hi, team.

this is an introduction of the best kind. i'm introducing myself to like EVERYBODY.

hello, EVERYBODY!!!

i'm em. em pew. as of twelve minutes ago, i an the official voice of pewnyblog.blogspot.com.

why should you listen to me? you may ask.

well, because.

that's just it. you should listen to me because.

because i am Human.

and humans were made to speak. to be understood.

you could argue that hey, animals might be too. but human language has gone farther as far as is able to be recognized than any other form of speech. to us, words are pivotal. and i have words for you.

the world is full of words. stories. news. information. a lot of it is confusing, stressful, scary. it may be true, but it is also scary. the truth can be scary sometimes. i feel as though the scary stuff is vitally important and essential for solving problems, but we focus too much on what's going wrong and not enough on what's going right.

i am fully aware that things are going wrong in the world, and it is, of course, important to address those things. otherwise, we aren't telling the full truth.

but i am not here to talk about what's going wrong. i decided to write this blog because i need to, and i do, see the good in the world. and myself. and others.

i do that in a myriad of ways.

me. very serious. very dramatic. always.

i love to perform. i sing, act, and on good days dance (although i'm not the strongest dancer on account of i was given muscles with the elasticity of plywood, thank you parents). but i have been blessed with the astonishing talent of literally never not having a song stuck in my head, so i'm always singing. since i practice a lot, i've become what i consider to be a good singer and a good performer. doing choir and drama is a lot of fun for me because i get to do a lot of things i love to do: obviously sing, dance and act, but also dress up and be around people i love. i also just truly enjoy the feeling of telling a story to an audience. the stories we tell are important, people. if i get around to it, i'll share some personal recordings and videos, but don't hold your breath for that because i am not sure if that will actually happen.

i also, obviously, love to write. i feel like writing is my best outlet of expression. i very rarely am able to communicate through oral speech how i feel, but through writing, i am articulate enough. that is why i will oftentimes just post random blurbs about epiphanies, self-discoveries, etc. that i've been crowding my instagram feed with and have decided are better served here.

speaking of instagram, i like to take photos. mostly of people.

this is TJ. He's very photogenic, as you can probably see. I took this photo for a drama activity one time.

i like babies. and closeups. and closeups of babies.

this is miriam. need i say more?

pew family christmas.

sometimes, i even take photos of myself...

i titled this "sombras" because i wanted to be hipster and speak spanish

i call this my daisy buchanan moment.

anyway, i love taking photos. i take them with my canon rebel t3 named penelope. she has served me well. we've been together for a year and five months, and she's been everywhere i've been. whenever i have words, i will try to accompany them with a photo or two. since this is my blog and i do what i want, i do NOT apologize for posting old photos along with current ones. i believe that the when of a picture and the where of a picture are unimportant, but the why of the picture and the what in the picture are what really matter.

i love clothes. i may post every once and awhile a look i feel is noteworthy and/or inexpensive. i also love vintage things. there will be many a post (or maybe rant) about fashion from other times. 

my cousin anna harrison took these lovely senior photos for me. isn't she the best?

i love to bake. i like to experiment and just do tried-and-true recipes. this is one of my more successful experiments. it's called a teacup raspberry cheesecake and it was delicious.

i am also working to be ready to serve a mission for my church this coming fall.
now, i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about my religion that i will more than likely talk about in another blurb later on, but i belong to the lds faith. the mormon church. i love it. it provides me with so much inspiration and joy. i mean, what's the reason i am here, on this earth?

i am here to spread my pewny amount of joy and sunshine and happy.

(i am also really bad at puns.)

but anyway, i am here (both writing this blog, and on this planet) to be a source of hope and light to others. that is why i am serving a mission. because i love God. i love my Savior. and i have some beautiful truth in my head that i need to share, that will make people happy. and i can't wait to travel to some distant part of the world to potentially teach people that happiness comes from keeping the commandments God has given us and following the path of the Savior.

(for those of you familiar with mormon jargon, i am able to start working on my papers in ONE MONTH FROM TODAY YEEEEET) (for those of you not familiar with mormon jargon, that mostly just means i'll be able to take a huge step in my prep to be a missionary.)

i doubt the rest of the things i write will be this massive, but i do have a lot of words to say. and while i am not always happy and my life is far from perfect, i do often manage to find the hope in things. i have a gift for that. and i feel like the little i can contribute to this swirling, changing, amorphous world we live in should be a good piece. like a little chocolate cupcake in a grocery store.

life is good, team. life is fabulous. and when it isn't, it's usually winding up to be straight AMAZING.