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Good morning! Wow! Saturday at last! I've been soo busy this week, most days I haven't been getting home from school until anytime between 6-8 at night each day now. I now have rehearsal for our school play everyday after school until 5 or 5:30ish, by the time we get home it's usually closer to 6, if we go home. Mondays I have guitar lessons until 6:30, Thursdays I have voice lessons until 6. Crazy! By the time I get all my homework done and and the other stuff I have to do, I usually get to sit back and breathe around 9 or so at night. Then it's off to bed for the next day. Crazzyy!!

But I have some exciting news =) First off, Tay has been home for over a week now! Fantastic, I know. I'm so excited for her. I got to talk to her for the first time is almost a month last night. I sang her a song I've been learning on my guitar for quite a while - You Give me Love by Faith Hill. She absolutely loved it =) it was great to hear the smile in her voice as she thanked me. Tay is doing well and everything is going great.

Second, I got a better part in the play. I am now doing a quintet. For those of you who don't know musical terms, I'm singing a song with five other people. But... it has its downside. I have to dress up like a lobster. Yes, you heard me right, a lobster. Laugh all you want, at least I have a part! ;)

Also, I've been writing like crazy these last few days. What started out as an innocent poem turned into a 6 page essay on my hero, Vivian. And it's not even stopping at 6 pages, I'm still going. =) Also I have a few new poems I will post here soon.

As for Faith, she passed away the other day. The cancer took a hold of her body and brought her back home to God. It's hard loosing someone you look at as closer than a friend, almost a sister, that you love with all you have, but I know she's strong and healthy on the other side with all the other angels. I hope Katelyn found her and welcomed her with a big hug from me =)

3rd week of school over, I'm loving the whole middle school thing. I have tons of new friends and I love all my classes and teachers. It's so fun.

The Stand Up 2 Cancer Benefit Concert/Telethon was last night. It went well, they raised a bunch and some of it went to the Children's Cancer Research Center in DC, where Tay spent a few days this summer.

Anyways, forgive me if I don't update for like a month because my life is gonna start getting extra crazy. Love you all!!

Erika