i hope the weather holds. [but you don't need the sun to make you shine.]

i am so excited right now. i think my creative block might finally be leaving me. i sat down at my desk tonight and began the usual struggle to create something. anything. i've been hung up because i was trying to just make something and i ended up doing something totally cool to the photo i was going to scrap and it froze me. my photo suddenly seemed too good for what i had planned to do with it. i tried to come up with a new plan, but every time i laid the photo on a piece of paper... it just didn't look good enough. yes. it was annoying. i'd already been suffering from a bit of a creative block, but now it was full on.

finally tonight i got over it. and in the process of trying to figure out something to journal on the page i came up with an idea for a whole album i am going to make. ahh. i am so excited. journaling is usually the hardest part for me. i think it's important to the page, so i have a hard time just leaving it off usually. but now. this idea. it just makes it easy. every time i look at a photo now, i instantly think of something to say. i really cannot explain to anyone who knows me just how exciting this is. i flipped through all the photos i have in my little photo file and i had something for all of them. [let me say. i don't have that many photos in my photo file. i think this little situation has been adding to the creative block. my dad bought a nice photo printer for christmas, so i am reluctant to go and pay to print photos now... but who knows how long it will take for him to actually remove the printer from the box.] yeah. all i can say is that i am excited. i'm not going to say the creative block is 100% cured, but i think it's going away a bit.

i suppose i should update about new years. i decided to go out with erin. neither of us drink and neither of us felt like going to a party or paying too much money to go out some where. we were thinking about going to a movie and then watching the fireworks downtown. well the movie times didn't work out... we would have still been in the movie at the stroke of midnight. we are lame. we know we are lame. but we are not that lame. we could not allow ourselves to sit in a theather to bring in the new year. so instead, we walked around downtown. we laughed at the drunk people. we laughed at the wardrobe choices of many people. we tried to count the massive amount of tacky new years hats walking around. we got really cold. so we went into the silver legacy. i got to see james for a bit because he was there with his friends. then erin and i walked back to the car at about 11:40. on our way, some drunk girl followed us and tried to talk to us. she was interesting. she told us she could get us vip at vino's. she was just really strange. we ended up driving up by the university to watch the fireworks. erin happened to pull over on the side of the road by the bus stop. this became a problem when the bus pulled up. so we left about half way through the fireworks and went home. all in all, it was an interesting, but good night.

i am excited for double oh seven. i have the typical resolutions... take care of myself by eating better and going to the gym more... keep my room clean... do my laundry. who knows how successful i will be.

if the weather is good, i am going to the city on friday. just for a night. but i am excited. it's my favorite place ever i'm pretty sure. and if we get lucky, we might get a room upgrade. haha. i signed up for this thing so that for $15 extra, if the rooms aren't sold out, i get an upgrade which if booked to begin with was $50 more. haha. i don't care either way, i just really want to be in the city! so i am really really hoping that the storm on the ocean either doesn't come or passes by friday.

anyway. time to go read and try to fall asleep.