An Excerpt on Tom Hanks

In this month’s Esquire, Tom Hanks talks about gaining weight for Cast Away and then losing sixty pounds for the scenes where he’s supposed to be starving:

“Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?”

Hey Cowboy

I went home for the summer and met someone. Not to put too fine a point on it or anything, but I have the greatest best friend. He lives 463 miles away from me now.
We had our first date three weekends before I drove back to college for my fall semester.

So now I'm here and he is there. School has still been really good but I do miss home a little but more than I did before which turns out to be an awful lot. My mom makes sure to always tell me to "be productive!" when I talk to her. sometimes she switches it up and sais, "make sure your focusing". Which always makes it so much easier to focus (no it doesn't). But I still focus so there won't be any "concerns" which has sort of become a little joke between Jd and I. My mom is my biggest support and I have no idea what I would do without her. The way she balances me is always such a relief. I miss her very much.

Media is on our side.

We vidoe back and forth...
This is his niece. So precious.

"Pair App" the app for just the two of us!! "Texting, sharing,. videos, photos, sketching together, thumbkiss (WOOOOHOOO THUMB KISSES!!!!) and more"

It's the best chessiest thing in this world.
I love it and he will learn to love it ;)

So here’s to "pair", evening phone calls, and videos that give us big boosts of energy to last until we get to see each other next. We can toast to that.