Better late than never!

Jimmy Wong – “Till the World Ends” (Cover)

From the creator of the awesomely awesome Ching Chong Love Song comes this pretty spectacular Britney Spears cover of her most recent single. It might be better than the original…but I’m a huge Britney Spears fan so it’s hard to say :p

Dear Peter,

I’ve thought about you daily since your passing, with one exception: today. March 25th ended with me making a really insensitive comment about you without realizing it (“It’s April 3rd…so what?”) – after which point I felt horribly about it (and still do) for failing to grasp that it’s almost been a year since you’ve been gone.

I really do think that’s the hardest thing to comprehend: it feels like you’ve just gone away for medical school, no doubt on your way to finding the cure to cancer or something equally commendable (and ridiculous!). Time has passed, things have changed, and yet everything has stayed the same. I’m still an unofficial roommate (ha!) who manages to spend more time at your apartment than the one I pay to live in, but sometimes I still expect to see you working at your desk or sleeping in your bed.

When I remember that you’re not here anymore for me to ask incessant questions, to be everyone’s model procrastinator and crammer (but somehow still manage to make A’s!), and to make everyone smile with your infectious laughter, I remember everything that happened that day. How one second you were shooting water at me from a water gun and how the next second, everyone was frantically searching for you…how an officer asked me how I was coping because apparently I wasn’t showing enough “appropriate” emotion (in disbelief), how I broke down in tears next to everyone 10 seconds later. How I saw my boyfriend, my pillar of support, one of the strongest people I know, cry for the first time.

I still don’t like the sound of helicopters, and I haven’t been swimming since. I swore to never wear the swimsuit I wore that day ever again out of fear. I think of you (and James) and send a prayer every time I drive back and forth to Austin. I pray that your family and loved ones are doing well. I hope one day I can think of you and smile, instead of having to feel my heart drop.

Almost 1 year…has it really been that long? Please continue to watch over me, your friends, your family, and your loved ones. I hope you are doing well…and I’m hoping to visit you next Sunday.

Until then,
Tamisa

John Mayer – “Slow Dancing In A Burning Room”

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My favorite John Mayer track! There’s also a really awesome cover by Michael Henry and Justin Robinett.