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Florida freezes over

I’ve known Natasha for a long time now. It started almost four years ago. She found this site from a web search and left a comment on one of my blog posts. We started exchanging MySpace messages (how quaint, I know), which soon turned into e-mails. That progressed to IMing, texting, and writing letters. We’ve even talked on the phone a few times. Needless to say, we’ve become good friends.

Almost from the very beginning, we wanted to meet in person. But we were 17 and 16, and we were in different countries. Natasha is from Northwestern Ontario, and I’m from Florida. Year after year, we talked about visiting each other, but something has always come up. I could have gone to visit her, but she said she would prefer to visit me in the land of palm trees and beaches and all that. She’s never seen the ocean.

This year, all of the pieces have finally fallen into place. I have no classes next week, so this weekend I’ll go home and Natasha will fly in from Canada. She’ll be spending the week with me and my family, and we’ll meet up with some of my friends and see some of the sights in the greater Miami area… including the beaches, of course. We’ve actually got a whole list, so we won’t have trouble finding things to do.

I’ve been having a pretty stressful week, but it makes me feel much better to know that the week I’ve been waiting for for four years is just around the corner!

Have a look at some advertisements from 1959 that were recently found during a renovation of a London Underground station. They’re pretty vintage-tastic, but they all look like they were designed by the same person. Do today’s ads all look the same? Maybe future generations will think so. (Via The Presurfer)