Love Letters and a NYC Subway Performance

1. Have you ever written a love letter? Have you written one recently? Had one written to you? Did you keep it?
I've never written a love letter, but did receive a few from a high school boyfriend who considered himself quite the poet. I would love to find them now, I'm sure they are filled with cheesy lines about flowers and birds and the wind. But times change, and so does communication. When Tom and I were dating long distance we were well into the digital age of email and online chat. I remembering locking a few texts on my phone, so I could look at them when missing him. Since I don't have anything to entertain y'all, here's our first photo together, taken a few months before I moved to NYC.

2. What's a movie that ends in a way you especially love?
Big Hero 6. Love that movie. Have you seen it? A brainy kid in San Fran-Tokyo (basically) avenges his brothers death by using his brother's invention- a white balloon guy who diagnoses sickness. Go see it, we cried it was so good (and the best ending I've seen in a movie).

3. Something that makes your heart sing? And for those of you who are parents, I mean something besides your children that makes your heart sing?
Right now, my heart would sing to spend the day in the country with the temperature Just. Right. Laying outside in grass without shoes. Possibly napping. Picnicking with family and eating those Fla-vor-ice sticks.

4. What's the last event you had to attend, phone call you had to make, routine task you needed to complete, or meal you had to prepare, that you did do, but only half-heartedly?
Maybe leaving home today without making the bed? I don't have many tasks that I could half-do, but I guess putting off housework.

5. Tuna fish salad-yay or blech? If you said yay, how do you like your tuna salad prepared? Hey, this is the Hodgepodge, right?
Yay. And, prepared in any way, really. Back when my mom and I were tight on cash we made 'tuna melts' by mixing tuna and mayo, putting it with a slice of cheese on a hamburger roll and wrapping the roll in tin foil to bake for 15 minutes. Unhealthy, but a meal that always brings back good memories of 'getting by' with my mom on our own.

6. What's something you 'know by heart'?
The New testament 'Books of the Bible' song. I used to know the Old Testament "Books of the Bible" song, but my brain last lost valuable storage space over the years due to my holding in my sneezes. But, I'd like to memorize it again.

7. In the spirit of Valentine's Day, what two or three word phrase would you write on a conversation heart for someone you love? That someone could be a spouse, child, parent, cousin, bestie...anyone at all whom you love.
Skype Me. This actually probably exists, and as I general rule I miss the traditional sayings (and especially hate the 'sexy' or technology ones). But, my friend recently encouraged me to get on Skype this past Sunday and I was able to see her! (Which I know is the entire point of Skype, but it was so nice). And, I made faces with her daughter, who showed me her drawings and hand puppets.

8.  Insert your own random thought here.

This Guy. Lower your speakers.

Mr. Josef, regularly found performing on the southbound N/Q/R line between 57th Street & 34th Street stations, during the evening rush. A treat, especially compared to "It's Showtime" and that horrid Union Square dancer.

A video posted by Farin Vazquez (@farinvazquez) on Feb 11, 2015 at 9:18am PST

So tell me...
Have you seen Big Hero 6?
Do you have any saved love letters? Or do you write them now?
Do you get awesome entertainment on your commute?

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