lindi!!

happy birthday lindi!!! :D happy 24th, that is. i don't really have many pictures of lindi, um, or any, that i can find. :( so, if you don't know lindi just, um, imagine a face and that can be her!
so, lindi and i met in about grade 8 or 9, in good ole' mr. v.'s orchestra class. she played the cello, before switching to viola, and i played violin. she was friends with daniella, who was friends with sarah, so i sort of knew her a little bit already. anyway, we bonded over the fact that for some reason, mr. v would get her and i mixed up. she was always rachael, and i was always lindi, even though she's about six feet taller than i am. apparently, all it takes is having dark hair and wearing glasses to be the same person. anyway, we spent hours and hours of quality time together on buses and planes going on orchestra tours from places as exotic as victoria (yah! don't get me started on the year we went to victoria...), lethbridge (twice!) and LA. we also had a retreat one year at camp capilano in the fall. that was cool.
some rachael-lindi-isms:
*spooey!
*don't leave the bottle in the room! drr
*the climbing the 'mountain' venture at 5a.m. in lethbridge
*annie and malcolm, sitting in a tree...quit being in denial and go out already!
*the piano bench messages...dramarama
*the penguins! aaah the penguins...somebody save me
*charlotte (tee hee)
*chicken soup? or something else? or chicken? or no? huh? whaddya think? soup? or maybe a sandwhich? or a salad? aaaah!!!!!
*pssssssshht
*bryophyta, chlamydomonus, etc.
*'our' bus stop, with the ridiculous amounts of fraps
...and that's really just the beginning of a long and ridiculous list. haha. so much fun.
anyway, here's to you, lindi-poo, let's go eat cake or something. maybe we can even drag out the instruments and make mr. v proud at our (hopefully) ability to play still. :) a little grieg, a little corelli, a little anne of green gables theme....sigh. ciao!