A LITTLE BIT MINE.

you said it yourself - five years of this is crazy. that’s so many. when we get to ten it’s going to feel even crazier, but i cannot wait to write your tenth letter, your twentieth. forty two years old on tumblr dot com. i wish nothing more for us than that.

june was real busy, and we still haven’t talked enough (i’m gonna need your whatsapp or something) BUT slowly but surely i’m glad to have been hearing your voice again, voice memos about that strange baby you sent me a photo of on instagram (“the baby” of course) and your beautiful family stories and all the other main character moments you can’t seem to stop experiencing.

this next year is gonna look different for us. less school, more working. more planning, more looking ahead to the rest of the decade, the rest of adulthood. real life.

but with real life comes new experiences and new people and new stories to share with each other. the chance to be better at telling those stories.

and maybe the best way to start is to give each other a list of the ten most important things every month. so for fear of directly copying your own birthday gift to myself here are ten more things that have happened since we last talked. and i want to hear all about your past month. and every month moving forward.

i’ve been thinking about picking up my old writing projects again. i figured you’d be happy to hear that morgan could be returning to your screen within the next year

speaking of screens. my mother wants to go see the he-man movie desperately and i don’t know how to tell her no

work has honestly gotten better. it’s not my favorite thing ever but all the servers swear in their favorite and ask me to be scheduled on their shifts. things are looking up

the other day i thought about how i miss your menacing cat. how’s he doing?

the vampire lestat is bad and i’m not having fun anymore. disappointing to watch your favorite thing get gutted in front of you

im getting so good at gym!!!

my grandmother is asking why i haven’t been to church in a while. idk how to tell her… but if i do end up getting dragged along soon you can be sure ill be thinking of our st. john conversations

it’s been ungodly hot here. i don’t even have the sea as a reprieve. i need you to visit her for me

everything i’ve been nauseous anxious about (school ending, friends moving) have all come to a head. and i survived it. and it’s been a sad couple of weeks but im getting better and think it’ll keep getting better. and everything will buff out :)

id still love a postcard if you can find one

have the most wonderful birthday. one more year around the sun together.

love,