It was an intense weekend, and not a lot of writing went on.

Among other things, I drove for the first time in months AND parallel parked, I discovered I’m not allergic to champagne anymore, I met someone I went to middle school with, I hatched out things with someone there used to be tension with, and I got lots of stuff done, well….that last one is a lie. I got some things done.

Interesting things I’ve noticed… My typing skills have decreased significantly, but my ability to turn out long peices of writing quickly has increased dramatically. Interesting, yes?

I’ve also learned that damn am I lucky to be in a healthy and happy relationship. My boyfriend even says he bought me the hope diamond. He is sticking to his story too. I’m very curious about it. Very curious indeed.

Otherwise, my word count is 28,363/50,000, hopefully I’ll be able to continue staying ahead.

Much love from Liah, its just hard to write blog posts when you are writing two papers for school, a manuscript for nanowrimo, and then doing whatever other homework I have to do.

You’d think that they would cut some slack for creative writing majors during November? but no. No they do not. In fact, all of my heavy work is in english courses! Other than a 15 page business paper that I’m writing for a group project. Yes, you heard me right.

Group projects suck.

I’ll inevitably rant about that soon. Once November ends, I’m going to want to keep writing, but I wont have a story necessarily so yay! I have this.

Lots of love, Liah

I finally made it to 10,000 words! I have never written that much of a story before so this is a huge event for me. I feel so accomplished! And not to mention, I also have new incentive. If I do succeed with my nanowrimo quest, John said he would throw me a party and make me a winner’s shirt!

But if I lose, I have to wash his car in the dead of winter in a bikini. Burrrrr!

So naturally, I have to win. I want a party in my honor!

So please, everyone, keep me motivated! I have so much crap I need to do but I really want to do this for myself.

To keep everyone interested, here is another excerpt!

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But both of them were silenced when they heard a high pitched scream from behind the bushes. They shook violently and the sound caused to two to stop and have to cover their ears. The horses didn’t seem to like the sound much either. They bucked, trying to silence the deafening noise. This threw both Marcus and Delicia from the saddle because they were holding onto their ears rather than the reigns. Once the horses were free of their riders they ran off through the trees leaving the path and toward a direction neither Marcus or Delicia would have the guts to follow.

They hit the ground with a thud, but the sound persisted. From the rustling bushes, a small creature jumped out. Its mouth was wide open and it was very obvious to the pair that this was the source of unbearable screech. It was small, very similar looking in shape and size to the Chub Lou had found in his safe. But instead of an oily tan color, it was a forestry green and more of a sappy texture. The tiny creature had a skirt of leaves and a head of grass like hair. It was still short and pudgy, ugly little creature, but more than anything Marcus and Delicia just wanted it to stop.

After a few more seconds of ear shattering screeching, the creature finally stopped to take a breath. At that instant, both Marcus and Delicia shouted for it to stop. It looked at them funny, and decided not to continue. Instead, it spoke at a normal volume.

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Day 2 of the NaNoWriMo 08.

Status: already putting off homework.

As promised, I am including a short excerpt! Enjoy!
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A woman came walking down the dirt path. Around her were animals and various people who were unconscious after the wind had blown through. She didn’t seem to notice them. Under her deep purple cloak she wore a black dress with a full bottom. The bottom of her dress and cloak hit small creatures, sandy and brownish creatures. They were small and pudgy with short fingers. They sort of wobbled as they kept up with the woman hidden beneath her skirts.

Once the stern-faced woman reached the Leaping Lizard bar, she stopped. She threw back her hood and the sides of her cloak, forcing the creatures out into the open.

“You know what to do,” she said and with that, the creatures were off, wobbling much faster. The woman watched as her minions scavenged and looted the various unconscious people lying in and around the bar. They filled small sacks with coins and jewelry, taking from everyone everything which could be considered valuable. The woman tapped her foot, usually her minions worked faster than that. She watched as one of her creatures searched around Delicia and Marcus. It grabbed the coins from Delicia’s hand and took her mother’s necklace from around her neck. Then it started to grope around in Marcus’s cloak, pulling out the rock. It shoved the valuables into the sack it carried, then scampered back to its master.

