lykke li @ 30,000 feet

[this may help]

let it fall/let it fall

let it fall

let it fall

ringing chiming rolling

rolling through my head

one over the other

let it fall

let it fall

let it fall

but i am not falling

i am ascending

higher/higher/higher

-----------------------coast

some thirty-thousand feet in the air

let it fall/let it fall

let it fall

let it fall

up over the pacific

so far down it just looks like sky

big blue eternity

spotted with clouds

let it fall

let it fall

let it fall

surprisingly soothing

for a ride in the sky.

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why this weekend was so good

instead of having to drive 3 1/2 hours to go home for the weekend and 3 1/2 hours back to school just to have a bunch of homework left to finish sunday night, my parents came to me. it was basically a 24-hour visit, but it was a much needed 24-hour visit. sometimes i get caught up in all these little school things that i forget how much i miss them. so we packed as much as we could into this weekend and this is why it was so good:

-lunch at the best pub in SLO (according to me and erin). yummmm turkey burgers and fries.

-wine tasting with my mom, who then but a BUNCH of bottles and left two behind for me to enjoy.

-drove out to avila valley barn to pick out some good produce and a giant pumpkin to carve with my sister.

-grocery shopping with my dad cuz my mom wanted to watch the giants' game (kind of a role reversal, huh?).

-mom's cooking! we had a delicious spaghetti meal with lots of extra sauce that my mom separated into containers and put in the freezer for some quick and easy meals in the future. such a mom thing :D

-marlee stayed the night at my place and we watched 50 first dates. adam sandler, always a classic.

-woke up early this morning and made a delicious strawberry-banana-mango smoothie to start the day.

-my parents came back over to watch the 49ers game, but my cable's lame and wasn't broadcasting it. so we were forced to listen to it on the radio, which was kinda nice and simple in a comforting way.

-while we listened marlee and i carved our pumpkin and baked the seeds.

-my dad went with my to get a new tire for my bike and now i can ride to school again!

all in all, it was a productive, funny, family-filled weekend that i really needed. i still ended up saving all my homework for sunday night, but i don't really mind. surprisingly, i miss them already.

this picture isn't from this weekend, but it's my favorite family photo of our recent alaskan adventure.

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starts with an s, ends with an -eptum

this is how i prepare myself for winter finals.

sorry mom =]

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cupcakes in the sunset

and now the story of the tye dyed cupcakes

unfortunately they needed a little nip/tuck cosmetic surgery

there were colorful little bebes, too

homemade chocolate frosting

and some crumbled heath bar to top it all off

we decided they looked like cupcakes children would make, but i told her that that's probably how i would be represented as a cupcake anyway. she smiled and said, "you didn't have to say that, but it's probably true."

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the adventures of mash pit and james

finding that last poem and a satisfying day with one of my favorite buds has motivated me to give it another shot and try my hand at poetry once again.

just what i needed

this is us never skipping a beat

back on the beach

where i found God in three genuine friends and your guitar

cleaner than my teeth WHITE with a sparkle in the smile

just the two of us

touching on our recent troubles

and the more unrecent but ample memories that define our friendship

BLUE crystal gems found deep in a cave

picking up each others' sentences

dropped in conversations with strangers that don't belong in "us"

but are amused by our inside jokes whose origins are sometimes unknown

even to me and you

sun-dried tomato RED in the heat of summer

i fill you in on all the things i've kept tucked away

and you tell me that you're proud of me

i needed that

oil slick Barrabas hair BLACK

and it's just the two of us

while the other two are halfway around the world

making the differences we expected them to make

but we pick up right where we left off

SILVER

never skipping a beat

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