Christmas miracle: Rebecca found her favorite lost ornament!
Reasons why Rebecca is a horrible person:
I don't know why Mom is so determined to make her daughters miserable on our birthdays, but she sure does a damn good job at it. It rained obscenely all day on Sara's birthday, and when we went over to Mom's house, we were told not to drip on her floors, but Adam came home, he got, "Was the flooding bad? I was so worried about you!" Gag me. I just hope we can avoid seeing her on Christmas Eve. Sara is sick at home with a vicious cold. I hope to God I don't catch it, but I probably will.
- I haven't given any money to the Salvation Army bell-ringer, even though I hear his bell ringing almost every day on my way to and from work.
- I let my story attempt for NaNoWriMo slowly peter out and die, before November was even halfway over. But I recently started rereading this young adult novel, The Silent Boy, by Lois Lowry, and it's made me want to go back and try it again. I remember realizing back in high school, in Coach Jeff's class, that one the biggest problems with my writing was that I couldn't establish a stronge voice. I just tried to imitate the voice of whatever book I'd read most recently, and that's what I'm doing now, slowly going back and changing my narrator's voice to a more serious style (a la The Silent Boy), rather than the Baby-Sitter Club-ish style it had been in before. I just wish I could stick with it for any length of time.
I don't know why Mom is so determined to make her daughters miserable on our birthdays, but she sure does a damn good job at it. It rained obscenely all day on Sara's birthday, and when we went over to Mom's house, we were told not to drip on her floors, but Adam came home, he got, "Was the flooding bad? I was so worried about you!" Gag me. I just hope we can avoid seeing her on Christmas Eve. Sara is sick at home with a vicious cold. I hope to God I don't catch it, but I probably will.