The Importance of Being Lauren

First: I would like to thank Monkey, and Nadia for the awesomerific birthday posts you guys wrote me (I love them!), and also all those who wished me a happy birthday!! :) Second: I have a busy, busy weekend ahead of me, so I'm trying to get all my homework done this morning. (Writing is one of the things I have to check off) Tonight I'm going to see 17 Again with my grandparents, aunts, and my uncle. Then tomorrow I'm going to a Christian rock concert with my other grandmother, uncle, Monkey, and Buster!! And Jimmy Needham is going to be there!! Woot!! Jimmy Needham is the Jason Mraz of the Christian Rock World.......Seriously he is! *Note: I'm listening to If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler On The Roof. (One of my favorite musicals!!!) What is your favorite musical?*

Yesterday as we were piling in the truck to go to church I was exiled to the cab of the truck, that of course meant that I had to share booty-space with the "little people". In the short time that I was back there I found out that they all enjoy playing telephone and having weird messages. Mel-Smells weird message was directed to me, her sweet voice whispered into my ear and said,"Sunbum is as pretty as a goat !!!!" "What?!! I don't have a beard like they do!!!" I exclaimed in surprise. Later she told me that she thought goats were very cute, and pretty. So maybe it was a compliment........

Saturday evening my mom made a delicious dinner which consisted of rigatoni, salad, watermelon, and biscuits . During dinner I decided that it would be polite to compliment my mom so I told her,"Hey, mom these biscuits are really good!" I thought I was being nice, but suddenly she looked upset and asked,"What about the rigatoni? All I did with the biscuits was put them in the oven!" I felt my face go crimson while I tried to make things better by saying,"Well I think all of it is good, especially your rigatoni. I just really liked the biscuits ." Thankfully my siblings all came to my rescue and started complimenting the rigatoni also. It's not my fault that I love Pillsbury stuff, I would have taken credit for it!

Yesterday my sister Mel was standing in front of the fan and saying,"Look at me I'm Superman!" When she said that my dad laughed and said,"You're a girl, I'd be worried if you were Super man." The moment Mel stopped singing and comprehended what he was saying she got very indignant and told him,"I not say Super man, I said Pooperman! " I was laughing so hard that I fell out of my chair, and then got the perpetual "evil" eye from my dad. *Sigh* *Prepare yourselves for her "amazing" powers*

I'm so happy! Surprisingly the weather here is perfect, and I love it. Since I want to soak up the sun (no I am not quoting Sheryl Crow!) before it's too hot I have spent many of my precious hours outside like a normal kid. Ha! Like I could ever be normal . Yesterday I went to help my grandmother clean her house, I also did her weeds. Hers are a lot better than ours. *sigh* The worst part though was that all her weeds were inside the holly bushes . I have just developed a strong hatred toward holly bushes , you should see the scratches they give. Yuck! Today's music selection is..... Spill Canvas's All Over You. I think that song rocks, I listened to over and over while I wrote this post. I think you should listen to it right now on my play-list.

Yesterday we finally finished working on the front yard! And I'm very excited about it. Before we finished Monkey, and I were talking while we weeded the big planter. Monkey was telling me about a girl in her class that can mimic all the characters on Napoleon Dynamite. I was laughing and quoting Tina's moment in the casserole spotlight until mom who was a couple feet away from me asked what I was talking about and I told her," Hello mom, you can't interrupt me while I'm talking about lama-eating casserole." I had meant to say casserole eating-lama, but whatever it didn't come out that way. As you can probably guess I was taken over by my laughing. After my laughter had died down, and I could see and talk clearly again my mom said to me,"If there was a lama-eating casserole you wouldn't be allowed in a petting zoo ." She said that they would tell me,"Sorry ma'am but that casserole is a danger to our lamas so you'll have to lea...

The geese at our park are snobbish, spoiled, and mean. They also enjoy chasing children into the water. Yes, that would be me . We wanted to feed them but because of their rudeness we decided to walk on instead. We walked, and walked until we got to the fishing pond at the back of the park. While walking around Buster found a fishing wire, and hook. The rest of my siblings were impressed, and wanted to fish too . Soon almost all of them had their own sticks, and wires. They were determined to catch at least one fish. All of them kept coming to mom, and I to get Wheat Puffs to tie on their wires. Buster suddenly came running towards us. Before he could catch his breath he told us,"*gasp* I learned this at Boy Scout camp! *huff* Can I have more food ?!" Mom and I fell over with laughter. Buster looked confused. She said to him," No wonder you liked it there! You were probably eating all the time" After that we stayed for thirty more minutes. Much to their disappoi...

For the next two days I will post about my brother Buster. These stories are reminders to me that he is truly my brother, and not some snot nosed being from another planet. A couple years ago when Buster was five his teacher made the class peanut butter play dough . She told them,"This is edible. That means you can eat it. But I don't recommend that you do." Yeah. She said that to a bunch of five year olds! I think she overestimated their intelligence. You see the only thing Buster heard was,"Edible." He ate the whole bag of play dough ! And then he wondered why only he, and another boy ate theirs. After church my dad told Buster,"Buster *shaking his head* she didn't say to eat the play dough . She meant to tell you that it was non-toxic!" That didn't faze him because later that day he told me,"It was so good! It was a little salty but other than that it was great! You should try it someday." Sure. I don't really see that hap...

Today I'm going to Blog about a few of my many cuts, and burns. Just so you know all of them were self-inflicted while cooking. Face: I was taking my cereal out of the microwave but I got distracted for a second, and when I looked up the bowl fell on my face. It hurt so bad, I can remember the pain vividly. I cried for a long time, when I finished my dad applied a black cream to help stop the scarring. I had to wear the ugly black cream on my face for a long time. I'm happy to say that I don't have any residue from that incident. I was glad to know that I wouldn't be like the Phantom of the Opera . I don't think I could stand wearing a mask. Index finger: I was cooking grilled cheese sandwiches for my siblings, yet again I got distracted. Buster had said something funny for once so I was laughing really hard, and then I felt it. The burning sensation swept across my finger. I was in shock for a moment, and then I screamed a scream that would put all the scream-o s...

I just wrote a really long post about my New Years eve. When I went through it I thought to myself," What in the world are you babbling on about?! Nobody has time to read about your whole evening! Face it you're not even interested." Okay, okay I'm going to give a short summary of my evening. Happy now?! Yesterday morning I went with my Dad to the grocery store, and Blockbusters. I strongly recommended "Stardust", and "Harry Potter". Well now you can guess what we got. I wanted to get "Stardust because my Mom bought me the book a couple months ago, but when they started doing "things" I decided not to read it anymore. Thankfully the movie wasn't like that at all. My whole family loved it! My Dad even recommend that we buy it so we can watch it over and over again (I liked the idea). Sorry I forgot I'm trying keeping this "short ". Anyway so Dad took us to get fireworks, and Mom said that we were crazy, because it...

One Saturday we were at a restaurant with our Great-Grandparents. When we were leaving my Grandfather started talking to me. He said,"You know you're growing into a beautiful young man." I smiled politely and said,"Um. Thank you?" (I wasn't actually sure what to say.) So after that I told my family what had just happened. Huge mistake!! They still make fun of me! They say,"Oh! Sunbum , you're growing into such a beautiful young man *gag*!" Well I guess it's not as bad a some of the other things they tease me about! *By the way I am not turning into a young man so um it's all okay!*