I'm settling into life as a vampire pretty well, I think. It's only been six nights, but already I'm doing really well with controlling myself. I stop myself before accidentally draining someone. I can be alone with Reid (my Turning present from Herrick) and not rip his throat out. Yeah, it's really hard when most of the time all I can think about is blood, but I think I'm just so freaked out that I'll kill someone that it actually helps. I've started getting really into sport type games... which is weird, since the only sports I ever really liked were track and soccer. But playing tag and wrestling and stuff is a really great way to get all of this extra energy out, plus I get to play around with my speed and strength... which is cool. Vampire tag is intense, seriously.
Sasha can tell something's different about me. The first time I went outside to see her, she got really freaked out and growled at me, and that just made me feel great about myself, you know. My own dog thinks I'm scary, now, too. Err, well, she did. After some playing and a bath and some cuddles on the back porch, she forgave me for dying.
I don't think I ever really wrote this here, so I'll do it now. I got my driver's license a couple of weeks ago! Herrick made me drive EVERYWHERE for absolutely no reason. He would demand we ~go for a drive all the time. Well. That stopped when I got Turned, since I've been holed up in the house since then. But! Last night, he finally let me out of the house! I say finally, but I think that's really early to be going out. We went for a drive (I drove, of course) out of town and it was great. Getting some fresh air, getting to see something other than the bedroom... was really nice.
I can't believe I'm writing this, but I really can't wait to get back to school and work. I don't know what to do with all of this time. But I'm also worried about going back... not really because I can't control myself or anything, but because I haven't seen the sun in a week. My schedule has completely flipped into weird Vampire Schedule and I don't think they offer a night cosmetology class since there aren't too many people enrolled in it.
Maybe I should start waking up earlier every night? I don't know. I'll have to ask Herrick. He's so strict, which is weird. And it gets really frustrating sometimes, but I know his being strict is really helping me. If he'd just let me drink bags and bags of blood my first night instead of telling me that I had to pull myself away from my first feeding or he would let me drain them... I don't think there would be any way I could control myself at all. Yeah, I'm hungrier than most newborns, but it's helping me learn how to deal with the hunger, I think.
Anyway, I've rambled enough.
I can't wait to get back into civilization! Ugh!
Does anyone have a good recipe for blood brownies?