Mahal na Mahal Kita, Anak

Lauren sat quietly with the small child in her lap, thankful that he'd finally stopped crying long enough for her to enjoy some relative silence. The warmth of the fire behind her was pretty nice and as long as the child did not make a move towards it, this was a pretty good situation.
"Listen!" he said suddenly.
She listened. As far as she could tell, there was just the roar of the vacuum going on in the other room, noisy and obnoxious when she was trying to enjoy sitting down.
Then, quietly, she heard, "I love you."

Horror of All Horrors

Lauren and Meadjean crouched on the bathroom floor, listening to the thumps and yells from outside the room.

"I keep expecting one of their faces to creepily appear in the window or something."

Meadjean shuddered. "I'm so scared."

"Me too," Lauren agreed, drawing her knees to her chest. 

"Lauren! Let us in! Let us in!" one of the menaces called. 

Lauren mimicked it in a horror movie-esque way before making a face. 

The noises outside slowly faded away and the two girls turned to look at each other.

"Think they're gone?"

"It sounds like it."

"Shh. I wanna listen."

They fell silent, both turned towards the direction of the door  as they listened, straining their ears for the sounds of small children.

A couple minutes passed.

"I think they're-"

Loud yelling commenced and Lauren yelped, immediately clinging to Meadjean with her eyes shut and just wishing this night would end.

By Any Other Name

If I hadn't been entirely sure about switching to my middle name in college, I am now. There is just. ahfliehfliahli EVERY SINGLE LAUREN that I have read in books or seen in movies/tv shows is just. Ew.

They're either complete bitches or disgusting or. I just. And that's.

WHY.

Alex is a much safer name.

YAY NANOWRIMO

Okay, so it's kind of already November 3rd, but whatever. Posting every day from here on out. Or trying to. I'll nag Sare about it.

Keh, so, I currently hate my 'new' novel this year. It's stupid and I don't like the character and just...no. We're not going there. I'm plodding along in it every couple hundred words, but that's about it. And that would be why I'm finishing I Dare You and its sequel this month instead.

(Yeah. The sequel. Like you didn't get sick of it enough the first time around.)

There's only a sequel because Sarah insisted on it and apparently it's going to be her reward for getting 100k. MY reward is getting caramacs and her finishing the In The Mood vid of us. =D

Although, Greg sucks and has a ton more than all of us so I'm trying to beat him and I'd have to get 100k anyways. At least he has school and I dooooooon't. Hehehe.

So yeah. I'm not posting my wordcount right now. Too busy trying to disprove Claire's expectations.

And when I do, I will rub it in her face.

Five Minutes To Midnight

AH FIVE DAYS UNTIL NANO

*bites nails nervously*

I am panicking. So much. Agh.

It's exciting and scary and. and. and.

PANIC

at the disco

Do you see how odd I get when I get cut off from talking to people?

(Btw, Sare, I love you and thank you and you're the bestest best person EVER~)  

Excitement Abounds

Okay, so, it's already less than a month to NaNo. I am so PSYCHED. For once, I have a good plot and characters that are starting to open up to me so I'm not blindly blundering along come NaNo. And good NAMES, too. Ty, Vivienne Pierce for talking to me. I appreciate it muchly.

Also, today is our FRIENDAVERSARY. Not mine and Vivienne Pierce's. But mine, Taylor, Sarah, Claire, and Anna's! =D I've known you lot for an ENTIRE year now. That's a long time. I love you guys so much, you know that? You mean the world to me. <3

Whistle While You Work

Or, y'know, not. I kinda suck at whistling.

Anyway. This is how my weekend is looking:

Meadjean and Tayah are coming over around 6:30 tonight. They're coming that early because we have to bake either chocolate cookies or brownies for the bake sale thing on Saturday. And they're going to sleepover as well and Bekah was supposed to come early as well, but she has a game for marching band I think, so she's coming after 9.

Then on Saturday, my church is doing this free car wash thing to draw people in and it's not really a bake sale so much as, baking stuff to the people getting their car washed for free. There's going to be people going up to the people getting their car washed to talk to them about God/invite them to our church and stuff like that. It'll be lots of fun.

And after that is Sunday and the choir has a song tomorrow so that means waking up early, getting ready early, getting THERE early and. Yeah. For choir practice, but after the service the teens have an activity. We've got tacos, a movie(To Save A Life, a really awesome Christian movie), and some outdoor game that is sure to be frightening considering Pastor Nathan's running it.

Oh yeah, and selling these coupon books to raise money for camp next year. That should be...interesting. But yeah.

I'mma be wiped come Monday. Blah.

Well.

Better get back to cleaning the bathtub.