I just keep disappearing from the net, don't I?  Bad, Laura.

I'm trying to finish editting nano'07.  It's really rough still.  I kind of need a miracle--and not just to get this novel done, but to feel good about it when it's done.  Right now, I still see all the plot-holes in my mind.  When it gets printed, I hope to find nothing to whine about.  At least, nothing to whine about very much.  I know I'll find something in there though.

I started my semester of school.  This is my last semester of high school!!!   What the heck?  How did I get here so fast?  I remember wishing the last five years of my schooling would end finally, and now they're about to.  I'm about to graduate.  (Side-note: I'm sooo glad to be done with the whole SAT ickiness.  Sooo glad to not be worrying about that anymore.  Not fun!)

This year, I'm taking Philosophy and Speech as my two college courses.  I really like my Speech teacher.  She's great.  My Philosophy teacher kind of ... um ... scares me.  He's funny, and sarcastic, but kind of scary as a professor.  So I'm hoping I'll do all right in his class.  And I hope I won't go way over any wordcount-maximums in my papers for his class, 'cause I don't think he's the type of guy who would like it.  If he say something has to be done in a certain way, he really means it.  I can't pass up a max wordcount amount.  I really really really hope I do all right with that.

The coat I ordered online from New York and Co. last December finally arrived today.  It was very nice to have that thing finally.  But annoying that I had to go to my college classes twice and try to stuff my huge, puffy coat underneath my chair during class time.  It was a hassle.  That thing is huge.  I could barely drive in it, because when I sat down, it was stiff enough to stand up and put a wall around the lower half of my face.  *shakes head*  I looked silly.

But anyway, I have all my school books bought.  And so far, my classes seem to be nice (even though I've only had two days of them).  I think I'm taking notes well.  I seem to be taking down about twice as much as everyone I sit near in both my classes so I guess that means I'm doing well.  I really don't mind taking too many notes, but I would be scared if I thought I was taking too few.

Today I got to babysit two of the cutest kids in my church during my lunch.  A 1 and 3 year old pair of siblings.  Their parents are good friends of the family, and they wanted to have a nice lunch alone, since having four kids leaves you with little time to yourselves.  So we offered to take the two kids, while the older ones were at school.  I adore those kids.  And I loved playing with them.  The 1 year old waddles around everywhere, and I held her hands and helped her up and down the stairs over and over again, then carried her around whenever she was willing to be still in my arms.  The 3 year old never stopped talking, or moving.  But I love that kid.  She stole my heart with her cuteness. lol  One day, she was sitting on my lap in church and she looks up at me and says, "I like your hair." *she touches my hair* "I like your earings." *touches my earings* "I like your mom."

I was like..."Thanks.  Wait--what?" lol  My mom is her Sunday school teacher, so it wasn't quite as random as it could have been.  But I laughed pretty hard all the same.  Love that kid!

Tomorrow, I'm going to work in the morning.  Then I plan to spend AT LEAST three or four hours with my best friend.  We haven't just sat around and talked in AGES.  Whenever we're together, my youngest sister is getting us to do silly things, and we forget to have serious conversations.  Tomorrow, we'll fix that.  I've been looking forward to it all week.

Also tomorrow, I'll get to see my mom's extended family for the first time in maybe 8 months.  They have a little girl and boy.  (maybe 7 and 9 now?)  I don't see them very often, but the little girl has stolen my heart more than once.  When Katrina hit a few years ago, the family came to stay with us for a couple of days.  The girl was four then, and she and I spent the whole weekend together.  The last time I saw her, she didn't remember the Katrina vacation to my house, but that's okay, I stole her heart in return. lol  We went to Sea World together, and I listened to everything she had to say about her cute little second-grade friends and her life.  So we do well together.  She gets an adoring fan to listen to her; I get a cute kid to follow around all day.  It's a good mix. : )

So um...yay?  Happy New Year, guys!  I hope this one will be awesome for all of us. : )

*~*Laura*~*