Happy Birthday, Kuzu!

Dearest Kuzujuk,
Today is your birthday!  I'm sorry I can't be there to celebrate with you...
You're one of the smartest and kindest and most talented people I know, and I'm honored to call myself your friend.  I'm so glad that we sat next to each other on that fateful bus trip and hanging out with you - in chorus and outside, but mostly outside - is always incredible.  Thank you for Doctor Who and Invader Zim and everything else that you've shown to me over the years.
I miss you so much, but I'll see you in August.
Happy birthday, again!
Love,
Bronwyn

Birthdays Coming Up and Other Things

Yesterday I had a chance to talk to the ever-lovely Alexandra, whose birthday is tomorrow!  It's weird how much I miss her since our trip, but we'll see each other in August (right???)
Anyways, it's not only her birthday tomorrow, but the super-awesome Kuzu's birthday the day after!
They will get their own posts about this, but Happy Birthday, my two best girlfriends!  You two both make everything so much better and have both taught me so much.  I miss you guys!!!

PS Stay tuned for the first Europe story later today!

A Wall of Sketches

Don't you think this wall is lovely?
My friend Kuzu has a wall of drawings at home where every month she'll change them for more recent artwork she's done.  I'm always amazed at her incredible talent - her drawings light up the room!  If I were more talented, I might do something similar....
It's always lovely when she gives you something she's done (my darling sister always asks) and then you can still tack it on your wall....
photo from apartment therapy, I think....

Haircut

Yesterday I handed my mother a comb and the scissors and asked her to cut four inches off the end of my hair.  That's not much hair for me - just the very unhealthy ends of about two feet of thick curls.  When it dried, my hair flew up into curls below my shoulders, so now it reaches the top of the small of my back when it's dry and my hips when it's wet.  It's not a very big change - just curlier and lighter and healthier now, and that's the way I like it.

I was partially inspired to cut my hair by Kuzu, who cut her already-short hair into an incredibly chic face-framing pixie-ish haircut (with bangs!  Super-cute bangs!), but I'm not as brave as she is... maybe one day.  It's weird to think that before I gave my mother scissors I hadn't gotten my hair cut for about three years... and it wasn't really cut as much as trimmed a bit.

Good morning, US people!