shame on you, you fool me once

Title/Chapter: Like An Indian Tattoo (01/20)
Author: amanda: jaclyn's twin sister / writefiction
Pairing: Tommy Allen / Athena Matthews
Rating: G
Notes: written for NaNoWriMo 2010
Warning: none
Word Count: 763
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Summary: Childhood friends Tommy and Athena have been in love with each other since the seventh grade, but neither knew how the other felt. That is, until Tommy decided to take a job in Texas, a long way from their hometown in New Hampshire. With the threat of being separated permanently, Athena decides to make her feelings known. How will they work around the challenge of living so far apart? Will this long-distance relationship work out? Or were they doomed from the beginning?


( Chapter One )

So, I thought I'd give you a REAL update for once instead of just a twitter one :) So here goes!

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Yesterday was interesting. I couldn't eat or drink after Midnight, not even water, which completely sucked. I was so thirsty. But I had to do it because I was having oral surgery. After having an infection in my tooth, I had a rootcanal. That was September of 2008. The infection never went away, no matter how many antibiotics I took. So I had to have it surgically removed; and that is what my oral surgery was.

My blood pressure was through the roof, as in: 195/114. That is almost deadly. But it's because of my nervousness. And probably because I couldn't take my anxiety medicine yesterday before the appointment. I couldn't have anything in my stomach because I was having IV sedation. I just wanted to get it over with because it's been so long. I've had at least a 99.2degreeF temperature for over a year now, so I definitely haven't been feeling well. But hopefully this surgery will now help.

Anyway, they took me in and took my BP and were kind of freaked out. But as soon as they started the IV medication my BP went down and I was out like a light. The next thing I remember was someone asking me to bite down on some gauze. Then I got wheeled into the recovery room. I, of course, couldn't feel the left half of my face, but that wasn't anything new. When my mom came back to see me, Dr Scura told us that the infection had gone all the way up into my sinus cavaties! They also sent whatever they took out of my face to be looked at by the lab. Biopsies and whatever. I guess they do it for everyone that has this procedure. So I ended up not freaking out about that too much.

Then I came home and slept from 10 - 1. Then I was up for a little bit and then slept a few more hours. By five I decided I wouldn't sleep anymore so I could sleep last night, which worked. I slept almost till 6:00! Awesome! I loved it. Then I slept a little more and finally got up around 10:30 this morning. All in all, it was a lovely 24 hours ;)

My face was a little puffy yesterday, I iced it a bunch, which felt wonderful. But apparently going to sleep overnight was a BAD idea because when I woke up, I was so fucking swollen! My lip sticks out like a duck bill! So when I went back to sleep I got my ice pack out and laid down with it. Of course my mom took it away when she got up b/c you're only supposed to ice it for, like, 40 minutes at a time. She did some errands while I slept. When she got home and I woke up, my eye felt weird. I looked in the mirror and found my left eye was almost swollen shut!!!!! So yeah, while I would LOVE to take a picture and show everyone how freaking swollen I am, I don't want the pictures to float around the internet for the rest of my life. Maybe I'll take a picture and if you ever visit I'll show it to you. lol.

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So, it's almost November. You know what that means! NaNoWriMo!!!!!!! I'm actually thinking of entering this year. I'm thinking of joining up right now. I think it would be good for me and give me something to focus on. I'm kind of all excited about it really. And I think I know what I'm going to write about. I think I might be winging it tho. But that's only because I never really seem to come up with a plot or anything before I write my long stories. But at least I have a tiny bit of an idea of what I want to happen in this story. But not a lot of a plot yet. Hopefully everything will work out. I probably won't make the goal, but at least I'll accomplish a bit of it.

There are a few fanfic WIP's that I'd really like to rework into something original for NaNoWriMo. I don't have a whole helluvalot of time to pick one and then come up with all the plot and whatever else. But again, that's kind of how I normally work, just off the cuff, no planning involved.

So, yeah, that's what's been going on in a nutshell.j

How's all your lives going???

Hey El-jay fam! So I kind of lied when it came to my unofficial NaNoWriMo fic. Well, I didn't so much lie as I just changed my mind  :D  I started a brand new story for it. So I just finished the first chapter and am posting for you all to read. It's not the best first chapter in the world, but it's a start and hopefully what comes next will be better. I was just kind of struggling with how to get it started. So please don't judge this fic by it's first chapter. Wait until at least chapter two. lol

Read and enjoy.....or not.


Title/Chapter: Follow Your Lead (01/?)
Author: amanda: jaclyn's twin sister
Pairing: Zac Hanson / Kate Hanson, Zac Hanson / OFC [melinda "mel" lucas]
Rating: PG (for one swear word and it'll probably change)
P.O.V.: First Person, OFC: Mel Lucas
Notes: TAkes place in 2008 during The Walk Around The World Tour. Zac is married to Kate and they have Shepherd. Mel is a single-working-mom raising her son with the support of her mother.
Summary: One night Mel gets roped in to going to a concert with her best friend. The girls enjoy the opening acts completely. But then the headlining band walks on stage, and for Mel, it's like a cold blast from the past.
Chapter Word Count: 588
Total NaNoWriMo Count: 588


( Chapter 01 )

By 4 o'clock today I will be One Less. I'm getting my third and final Gardisil shot. Should be painful. Srsly, it's one shot that burns. But in the end it's worth it and the pain goes away after a while. So it's not too bad.


There was just a loud knock on my door. I went to answer it and found my neighbors. A week or two ago, we, along with Jeff, bought raffle tickets from the kids. Today was the drawing. We didn't win anything. But apparently Jeff won a huge-ass pumpkin (that's starting to rot) and a gift certificate to Bread & Chocolate. I don't know if he'll want the b&c gift certificate b/c he's trying to lose weight and srsly, getting something from a place called Bread & Chocolate does not go with dieting. Maybe he'll let us keep it. I dunno. Pretty sure he won't want the pumpkin. Oh well. But I just called him at work and left him a message. He's probably at break right now.

Also, I'm going to do NaNoWriMo, but on an unofficial basis.

[interruption]: Jeff just called. He was like, What'd I win?! And I told him. He made me look to see how much the gift certificate is for and get this, it's $25!!!! Lucky sonuvabitch.
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So anyway, back to my NaNoWriMo news. I'm doing it unofficially on my own. I'm not going to sign up for it. I just want to get a feel for it and maybe I'll actually enter it for real next year. But last night when I finished my Prompt 404 fic, I realized what I'm going to write. A while ago, I started writing a story called Strangers to Soulmates. In my head it wasn't a hanfic. But when I put it on paper and posted all of, what? Two chapters, I turned it into a Zaylor. I've decided that for unofficial-nanowrimo I'm going to post it as it started in my head; as a het fic with the main male character being this guy from a band I know that broke up last April. But really, the break up has nothing to do with the story. I figure since I'm not actually signing up for NaNoWriMo that I can just continue with a story I started instead of writing a brand new one. But it'll be sort of brand new considering I'm changing a bunch of it. But it's not like I have a whole hell of a lot written anyway. We'll see what happens.

Hope you're all having a good day :)

Love,
amanda: jaclyn's twin sister