WARNING: this post features pictures of hot abs!!

I want to preface this by saying that I'm not a huge Robert Pattinson fan--he is not Edward from the Twilight books, in my mind. That being said, my heart skipped a beat when I saw this poster for New Moon on Rachel's blog:

I've since learned that it's not the one put out by the film company (theirs is just the bottom fourth of it), but photoshopped together by a fan! I will concede, now that I've seen the movie twice, Robert is looking better and better to me :)

Of course he's still not at the top of my "vampire hotties list". I definately have a penchant for bad boy, bleached blondes after becoming enraptured with Spike (James Marsters) from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel TV series' many moons ago (and yes, I did enjoy James in the Twilight movie).

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And although Angel wasn't as hot as Spike in my book, this picture of David Boreanaz certainly sizzles--am I right, girls?!!?

And since this has started out as a "hot guys I've been noticing lately" post, lets keep it going with some more eye candy! This is Ryan Conklin from the latest season of The Real World. A cutie, great singer/songwriter/guitar player, and soldier (who already spent a year in Iraq before the show, who just got called back for another deployment there).

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Because he looks so young (he's 24 now but was only 19 or 20 when in Iraq before), he reminds me that our babies are across the sea risking their lives for us and that absolutely breaks my heart. Whatever your political views, lets work on getting these heros back home!!!!!!!

I haven't seen him in the Sex and the City movie (& don't plan to since I've never had an interest to even see the series), but French actor Gilles Marini sure has been heating up Dancing With the Stars lately! Check out his Samba, and especially this week's Tango for proof of this.

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Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is certainly a sexy Henry VIII in the Showtime series The Tudors,

this season he even has a menacing goatee! Which vampire character could we petition for him to be cast as in one of the upcoming Twilight movies????

And, since I'm me, I have to throw in one baffling, eclectic choice: Russell Brand. Trust me when I say that it's only safe to watch American television interviews with him, and not his BBC stand-up specials! Because he was politically insensitive and also made some snide remarks about the Jonas Brothers' promise rings, I was one of the few who really enjoyed his hosting the MTV Video Music Awards last year.

Lastly, I just happened across this pic of Christain Bale and felt that any post of hot guys would be incomplete without him!

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Sorry mom, I know this is far from your favorite type of post (which is chuck full of wholesome pictures of your grandchildren)--I'll get another one of those up soon, I promise!

And in conclusion, speaking of cravings, Tony and I have been eating healthy and excersising a lot these past 3-4 weeks and are losing some weight! Officially, Tony's lost 12 lbs. and I've lost 12, yay us!!! Still, I just had to post this darling idea and beg my friends and/or family to make them with me soon (and then take them all away so I don't eat them):

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They're cakeball pops from Bakerella's awesome blog (see posts from March 25-April 1 for how-to's).