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Maaaaaaaail!

So, I love getting mail. During Elementary school, I would walk home and try to time it so that I would arrive home right as the mail man was sorting the mail from across the street. I don't know what it is, but something about an envelope with MY name on it is so exciting!

Two days ago, I received an envelope with my name on it...along with a letter and pictures!

Note the pink paper... awwwyeah :)

David is LDS and currently on a spanish-speaking mission in Washington... yet with his super tight schedule through out the week, where he really only has about two hours of it dedicated to writing letters/reading emails (mostly to/from family), he finds the time to write to me :). No facebook, no texts, no emails, no skype.... SNAIL MAIL. This gives me hope and puts some of my worries about the next year of my life at ease. It shows me that distance won't necessarily separate the bonds of a true friendship, and I will never be convinced of other wise ever again.

Speaking of Elementary School/growing up... feast your eyes on these!!

MMBC Early Years

This explain a lot...

I turn 19 in June and I'll be more than happy to receive that bike on the left, someone to claim the bike on the right, that beach, and a day riding along side of it as a birthday present. Jus sayin.

Leeson to dis!

LubDub

Someone pass the tissues and some muscle relaxer to calm my heart.

Verano Dulce

Ay ya ay, it's hot. But, even in blistering heat, I still love you, Tucson, and your indie/desert/bluesky tones. 4th Ave downtown is this street where it's all at... costume shops, vintage stores, italian restaurants, tattoo parlors, street-side musicians, and even a drive through Dairy Queen to satisfy our fatty american fast food cravings! Last month I went with my friend/amazing artist on a little photo adventure down 4th Ave...

Lovely, lovely, lovely

Meredith Amadee Photography

On a nerdier note, yesterday in the lab I do research in, I calculated/collected data from a picture of a chuck of 4 month old lower leg muscle from a wild type genotype mice.

I go in everyday for about two hours... I sit down with my music, my mice muscle cell pictures and my calculator. Best two hours of my day. I get to sit and reflect.

Personal reflection is powerful. It's calming, it's cleansing, it's so nice. My stresses have destress-a-fied and my worried thoughts have stopped worrying. It's magic. There's no way drug companies can compact this feeling into a pill and mass market it.

And then, after my two hours of kumbaya-maryam-time, I go SING in choir!!!! Hallelujah. Right now in Symphonic Choir we're singing with the Arizona Choir, the graduate student ensemble. Together with them and the UA Symphony we're performing Poulenc's Gloria.... all six movements. It is oh so beeeeautiful. It's nice being an Alto.

Speaking of being an Alto, I believe that music should never be a competition... but if there was one, Brother Ali wins against all that booty bumpin, tiktok-ing, money making music. You gotta listen to this.





Oh and today is my mama's birthday!!!! Happy Birthday to the most amazing woman I know! My role-model, my inspiration, my LOVE. We got her that Barnes&Noble Nook thing or whatever. I want to know what happened to the value in turning pages of book, huh??? But I don't really have the right to give my mom a hard time about that when people ask where the value in actually writing went and here I am typing away. Anyway, it's the 19th anniversary of her 29th Birthday! Heehee. Love you Mom!