Last Friday I went to a midnight release party for Breaking Dawn with Lenneth and Johan (who kindly drove us, and Lenneth’s niece, down to Redding for the occasion.) I spent the evening finishing the last third of Eclipse, watching cute little emos!!!! people drift around; at midnight we picked up our copies and headed home. I finished it Sunday afternoon, finding it utterly crack-tacular, even more so than the other books. Parts horrified me. Parts I loved. By the end, I loved it front-to-back. I’m rereading the latter half now, just to go over the more fascinating parts (imho).

I was never one for vampires, Interview With A Vampire (despite Brad Pitt) gave me nightmares for a solid MONTH, and in general, it’s just not my thing. The story told in the Twilight Saga, however, was so much more than mere vampires; I can’t believe how much I liked it. The end was very satisfactory.

And what can I say? Twilight got me reading again; Eclipse and Breaking Dawn have my writing juices flowing a little. Despite everything going on (and wow, what a lot I can’t talk about here), I still feel a bit more creative than I have in recent memory. I’ll pick up where I left off — working on themes and things of importance to me, brainstorming, clustering — today or tomorrow. Work is starting to improve, and I need to catch up a bit. So I’m doing that, for now.