i'm so glad my mom finally learned how to text. it makes it so much easier for us to keep in touch and for her to remind me on a regular basis to "get enough sleep and liquids! xoxoxo!", and her affinity for exclamation marks takes otherwise ordinary conversations to a whole new level of excitement. anyway, she recently got a new cell phone that's cooler than mine and also abnormally hi-tech for her, and in the midst of buying new ringtones today she sent me this text message:



hahahaha ohhh, mother. how precious you are.

(but for the record, i still think it's unfair that you get a voyager and i'm stuck with this jacked-up enV. i mean really, i could touch LIVES with that touch screen. i swear.)

in other news, this was where i was last night:

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