 2009. It is now December 19th, 2009 and still no necklace. I understand they are handcrafted, so I thought it just took a long time to make. My mom called the number on the website to see if there was a tracking number of some sort or to see if it would be here by Christmas. No answer. She called five times and still nothing.

They've already taken the money from her credit card, so the scam is over. But TakenByTwilight was at TwiCons, right? They have a pretty decent background and reputation to back them up. Hopefully all is well, but I can't help, but wonder... is this a scam?

What do you think?

Holiday Break To-Do:

Holiday Reading List:

1. Bran Hambric by Kaleb Nation (I have it, just haven't had time to pick it up after Huck Finn was assigned.)

2. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (I want to re-read it.)

3. The Host by Stephenie Meyer (It took me 300 pages to get involved in the story last time. I want to re-read to see what I've missed.)

Writing To-Do:

1. Write at least three more chapters for Red Weather

2. Start typing up Beautiful, More So (Title to Change [It's my book idea])

Music To-Do:

1. Make a blog post recommending different Indie/Unknown bands

2. Practice flute like a maniac

3. Learn how to tune the ukulele without YouTube's help

3a. Find my tuner

4. St. Vincent song on guitar (if possible at my level)

5. "Translate" songs to ukulele

Random To-Do:

1. See New Moon at least three times before it closes

2. Go to Starbucks with my sister

3. Watch the creepy puppet Christmas movies on ABC Family with my sister

4. Go driving with my dad again

5. Send Christmas cards

5a. Get Christmas gifts

5b. Get addresses

6. SAT homework(?)

This is more for me, not you. I guess it what to expect my tweets will be about if I do check everything off of this list between now an Christmas break. This will change.