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- swim in the beach every (nice) day after my internship or work
- learn some guitar
- learn how to sew from mommy
- dream up the most excellent tattoo that i may or may not ever get the nerve to get
- bonfires, nostalgia, dreaming
- as many music shows as humanly and financially possible
- continue to save money for next semester and most importantly the semester after that: FRANCE!
yesterday my mom showed me her 1950's-era sewing machine she picked up for free from a friend. although i had some machine sewing experience whilst constructing Rainbow Trout (a fish pillow with a rainbow on it) in the seventh grade, she reminded me how to do things. i sewed a single line down the piece of scrap fabric she had and i wished creating things came easier. and i felt proud of her, for making her own clothes in the seventies (that she, unfortunately, did not save for me to wear!) and continuing to make things through years of repressed housewifery and divorce and online-date boyfriends. instead of feeling exasperated i was happy to be there. i wished it was a skill i had mastered years ago.
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