Dear smokers of the world,

I get that it’s addicting and hard to quit, but if you care enough it shouldn’t be. Every smoke that you inhale into your lungs is causing damage and killing you. It’s common knowledge nowdays so people can’t use the excuse of “I didn’t know” anymore. My parents were both smokers. My dad quit because he was only really doing it occasionally to look “cool” to his friends. My mother still smokes and I try to get her to stop all the time. I honestly don’t want my mother dying prematurely from something that she’s voluntarily doing to herself. I tell every smoker that I come accross that they should quit. It’s not because i’m trying to be annoying and tell them what to do and how to “conform” it’s because I care enough to try and prevent them from damaging their lungs and ruining their lives. I’m not going to stop nagging people to quit. It’s a horrible addiction. You can make whatever choice that you want to about it. If you want to smoke, smoke. Just know that I’ll be making my own choice to advice you not to. Not only for the little children that you’re smoking around and all the other non smokers you’re potentially giving cancer; but mostly for yourselves. Someone needs to help you, and someone needs to care enough to tell you to stop. I’ll be that person. Even if you hate me because of it.

From Lauren, With Love.

The New Year

So I spent my new years night with my best friend. We got dressed up super fancy, made a tub of punch and got spastically drunk while watching Undercover Brother, Orange County and playing guitar hero until 6am. We had many laughs and took many really horrible looking photos. Here's one for you to enjoy.

That's my super awesome plastic martini glass and the Undercover Brother DVD. This is one of the more normal photos of me when I was still somewhat sober. The rest I have asian eyes going on and I look completely inebriated. It was the best New Years ever. It was just the two of us and, as I said last night "100% attendence is pretty good!"

We sang, we danced, we had heaps of fun.

I'm definately looking forward to this coming year now.

It shall be epic.