Milestone: Amber Grows Up

Or more accurately: Amber Grows a Pair. Last night was my eleventh night sleeping in my new home and my FIRST night sleeping here without a nightlight on. I forced myself not to leave the hallway light dimmer on low last night and went to bed in the dark like a big girl. The nightlight thing isn't new for me. I do it in every new house, and I did it for about a month last year when my friend Gail scared me with ghost stories.

Although, to be fair, the moon has been so full the last week and my curtains are pretty sheer, so my bedroom is still very light at night even without the hallway light on. It looks like a movie set and how they have the lighting so you know it's "nighttime", with all the blue-white, bright, fake moonlight coming through the windows. Except it's not fake in my room. It's actually really pretty. Teddy and I enjoy it.

Tonight when I got home I met another one of the boys who lives in the house across the street, David. He surfs too. He seems like a nice boy. And he made me feel like a giant. What else is new, right?

Turns out there are 5 guys living over there; I've met him, Ben, and Brian. I told him that it's just me in my house, so if they ever hear screaming, they have to come over and save me. That's okay to disclose to someone you just met, right? Yeah...probably not. But David has good manners and said they'll look out for me.