Welcome to Murder Farm

This week has been full of adventures!

Landen and I judged our very first ever IESA speech competition, and it was AWESOME. We love judging things even when we don't get paid, so it was particularly fun. And then we went to see Perks of Being A Wallflower, which was equally awesome, AND it became the second good movie we saw IN A ROW. We are on a roll! No one can stop us now!

No one...except a murder farmer.

Yes, that's right. Last night, Landen and I went to a place we now affectionately refer to as Murder Farm. It all started like this:

I was going to go to Chicago, and then Ang called and was like YOU CAN'T I'M SURPRISE COMING HOME FOR MY DAD'S SURPRISE RETIREMENT PARTY IT'S A SURPRISE. So I was like...okay, whatevs. And then, on the day of the surprise, I was all like...where is this nonsense happening? And she was all 'at some farm, it's by Chillicothe.' Which, clearly, is not specific enough. So I found the address, dragged Landen with me, and we made our way to this farm. We had some major GPS issues and ended up driving up and down one road like 7 times, passing the place we knew we were supposed to turn...eventually, we passed our friends Jess & Chris, who were also on their way to this mysterious party.

Together, we made our way into the farm, only to be told we had to drive down somewhere else, into the woods, to a secret cabin where the party would be held.

I should note that these people were probably not actually trying to murder us all. They're just normal, nice people who Ang has known for years. We just happened to be super unprepared for what awaited us at...

...Murder Farm.

So we're driving down this giant hill, and Landen is having a panic attack, because there's no road, and he thinks we're going to die. I think it's funny, so I turn to him and say, "Welcome to Murder Farm!" And then, it was history.

At Murder Farm, there is a cabin full of dead animals, an outhouse, a fire pit for burning the evidence, and a covered bridge, beneath which lurks the murder farmer, waiting for innocent passersby to cross the bridge unawares.

There is no light. There is no electricity. There is no one to hear you scream...except everyone else at Murder Farm.

Basically, it was the perfect setting for a murder movie. A crappy, predictable murder movie. We've decided to go ahead and pitch a script, entitled 'Murder Farm,' of course, which features our cast of friends. Jess dies first, investigating the sound of wood being chopped with a sharp axe. Chris goes after her, only to disappear into the cabin and never come back out. Landen and I, and the rest of our nameless comrades, decide that Ang must be the murder farmer, and we kill her for our own protection, only to discover in a surprise twist ending that Chris is still alive and that he is, in fact, the murder farmer.

It'll be a smash Halloween hit.

The best part of Murder Farm, though, was when we all left to go to a Halloween party, and I was the lead car going up the scary hill. I veered off to the left instead of the right and ended up getting my car stuck in some mud...stuck bad. In the dark. In a forest. Alone. With a murder farmer lurking close by.

Landen was super helpful and manly. As soon as I said, "Oh my god, we're stuck!" he immediately jumped out of the car, screeching, running in circles and flailing his arms, screaming, "We're stuck! We're stuck! Stuck at Murder Farm!"

So helpful.

Luckily, Jess & Chris were behind us, and they were more sensible. Once Landen stopped running around and screaming, they all pushed my car up the hill, and we all escaped unharmed from Murder Farm.

For now.

<3 Lauren

Today's muse music:  50 Ways To Say Goodbye - Train (one of the ways should be 'take a trip to Murder Farm')

And a mock-up of our future movie poster. Look for it in theaters next Halloween!