“Mistress! Mistress!” it called, getting her attention. She looked down at it in a condescending manner as it approached, crossing her arms.

“What is it? Have you filled your sack already?” she asked.

“Mistress, the man outside carried this in his cloak pocket,” he said, pulling forth from his sack the rock he had retrieved from Marcus.

The woman reached down and picked up the rock that her creature offered to her. She turned it around in her hand, inspecting and examining it from all angles. A wicked smile began to erupt across her face.

“Good work my dear,” she said, nodding slightly. Instead of hanging the rock back to her minion to carry, she placed it in her own cloak pocket for safe keeping. She patted the pocket lightly to make sure it was still there. Seemingly satisfied with the find, the woman waved her hand in the air and then the rest of the creatures poured out of the bar, all of their sacks full. Each of them gathered around her and with a clap of her hands the entire mass of mistress and minions vanished into thin air.  They were gone as quickly as they had arrived.

Every year I post this, and say I’m actually going to do it. This year…I’m serious. And I’m going to post my word count every day here, as well as on the site. And I’ll post little excerpts, and stuff. That way I’ll be writing, AND I’ll be updating here. Yesss…productivity.

Now, about my story plans:

No title yet, really haven’t thought about it. Hopefully it will come to me!

Synopsis:    After a less than ideal first meeting, Delicia and Marcus encounter a strange magical wind which leaves them both without the items they hold dearest. Driven by the desire to retrieve their treasures and sheer stubbornness, the duo heads off on an adventure where they not only encounter an array of interesting characters, but also find that one of their treasures in the hands of a greedy sorceress will cause more trouble than it’s worth.

Stay interested!! and then maybe I will….

So I’ve been cheating on my boyfriend…..with Chuck Bass.

okay not really, but I’ve been listening to that new song “Womanizer” by Britney Spears and it reminds me of him. He is also my favorite character from the show Gossip Girl. Last season it was Serena and Dan, but they just irritate me now. Chuck is much more intriguing.

Why does this character interest me? because he is wounded and takes it out by being not only a great business man, he is also cunning, clever, devious, and is probably awesome in bed.

SO many times I find myself saying, “OH! Chuck you are so bad!” But then I remember his epic line: “I’m Chuck Bass.” and then all is well again.

So life is just a game to him, so he has slept with a million girls. He is damn entertaining to follow as a character, and well, the guy who plays him on the does a great job.

Oh Chuck, you just so sexy!!

So I went to walmart the other day on a weekend trip. Yeah again, college, we shop where it’s cheap.

And outside was this stand and a lady dressed in a nice suit. She was standing next to a little stand. There were books lined up and all I saw was “Dianetics” and I instantly knew before she even approached my friends and I, she was a scientologist. Ironically the first place I went was to the south park episode about Scientology. I laughed a little, especially when she came up to us and asked if we wanted a personality test.

I didn’t even stop. I kept walking and said, “No thanks, I don’t do cults. But tell Xenu I said hi.” She just looked at me, and I went inside walmart to do my shopping.

When I left I saw a poor woman sitting at the stand getting her personality test. They would no doubt tell her she is depressed and for a nominal fee, they can make her all better!

I don’t get sciontologist. I mean, I can understand the people that were born into it and just get it beat into their heads. Its not their fault! But the people like Tom Cruise who just all the sudden are like, OMGZ SCIENTOLOGY! on bull fucking shit.

Seriously, I mean…come on. You alienate people who disagree with you, accost those who are naysayers. Those who leave you, you threaten and kill.

and you DON’T see something wrong with that?

Man I can’t wait to get flamed for this, I hear they have people roaming the internet just to yell at people who say bad things about them.

I guess I get a little too pissed about this, I’ve just read so many article about people who came out to talk about this ridiculous cult and then are later killed….by the cult they tried to escape.

Religion is about morals…not about giving money to a cult developed by a science fiction writer.

GO ANONYMOUS! lolz

I like my coffee with a shot of vanilla syrup, milk, and sugar.

How do you like yours?

