09.01.09 - 09.07.09
First six months since Grandpa passed away.

Was in a funk all day today, possibly contributed to by the fact that I stayed up until 4:30am trying and failing to write something to fit the occasion. There were other things that contributed to the badness of the day, but though discouraging, they are trivial and not worth mentioning.

But now it is a new day.
I have laughed with and been hugged in real life by and hugged via myspace by .
I have talked it out with a couple of close friends (thank you for listening).
I have slowly sipped a cup of peppermint tea.
I have listened to a lot of music.

And now I find my inspiration again.

I can do this.

Was driving to the Gold Coast and my car CD player decided to be stroppy and not read the CD properly. When that happens I usually have to turn the car off in order to get the CD out, clean it and put it back in...

...except I was on the M1, so stopping was not an option. So I drove for about 40 minutes in silence...

Anyway, the point is that while trying to occupy myself I got a couple of GREAT ideas for the story ideas I'm working on...

BUT I didn't have a notebook/pen handy!

So I am going to have to sit down and try to remember it all...

But at least my writer's block is going...