^ That pretty much sums up my life right now.
I have the BESTBESTBEST!!! best friend in the world!!!!!!!!!!!
I spend every Saturday at her house so that at least all but one person on the worship team is early.
Saturday was Abundant Hope's fall festival and we had a blast painting faces together. We also got to know two of the newer girls in the youth group and we're pretty sure we broke the ice enough to not scare them anymore. I like Beth, she's cool.

Another reason I'm feeling so good now? CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE!!!!! And I have easy gift ideas this year, so I'm pretty much done shopping as soon as I get Chelsea's gift and mini cake tins. I can't wait for Thanksgiving week to decorate and get started on making the rest of my gifts. This year is going to be so great.
On top of normal Christmas stuff, Chelsea and I are doing a dance together for the Christmas Eve service. Now, to communicate the enormity of this occasion, I've created a simple equation:
LeeAnn+music-singing+dancing=SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm terrified, but God said to do it, so I guess I have to.
I love doing hard things.

My SAT scores were apparently good, though I wasn't too happy with them. Oh well. I'll be ready for the next ones.

This was my first truly bad one in awhile, but I seriously hate dreams. They wake me up when I could've slept in! Take today for example. I went to bed quite a bit closer to 3 than 2, thinking I could sleep in till around nine for once. Instead, I have a dream about some militia trying to raid my house and my mom dying, that ended at 7:30 with my dad on the floor crying and me...smiling, for some strange reason. And I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep!

I had another really vivid one tonight. At least I wasn't the bad guy this time...
But it did send me into a panic attack. The only reason I woke up is because I wasn't breathing.
Either way I would've ended up exhausted. Wake up at 4:30 and stare at the ceiling in the living room (because I was NOT going back to sleep in my room after all of THAT!) for hours and catch maybe two more asleep or completely exhaust all my energy in the middle of a not-quite nightmare.

I'm either going to push school back a day or use it to completely shut out the real world.
I can tell I'm probably going to finish a new chapter for a story...and finish planning out my NaNoWriMo. I know I'm not supposed to plan it, but if I don't it will forever be a work in progress.

I had a rough night last night.
I'm not sure what was going on, but as soon as Mom and Dad went to bed something felt terribly, horribly wrong. I felt like I was losing someone I cared about! It was scary, because I couldn't think of anyone it could be.
And then I had this weird dream that I don't even want to try to explain.

So now, my neck is stiff and hurting from...whatever. I must've curled up into a ball when I went to sleep last night and twisted while I was dreaming.
My head is pounding because that's what happened when you cry, go to sleep at half past midnight, have a confusing dream, and then wake up at half past six.
I can't make myself hungry (though I am eating. Mom's letting me have one of her Slim Fast cans so I don't go completely without).
And apparently I'm dehydrated because my legs and arms hurt worse than they have in awhile.

Not to mention, about twenty minutes after my alarms go off, my brother's starts sounding. Except I didn't know that at the time, so it sounded like some recording of a serial killer butchering some poor girl.
And he can't just get up and turn his phone off. It rang through at least three times before he finally hit snooze. Only for it to go off again fifteen minutes later because he didn't actually get up!
So not only am I exhausted and feeling the effects of a hard night, but I spent the first little bit of my day being terrified by a freaking phone alarm.

It's a good thing there's worship team practice today...otherwise I might've just stayed in bed.

I GOT MY OUTFIT FOR THE 80S COSTUME PARTY!

I am soooooooooooo excited. I just have to buy makeup and accessories!
I'm going to have a BUNCH of pictures to post once it's over because I just love the whole thing that much!