- So the night out with the girls was a blast. Amanda was late, naturally. I wouldn’t expect any less of her. If she wasn’t late, she wouldn’t be Amanda. So Shakti and I went ahead and ordered and we were eating dessert by the time Amanda arrived. We talked about what’s been going on since graduation, movies, books, boys. All that fun stuff.

- I met my sister’s new boyfriend, Dennis, yesterday. I don’t know much about him aside from the facts that he’s 25, has a younger brother and sister, and he’s tall. But he didn’t appear to be stoned, so that’s at least one step above Mitch. The jury is still out on the verdict.

- My brother pulled a muscle in his shoulder last night, and our mom had to take him to the ER. At first they thought he’d dislocated his shoulder. He was at our cousin’s house, wrestling. Boys are so ridiculous.

- I finally got to see The Dark Knight! I felt like I was the only person who hadn’t seen it for a while. It was so good. Heath Ledger was so amazing. I still can’t believe he’s gone. :(

- I actually wrote some yesterday. I have been so slack about writing, but I made myself sit down and reread the last thing I wrote and I added over a page. That’s not huge, but it’s improvement at least.

- I also talked to Taye a bit. I’ve missed her. We caught up, and I think we’re going to try our hands at a collaboration. We’re actually picking up something we started ages ago. I think it’ll be fun. I’ve missed my friend and I’ve missed writing way too much.

- So I was looking at this contraption called the Stokke Tripp Trapp. When I first looked at it, honestly, I had no idea what it was. Upon reading, it was obvious it was one of those sort of change as you grow sort of things. It reminded me of one of my all time favorite books is The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen because the main character’s dad used to always buy stuff like that. Things that are supposed to make life easier. Random, but it was just a funny thought association I had. Honestly, stuff like that is great. If you take care of it long enough to get the use out of it. With my family, that seems nearly impossible.

- 6 days until Breaking Dawn! Wee! I’m rereading Eclipse right now. Unfortunately, I think I’ll finish either tonight or tomorrow, so I don’t know what I’ll do to tide myself over until Breaking Dawn. Probably read Twilight again for the millionth time. *obsessed*

I feel so restless these days. It’s mostly related to my desire to write. I seem to have all sorts of stories in my head, but I can’t seem to make myself sit down and concentrate on getting it out. I miss the days where I could just sit down and start writing without much thought. I’m supposed to be focusing on a story named Solace, and I have all sorts of bits and pieces of it in my head, but I also have a couple of other stories floating around that I feel like could have some potential. If I could just find the drive to start writing, I’m sure I could get them out, but I can’t seem to get myself to do that.

I also have some bits and pieces from the story I wrote last November for NaNoWriMo in my head. It was called Orange Sky, and I let people submit challenges, and I didn’t use all of them and I planned to write short pieces that went along with the story, but I haven’t gotten around to it. I should have done it right away. I was in the right frame of mind and setting for the story. Now I think I’d have a hard time getting back there without going back and looking into New York City travel and stuff like that because that’s where the story was set.

I don’t know. I can’t call it writer’s block since I have the stories in my head. Maybe it should be called writer’s motivation block. Hmm.