That, or a vanilla latte…mmmm tastey

As of the signing this morning, my 6 friends and I, yes thats 7 girls all together, will be living in a house just off campus known as “Paid Vacation.” I will get my very own room! And all that good stuff. This is very exciting, especially with the ordeal that we went through to get the house.

It all began the first weekend back to school. We hadn’t even started classes yet and we were out, knocking on people’s doors, asking to see their houses. We had two weeks to find one we liked, talk to the house owners, and get the lease signed.

The house we absolutely fell in love with was named Endzone, it was HUGE, brand new remodeling, three floors, three kitchens, 8 rooms. yeah - it was awesome. But it was also over 3k a semester to rent. That is really freaking expensive.

So we kept looking around.

And we talked to the renting company.

And we bugged them some more.

Until finally they essentially promised us a house. They gave us a list, sent us out to look at all their houses, and we got to pick the ones we wanted. Then they told us we would have to wait, they would let us know who was re-signing and who was passing their house down, and things like that.

So it was the night before we were supposed to find out. And one of the girls calls - she decided not to live with us. That put us in a really bad position. We needed to find one more person to live with us to get the house we wanted!

So we set out on a quest….at 10pm the night before. Lucky for us, 3 sorority girls we sort of knew were looking for a place to live. We had them join our group.

The next morning we get a call, we were getting Paid Vacation which had a small second house attached to it for 3 people. Perfect! It worked out really well. 7 in the main house, 3 in the small once.

We got up this morning at 8am. Signed the papers, paid our deposits, and now we are all set for next year.

I feel kinda nervous, its like graduating from dorms! But it will be a great learning experience, and it will be awesome to live with my friends.

Wish me luck haha

So I had this gift card to a salon/spa and I thought it would be fun to do something different, something for summer. Since I had already gotten my hair cut, I went for a procedure brand new to me — hair removal. Sure, like most girls, I’ve had my eyebrows waxed, which reminds me, I need to do that…. But anyway, I opted for: The Brazilian Bikini Wax.

So I made the appointment, and lets just say, calling that in is half the battle. I got some guy named Chris and I had to say to him “yes I’d like all my pubes ripped out” except not like that, I was must more professional, I said please.

The day I went in for the appointment, I went to check in and I of course went to the wrong desk. I didn’t know the “hair desk” didn’t mean hair removal. The girl, instead of understanding what I was saying, kept trying to set me up to have extensions removed. Then when the manager finally came over and explained to her that she was retarded, I was sent to the correct desk and checked in.

I took a seat and waited to be fetched. That took a good twenty minutes which just got my nerves going. I mean, I had no idea what I would say to this woman, or what she would say to me.

Then she came and got me. She took me to a room, had me undress the bottom and lay under a towel. She asked if I was ready, I just laughed uneasily. Then she asked if I wanted her to leave any. I was so close to asking if she could do stars, but i decided against it.

And then… the first rip. There was no warning, no count, no “okay here goes.” No, she just RIPPED it out. I was not ready.
But she made me feel plenty comfortable, both of us just kept talking and talking, about random things. She told me about past clients, I made jokes. I told her they should provide complementary ball and gags for the screamers. She seemed to find this funny…as she RIPPED my pubes out.

She says it makes for great therapy. I bet, causing other people pain always makes me feel better…heh. But then she asked if I wanted my tushie waxed. Heck why not. That was actually the least painful part.

Let me tell you, that shit HURTS. But I was good, I didn’t scream or cry! But that ride home in the car was tear-worthy. 90 degrees out, and a throbbing pubic region, I was not happy. I went home and put a bag of frozen peas on my crotch.

But while it was painful, John seemed to very much appreciate it. hehe

I know, it’s been almost a month. And even John has been bothering me to write. Truth is, I’m so stressed. I’m working on dropping a class right now because I just don’t think I’ll be able to handle it.

Otherwise, I have a fun post in the works from summer which is on it’s way, and once I learn how to get into here from my computer class, I’ll probably be updating from there.

Good new! my friends and I have a house! I’ll write a whole post about that too, so much stress involved there. We sign the lease tomorrow!

Otherwise, stress! Stress! stress! work! but I promise i’m not gone, but i bet my readers are *cries*